Posted on 11/30/2011 12:44:58 PM PST by TBBT
Results from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling poll of Florida GOP primary voters: Newt Gingrich (47 percent), Mitt Romney (17 percent), Herman Cain (15 percent), Ron Paul (5 percent), Michele Bachmann (4 percent), Jon Huntsman (3 percent), Rick Perry (2 percent), and Rick Santorum (1 percent).
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I’ve been wondering if you were a plant, and now your MO shows that indeed you are.
Yes newt was a spearhead for the creation of ANWR.
Too bad that you were never watching Noot when he was in congress.
His dirty work started in 1978.
Holy cow! Perry 2 percent.....rotflmao
After researching a little further, technically Editor is correct - Carter did establish THE department of education. The legislation in 1965 paved the way for Carter to establish said department. However, Editor is incorrect that Gingrich wrote much of the legislation creating the department of education. Gingrich was a freshman congressman at the time the legislation was written. He entered office in 1979. The Department was created in 1980 by Jimmy Carter.
Plant? Whatever. Give your source. There isn’t any thing on the web that I can find which validates your claim that Newt created anwr. However, I did find information that Newt supports drilling in anwr. It’s put up or shut up time.
Like many politicians, Newt has an inflated ego. He also has a tendency to snap when he gets his feelings hurt. When he was Speaker he was carrying on an affair very similar to the one President Clinton was having with an intern. It was their fellow Republicans in both cases, Nixon and Newt, who demanded their resignations.
Wow! I didn't realize that any person could be capable of engaging in political "dirty work" before even entering public office. See, if you do a little checking, you'll find that he didn't win election until 1978, and didn't enter office until January 1979. So, if he began his "dirty work" in 1978, then he's even better at this than any of us realized./s
You've given him credit for things he has had nothing to do with. I'm wondering what kind of a plant you are? Rhododendron perhaps?
>> “Newt isn’t perfect but he is an acceptable alternative to Robomney.” <<
Bullshit!
We need the alternative to both of them.
Neither of them can beat Obama because both of them are public healthcare, and mandate promotors. That takes away our biggest issue.
He signed onto the killer legislation in ‘78 and that is how he got his canpaign funded.
You really thing Freepers are stupid. We know all about teacher’s union funding and thuggery. It’s just like Perry pushing the vaccine to get Big Pharma money behind him. Fortunately he’s too stupid to run for office.
Newt is the latest GOP Icarus. What would you do to destroy Newt’s election chances?
Cain was obvious because Democrats know that black men are sex maniacs and cannot look at a woman without wanting to mount her.
What do you do to a Washington insider who divorced his wife as she was in a hospital bed with cancer and who switches sides as the wind blows? Plus he’s an egghead and egomaniac who’s own party asked him to leave when he was Speaker.
Nice strawman!
I didn’t say that Noot “created” ANWR; just that he was one of its chief legislative promotors.
In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne Ginther. In 1984, Battley told the Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Battley, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce.
Gingrich has disputed that account. In 2011, their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay, and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce.
Gingrich was a freshman Congressman at the time, however there are sites that say that Newt wrote much of the legislation -- how true that is I don't know. And frankly, what Newt did as a freshman Congressman is the least of what I find objectionable about Newt.
Newt is a Rockefeller Republican, member of the CFR, was fined $300,000 while he was in office for ethics violations, got $1.6M from Freddie Mac, etc. Red State covered a lot Newt's history.
Newt is a prefect symbol of what's wrong with DC, he's not "the cure".
“Well, I guess I’ll have to figure out something to do on election day, since voting will be a waste of time.
Vote for Obama, or Vote for Noot; either way we get obama’s policies.”
You are making David Axlerod very happy.
Noot is making David Axlerod very happy.
There is no other candidate they would rather run against.
All right then, he’s a good man. I don’t know about Wikipedia as a solid source on this story, but I do know about divorces and you’ve got some solid ground when it comes to this kind of stuff.
The media did lie about Gingrich’s jewelry ‘binge’ and I have heard that meme continue despite the facts. Do you have an alternate source on that hospital bed divorce story?
Found this myself:
As the media prepares its campaign to take down former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as it did Herman Cain, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann, an old story about the presidential candidate and his first wife has been refuted.
The story goes that Gingrich served his first wife, Jackie Battley Gingrich, with divorce papers as she lay dying of cancer. It has become part of the black legend of Gingrich, boosting the narrative of his being a mean, heartless man willing to trample on anyone for personal or political gain, contrasting with the conservative theme of family values.
There is one problem with the story. It isn’t true, as we have from the testimony of one of Gingrich’s daughters.
In fact, the divorce, requested by Mrs. Gingrich, has already been set in motion before her hospital stay. Far from dying of cancer, the first Mrs. Gingrich had a benign tumor removed. The conversation in the hospital room was not a sudden shock as the legendary story suggests. The first Mrs. Gingrich is very much alive, albeit a private person who does not give interviews.
The black legend of the hospital room cancer incident should serve as a warning about believing stories of public people whose sources are dubious at best. One does not know how the story, first published in 1984 by Mother Jones, was concocted, but it has proven useful for Gingrich’s enemies over the years. In fact, it will likely prove to be too useful to be put to rest, despite the refutation of Ms. Jackie Gingrich Cushman. The cancer divorce story has haunted Gingrich for decades, after all.
It is not that Gingrich’s personal life is pristine pure, as the former Speaker himself will readily admit. No doubt a Republican candidate with two nasty divorces and three marriages will have a difficult time, especially with evangelicals who regard adultery with a jaundice eye. But Gingrich has also said that he has repented his sins and has asked for forgiveness. If he has, in effect, gone on and sinned no more, then his questionable personal past should remain there. If the country can forgive Bill Clinton for turning the Oval Office into a trysting spot, it can forgive Newt Gingrich.
http://news.yahoo.com/newt-gingrich-hospital-cancer-divorce-story-refuted-175622883.html
First published by Mother Jones - neutral and completely honest. Wow, I wish I’d not swallowed that whopper whole.
OK, I’ll hold my fire on Gingrich, but how is his fundraising, what’s his current balance and will he win a primary?
The Mediots only hit Noot with fluff.
They will do nothing to harm him until the primaries are over. They just have to make it look like they are poking him.
I don't know anything about Gingrich's fundraising or prospects, but in the absence of Palin and Cain, I am looking for a viable candidate.
“Interesting” and scary.
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