"Gingrich is a broken man" He wouldn't even be in the race if it wasn't a broken Party!!!!

I agree Mattpfl they are destroying their selves from within.. And the Confederate flag stance he is taking is nuts...If he really wanted to be president of the United States he wouldn't take that position...I think he wants to be president of the red states...These candidates are dividing this country but fortunately it will not be a 50-50 divide because I refuse to beleive that 50% of the people would support the confederate flag or have no opinion about it...There is nothing nostalgic about that war or what it was fought over...Those flags should have been made illegal during and after the war since they represented treason...I think anyone flying one should have it shoved where the sun doesn't shine...And doesn't this prove the real reason they can't stand the president I mean c'mon they can't sleep thinking about a man with any more color than Boner being the top dog...

Typical newt!

The only thing he can come up with to hit Dr Paul is something that was debunked 15 years ago (racist) and his views on American imperialism. (taken out of context of course)

That's all you got Newtie? most people have already heard those and cast them off as not even close to reality. You need to get a new line, how about explaining all the hypocritical situations that Dr Paul has exposed in his ads? why don't you refute some of those?

Maybe someone will listen to your crap if you could just explain one of those issues. (I don't think you can) Honesty hurts doesn't it Newtie?

Get a clue Newt, just like Mitts, you are done.

The only thing I will ever agree with Newt on is that Dr. Paul can not run from those neo-Nazi newsletters that he made money off of in the 90's. Its not enough to say that you didn't know what was in them. When the American GI's liberated Hitler's concentration camp victims-- no one in Germany claimed to know what was going on in them.

Happy Christmas Eve and Hanukkah to all

I see again they are yukking it up over @ the John Birch Society aka FOX NOISE. The bleached blonde monkey girl bimbo and the 2 dunces next to her misinterpret intentionally what President Obama said about “LAZINESS” from the ABC Barbara Walters interview.

PRESIDENT: Right. But when I’m mad at myself, it’s because I’m saying to myself, you know what, you could be doing better; push harder. And when I — nothing frustrates me more than when people aren’t doing their jobs. Although — sorry, I shouldn’t provide two answers. The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can’t stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad. But in myself, since I tend not to be a mean person, if I get lazy, then I get mad at myself.

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Notice the fools mentioned nothing about the cruelty comment. Why? Because the haters @ FOX NOISE ARE THE MOST BIGOTED, INTENTIONALLY CRUEL, AND VITRIOLIC GROUP OF NEWS CASTERS ON THE PLANET.

A new RWNJ conspiracy theory about the First Dog, Bo.

First Dog, Bo was flown to Hawaii on tax payer dollars.

Instead, the First Dog, Bo showed up at President Obama’s side Wednesday shopping for treats at PetSmart in Virgina. So what is Bo doing back in Washington shopping at PetSmart?

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/12/22/new-rw-conspiracy-theory-bo-gate-did-bo-return-from-hawaii-for-obama%E2%80%99s-photo-op/

A stupid ignorant Republican representative making an insult to the First Lady and the American people about a certain part of her anatomy

The Justice Department blocking the SC voter ID law

Such EMPTY headed indignance!!!

No wonder our President was smiling from ear to ear as bid idiots like you -- Aloha!!!

President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, Dec. 23, 2011

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Aloha and Mele Kalekemaka Mr President!!!!

America needs a leader.

Everyone falls for all the hyperbole of "no red states - no blue states," "I am a uniter," "I will extend an open hand," "I will reach across the aisle" ...... blah blah blah

Everyone decrys the influence of big money in politics yet we have a president that devotes probably 40%+ of his time trying to raise a billion for his re-election .... we have challengers with their super PACs ....

Everyone says they hate negative ads, negative campaigns ....

Yet it always comes down to catch phrases, sound bites and negative ads paid for by the unions, corporations and the rich .... it comes down to media talking points and tabloid demagoguery ....

And this is how we pick our "leaders?" This is why we are where we are.

If we are fortunate, we end up up with someone who "reaches across the aisle" and our politicians make pork-laden deals to benefit their re-elections while driving our debt through the roof, or they kick the can down the road .... and then bragg about their accomplishment.

We need a leader.

