[relictele]

The MSM....desperate to put a face/name to the Tea Party because having millions oppose socialism is alien and frightening to them.

Palin...Gingrich...Paul. They so need and want a villain - anyone will do as long as the character assassination machine can stay cranked up.

[Porterville]

“in disgrace?” Was I out of country when this happened? What was so disgraceful?

[ken21]

the clintons neutered neut.

who can trust a guy who signed onto rush’s comment that he

hoped obama would fail in early feb 2009,

and then later newt apologized for signing onto rush’s remark.

[hstacey]

Used to like the LA Times in my younger days...They are so irrelevent now...More bileous propaganda...

[Wonder Warthog]

"That is absurd, of course, as is the notion that the Obama administration has embraced a socialist economic program....."

Gee. Obama's programs certainly look socialist to ME.

[Carley]

Ever since he lost the bid for the presidency Al Gore has prowled the edges of insanity.

[two23]

What a nasty spew of evil accusations.

[Brett66]

That is absurd, of course, as is the notion that the Obama administration has embraced a socialist economic program

As is the notion that the reporter is nothing but a socialist shill, thug, commie.

[ElkGroveDan]

I’m no fan of Newt these days, but “disgrace?” The ones who should be addressing “disgrace” are the LA Times who took a once thriving corporation in a beautiful, prosperous city and ran them both into the ground.

[Cicero]

“That is absurd, of course. . . .”

Speaks for itself.

On the other hand, what this Commie shill doesn’t mention is that Newt worked very hard, for cash and favors, to elect Dede Scozzafava, and to defeat the Conservative candidate.

He succeeded, and as a result the Democrats have one more seat in congress to pass stuff like Obamacare, thanks to Newt the Commie enabler.

[FrankR]

Newt had an affair; clinton had an affair; the Governor of NY had an affair; there are affairs all over the place these days, but Newt is singled out as the one which was a "disgrace".

"If the left does a smear, it's always on the ones they fear." - me

[DDLL]

Whatever peoples’ opinions are of Newt, I’d say you’ve got to give him credit for being one of the VERY FEW who are actually saying what NEEDS to be said out loud.

“The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”

It needs to be said loudly and often!

[basil]

IMO, Newt is so yesterday. He should just get off the stage and see if he can find a real job in the real world.

[mstar]

The LA Times is running scared. Heard Newt at the NRA convention and he was awesome. He is a seasoned fighter throwing the light of truth on the Nazi libs and like roaches they are scattering.

(I love to call the libs Nazis because they REALLY hate it, plus they are too comfortable with their label of "commie".)

[Sudetenland]

I can see from some of the posts here that hatred of Newt is far more important to them than the horrid statements made in this article about the tea party members and the lies this man is telling.

Nobody is better than eating their own than conservatives. Yes Newt has made some poor judgments--who hasn't? If Republicans and conservatives expect perfection from every candidate, then America is doomed to be the next UK.

This guy is claiming that truthers are part of the tea party movement. This guy is claiming that what Newt said about secular socialism is absurd. By all means,let's all ignore what these haters on the left say and attack Newt. We don't really care if Obama and his pals in the unions and the Democrat Party win.

I say if a candidate hasn't got a 100% rating from the American Conservative Union we shouldn't vote for him. It's much preferrable to have men like Obama in power than it is to allow someone like Newt to get into office. Never mind that he is one of the strongest voices supporting putting God back into our nation's government, nevermind that he is one of the loudest voices in opposition to Obama's socialist agenda. Never forgive, never forget. /sarc

America is doomed because there are too many people in search of philosophical purity and moral purity, too ready to cast the first stone. Some people here at FR really disgust me.

[SMM48]

The MSM desperately trying to push "their" 2012 GOP Presidential Candidate.

We can not let this happen again! Newt is unelectable...too much baggage.

They pushed McRino and look what happened!!!