Plus million$ from FM/FM?
Posted on 11/17/2011 7:10:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Newt Gingrich, piñata. Expect it -- now that Gingrich is enjoying rough parity with Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in the polls. Expect Gingrich to start taking whacks from his GOP competitors and their allies. What's curious is if the left and fossil media join in the Newt-whacking now or wait.
Gingrich is also starting to enjoy some good ink from conservative writers. Ed Morrissey opines at The Week that Gingrich is the real deal. Jeffrey Lord, writing yesterday at The American Spectator, floats the notion that the former Speaker might be an American Churchill.
Jonah Goldberg pens a more measured assessment of Gingrich's upswing at National Review Online. While Goldberg acknowledges "this could be Gingrich's moment," he also writes:
It's an open question whether Gingrich can defeat Obama in 2012. It's taken as a truism that he has "too much baggage." Well, some of the baggage is lighter than it appears. He was cleared by the Clinton-era Internal Revenue Service of wrongdoing in alleged ethics violations stemming from a college course he taught in the 1990s. The charge that he surprised his cancer-stricken first wife with divorce papers has been, at the least, exaggerated.
Adds Goldberg, tellingly:
But, as with Kim Kardashian's attic, you can throw away a lot of old baggage and still be left with too much for one person to carry. His [Gingrich's] marital infidelities, his verbal indiscipline, the strange mix of God and Mammon that is Newt Inc., and his grandiose way of talking about himself as one of the lions of the 20th - and now 21st - century: It may just be too much muchness for voters once they're reminded of it all. And, oh boy, would they be reminded of it if Gingrich got the nomination.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Cain didn’t earn the treatment.
Overheard as this article was being written, in a chant:
ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY...HOW WE WORSHIP THEE!!
ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY...HOW WE WORSHIP THEE!!
ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY...HOW WE WORSHIP THEE!!
ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY...HOW WE WORSHIP THEE!!
ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY...HOW WE WORSHIP THEE!!
ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY...HOW WE WORSHIP THEE!!
Never fear, Politico is on the case.
Yes he did. He knew this was in his past and chose to cross his fingers and hope for the best.
Cain earned every blow.
Did Newt really make this statement? :
“I cheated on my wife because I love America too much.”
Somehow, I can’t find this exact quote even on the so called interview he gave to CBN...
This is the context of the entire interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-_BuvIe8uQ&feature=related
Like shooting fish in a barrel or maybe a small bucket.
RE: Yes he did. He knew this was in his past and chose to cross his fingers and hope for the best.
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Where’s the evidence?
“Never fear, Politico is on the case.”
So are Alinskys rules for isolating and destroying.
Everyone gets slammed by the left EXCEPT ROMNEY...
Hmmmmmmmm I wonder why?
Plus million$ from FM/FM?
The Ineligible Magic RINO:
"Who shall rid me of these fleas?"
Gingrich doesn’t have to defeat Obama. Obama will defeat Obama..we can’t allow the Dems to try and make this about the GOP candidate..
newt is no conservative. he’d be better than romney, who is the most distasteful candidate in the current lineup... but not much.
That’s a paraphrase, but it certainly conveys his meaning, I think.
“There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. “
Pillory away, but I repeat ... I will not vote for Romney in either the primary or the general election.
How many past primaries had this RINO already lost?
Newt looks bold and innovative and a complete grasp of Washington, Romney looks like liverwurst with a message honed down from previous primary failures to what people want to hear. In chess they are called wood pushers. People who makes correct moves only because they memorized them and have no grasp of whats behind them and what is to come.
If you want to see “the DEVIL”... look in a mirror...
Can’t wait for Newt to beat them to a pulp!
His Freddie Mac contract was over a 9 year period.
$1.6M/9=~$177k/yr....big deal!
pretty modest consulting rates by comparison.
And this will be the second time for Newt. For those who remember, he was pilloried by the MSM non-stop from the major
Republican victory in 1994 and his ascent to Speaker, until he resigned from the House in late 1998.
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