We don't need someone who "reaches across the aisle" - it changes little. We need someone who reaches the American people.... someone who can inspire and change divided minds ..... someone who can get most Americans to follow - not just his political base. Change people's minds, the representaives of those people change their mind.

This was Reagans success. This is Obama's failure.

It is interesting to consider that if we eliminated everything in the process we all decry ... the influence of big money with the negative ads, the duel of mindless soundbites, the battle of media talking points and tabloid demagoguery .... had just the minimum public financed campaigns where the empasis was on a serious series of debates, not the timed / canned crap that passes today, but where the candidates could exchange and challenge of each other's ideas .... where our politicians had the real chance to change preconceptions ... where perspectives are honestly enforced or altered ... or as Newt suggests - a series of Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Make fun of Newt all you want, but doesn't even Obama acknowledge Lincoln as one of America's greatest presidents .... and isn't that the way Lincoln was picked.

Btw - Regurgitate all the old baggage you want, all the Newt ad hominem about Tiffany's, Pillsbury Dough boy, divorces/affairs years ago ..... then consider we are in crisis, that we are not picking a Saint but a leader to get us out of this mess ...... what do you think of Newt's chances in that format?

Newt is not perfect, no one is.

I am not endorsing Newt, but really .... how many of you honestly think Obama, Romney or Paul would win that?

Newt fails to get on the primary ballot in Virginia -- his home State.

Yep, that is one heck of a planner and leader – just what we need.

Yep, that is one heck of a planner and leader – just what we need.

Isn't a budget a plan, Dennis?

So how many years is it since Obama has had a plan for the country?

Newt lead the way to balanced budgets .... Obama can't offer a budget that garners even ONE dem vote.

Yep, "that is one heck a planner and leader."

Btw - How do you think Obama would fare in that debate? You don't think Newt would eviscerate Obama on that?

It is obvious that Newt uses the "Humpty Dumpty" rule of grammar: A word means what I mean it to mean, nothing more, nothing less! I don't lobby, I don't attack my rivals, I cheated on my wives because I love my county too much!

People seem to be more worried about his affairs rather than what they should worry about with Newt--huge numbers of ethics violations that he paid his way out, being asked to resign his speakership in disgrace, all the hypocrisy and revisionist history this so-called "historian"promotes, the way he flies off the handle, that he would call to account judges that do not rule in favor of the laws he wants to promote (in other words, judges would be free to render their opinions only if they agree with the conservative agenda?), force christianity (what version?) to be the state religion (he better watch out on that one--many evangelicals do not consider Catholic christians to be christian at all), enslavement of poor children--this is what some people call a leader? Newt has way worse baggage than his infidelity! I certainly do not want this man representing me on the world stage!

"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly

"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly

"We have met the enemy and he is the utter ignorance and bigotry you so eloquently demonstrated." - by bob

Ho ho ho ho ho--Merry Christmas Bob of all the numbers!

Nurse,

That was intended as a statement of fact, not an ad hominem attack on you.

(Does anyone really need me to rip her statements apart, piece by piece?)

Merry Christmas to you too!

I implied nothing about your "statement of fact" Bob--I simply wished you a Merry Christmas. If you want to rip my statements apart--feel free to do so--you have the right of free speech--as do I!

"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly

Tell us bob, why is it that you complain about our President for being a narcissist while you praise Newt for being an even bigger one? Newt = I gave Reagan this, it was my idea, 41 followed my lead, etc. etc.

I believe that our President would be very capable against Newt in any debate but I’m sure Newt would have a much stronger showing than McCain but only if Newt can get out of the way of his own ego.

However we will never know since Newt will never be the Republican candidate.

Thank you.

Some seem to think I'm kinda mean, but this is just a political blog to me - nothing is personal.

Again Merry Christmas ..... and Merry Christmas to Pogo too!

Dennis,

I have to go in a minute, but let me just quickly state that, although I am not a doctor, I honestly believe it doesn't take a doctor to understand that Obama meets the diagnosing criteria for the narcissistic personalty disorder.

Btw - I would never praise anyone for having a personality disorder.

The DSMIV, in general may list as many 10 - 15 criteria for a personality disorder. A diagnosis may be made when a certain number of the criteria are met ... say 8 or 10. The point being that someone may have 7 indicators and would not be diagnosed where someone with 8 meets the threshold. Then there are the cases where someone meets 10 .... where someone meets 14 out of 15.

