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Newt on Trump ad hominem attacks: "I think it makes us look stupid."
Fox News - Greta Van Susteren ^ | 2/15/2016 | Fox News

Posted on 02/16/2016 7:25:33 PM PST by reegs

"I wish Trump would drop all of the personal ad hominem things which he seems to enjoy so much. I think it weakens the country, I think it weakens him, I think it makes us look stupid. Uh, and I'm not defending Cruz or anybody else. I'm just saying... I think the whole politics of this kind of personal stuff is almost deranged. It makes no sense to me to spend this kind of time on this kind of personality stuff."

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To: deweyfrank

“After over 7 years of being on the receiving end of this kind of rhetoric, we’re fed up Newt. You establishment people just don’t get it yet.”

El correcto. Trump not being a politician is taking a different path. So far it appears to be working. Now Newt tell me again on how to run for President and succeed?


61 posted on 02/16/2016 9:16:25 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: reegs

Newt never really understood the Media DeathStar.


62 posted on 02/16/2016 9:20:03 PM PST by kiryandil ("Our Muslim-In-Chief, Barack Obama - the Quislaming in the White House")
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To: reegs

Meanwhile, former First Lady, former Senator, former Secretary of State and now DemoncRatic Presidential Contender Hillary “Benghazi-Email” Clinton Barks like a Dog at her Campaign Rally and Trump is considered the crazy one.

Is this a great Country or what?


63 posted on 02/16/2016 9:25:08 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: reegs

If Newt would have looked stupid he may have become President?

Pray America wakes


64 posted on 02/16/2016 9:38:08 PM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: ncalburt

It’s the silly season. Keep raving.


65 posted on 02/16/2016 9:55:59 PM PST by ModelBreaker (')
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To: ncalburt

dark PAC dollars


does this mean you’re opposed to Citizens United then?
Or does this mean you want only millionaires and billionaires to run for political office since they don’t need “dark PAC dollars” to get their message out...


66 posted on 02/16/2016 10:38:53 PM PST by RginTN (Donald J Trump- why would the people of Ky want a rookie senator when they have Sen Mitch Mcconnell)
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To: mylife

when my youngest was born, my wife sent in the form to see Bozo (Bob Bell, I think at the time). she was 4 when we finally got our tickets our oldest was 10.

bozo was THE ticket, he was hotter than (well I don’t know who’s hot now, maybe Britney Spears?)

it’s a shame there weren’t VCR’s or recordings that I could have preserved.

and btw, none got to play the bucket game...

years later, we installed water line to a guys pool in Mt. Prospect IL, and he had all this Bozo, Cookie, and Wizzo stuff on is walls. Turned out it was Marshal Brodien’s (Wizzo) home. (I never met him though, my partner did).


67 posted on 02/16/2016 10:39:31 PM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp (noob)
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To: SubMareener

Thanks for that. It clears up quite a bit.


68 posted on 02/16/2016 10:50:14 PM PST by moehoward
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To: reegs

I’ve said since the beginning we have nothing but a group of idiots running. Where are the smart Conservatives? You need intellect to be President. I don’t see any.


69 posted on 02/16/2016 11:22:03 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: reegs

No Newt the GOPe does that all by itself.


70 posted on 02/17/2016 3:55:49 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: reegs
Newt doesn't get Trump's strategy.

Trump knows that to win, he has to blow up the existing, established rules for winning.

And that automatically means going outside and setting his own rules and controlling the narrative. He has done this marvelously.

Trump didn't just get inside his opponents' OODA loops, he destroyed their OODA loops and replaced them with his own OODA loop which is unbreachable by his opponents.

Considering that Gingrich was never nearly as successful as Trump in the Presidential election, perhaps Newt should be taking notes from Trump and not complaining.

71 posted on 02/17/2016 4:14:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux (When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. - Mark Twain)
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To: reegs

Hate to break it to you Newt, but we’ve been calling the GOP “The Stupid Party” for quite some time.


72 posted on 02/17/2016 4:46:17 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: RoosterRedux

The gentile GOP-e candidates each say horrible things about the other candidates in their commercials and negative ads.

During the debates they do 180 degree turn, using a false personality based on syrupy politeness.


73 posted on 02/17/2016 6:30:36 AM PST by o2bfree (DNC = RNC :-)
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To: Neu Pragmatist
Says Newt ..the one that savaged Romney relentlessly

Makes sense. Mitt Romney is more Conservative than Donald Trump.

74 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:52 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: frankenMonkey

Exactly!! Trump is the ONLY one who has completely destroyed El Yeb.

If not for Trump, we’d be seeing the Clinton coddler, award giver Jeb! in the lead, or at least tied with the other GOPee candidates.


75 posted on 02/17/2016 6:34:50 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: old curmudgeon
You have to have a straight to the gut theme....MAKE AMERICA great again.

How about something like

"Change We Can Believe In"?

76 posted on 02/17/2016 6:35:27 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Hoodat

Makes sense. Mitt Romney is more Conservative than Donald Trump.


Lol, riiight. Severely more. Not.


77 posted on 02/17/2016 6:35:53 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: reegs

Who’s “we,” Newt? It makes Trump and his supporters look stupid.


78 posted on 02/17/2016 6:36:50 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Jane Long
Show me any position where Trump is more Conservative. Taxes? Trump wants to raise them. Health care? Trump wants the federal government to fund it. Property rights? Trump believes that belongs to the person with the most influence. Amnesty? Trump wants to expedite the return of illegals.

So help me understand. How is Trump more Conservative than Romney?

79 posted on 02/17/2016 6:38:47 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: reegs

Newt should have provided advice to Dole, McLame and Romney. Now that a candidate is actually going to win he pipes in.


80 posted on 02/17/2016 6:39:36 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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