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Gingrich announces he's running for president
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier ^ | May 9, 2011 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/09/2011 6:14:37 PM PDT by xjcsa

ATLANTA (AP) --- Newt Gingrich, the House speaker who led a national GOP resurgence in the 1990s before facing ethics questions and resigning, is running for president.

Gingrich's announcement, made on social networking websites Monday, came after months of public flirting with a bid. He enters a slow-to-form GOP presidential field that has left some Republicans craving more options as they search for a nominee strong enough to credibly challenge President Barack Obama.

The former Georgia congressman, well-known to most Republicans, brings to the race a years-in-the-making political machine with ties to early nominating states as well as a network of supporters and donors. But his personal baggage --- he's acknowledged marital infidelity and has had two divorces --- could hinder his chances of winning the party's presidential nomination more than a decade after leaving the House.

Still, he spoke confidently of wide support.

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To: Gaffer
He was my congressman and he betray me personally. I'm not talking about just his cheating - it is much more than that.
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I closed by telling him to just go the hell away.

It is the fact that Georgia 6th resoundingly reelected him and he was to feckless to take his seat. Any Democrat will stand and fight but our little House Gnome ran away like a weak little sissy.

To top it off, he even fled the State altogether to live in the Washington Suburbs the past 10 years, yet still has the chutzpa to come back to Buckhead to announce his Presidential campaign.

This intellectual cretin should be a pariah to any thinking Conservative!

301 posted on 05/10/2011 10:12:39 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: palmer
Newt is a lot less smart than he thinks he is.

No....

Newt is TO smart.... As my dad would say....

one clever is OK....but not two clever.....

and from mum...two smart by half.

302 posted on 05/10/2011 10:30:02 PM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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To: xjcsa

Gingrich is running. Which party?


303 posted on 05/10/2011 10:43:17 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Don't just hope for change, work for change in 2011-2012.)
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To: arrogantsob
I would vote for Satan rather than Urkel.

Do you think Ayers and Alinsky are running?

304 posted on 05/10/2011 11:10:15 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Don't just hope for change, work for change in 2011-2012.)
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To: xjcsa

Oh geez... It’s gonna be a circus. Only Giuliani could be worse. And not by much.


305 posted on 05/11/2011 12:00:10 AM PDT by COgamer
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To: COgamer

The risk to conservatives is that there are going to be so many candidates on the economic right (Palin, Bachman, Pawlenty)and social right (Santorum, Huckabee), that it will be difficult for any one of these to coalesce that support early enough to stave off the big money machines of Gingrich, Romney and Trump (shudder). It’s too bad they don’t have the luxury of a mini-primary to choose one voice for conservatives who could take on the big money establishment.


306 posted on 05/11/2011 5:43:51 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: xjcsa

TRUE conservative Herman Cain is having a mega event in Atlanta on May 21st to announce his run IN PERSON to his supporters. Centennial Olympic Park. High Noon.


307 posted on 05/11/2011 6:12:06 AM PDT by justsaynomore ("Holding hands and singing kumbayah is not a foreign policy strategy!" - Herman Cain)
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To: xjcsa

Icksnay on the ewtnay.


308 posted on 05/11/2011 7:30:31 AM PDT by Leep
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To: arrogantsob

You’re right, and Sarah rocks; she’s playing this beautifully.

Sarah’s VP candidate performance was phenomenal, her two subsequent books speak volumes about her sterling judgement and character ... and her proven forte is “From the Heart” public acceptance.


309 posted on 05/11/2011 10:13:33 AM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: xjcsa
Say it's between Romney and Gingrich for the nomination. Who do you vote for? I'll say this: I'm never voting Romney!
310 posted on 05/11/2011 11:59:52 AM PDT by ExSoldier ("Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil: It has no point.")
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To: xjcsa

I replied back to one of his money grabbing GOP e-mails that was sent to me to stay home...I sure hope he got it.


311 posted on 05/11/2011 12:15:14 PM PDT by oust the louse (The death of Osama is as mysterious as the life of Obama.)
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To: Lurker

I lived in his district for years and he never got my vote then (just on the basis of general arrogant attitude) and he won’t get it now. I used to leave the Congressional Representative line blank.

The Pelosi PSA and the Schifozza NY 23 business were enough for me.

He and Nancy on that bench look like a couple of retirement community clowns who have the hots for each other and need to go get a room.


312 posted on 05/11/2011 1:10:49 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: ExSoldier
Say it's between Romney and Gingrich for the nomination. Who do you vote for? I'll say this: I'm never voting Romney!

Lucky for me, I live in Iowa, so I'll have more than two to choose from!

313 posted on 05/11/2011 1:38:37 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: spokeshave
Newt is TO smart

two smart by half

Obviously the whole "to/two/too" thing got lost somewhere, haha.

314 posted on 05/11/2011 2:05:15 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: xjcsa

I will not vote for Gingrich. I would’ve voted for him in 1996 when he SHOULD have run...but I was only 6 at the time and therefore could only vote twice for Democrats in Chicago.


315 posted on 05/11/2011 2:39:25 PM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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To: xjcsa

I would trust Newt over Bill Clinton anytime. Atleast Newt sacrificed his marriage over love for his country. Clinton sent troops to eastern Europe.


316 posted on 05/11/2011 3:11:55 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: xjcsa

Is it correct that Newt buys into the global warming line?

Has he made any alterations of that view and his ‘solutions’ since the obvious cooling trends and low sunspots of the last couple years?


317 posted on 05/11/2011 5:51:54 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: patriciaruth
Is it correct that Newt buys into the global warming line?

Well he certainly did in 2007.

Has he made any alterations of that view and his ‘solutions’ since the obvious cooling trends and low sunspots of the last couple years?

He has backpedaled a little, but stops short of admitting it was a mistake.

318 posted on 05/11/2011 6:04:13 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: Solis_Lacus

The one upside is that even with a RINO, the chance of left wing majority in the SCOTUS is reduced ...somewhat. But it may no longer simply be a question of what party controls the executive branch. In the long run, both parties are in the same leaky boat.


319 posted on 05/11/2011 7:34:50 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: xjcsa

SO WHAT?


320 posted on 05/11/2011 8:45:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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