Posted on 04/17/2007 5:40:35 AM PDT by shortstop
I thought Paxon resigned because he was outed as being gay. He was married to Congresswoman Susan Molinari at the time and they subsequently divorced.
I’d rather see Newt as the head of the RNC.
Agreed... but the operative word is "electing"... not "Pope".
And I believe that Newt is "unelectable" for POTUS.
But Newt “repented” to James Dobson! Doesn’t that erase all his past nastiness? /s
Newt wAS my congressman. I met him numerous timesa dn feel he is dynamic in articulating the conservative message. That said I wouldn’t vote for him for president.
and don’t forget....he backs congressman william jefferson, democrat, louisiana, in saying the search of his office in the house was not legal.......this just about says it all about him...
*ouch*
Thanks so much for taking these burdens from our shoulders...
Now we can just accept your heavily judgmental diatribe, which borders on raw-force character assassination, and disregard the need to use our own brain cells to evaluate the character, philosophy, and political ideas of this candidate... for ourselves...
I am so grateful....
I mean think about it...
You could perform this same rubber-gloved exam for virtually every candidate in the '08 presidential race...
Both sides of the debate....
Both parties...
Male & female judged he them....
If you step up to this high appointment as judge... jury... and official character executioner...
We won't have to think at all...
Better than that....
We won't even have to VOTE!!
Why... you'll just look down from your lofty perch and with a wink or a nod.... appoint your own choice to fill the offices of administration and seats of the legislative branch...
I s'pect you could even dissemble down each sitting member of the sitting SCOTUS... completely disqualify them.... and appoint your own...
WOW.... What a country...!!
I am glad you are "man enough"...
To take on this invaluable task for your countrymen...
I am sure nothing can go wrong...
Nothing can go wrong...
Nothing can go wrong...
Nothing can go wrong...
I personally know Newt and his ex-wife Marianne....
My kids used to call him Uncle Newt....
What he did to Marianne was incredibly wrong and cruel....
Great intellect, terrible personal morals....
I wouldn’t vote for him
One could have hoped Newt had really changed. He went forth to speak with Dr. Dobson. But when I read about his performance in the Kerry debate, I remembered how he cozied up to the Clintons in one public forum on health care, I think. No, he likes the limelight and power and I agree that he lacks the moral character to govern again. I didn’t know about the back stabbing before but it also fits with what Dick Armey has been saying. Sickening, because I used to think Armey was a real champion. What really is sad is that Watts, Largent and Paxon don’t seem to be players. They are more the image and I hope the character that we need. What happened, were their knees cut off to get them out?
Newt, Bill and Hillary, Algore, and Trent Lott are relics of the 1990’s- what I call “The Gelded Age”, a time of small-minded pettiness and Court-intrigue. With the Cold War won, a budget surplus, low gas prices, and ignoring the looming Islamofascist threat, Washington was full of soft, prissy, effeminate, passive-aggressive backstabbers who spent the decade playing parlor games.
For this decade heroes are needed, not palace courtesans. For all his faults, President Bush has been a REAL man when it has come to terrorism. Newt would be a step back.
Yeah, but it's never too early to drop-kick weak character, and Newt's a poster child for it. He just flat ISN'T Presidential material.
Hmmmm. I disagree. Gingrich, like him or not, will raise issues in the debates in a way that will be worthy of serious consideration.
Don’t confuse this as ‘supporting’ Newt, btw. I’m not. I just know he’s good in a debate, no matter if you agree or disagree with him.
Personally, I’d like to see all the divergent points of view within the GOP on full display during the primaries.
A fine title for a very incisive analysis. Very well put.
(Dole and Gingrich Blast UN, IHT, December 5, 1994, Paul F. Horvitz )
I can see your position about him being a good catalyst in debate, he’s got a decent history on that score, but not so stellar, here, recently. We thought he’d be great on global warming v. Jf’nK, and we ALL know how THAT turned out.
In an odd way, though, that incident sort of encapsulates who Newt is, He’s the big talker with the trick knee that seems to always buckle in the clutch.
I was looking for Newt to take the gloves of and mop the walls with Kerry, instead I got capitualtion on the seminal point followed by paper tiger fencing over whether solutions should be driven by government or the private sector.
I guess you could call THAT a “divergent point.” LOL!!
In an odd way, though, that incident sort of encapsulates who Newt is, Hes the big talker with the trick knee that seems to always buckle in the clutch.
I was looking for Newt to take the gloves of and mop the walls with Kerry, instead I got capitualtion on the seminal point followed by paper tiger fencing over whether solutions should be driven by government or the private sector.
I guess you could call THAT a divergent point. LOL!!
All fair points, I’ll just note I didn’t pay the faux debate with Kerry any attention.
Newt would be just as ineffective a Pope as he would be a President, so I wouldn't vote for him in either case. I wouldn't vote for Hillary for anything unless it was a contest to see who should leave the country permanently.
I agree with the assessment of Newt but I’m puzzled about the mischaracterizing and minimizing of Clinton’s relationship with Monica and others. Why does Lonsberry take pains to say Clinton had half sex and only once or twice? No need to misrepresent Clinton to make Newt look worse. Just the facts, please, and Lonsberry missed some here.
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