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Newt Weeps at Iowa Stop
politico.com ^ | 12/30/11 | ALEXANDER BURNS

Posted on 12/30/2011 10:21:25 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion

A drastic departure from his usual image as a stoic, policy-drive candidate, Gingrich cried more than once in recalling how even today he still cries when he sings Christmas carols. GOP pollster Frank Luntz asked the tear-evoking question.

"I get teary-eyed everytime we sing Christmas carols," he said, starting to choke up. "My mother sang in the choir and loved singing in the choir. And I don't know if I should admit this, but when I was very young she made me sing in the choir and we had pictures of me at a very young age singing in the choir."

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To: BarnacleCenturion
All I have to say about Newt crying is....
 
 


21 posted on 12/30/2011 10:36:10 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

It worked for Herself in New Hampshire.


22 posted on 12/30/2011 10:36:19 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (Disgusted with it all.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Anyone who does not embrace this tender moment is obviously “heartless”


23 posted on 12/30/2011 10:38:18 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: altura

It does with that audience ... an audience of Moms.

Newt’s no fool.


24 posted on 12/30/2011 10:41:06 AM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: bgill

It might eventually occur to you that it is Newt’s spirit which is ultimately the source ofr the emotional reaction to the Christmas songs. I’m 66. I still get teary eyed when I pray in earnest. Yes, it is ‘in my closet’, so to speak, but the tears are real and the broken and contrite heart are also real. A man who would not have a broken and contrite heart before The Grace of God in Christ would be more to suspect of deceit, like Milt Rominy (rhymes with hominy, the huskless corn product)..


25 posted on 12/30/2011 10:41:27 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: mylife

There’s no crying on the campaign trail. :-)


26 posted on 12/30/2011 10:41:27 AM PST by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: Mygirlsmom
It worked for Herself in New Hampshire.

Actually, it didn't. If it had, she'd be squatting in the Oval Orifice instead of the pestilence that's in there now.

She was most likely crying because she'd been given the word that she was NOT going to be the nominee.

27 posted on 12/30/2011 10:42:23 AM PST by Inspectorette
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To: mylife

Me too, but only if there isn’t someone else around to clean it up...


28 posted on 12/30/2011 10:42:33 AM PST by stormer
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To: zerosix

[and it’s NOT referring to Jesus.]

Mormons are like that. That spike they have out in front of their indoctrination centers is not a “cross” it is a Lightening Rod to dispell direct hits from the man upstairs.


29 posted on 12/30/2011 10:43:14 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
"""Fox news has been stumping for Romney nonstop"""

For that reason alone, I am dumping my cable next Dec., still have to finish the contract.

I have not watched FOX in over 2 weeks now, I don't give a damn what they have to say anymore. Expecially since they have brought back the INSANE Alan Colmes, and listening to "suspenders" Bob Beckel rant is beyond my patience limit.

I understand that FOX in german is FUCH, and so now we know.

30 posted on 12/30/2011 10:44:55 AM PST by annieokie
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To: Responsibility2nd
Only if he does it in New Hampshire. ;-)

But this time, the Union Leader has endorsed the guy with the tears...

31 posted on 12/30/2011 10:45:04 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

This is unhelpful.


32 posted on 12/30/2011 10:45:41 AM PST by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt! 2012)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
when I was very young she made me sing in the choir and we had pictures of me at a very young age singing in the choir."

I cry too whenever I see pictures of me from the 1970's........(now if I could figure out a way to get those damn pictures from my sister).

33 posted on 12/30/2011 10:45:52 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Santa missed my house again....or maybe he's stuck in the chimney. I'll go look.......)
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To: cableguymn

I get teary eyed when the dog dies in the movie.


ya know..they don’t actually die. ;)
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = = = =

They don’t?

Like the girl at the bar was watching the news and turned to the guy next to her and says “Isn’t that terrible about that girl?” The guy said, “You mean the one that jumped off the building”?
Yes...then the story came on again and the girl was on the roof and the blond says
“Oh good, maybe she won’t jump this time”.


34 posted on 12/30/2011 10:46:41 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) EGOIST - A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. A. Bierce)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

George Romney is rolling in his grave.


35 posted on 12/30/2011 10:47:30 AM PST by Tribune7 (Vote Perry or Gingrich, maybe. OK Santorum too)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Maybe Newt is making a play for the Oprah crowd...


36 posted on 12/30/2011 10:48:35 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Silent Night always causes me to tear up at Christmas Eve Service.


37 posted on 12/30/2011 10:49:17 AM PST by Retired Chemist
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To: maggief
“Does he weep when he hears ‘Dancing Queen’? ;)”

No, but Romney, Obumbles, and Barney Frank does.

38 posted on 12/30/2011 10:50:09 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: BarnacleCenturion; All

Of note, MSNBC isn’t covering Newt Gingrich, AT ALL, while devoting TONS of on-air time to RON PAUL....


39 posted on 12/30/2011 10:51:41 AM PST by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: Hot Tabasco

So......are you wearing a Nehru jacket in your yearbook picture also?


40 posted on 12/30/2011 10:52:28 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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