Posted on 05/15/2011 5:30:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Discussion on the Sunday talk shows centered on the budget and the looming debt ceiling, with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on CNNs State of the Union and House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) on CBSs Face the Nation. Domestic energy production and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East also were addressed.
Meet the Press (NBC)
Gingrich: Paul Ryan' s plan is "right-wing social engineering," goes too far
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) explained that he felt compelled to run for president because "to not seek to help the country to fix the problems we have would have been a failure of citizenship on my part." Gingrich laughed off the possibility of being anyone's running-mate: "Can you imagine any presidential nominee who picked me to be the vice presidential candidate?" He denied charges of racism and said he thinks "Obama loves America" but has "a different idea of what America is." Gingrich said he has had some difficulty separating his role as a political analyst from his desire to be a "disciplined" political leader. "I think that's a fair criticism." Gingrich also addressed his past marital infidelity and two divorces, saying "I've clearly done things that are wrong. People have every right to ask the tough questions."
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“He thinks he’s so much smarter than the rest of us that he’ll be able to convince us all to see things his way. And if he doesn’t, it’s just because we’re not smart enough to understand.”
Indeed, and this is a prerequisite for his viciousness of the present, attacking the very contract of AMerica he premeditatively thrusted to fool us. His objects of protection, he actualy covets, like an ill bred pseudocatholic mafia idiot little brother, who screams about protecting his mother when he just wants to screw her in the first place, the typical Oedipian RINO cop sucker.
I guess Callista is worried about being shunned by the DC doyens. It will never work. My guess is that he is already toast.
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