Posted on 05/15/2011 5:30:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Discussion on the Sunday talk shows centered on the budget and the looming debt ceiling, with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on CNN’s State of the Union and House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) on CBS’s Face the Nation. Domestic energy production and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East also were addressed.
Meet the Press (NBC)
Gingrich: Paul Ryan' s plan is "right-wing social engineering," goes too far
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) explained that he felt compelled to run for president because "to not seek to help the country to fix the problems we have would have been a failure of citizenship on my part." Gingrich laughed off the possibility of being anyone's running-mate: "Can you imagine any presidential nominee who picked me to be the vice presidential candidate?" He denied charges of racism and said he thinks "Obama loves America" but has "a different idea of what America is." Gingrich said he has had some difficulty separating his role as a political analyst from his desire to be a "disciplined" political leader. "I think that's a fair criticism." Gingrich also addressed his past marital infidelity and two divorces, saying "I've clearly done things that are wrong. People have every right to ask the tough questions."
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Yeah, and the winner had two failed senate bids on his resume, to boot. Mr. Cain has only one.
Thanks, but I wish I were not correct. At one time I had such great hope for Newt. Is his wife a liberal? Barry Goldwater married one and he went goofy at the end. And then there’s McCain.
You mean like an individual who ran a successful small business and chaired a state energy commission while cleaning up a corrupt “good ol’ boys” system? Good idea!!
LOL. This from a guy who effectively endorsed Obamacare today. Right now Paul Ryan’s vision of the future, while not perfect, looks a lot better than Newt’s.
I think Newt is after MSM support for his candidacy. It worked for McCain. The MSM loves to help us pick losers.
[We have NEVER elected someone to the presidency who has no government experience (elected or flag rank) so Mr. Cain is probably a non-starter. ]
Huckleberry is gone, Trump F’ed himself, Newt just lit himself on fire, Mittens hasn’t backed off Romneycare, Gary Johnson a fool, Paul a paultard. Christy and Barbour saif no.
That leaves Santorum, Pawlenty, Daniels, Cain, Bachman, Palin. The field is clearing pretty fast, who’d a thunk?
Take your pick. I left out the joke candidates (your definition may vary):
Michele Bachmann
John Bolton
Herman Cain
Mitch Daniels
Newt Gingrich
Rudy GiulianiMike Huckabee
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Gary Johnson
Thad McCotter
Roy Moore
Sarah Palin
Ron Paul
Tim Pawlenty
Buddy Roemer
Willard Romney
Rick Santorum
Donald Trump
Just go away Newt. Unlike you, Paul Ryan can at least control his zipper.
I think Romney and Gingrich pretty much engaged in political suicide this week. I don’t see Romney recovering from his “explanation” of RomneyCare and I never saw Newt going anywhere anyway but now — with his attack on Ryan and his support for ObamaCare and his refusal to Renounce The Couch — he’s leaped into his own political grave with none of us having to lift a finger.
And Huckabee has bowed out.
What a great week.
The coast is clear, Sarah. We’re all here waiting for you.
If he’s the candidate I’m staying home.
He won’t be the candidate. He was never going to be the candidate. And now less than ever.
Gingrich the ginger mama’s boy is here to protect the Democrats from the evil Tea Party... don’t you know, he is the second coming of Obama, Messiah of Messiahs.
Ginrich will be going out a lot faster than I thought.
It’s obvious that Gingrich’s strategy is to position himself as a “conservative”, but not a “tea partier”.
“Gingrich the ginger mama’s boy is here to protect the Democrats from the evil Tea Party... don’t you know, he is the second coming of Obama, Messiah of Messiahs.”
Between this and the Nasty Nancy GW couch show ,I think the guy has lost his mind!
What I can't see him doing is taking this position in the same week he announces that he's running for the GOP nomination. That's just nuts, because he just guaranteed that will never happen. Not that he had much of a chance before making this statement, but I just don't recall anyone torpedoing his own candidacy this early, and this casually.
It really boils down to the same problem for Newt every time. It's his incredible ego. He thinks he's so much smarter than the rest of us that he'll be able to convince us all to see things his way. And if he doesn't, it's just because we're not smart enough to understand.
YEah, ever since that Speaker of the House stint, that little whore does not even need to get drunk to feel high (or go low, that is), it is just now filled with it all over his bonkered head, cheap bribing himself with self flattery, in the mirror of photo ops. Now he is doing dances on couches. He has no self respect, less so than Paris Hilton or Lady Gaga. At least these two had a plan.
“He’s always danced to his own tune.”
... and, if not, to the tune of the winds of the day... he is unreliable and belongs to the carnival of Rio with a bunch of transvestites.
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