[true believer forever]

For Newt Supporters, don't give up, don't give in. Newt is a fighter. He will fight. Just do your part and double down!

[org.whodat]

Noot plea bargained the fine to have the other charges dropped, now he is claiming he did not do that. Bull!

[Parley Baer]

I love it. Newt is really fighting back. I still think he is the one to take on Obama. GO NEWT!

[TitansAFC]

Newt is already playing with Mitt's small mind, which is why Mitt still views him as his chief opponent. Newt has been raising Mitt's expectations in NH, setting Romney up to lose even if he wins, thus reversing his Iowa fortunes. Team Romney has started to realize Newt has been setting them up, and have been trying to temper expectations. Now Newt is making sure that everyone in the universe realizes that Mitt Romney is behind the negative ads, by tying Mitt to his SuperPAC and making it a known meme. By making it the news of the day, every day, Newt will tattoo negative headlines on Mitt for every news cycle. He will add paid advertising to this as well, making it a two-pronged assault on Romney. Newt has also become the first person to go directly after Romney; and as you can see, he is not going to relent. Mitt essentially mocked Newt for expecting Mitt to honor the 11th Commandment, so Newt is going to show Mitt what it's like to face 24/7 negative attacks. Mitt is going to be sorry he picked a fight with a much, much smarter and savvier man than himself.

[Da Coyote]

Heck, the MSM runs Obama adds, so obviously they have no qualms whatsoever about broadcasting bold face lies.

[katiedidit1]

Holy Moly!!!!!!!!! s’it is going to hit the fan. “Through the above repudiation of the inaccurate statements included in the script of the subject advertisements, your station has been given notice and absolute knowledge of the malicious falsity and defamatory nature of the aforementioned political communications. As such, any further attempt to broadcast or communicate such advertisements or any of their

inaccurate content to the general public will expose your station to potential liability for both libel and false light invasion of privacy. In turn, and as previously stated above, we do hereby request that your station immediately cease airing any such false advertisements and completely refrain from broadcasting their content until such time as the aforementioned defamatory statements have been removed.

Please govern your actions accordingly. We look forward to receiving your prompt reply to this correspondence and request that any questions regarding its contents be directed to my attention.

Very truly yours,

Stefan C. Passantino National Counsel, Newt 2012

[sheikdetailfeather]

Fox has been literally crucifying Newt. I am glad he is letting them know where he draws the line. They are not able to just be for Romney. They must attempt to paint Newt as crazed, etc.. They deserve to be blasted.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Is this thread staying, or going?

Anyway, Gingrich appears to be right. He was not "fined" by an ethics committee.

House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker

The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing.

He was penalized by the REPUBLICAN MAJORITY in the house. He was not "fined" by an ethics committee.

Why Gingrich thinks this is BETTER for him, I can't say. I'd rather blame my penalty on some stupid bipartisan committee than have to admit that my republican colleagues who had previously made me speaker had now penalized me $300,000 to repay the costs of the ethics committee investigation that were caused by me giving misleading information.

Gingrich agreed to this settlement, and admitted to wrongdoing:

At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans yesterday morning, the speaker noted his agreement to accept the sanction, which the ethics committee approved on a 7 to 1 vote Friday night, and said he wanted to get the matter behind him, according to lawmakers who attended.

I doubty it he took this to court that any judge is going to rule there is a substantive difference between claiming he was "fined" and what actually happened. But maybe he'd win.

However, it's a lot easier just to threaten lawsuits and hope you can cow people into doing your bidding. We've seen Obama pull that off time and again.

[Leader_Of_The _Conservatives]

Actually.....

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/dec/21/restore-our-future/did-newt-gingrich-pay-300000-ethics-fine-back-1990/

[katiedidit1]

Everyone needs to look into Romney’s super pac! Restore Our Future. It will send chills down your spine. Mega millions coming in and some is global. The SCOTUS ruled 5 to 4 it is legal. It is massive. Forti is Romney’s Karl Rove and Forti was kind of “groomed” by Rove. Bain is also involved and some donor that gave a huge sum of money and shortly afterwards dissolved.
It is true that Romney didn’t win Iowa...the super pac won Iowa. I am so delighted that Newt is starting to expose this to the American voters. This election is too precious to toss to the wolves. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEWT!

[Sola Veritas]

Good for you Newt. It is time for libel to stop. This superpac is harming the election process and the exercise of true free speech.

I just wished he could tie the adds back to Romney so he could so Romney personally. It needs to happen.

[ConfidentConservative]

GO Newt Gingrich!

This slander needs to be put where it belongs in the garbage.

http://www.rightgrrl.com/carolyn/newt.html

Remember the uproar regarding Newt’s “ethics violations?” People can refresh their memory by reading an article I wrote in 1997 about these charges. In brief, David Bonior brought 75 ethics charges against Newt, 74 which were found to have no merit whatsoever (and people say that Ken Starr is on a “witch hunt?”). The last charge, whether Newt funded his college class “Renewing American Civilization” properly, was too complicated a tax issue for the committee to investigate on its own, so they brought in an outside tax expert to investigate. Two charges arose out of this investigation.

The first ‘charge’ from the ethics committee is that he “may have” violated tax law by using tax-deductible contributions from nonprofit organizations to teach an allegedly partisan college course.

