Posted on 12/08/2011 12:12:02 AM PST by Rick_Michael
I think I will add it on my FB page! Thanks very much for the idea.
Unfortunately she keeps revealing her desperation...sad to watch....when she said she has a donor ready to "pay" for the US embassy to move to Jerusalem I literally cringed....stunning remark to say the least.
She might have better just said " if you vote for me I'll pay you by offering this donor revenue". It was a bad statement though I don't think she intended it to come out the way it did......sad really as I liked her.
Newt knows exactly the timing of what he reveals as well as the legalities of...make no mistake about that.
Look we have an administration that is breaking laws and poltical etiquette at every turn...it's like a bully in a school yard poking and prodding the kid who's parents have taught him to stand but not make a fist...or at most walk away from the fight. While the school officials watch to see when they need to step in. Tere comes a time where you not only raise the fist but you use it to stop the bulllying and put them in their place...and since the "officials" hands are tied from doing more than blow wind at the situation...I say pull the plugs Newt and do and say what is needed to and let them argue the issue while moving forward.....they cannot stop this man.
I thought it is illegal to offer a Cabinet post before one is elected: something about offering something of value as an inducement to gain support.
One can never be sure with so many “nervous nellies” in the GOP.
Thanks.
(1) What did Iraq have to do with the 9/11 attacks?
(2) What did Libya have to do with the 9/11 attacks?
(3) How much money did the Bush administration spend on the Iraq War?
(4) How much did the national debt increase? How much did interest on the national debt increase?
(5) What were the economic consequences of squandering trillions of dollars trying to bring women’s rights to Afghanistan and democracy to Iraq?
(6) Bush and Obama dramatically increased the national debt. The recession and the collapse of the housing bubble also began under W. It was part of his policy of screwing up lending standards to increase “minority homeownership.”
(7) I can guarantee you for a fact that Republican voters who were against the endless wars and the endless debt caused by those wars will not vote for a neocon warmonger like Newt Gingrich and will sit out the 2012 election.
(8) Just a few years ago, Newt was saying that America should declare we are in “World War 3” and attack several more foreign countries.
(9) What about the Iraq War? Did the Iraq War help Republicans take Congress or did it help Democrats take Congress?
(10) Why on earth should we start another foolish neocon democracy crusade that will only succeed in putting radical Muslims in power like al-Sadr in Iraq (now an Iranian satellite) or the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
Just like George W. Bush and his dad. /sarc
Interesting take. I know for sure it applies to personal verbal deals/arrangements or cash, but in a general public speech, I am not so sure. However, if it (the speech) resulted directly in an endorsement in return for the kept promise of a Cabinet position, yes, it could be a violation of Federal campaign law. I am not an election law specialist, but you brought up a very interesting angle I had not thought of that. I still think that Mr. Gingrich is a bit of an enignma. Very eloquent some times, and then other times I really opens his mouth and then steps in it big time. Someone, I think Boortz today, said “Good Newt” and “Bad Newt”. Which one would we get?
I could point out why the premise of your question is stupid (an Iraqi connection to 9/11 was not a stated reason for going to war) or cite Iraqi assistance to Al qaida or or mention the fact that Hussein used the occasion of the first 9/11 anniversary to call for attacks on Americans in the Gulf region, or cite a whole book by a respected conservative journalist dealing with Iraqi connections to and support of AQ, but instead I will just point out how funny it is that you started out talking about starting foreign wars and when I poiont out that we had one started on us you whip out Iraq. Yes, let's pretend 9/11 never happened.
(2) What did Libya have to do with the 9/11 attacks?
Nothing. If you can read you can see I was not in favor of Obama's Libya policy. You can read, can't you?
How much money did the Bush administration spend on the Iraq War?
Less than the stimulus. In fact, the amount they had spent in the first five years was about the same as Obama's second stimulus.
How much did the national debt increase? How much did interest on the national debt increase?
How much did it increase from Obama's stimulus? And do you really think the Congress that spent all this money in Iraq wouldn't have spent all the same dollars on election giveaways if there had been no war? Don't be naive.
What were the economic consequences of squandering trillions of dollars trying to bring women’s rights to Afghanistan and democracy to Iraq?
What would the economic consequences of a major WMD attack have been? That was what the decision was based on. What were the economic consequences of bringing democracy to Japan and Germay in 1945?
Bush and Obama dramatically increased the national debt. The recession and the collapse of the housing bubble also began under W. It was part of his policy of screwing up lending standards to increase “minority homeownership.”
And that has what to do with us responding to a kiloton of combat power delivered into an office complex on a Tuesday morning?
I can guarantee you for a fact that Republican voters who were against the endless wars and the endless debt caused by those wars will not vote for a neocon warmonger like Newt Gingrich and will sit out the 2012 election.
Sure, maybe they'll vote for a peace activist like Rick Perry or Mitt Romney. Give me a break. Look, we know you Run Paul types are going to sit out the election. Holding your breath until your faces turn blue isn't going to get us to nominate some moron who thinks that the Founders wanted us to wait around picking our noses until savages decimate our cities.
Just a few years ago, Newt was saying that America should declare we are in “World War 3” and attack several more foreign countries.
Cite it. Also, you can stop assuming I'm a Newt fan just because I don't cotton to your imbecilic foreign policy ideas.
What about the Iraq War? Did the Iraq War help Republicans take Congress or did it help Democrats take Congress?
Dems won the Congress because it was year six and Bush was acting liberal, which always helps the Dems. Reagan lost the Senate in his year six election; was he involved in a bunch of unnecessary foreign wars?
Also, did staying in Iraq for four more years cause the GOP shellacking of the Dems in 2010?
Why on earth should we start another foolish neocon democracy crusade that will only succeed in putting radical Muslims in power like al-Sadr in Iraq (now an Iranian satellite) or the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
Gee, how could I fail to answer such a straightforward and reasoned question? Why don't you head over to DU and discuss this with them?
Sadr should have been killed early on. That was the mistake, not invading Iraq. And the "Arab Spring" is not a result of the invasion of Iraq, no matter what pundits say.
Bolton as SoS was kind of a foolish thing to say that will get Newt nothing. To be honest I’ve had my saturation of neocons and policing the world, and country building under Bush and Obama, that gets us nothing except body bags and broke. We need paleocons that can restore the USA?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism
Newt’s actions in leadership are far more conservative that either of the Bushes.
I doubt that John Bolton would vote for Newt Gingrich as President.
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