There is a matter of degree, of severity. Newt may be one to a lesser degree than Obama.

Then again, Newt may be a narcissus with histrionic personalty disorder features where Obama is a narcissus with anti-social personalty disorder features.

Then again, you have to ask how many presidents don't have features.

Regardless, there is a difference between a guy saying "it was my idea" and someone who is so detached from reality as to suggest he is the 4th best president in history with the record Obama has.

I have to go, but let me know if you want to go into it further.

Regarding a debate, Obama has nothing he can stand on that means anything to anyone other than his hardcore base.

Newt is smart, knows his stuff, has a record of accomplishment that is meaningful, admits his shortcomings, recognizes his faults and has the debate skills to utterly destroy Obama. It would be historic.

Thanks for your comments Dennis .... and have a Merry Christmas.

I have to go in a minute

Hey, Bob, are you there. . . ? Hello. . . ? Bob!?!

(Phew! He's really gone. We can all breathe easier. All this personality disorder talk was making me nervous. Hate it when people begin psychoanalyzing themselves like that.)

Bob,

The Lincoln-Douglas debates were not "the way Lincoln was picked." They were part of a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, and Stephen Douglas won that campaign. Yes, I know that state legislatures actually chose Senators in the 1850s, but since the debates were a way for the Democrats and Republicans to campaign for control of the Illinois legislature, in effect, they were a campaign for the seat itself.

Anyhow, this had nothing to do with Lincoln being elected President. That was a different campaign, in which he and Douglas did not debate each other.

Other than that, your analogy works!

irtnog,

I don't recall ever being busted like that ....

Good catch.

I used to refer to Michele Bachmann as the Mama Grizzly Bear. Gonna change that. She is the mama Elephant (as in GOP elephant). Yes, little Michele is the big Elephant mama now, and if we don't put her in the White House, we have no one to blame but ourselves when the nation literally collapses before our very eyes. It's now or never, folks and fellow Americans. We've got one chance to save our nation and that is to elect Michele Bachmann and let her lead us. If we fail to do that, it won't matter if we are Republicans or Democrats or DTS. We'll all be in the same boat together, with no captain. Really want that? How can you really want that? Anyone...anyone...who says they would not vote for a woman for President, just doesn't remember how hard the women worked back in the 1920's to win the right to vote -- suffrage, it was called, and we ended up passing the 20th Amendment to give women the vote. Well, why did we go through such nonsense when we won't elect a woman President? How hypocritical. How mean and cruel. We gave Obama a chance to fail and he failed. How big a risk is really involved in giving a real woman a chance to succeed or fail. What do we have to lose? Rather have Perry, or a loser like Mitt Romney (ask Massachusetts)?Elect Mama Elephant. The other candidates aren't even worth mentioning. Paul is the most dangerous of the bunch.

One thing I do know about Gingrich, he has always been pro-Israel - before Adelson backed him.

Why should ANYONE be pro israel?

What have they done for us?

What has Israel done for us? Let's see. How about Jesus Christ? You see, you are only thinking about Israel in a narrow context. From ancient Israel came our Lord Jesus, my friend. The Holy Land is still the Holy Land, and it will be forever. So two of the world's real religions (there are lots of fake ones) came our of tiny Israel, with God's blessings. I have belonged to both, first as a Jew, then as a Christian. Now we see how important that is, and without those two religions, America is nothing but a mistake. Really want to see that? Please give it some real thought, folks. If you aren't a Jew or a Christian, you are an aetheist (atheist). If you really want to go to Hell forever, that's entirely your choice. Most people will choose Heaven, however. How can anyone with common sense hate Israel?

Gordon:

You realize that Muslims also believe in the same God as Jews? They have the same religious foundations as Jews. What is the difference?

The Tea Party in the short term is going to change the Republican Party, and more importantly, in the long term, is going to transform the nation.

It is called the dumbing down of America.

Yea Chuck the Pee Party Oh I mean the Tea Party is going to transform the nation all right in to a place where no one will want to live or even care about These Clowns have all but wrecked the country I have never seen such a bunch of fools in my entire life.

