Posted on 01/24/2012 7:46:35 PM PST by tatown
The attacks by both Drudge and Beck on Newt are about as vicious as I've ever seen by either of them even on Obama. I turned off Beck some time ago due to his extreme doomer act and I'm starting to get to the point where I avoid Drudge as well. I understand that they might not be Newt fans but the force of their hatred toward him is stunning.
“Between him, Kraut, Coulter...you really wonder what’s going on.”
Coulter was dating Bill Maher so the story goes- which ought to tell you something about Coulter’s mental makeup.
Krauthammer is easy enough to figure out. He was Mondale’s speechwriter in the ‘84 election, trying to deny Ronald Reagan a second term.
The bigger question is why that opportunist is accepted as a conservative guru. The same can be said about Michael Medved, a Hanoi cheerleader during the Vietnam War.
Please don't be so easily manipulated into repeating nonsense phrases from the Mittstream Media like "resigned in disgrace." Newt's frivolous ethics charges were settled 2 years into his Speakership and 2 years before he resigned. He resigned shortly after the 1998 election because they lost 5 seats after expecting to have big gains and he would have been voted out. Of course we know the big-spending RINOs wanted him out all along and probably just used the election as an excuse. Regardless, losing an election isn't a "disgrace," it's just politics. What Mitt is saying is as honest as saying, "Reagan was voted into office and then 300 marines were bombed in Lebanon." By making it sound like no time passed between those events, Mitt is saying there is a cause and effect relationship there that anyone who knows the truth knows doesn't exist.
Why he went ahead and quit the House beyond the Speakership itself at the same time, I can only imagine he wanted to move into the private sector, set up a run for President (that was derailed after his marriage fell apart), or just didn't feel comfortable becoming just another vote in the chamber after being Speaker for 4 years.
Bullseye. Nice shot.
Newt is Mr. CONSERVATIVE. Go to Newt.org and tell me what positions you find there that you disagree with.
Who the hell is Glenn Beck to put labels on people? Who made him god? Beck is off his rocker. I mean actually “crazy”. The men in white coats will be coming for him soon.
If Drudge was showing the big news he would post the recent polls showing Newt is up by 8% in Florida. Nothing.
Realclearpolitics RCP: Gingrich +7.4%
Go ahead, but I wouldn't go off on a tear attacking the man. The site owner has said that he won't abide that sort of talk on his website, but I don't think you'll draw any fire for fair criticism.
That's my take, anyway.
Krauthammer just seems to be in the 'Newt can't get elected camp' but the others seem to have a personal animosity against Newt.
I wonder what it is?
Toss out Beck. He's full of himself and out of his mind.
IIRC, Hume's family is Virginia landed gentry, but Krauthammer, Noonan, George Will the other Beltway pundity are mostly NorthEastern snobs.
They're the same snooty peeps who looked down at Sarah Palin's journalism degree from the University of Idaho.
I think they're torqued that the Southern boy from Georgia, Newt Gingrich is smarter than all of them put together, and they look down on him because his PhD is from Tulane. Oh the horrors! He's not Ivy league! He's unfit. He's Southern and "common."
I also think it's fair to surmise that several of them back-stabbed him and fear he might hold grudges and don't want him in power, because he fully intends to radically change Washington.
Really? What years were those?
I thought he was but just did a Wikipedia search and found this:
“His parents are Reform Jewish Democrats who both worked for the federal government, and he is their only child.[2] His father, Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the reference site www.refdesk.com,[2] and his mother, a former staff attorney for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy...”
So it appears he is not a Moron, er, I mean Mormon, but he still appears to be a charlatan of epic proportions. How many children from a “Reformed Jewish Democrat” family do you know that grew up and became a “conservative”. Also, note that his mother was “a former staff attorney for U.S. Senator ‘Dead’ Ted Kennedy.”
His bio tells me enough about him to know that he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Matt Drudge can go to hell, along with the Socialist Democrat horse he rode in on.
JMO.
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I agree. That’s why I can overlook the faults in Newt.
Inflation...it touches everything - lol!
[Hume is especially disgusting.]
When Bret was interviewing Brit on their usual segment on Fox, Brit was angrily assaulting Newt about the negative ratings.
When he finished his vitriolic assault Bret asked Brit...’what do I tell viewers when they say you are in the tank for Romney’?
Bret replied, with a little smirk, ‘well you tell them I said Newt won a whopping victory in South Carolina’
Well, yes he did Bret, everyone knows this but the question not asked was...are you pleased with that result?
The answer is obvious in his previous rant.
Thank you!
When Newt Gingrich was sworn in as the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years in January 1995, the Congressional Budget Office projected that over the next decade the cumulative federal budget deficits would total $2.7 trillion. Shortly after Gingrich left office in January 1999, CBO projected that over the next decade that federal surpluses would total over $2.3 trillion- a four-year turnaround in the financial outlook of the United States of $5 trillion. A comparable improvement in the U.S fiscal outlook today would total over $8 trillion (as % of GDP).
In my book a balanced budget is wherein you take in more money than you spend. Is that how you see it?
In my book a balanced budget is wherein you take in more money than you spend. Is that how you see it?
Actually, I wasn't making any claim about the budgets; although I can understand how you likely reached that conclusion.
I was simply trying to answer the "what years" part of your question; inserting information to a discussion you were conducting with somebody else.
-- In my book a balanced budget is wherein you take in more money than you spend. Is that how you see it? --
Yes. But I am generally familiar with the duplicitous language and definitions that come out of Congress and the Office of the President.
Yes, he resigned because of election results, not because of the findings in the ethics probe.
But I still don't get it. I can understand resigning the Speakership. By why resign your seat in Congress? Why not continue fighting from the back bench, so to speak?
The resignation so close to the ethics probe looks bad. It looks like a resignation in disgrace. It looks like he resigned either because of his ethics problems, or because his fellow Republicans had absolutely no confidence in him. That may be very unfair to Newt, but that's the way it looks.
Lesson to conservatives: stay and fight!
Beck is just plain azzed bat sh!t crazy and has figured out he’s gonna cash in on his GB network and check out from reality. He’s seriously deranged in my opinion.
As for Drudge, I don’t see where he’s going after anyone more than anyone else. While I will end up voting for Gingrich, I’m not going to lock-step protest any news that might not be positive for him without having had benefit to see it play out.
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