Posted on 01/02/2012 12:34:20 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa — No more Mr. Nice Guy. Newt Gingrich will “draw a very clear contrast” with Romney “every day” immediately after the Iowa caucuses Tuesday, the former House speaker told ABC News.
“Everything we say will have Romney’s quote, Romney’s videotape, Romney’s record; it’ll all be based explicitly on Romney,” Gingrich said in an interview in Independence, Iowa.
Gingrich has said repeatedly that Republicans should aim their attacks at President Obama, not fellow Republicans. But after getting hammered by millions of dollars in negative ads, Gingrich says he will now return fire, targeting Romney over and over again.
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So true....we just have to watch them all fall behind Newt as time moves forward. He'll be just fine and knows how this game is played....so does Santorum...they'll all ride the waves until the sea calms.
Go Newt Go!
Yes. All the other candidates saying they are entitled the Christian vote merely because they self-identify as "Christian" want to pretend they are the only Christian running for President.
>> Most Christians don’t believe in endless war and being the policemen of the world. <<
By any chance do you go to ANSWER rallies and hang out with Cindy Sheehan? You seem to have their talking points memorized. Just start calling Rick Santorum a "chickenhawk neo-con" and you're all set.
>> So when Mr. Perfect Conservative Santorum <<
Neither Rick Santorum nor his supporters claim he is a "Perfect Conservative". The only people who use the phrase "Perfect Conservative" are supporters of other candidates who whine "you're a PURIST!! you want PERFECTION!!" when we point out their candidate has a lousy track record, stands little chance of "beating Obama" and is overall a terrible nominee. The fact we would prefer a decent and respectable candidate with a reliable track record doesn't mean we are demanding "perfection" except in the minds of bitter Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, etc., supporters.
>> claims to be such a good Catholic he needs to be asked why he goes against the Catholic Church in promoting endless war instead of peace. Wars should be started when they are absolutely necessary. <<
Allow me to quote the Pope himself on what the "Catholic Church" says about just war:
"Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war"
http://www.priestsforlife.org/magisterium/bishops/04-07ratzingerommunion.htm
>> Mr. Perfect Conservative needs to read the Cathecism of the Catholic Church. <<
What part would you like him to read? The part about grounds for a just war? As I just noted, the Pope himself said there is a wide variety of ways to intrepret whether a war is just and you can be a good Catholic if your intrepetation is different from the Pope's. Do you think the Catholic Church is a pacifist organziation who opposes taking out Islamic extremists? That would be news to the crusaders who decided to engage in "endless war" because the Pope called for it. It seems you are confusing the Cathecism of the Catholic Church with the latest Ron Paul manifesto.
>> Newt Gingrich believes in promoting peace, and if peace fail, then military might is justified. Newt Gingrich has forgotten more than Mr. Perfect Conservative Santorum will ever know. <<
Perhaps Newt Gingrich should read the section of the Cathecism of the Catholic Church that talks about how life begins at conception. Your hero Newt the "good Catholic" got that wrong just a few weeks ago when he said life begins at implantation, directly defying Catholic teachings. Of course, Rick Santorum didn't join the Catholic Church because he was a Georgia Baptist who was banging some Catholic staffer 20 years younger while married to someone else. It seems there's another "Catholic" candidate for President who "found" Catholicism that way.
>> I love the way he likes to say how he has defeated democrats in a democratic state. He always leaves out the little fact that he lost to a democrat the last time <<
I love the way Newt supporters like to say he was "removed" from Congress by a "coup" lead by "RINOs". They always leave out the little fact the actual coup against Newt in 1997 failed because the RINOs were on his side, and that Newt resigned suddenly in 1998 after the GOP lost five seats under his "leadership", leaving the House Republicans in disarray as they scrambled to find a new Speaker before finally settling on Hastert after Bob Livingston wouldn't take it. I guess the facts don't go well with their "Newt was such a terrific conservative leader until RINOs removed him" history revisionism.