Chuck,

You're funny. Pretty funny to say when one cannot truly define what the TP is. The only thing they have in common is that they suddenly hate government spending when Obama came into office. Never heard of them before then.

chuck At first I was going to really have some fun with you. But than It dawned ( LOL) on me that will never happen. (LOL) There are to many thinking people in this country who know better. Thank You for the laugh. You should quit your day job and your comedy on the road. Your killing me man, your killing me. (LOL)

Happy Holidays!!

Thank you all for your input. Obviously, one of us is wrong. Time will tell, stay tuned.

Chuck I guess you're right - a scorched earth policy would indeed change the country.

The "teabaggers" are another name for the "know nothings" and the "American Firsters" from other generations. They slither out of the hole in the ground that they live in, do great damage to the nation (trying to keep us out of WW II for an example) finally, people wake up to the idea that they are clueless and dangerous, and they are forced to slither back to their cave.

But as Rob99 says so eloquently: timing is everything. Fascinating how the "teabaggers" slithered forth when the nations first black, Democratic President took office.

I don't think any of us need to wonder why.

You have that exactly right, newday. Fifteen to twenty years from now, historians will be calling this period the "Jackie Robinson" Presidency.

By the time the Brooklyn Dodgers became "my team", Jackie Robinson was retiring (and in the blink of an eye, my Brooklyn Dodgers went to the West Coast). But Pee Wee Reese was still the shortstop when I began following the team. And one of the stories I love to this day is when some fans were booing Robinson and Reese walked from his position at shortstop over to second base and put his arm over Jackie's shoulder. It was an incredibly brave thing to do, and it's doubtful anyone else on the team would have done it.

RIP Pee Wee! You have my respect to this day.

Chuck- the Tea Party just demonstrated several times how its going to change America. Its representatives held up a bill that would give a needed tax cut to 160 mil American workers and previously held up a bill that was necessary to maintain the US credit rating abroad. In the words of my favorite fruitcake-- "Thanks, but no thanks." The party of no became the party of never when the Tea Party reps showed up in Congress.

Chuck, you are absolutely correct about how the Tea Party will change the republican party and influence the transformation of our country. I have some problems with the movement, but overall, it has at least gotten Americans to start rubbing their eyes and come out of their slumber.

Reading all the other comments reinforces the fact that it will take some much longer to wake up. It is frustrating to hear people denegrate whole classes and think they are making substantial contributions. If you're trying to influence other people... mix in a little logic and reason (and maybe some proof) with the hateful rhetoric...

The biggest thing that can save this country is to get away from the one party system (republicrat) and get back to what we really stand for

Says American Girl, while denigrating other classes in a breathless example of the hypocrisy of the "teabaggers".

I couldn't agree with you more, American Girl. We have rubbed our eyes and seen what the Tea Party is all about--and we don't want anything to do with them.

AMERICAN GIRL post # 3.12 ...

Well said, you have my vote! :-)

Only to a Republican is the label "moderate" an insult while the highest compliment is to be an extremist. Which explains why the country is being slowly flushed down the toilet.

Moderate is not a dirty word to the Republicans. We GOP'ers believe that it is better to be a moderate Republican than any kind of Democrat. Democrats are (oh, oh) just refuse to let go of their belief in theories that have never worked. Idealism lives in the GOP, not the Democrat party. Real freedom lives in the GOP; Democrats grasp onto government for their reason to live. Theh GOP finds freedom where it really exists -- in their own hearts and minds. I once was a Democrat, backed the Kennedy family, and took a somewhat liberal stance on everything. Now, I am a tried and true Republican, because I know that if you give up your freedom to government like the Democrats do, you are the enemy of Liberty. I choose Liberty, now and forever. That statue in the New York Harbor is the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Government Rule. I accept the challenge of many Americans who have decided to fight for our liberty. We aren't afraid. We aren't going to accept "second best."
We are Republicans.

You're on..

He is wasting his time and OTHER peoples' money.

Newt isn't exactly wasting our time, he is, after all, weakening Romney ahead of the general election. Nice to hear Republicans calling each other out for their hypocrisy. Thanks, Newt!

His campaign went broke before recent fundraising because of Newt's insistence on luxury digs and first class treatment. His ego knows no bounds. In the WH he'd expect royal treatment and the hell with the rest of us!

