Posted on 02/22/2012 9:59:28 AM PST by libertarian neocon
Once you accept the idea that the definition of marriage is no longer between one man and one woman, it is a slippery slope to polygamy, marriage to animals, etc. Jerks like Simpson (and I guess you) want to use labels to denigrate people who speak the truth. It is easier to employ personal attacks than address the substance of the statements.
Why does every sing Gingrich supporter have to trash Reagan. I happen to think Reagan was one of our best presidents, and certainly the best in my lifetime. I don’t want to vote for someone whose campaign rests on trashing him.
That isn't in his favor. Even though he was innocent, he negotiated himself a $300,000 settlement and an admission of guilt. Do we want a negotiator who is so terrible that he could take a full house and lose to a king high? The Democrats will run roughshod over him.
“Why does every sing Gingrich supporter have to trash Reagan. I happen to think Reagan was one of our best presidents, and certainly the best in my lifetime. I don’t want to vote for someone whose campaign rests on trashing him.”
I pointed out the fact about Reagan not to trash Reagan but just to point out that he was human like everyone else. I did say that despite his temper he did pretty well.
I love Reagan and think Newt is a Reagan Republican, which is one of the reasons I support him.
“You are clearly reciting the MSM and liberal line. Santorum’s remarks about gay marriage were spot on. “
His comments on gay marriage were not the foundation of my criticism of Santorum, just one in a list. If it was the only thing, I think it would be okay.
Not even close.
LOOK at this record. On Life and Marriage, he's a social conservative but what about everything else? You're not troubled by his yes vote to confirm Sonya Sotomayor when Clinton nominated her for the 2nd Circuit when everyone knew she'd be fast tracked to the Supreme Court and low-and-behold she was Obama's 1st choice! Even McCain didn't bite that Apple. How about choice of Spector over Toomey in the primary? How do you cope with his introducing and voting for a half-billion additional funds on top of the $900 million Amtrak budget? What on earth is conservative about that?
He's, at best, the GOP establishment's version of a Blue Dog Democrat. He's is a snake oil salesmen in sweater vests preying upon those who care deeply about traditional marriage and prolife issues.
Committing adultery in two marriages is a “battle scar?” I guess with two acrimonious divorces, Newt must have lots of battle scars. Let’s hope he doesn’t repeat his behavior again affecting his current, plastic trophy wife. Three strikes and you are out.
I don’t believe there is any “false witness” The cartoon merely has the word “divorces” of which he has had more than one, correct? There is nothing about his dying wife in the cartoon. I know he has been slandered in the press but so has every candidate. They distort the truth. Lighten up, my sister!
You don’t have to sell me on Newt. When he announced, I went to the library and read his book. He’s got some great ideas, & I’ll vote for him if he gets the nomination.
But, do I think Newt is the best candidate? No.
We already know that Romney is not a conservative. And Gingrich has been at various times on the other side on such issues as global warming, the individual mandate for health care, a current supporter of the prescription drug program (a $7.2 trillion unfunded liability), and an advocate of amnesty. Newt supported Dede Scozzafava over Hoffman. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. What kind of Conservative holds those positions?
No way. I am one who finds newt’s mind fascinating and welcomes him as an ideas man in our government. But not as President. He will come up with off the wall non constitutional craziness and for the wrong reasons, most of them being for his own attention or legacy. He is a great national security risk. Our enemies know he’d rise to the old honey trap. And the First Lady will be a known concubine for the first time. I never looked at Laura bush or even Michelle Obama and had to shake the image of their heads bobbing up and down under the Speaker’s desk. I’m no prude but I don’t like that picture.
Quite a few recent presidents have had affairs. Ike, JFK, LBJ and Clinton. At least Newt has been married to the same woman for over a decade now.
Newt agreed to pay for the legal costs. He never admitted guilt.
Would you agree to pay $300,000 for something you didn’t do? I wouldn’t. And I wouldn’t want someone to represent me who did.
This is the most ridiculous comment I have ever heard. Gingrich is a national security risk? Just what do you base this moronic statement on? I have heard that callista is a very devout Christian woman, but without hesitation, you call her a concubine. I will tell you what, you better hope that Ricky doesn’t have a girlfriend or boyfriend, for that matter, crawl out from under the rocks come September.
Gingrich is a Rockefeller Republicn. He started out as the Southern Regional Director for Rockefeller’s presidential campaign.
He agreed to pay the legal costs because the issue had become a major distraction threatening to derail the agenda. He never admitted guilt and was later exonerated. Period.
“Gingrich is a Rockefeller Republicn. He started out as the Southern Regional Director for Rockefeller’s presidential campaign.”
That was over 40 years ago. 40 years before 1980, Reagan was an FDR supporting democrat. Also, Newt has a more conservative record than both santorum and romney.
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