Ace of Spades humorously asked the same question with this article.
Life Imitates South Park. Again.
It's coming down to this?
Or this?
Posted on 12/04/2011 8:43:32 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he cannot support GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich because the former House speaker lacks leadership skills.
“I am not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich’s having served under him for four years and experienced his leadership. Because I found it lacking often times,” Coburn said on Fox News Sunday. The Oklahoma senator served in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001.
“There’s all kind of leaders, leaders that instill confidence and leaders that are somewhat abrupt, leaders that have one standard for the people that they are leading and a different standard for themselves,” he said. “I will have difficulty supporting him for president of the United States.”
Coburn in March said that he was looking for a president that would unite the country and raised questions about Gingrich’s confrontational style.
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That explains it.
Coburn’s vote for TARP was conservative?
On May 24, 2007, the US Senate voted 80–14 to fund the war in Iraq. Coburn voted nay. On October 1, 2007, the Senate voted 92–3 to fund the war in Iraq. Coburn voted nay. In February 2008, Coburn said, “I will tell you personally that I think it was probably a mistake going to Iraq.”
Coburn’s vote for TARP was conservative?
Heh heh heh...
On May 24, 2007, the US Senate voted 80–14 to fund the war in Iraq. Coburn voted nay. On October 1, 2007, the Senate voted 92–3 to fund the war in Iraq. Coburn voted nay. In February 2008, Coburn said, “I will tell you personally that I think it was probably a mistake going to Iraq.”
So you supported Coburn’s TARP vote?
Coburn is also good buddies with Dick Durban. So it’s no surprise that he refused to support our troops in Iraq.
Of course not. You agreed with Newt’s hailing of TARP? (I mean, his views before he changed his views. Hard to pin a guy down to one side when he tends to flip flop.)
Humm let’s see just WHERE IS the “Colburn Government Reduction Act of ANY YEAR”??? Bueller, Bueller, Bueller...! This guy(Colburn) runs his mouth alot but produces NOT MUCH!
Coburn the Gyno-RINO is not someone to be taken seriously.
Coburn proposed massive tax increases as a member of the so-called bi-partisan “Gang of Six”. He’s a RINO and a member of Team Romney.
Everyone knows Newt’s sins. If they support him, its for two reasons. They remember the glee with which he used to beat the snot out of Clinton back when he was implementing his “Contract for America” and the way Clinton was forced to back down time and time again and then claim credit for what Gingrich forced him to sign.
And they see his obvious willingness to fight when he’s on the debate stage, and his command of detail, and his ability to run rings around his opponents.
They will have to forgive the fact that, once Clinton had the goods on him, he went weak in the knees during impeachment. They’ll have to forgive his support for Scozzafava, when he was being (as he often is) too clever for his own good. They’ll have to forgive his acceptance of Global Warming as settled issue (though as I recall his approach was to try and show that the free market was the solution to this non-problem). They’ll have to forgive his faithlessness as a husband; the fact that he didn’t lie under oath about it doesn’t buy him much credit. We know his enemies will make a lot of hay about him going after Clinton when he was having his own affair.
This guy has a lot of baggage and he has disappointed a lot of people. But what I wouldn’t give to see him running rings around Obama on the debate stage.
I have said any number of times that my favorite four were Bachmann, Santorum, Cain, and Newt in no particular order. Cain has imploded, Bachmann and Santorum are getting stronger all the time, and I like them more and more as they go along. Newt? He’s always going to be problematic. But I have to say I love it when he steps up to the podium and opens up another broadside against the Obamists; no one does it as well as he does.
In April 2011, Coburn spoke to Bloomberg TV about Obama, saying, “I love the man. I think he’s a neat man. I don’t want him to be president, but I still love him. He is our President. He’s my President. And I disagree with him adamantly on 95% of the issues, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have a great relationship.”
See, that's not how a conversation works. You asked if I supported Coburn's vote on TARP. Like a fool, I had the courtesy to dignify your question with an answer, "no." I rejoined with a question to you, whether you agreed with Newt's initial hailing of TARP, and McCain's role in crafting it. You obviously could not muster the courtesy or dignity to reply in kind, but simply offer, "Coburn the Gyno-RINO is not someone to be taken seriously."
Gee, thanks for your opinion. I'll take it for everything it's worth.
Back then, Coburn was pretty conservative, so he likely knows what he is talking about. Now, Coburn is as bad as Newt, unfortunately. He needs to be replaced, and Newt needs to be sent back home to his latest wife.
Back then, Coburn was pretty conservative, so he likely knows what he is talking about. Now, Coburn is as bad as Newt, unfortunately. He needs to be replaced, and Newt needs to be sent back home to his latest wife.
Back then, Coburn was pretty conservative, so he likely knows what he is talking about. Now, Coburn is as bad as Newt, unfortunately. He needs to be replaced, and Newt needs to be sent back home to his latest wife.
Ace of Spades humorously asked the same question with this article.
Life Imitates South Park. Again.
It's coming down to this?
Or this?
Newt was in the wrong. Coburn was in the right. Past history demonstrates which one had the better understanding of what is wrong in Washington.
Coburn has built up enough credibility as a real conservative to be worthy of listening to, and he did it, not by words or speeches or interviews, but by deeds.
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