You're right about what he'd do in the WH. But then again, Obama has taken FULL advantage himself hasn't he? Why do these guys think that "public service" entitles them to the fruits of OUR labor? If either one had earned their perks through personal endeavor and personal risk in the private sector, then leave them alone to spend it how they wish. Why do so many think that public service should enrich a person?

Well, now just maybe everyone will understand why if you are a solid conservative, you need to leave the republican party. They do not support solid conservative principles like freedom for everyone, liberty, taking responsibility for oneself, basic honesty, nor even personal integrity anymore.

I left, and now can feel a lot better about myself. The republican party is all about the corporate collectivist takeover of America, screw the individual.

It is NOT about marching to the beat, it IS about knowing what you stand for and being responsible for it.

Look at how they attack Ron Paul, Dr Paul defends LIBERTY, and they are trying to trash him! Trash the Constitution? They don't believe in liberty and justice for all anymore?

Is short, NO they Do Not!

A Vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Freedom, Liberty and Justice for ALL!

I supported Reagan when I was a child because he seemed like an honest man with integrity...But then when I was able to vote I saw all the damage to human rights they did in this country while always starting wars to protect other country's human rights,really they just like war...So when I could vote I registered Libertarian...Then I read all of there lit. and some books and I changed to independent....Now since I am almost 40 I am a registered Democrat and am more progressive than liberal,but I still have a few conservative views but never enough to vote for any far right candidates which is all there is to choose from now...

I am not quite sure why people think that Ron Paul is for the people. He voted for all the bush tax cuts that created our huge deficit. He even voted for the billion dollar oil companies to keep their special tax cuts. He claims to be against corporate take over and then voted them more tax cuts so they would have more money and more power in which to affect the elections.

For the people he voted to not raise the minimum wage, once again for his corporate masters. With his tax cuts and deregulation Paul is just as much for the 1% as any other republican running for president.

I distrust Ron Paul more than any of the others as he seems to be trying to pull a Walker over our eyes. You know run on one platform and then do your best to destroy our nation.

Can't forget Mr. Pacifist. The last time he had a chance to vote on the Iraq war and to end it, he voted with the republicans to continue the war with no end in sight.

You need to look at how Ron Paul votes, not the lying things that come out of his mouth. Tell me how if you had a newsletter coming out in your name that you would not read or even okay things that were being said in your name. Right?

@ post #9 ... It is not any business of the Federal Government what S.C. does with it's flags. All wars are about economics, the north wanted MORE slavery. They wanted to enslave the 94% of the people who didn't own slaves, they wanted FREE raw materials instead of cheap from the Southern people. By "winning" the north has placed a big central government over us. We ALL lost that war! But you can't tell anyone from phially anything .... they know it all.

tex-478405

Wow!

What history book did you learn about the Civil War from, They have to have some corrections done.

If I were you I would go back to your school and get a refund!

I don't need a PC northern version of the war on Southern women and children, MY FAMILY LIVED IT. You attack me, you jerk, instead of what I said. You know it's true and can't handle it.

I was born in Arkansas in 1948 while the south was very much segregated. What I don't remember is a war on Southern women and children. I too lived it.

Tell us more about the war on women and children that only you seem to know about. How about some specifics being you know so much about it.

Americans First-3238795

I'll agree with ya here, I'm sure that Shelby Foote (a good ol' southrn boy) is listening in heaven also..

I would really like to hear his answer...

Dennis, maybe the voters there have woke up.

There is a small problem with this strategy, though. Write-ins for primary elections are illegal, according to Virginia state code. Thus, it appears that if Gingrich heads to the polls in his home state’s primaries on March 6, he would have to vote for someone else.

SallyAnn, to me progressive IS about taxes and programs. Most Tea Baggers want the Fed-Gov to stick to the constitution.

I, for one, don't care if you kill your baby, I just don't want my taxies paying for it.

You do have good points.

I am a member of the Tea Party Patriots, a term derived from the famous Boston Tea Party that launched our war of independence from England. I've got a great idea. If you hate the Tea Party, move to England. Only your kids won't move with you .. your kids have too much sense to do that. Rule Brittanica. Or find out what the Tea Party Patriots are all about.

A single party system is called a dictatorship. China has one.

Merry Christmas!