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Gingrich Impressed With Powell Nod - 'Eliminated Experience Argument'
ABC ^ | 10/19/08 | Mary Bruce

Posted on 10/19/2008 5:38:53 PM PDT by pissant

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Newt is easily impressed, apparently.
1 posted on 10/19/2008 5:38:54 PM PDT by pissant
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newt’s off his meds


2 posted on 10/19/2008 5:39:59 PM PDT by DrHannibalLecter
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LOL, Newt is still trying to appear relevant.


3 posted on 10/19/2008 5:40:05 PM PDT by Tarpon (Barrack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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What? It had nothing to do with the experience argument but everything to do with the racist argument. Newt is full of crap as usual.


4 posted on 10/19/2008 5:40:53 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: pissant
Traitors, the whole bunch of them.

Looks like we're on our own.
5 posted on 10/19/2008 5:41:04 PM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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I wish Newt would keep his &*%$ piehole shut. We are trying to win this thing. Just because the mediocre Powell endorses the totally incompetent Obama doesn't mean the experience argument is blown away. Newt is such an insider and that's why he's not in this race.

Newt, just shut up.

6 posted on 10/19/2008 5:41:06 PM PDT by April Lexington (I'm voting for McCain in 2008 and Jefferson Davis in 2012)
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“What that just did in one sound bite... is it eliminated the experience argument.”

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Shut up, Newt. Oh, and thanks for the help.

It absolutely did not eliminate the “experience argument”.

Sometimes, Gingrich just likes to hear himself opine.


7 posted on 10/19/2008 5:41:14 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Obama will deliver America on a Leash to an envious world.)
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What happens when America rejects the NYCDC Party’s ticket and goes with the only ticket with a Governor on it, from about as far away from that sh!thole as one can get in these United States? I mean, seriously. What happens when the peons rebel and tell NYCDC to go F itself?


8 posted on 10/19/2008 5:42:11 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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David Gergen categorized Powell’s announcement as “the most important endorsement of the campaign so far.”

I think that Castro’s 2 endorsements carry more weight. I actually respect him more - you know what he’s all about right off the top.


9 posted on 10/19/2008 5:42:24 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The choice is clear: Vote for the war hero or the muslim zero)
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because of the inclusive nature of this campaign

Yep, he's included everyone except for middle-class Christians who "bitterly cling to their guns and their religion."

Gingrich is an idiot if he thinks this was anything other than racially motivated. Powell was afraid fo being called an "Uncle Tom."

10 posted on 10/19/2008 5:42:41 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo (I'm not against 0bama because he's black. I'm against 0bama because he's red.)
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To: DrHannibalLecter

Newt is a smart guy, I’ll give him that much, however the Experience Argument still stands, merely because Powell endorsed Obamao does not dispell doubts, in fact most endorsements are met with a shrug.

Liberals love it though, but their minds are already made up.


11 posted on 10/19/2008 5:42:41 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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Obama is not ‘reaching out’ across America. He's just another democrat pushing class warfare. It makes a lot of sense now that Bush went with Rice and not Powell.
12 posted on 10/19/2008 5:42:57 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: plain talk

Isn’t he saying that since he (Powell) says that BO has experience to be President, then CERTAINLY Sarah Palin has. They can never again say that Sarah doesn’t have enough experience.


13 posted on 10/19/2008 5:43:03 PM PDT by Reagan69
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To: plain talk

It actually may backfire, I was over at a few lefty-nut sites, they were rabid anti-war and saw Powell as an opportunist — Since they remember full well Powell was a big supporter of going into Iraq.


14 posted on 10/19/2008 5:43:36 PM PDT by Tarpon (Barrack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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I think he is just being objective.

You have to get out of the FR bubble sometimes to look at the larger picture.

The Powell endorsement is a big win for the Obama side, in the minds of the American public. It will be stoked for everything it is worth by the liberal MSM.

I think that is what Gingrich is saying; not the discounting of Powell that occurs here on FR (which I agree with of course) but with which the average Joe in America could not care less about.

Brilliant tactics by the enemy to cover one of their weak bases.

GOP can counter that they may have a former Secretary of State from the GOP, but GOP has a former VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE from the Democrats. And Sarah Palin has John Bolton. You can spin some replies on this, but much of it I am afraid will not be that effective.

15 posted on 10/19/2008 5:43:39 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (RINOs **BETRAY** us, since, if they ever DO take off the gloves vs. the Libs, they do so too late...)
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Newt also had a “thrill up his leg” when he met Clinton, didn’t he?

I love Newt, but from time to time he says these things to counter balance his hard stance on all the issues. It is too fuzzy and warm for me, I like it when Newt is spitting fire.


16 posted on 10/19/2008 5:43:49 PM PDT by Cathy
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Newt is easily impressed, apparently.

Huh? How so? Newt just said that Powell eliminated the experience argument, which means either (A) Powell ignored one of the most important requirements for the job or (B) NOBODY can say ANYTHING about Palin's experience, as she is more experienced than Obama.
17 posted on 10/19/2008 5:44:11 PM PDT by GLDNGUN
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To: pissant

It’s the Marxism, “stupid.”

Get these two documents out by email to everyone you know of. Plus, print them up, photocopy at the office supply store, then take one or both of them door-to-door to everyone in your neighborhood — even if they have an Obama sign up.

“Pinch Yourself” (Obama and Marxism)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/melaniephillips/2293196/pinch-yourself.thtml

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18 posted on 10/19/2008 5:44:17 PM PDT by unspun (Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
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David Gergen categorized Powell’s announcement as “the most important endorsement of the campaign so far.”

I think that Castro’s 2 endorsements carry more weight. I actually respect him more - you know what he’s all about right off the top.


19 posted on 10/19/2008 5:44:26 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The choice is clear: Vote for the war hero or the muslim zero)
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Well, I have to go with El Rushbo on this one...

I don't believe for one second that Powell would have endorsed a white liberal with Obama's government resume.

Yes, I said it.

And I think that a lot of Americans know it too.

20 posted on 10/19/2008 5:44:35 PM PDT by Lysandru
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