Newt is super serial!
Posted on 10/26/2011 7:09:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former House Speaker and White House hopeful Newt Gingrich said Wednesday he is not sure if the public feuding between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry is real or staged by their campaign consultants.
The two men have had some very public spats over immigration and other issues that has become more personal than typically happens in presidential campaigns.
Last week, Perry accused Romney of being "number one" on the list of magnets that attract workers to enter the United States illegally because in 2006 he hired a landscaping company that relied heavily on Guatemalan gardeners who were not authorized to work in the U.S.
Romney said he did not know the workers' status and promptly fired the landscaping firm when it was brought to his attention, and Perry then accused Romney of not telling the truth.
"I don't know how much of that is their consultants advising them and how much of that is real," Gingrich said on CBS' "The Early Show" on Wednesday.
"You have to have some sense of maturity and some sense of seriousness at a time when we have massive unemployment, huge deficits, serious foreign policy and national security problems, and I felt it hurt everybody to have bickering the way that was going on in that particular debate," Gingrich said, adding that he hopes it does not happen again.
The former speaker said his approach is to disagree on policy without being "disagreeable."
"I think people are pretty sick of the lack of civility not just in the debates but they watch Washington and watch gridlock and a president who is more comfortable (on The Tonight Show with Jay) Leno than he is in trying to govern the country and I think people are looking for mature leadership....
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I'm sure, Newt. There IS a seat at the back of the bus.
Newt is super serial!
La Raza Rick and Slick Willard are both establishment phonies, neither are to be trusted.
dodn’t look staged to me, newt.
A Gingrich is a traitorous commie phony. Kinda sad.
Surprised about the acrimony- Just speaking politics, Romney/Perry would seem to be a dream ticket for the Pub Establishment.
With the exception of Cain, they're all establishment politicians.
Anyone of them will beat 0bama. The weakest of them all is the most establishment of them all, Romney.
Okay this is looking good for Obama. I see a lot of de facto votes for Obama if there man does not make. I think Barry is going to cruise to victory by a wide margin. There is a lot of dissension in the Republican ranks as shown in this thread amd many others here on Free Republic. Go Obama Go.
“Okay this is looking good for Obama. I see a lot of de facto votes for Obama if there man does not make. I think Barry is going to cruise to victory by a wide margin. There is a lot of dissension in the Republican ranks as shown in this thread amd many others here on Free Republic. Go Obama Go.”
Dream on. This cycle is no different from other cycles. In 2000, it was primarily between McCain and Bush supporters, in 2008, it was between McCain, Romney & Huckabee supporters & Obama vs Hillary supporters. As long as we nominate a real conservative (by that I mean anybody but Romney), we’ll crawl across 1000 miles of broken glass to vote Obama out of office.
Newt’s problem is that he has an ego as big as Texas and no self reflection or humility. Psychopath kinda guy.
It appears that we're faced with "reprieve" candidates, at least in Romney. As in, a reprieve from Obama. That's what we're being asked to vote FOR -- reprieve, with the Republican party identity defined as continued trending toward more and bossier government. Those who pull the tag for Romney will be voting FOR that.
God bless us with a Republican victory where the candidate says, "Enough," and follows through with what is right.
One tiny yet monumental example: the airline industry.
Now, none of us voted for "profiling" on a random basis. American WWII vets are being groped and patted down, an indignity and insult that IS WRONG, and a wrong society tolerates it. We are Americans, and if we need to profile a particular religious and cultural demographic and bypass another to protect American lives, that's our right and responsibility.
Instead, we have honored and honorable Americans being frisked and invaded just to fly from one city to the other, whole families harassed and stalled at the airport an extra two or three hours, to be frisked and harassed by kids with barely a high school diploma. THIS IS WRONG.
If that suddenly disappeared tomorrow, caculate what would happen to the economy within a month: an economic boom. How much more fun would we have as individuals, if flying became again simple, relatively affordable, and fun? How much more staying at hotels, attending conventions, renting cars, eating at restaurants, visiting relatives, would YOU do if flying became again what it used to be?
Lord, I wish I could vote for a Republican presidential candidate who says and means, and will fight for such things as -- and in fact, the whole limited government philosophy that underlies demand for -- the immediate disolving of the current airport security program replaced with profiling and damn the consequences.
Someone once said we don't have a system to stop hijacking, we have a system to annoy and inconvenience people.
The TSA is nothing more than a system to inconvenience and harass people.
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