The second ‘charge’ from the committee is that, in the course of the investigation, Newt provided false information to the committee. And what was this “false information?” Newt testified that the above contributions were in fact made by those organizations to “Renewing American Civilization.” He filed papers that stated the very same thing. This is never a fact that anyone was trying to hide. But one paper filed with the committee stated that those groups did not make the contributions. For this, there was an uproar about Newt’s ethics, and he was fined.

Basically, Newt was fined $300,000 because he didn’t read his lawyers’ documents carefully. I could really get into the hypocrisy of this in light of the fact that people want to excuse Bill Clinton for lying under oath, (maybe if the course Newt had taught was about SEX the Democrats would feel differently) but that’s not the point of this article.

Well, after a 3.5 year probe, after Newt paid the $300,000 fine, the IRS announced on February 3, 1999, that it found NO IMPROPRIETIES IN THE TAX FILINGS of Gingrich and the sponsoring Progress and Freedom Foundation. The IRS said the principles taught in the course were not of use only in political campaigns. “The ... course taught principles from American civilization that could be used by each American in everyday life whether the person is a welfare recipient, the head of a large corporation, or a politician.”

Well isn’t that nice - and isn’t that what Newt had been saying all along?

In other words, the ethics charges David Bonior filed against Newt were ALL bogus. Every single one of them. In the end, what was Newt’s “ethics problems”? One of the papers filed by his lawyers had an error and Newt didn’t catch it. That little oversight cost $300,000.

Some might say “vindication is vindication” and Newt should just be tickled about this. . . but would YOU feel better if you’ve already lost $300,000 and your job in the process?

Where are the cries about how long and how much money was spent on this investigation? Where are all the news stories about this vindication? Granted, there have been some news stories but certainly not that many. Perhaps the news isn’t quite as big when it’s Newt who is the one in the right and his accusers are the ones in the wrong.

Now, if some people already see the irony of Newt being blasted for “lying to congress” because one of his lawyers’ documents was in error while people argue that we should ignore that fact that Bill Clinton lied under oath, here’s a little more irony for you.

Democrats have argued over and over again that even if Clinton DID lie in his deposition in Paula Jones’ sexual harassment suit, it doesn’t matter because the suit was eventually thrown out of court. Thus, any lies were “not material” and so not valid grounds for punishment, and certainly not impeachment. Well, the IRS has found that there were NO IMPROPRIETIES IN THE TAX FILINGS. Using the same rationale as Clinton’s supporters, shouldn’t Newt Gingrich be allowed to get his $300,000 back, since any misstatements he might have made are now “not material?”

David Bonior stated a couple of years ago that “Mr. Gingrich engaged in a pattern of tax fraud.” Well, it now looks as if Bonior was way out in left field on all 75 of his accusations. How about a censure of David Bonior for filing 7 unfounded charges against him, so Newt can at least get his good name back? But how could I forget? We are in the age of forgiveness, where we just “forgive and forget” perjury and obstruction of justice, so I guess that means forgiving David Bonior too. Too bad people weren’t as “forgiving” when it was Newt Gingrich in the hot seat.

[onyx]

Safe to ping this time!

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[Mr. K]

I dont think Romney is going to like Newt durin gthe next debate

GO NEWT~!

[bigbob]

Much like the Herman Cain “agreement” vs “settlement”, the average Joe will not understand, or care. I don’t think Newt can win this, and threats will backfire and make him look vindictive and whiny.

[Diogenesis]

The cheating, backstabbing ineligible, RomneyCARE-creating, RINO:
"Lie for me. Promise anything for me.
Hurt anyone for me. Anyone. For me. For me."

"Vote Count Error? Did Rick Santorum Really Win the Iowa Caucuses?
DES MOINES, Iowa - Edward True, 28, of Moulton, said he helped count the votes
and jotted the results down on a piece of paper to post to his Facebook page.
He said when he checked to make sure the Republican Party of Iowa
got the count right, he said he was shocked to find they hadn’t.
“When Mitt Romney won Iowa by eight votes and I’ve got a
20-vote discrepancy here, that right there says Rick Santorum won Iowa,” True said. “Not Mitt Romney.”

"Several UNREPORTED news reports have it that Romney
did not win the Iowa Caucuses.
Barring any objective, verifiable proof that shows more than 12 votes mistakenly
being credited to Santorum, Romney lost."

"Could Typo Rewrite Caucus History? (Santorum may regain win)"

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Romney for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[RitaOK]

Refreshing! FOX needs notice, in harsh terms, that we have ALL had enough! They themselves have become an accomplice against conservatives, alligning themselves with the liberal Establishment to co-opt the primary process before we can speak. That happens in South Carolina, or Bust.

[Salvation]

The boxing gloves are on!

Gather round to watch the fight, folks!

[trebb]

This is the first preemptive strike I recall seeing. Newt knows the lies most likely to take hold and is calling them the lies they are before they hit the airwaves - good for him.

[PghBaldy]

Sometimes things can backfire though. He is now making sure MORE people konw about his fine/non-fine. Sounds like a fine to me... I like Newt, though. Some of the best moments in this campaign season have been him at the debates and in the media articulating what matters most.

[RockinRight]

Can Newt pull off a strong second in NH, or, like Perry before him, is his decline irreversible?