>> he ran for the Senate in PA, because he supported RINO Arlen Specter over conservative Pat Toomey. <<
Yet you, like all Newt supporters, apparently have no problem with Newt backing the even more liberal Dede Scozzafava over the conservative Doug Hoffman. Newt did that on his own as a private citizen. Why is it OK when Newt endorses someone to the LEFT of Arlen Specter? Interesting double standard you have.
You have got to be kidding....Ron Paul? Who cares or listens to what he has to say about any candidate....he can't lift a candle to a one of them and is only there to cover Romney's back. Hasn't accomplished a dang thing in congress despite his bellowing what he wants...he flatlined every time with any of his purposals.
Paul's worse than a traitor to this country because he hides his real intentions by using the constitution as his mask....and his supporters buy it hook line and sinker....even after Pauls been clearly exposed they still cannot "see" thru the veil of deception Pauls's created for them to see thru....nor that the Obama administration is fully supportive of Ron PAul...Obama would love nothing else then creaming Paul in the Presidential debates...and he would be successful at doing just that...piece of cake
The Troll (Newt) stepped in it again by claiming to be “Romney Boated.” For my part, I gave more to the honorable Swiftboat Veterans for Truth than all other GOP candidates combined in 2004 and I an insulted, no enraged, that the Troll would coin an insult based on these patriots. He is a liberal asswipe and deserves no consideration.
Doug Hoffman has come right out and stated nobody should hold that against Newt...and even he doesn’t....so your arguement is baseless in that respect. He understood why Newt did that and Newt has addressed his reasoning clearly for doing that. It’s dead wood. Nothing there....Hoffman put it to rest and so should you.
This is a horse race and flushing out those along the way to see how they’re going to run seems to be on the front burner now and in the days ahead.
Newt needs to go after Romney.....as I ‘m afraid Bachman’s going to get behind Romney as suspected from the beginning of her run. She’d be a fool doing so but she seems to be doing foolish things along the way with frequency. So too will Ron Paul as his numbers fade out.. so Newt’s focusing on Romney is the way to go in the next round.
Imagine if it were to come down to Newt...Santorum and Romney!
Well he was Romney Boated....calling it what it is makes perfect sense. It was the same 'play' Swift voters took out Kerry.....not the first time copies are made of what works.
Political races are not a place to be overly sensitive...BTW.
The putrid little Troll specifically referred to being “Romney Boated” as a reference to unethical or unfair tactics. That is what he meant and what he said and I stand by my opinion:
The Troll (Newt) stepped in it again by claiming to be “Romney Boated.” For my part, I gave more to the honorable Swiftboat Veterans for Truth than all other GOP candidates combined in 2004 and I an insulted, no enraged, that the Troll would coin an insult based on these patriots. He is a liberal asswipe and deserves no consideration.
Now your remark is just plain stupid. Newt was asked if he was “Swift Boated”. He said he was “Romney Boated”. Two completely different things. Apparently your reading comprehension skills are severely diminished if you cannot see the difference. You are the troll.
“That is what he meant and what he said and I stand by my opinion”
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First part of your sentence implies factual knowledge, followed by an admission of opinion...Which one is it?
You’ve got to lighten up a little....
Guy goes to a doctor and says, “What’s the matter with me doc?” One moment I think I’m a wigwam and the next moment I think I’m a teepee. The doctor thinks for a moment and says, “You’re two tents”.
You Newt trolls were under a rock for the last 15 years. Why not just stay there?
What a coincidence...and only a week later!
13 posted on Friday, December 23, 2011 3:22:08 PM by bramps (Polls (Poles) are for Cable TV)
I stand by my statement. Santorum needs to understand that being pro-life is alot more than being anti-abortion.
I suggest your familiarize yourself with the positions of
the great Pat Buchanan, A REAL CONSERVATIVE. Neverending war in the Middle East is not conservatism. It is for neocons, those warmongering LIBERALS that control today’s GOP. I also suggest you read the history of the neocons. They took over the GOP when George W. Bush became president, and control Barry Soreto hook, line and sinker.
Newt Gingrich has a mind of his own. He won’t be led around by the nose by warmongering liberals. Willard the liberal would take orders day one from them. The white version of warmongering Obama will bring nothing new to table.
Not once have I heard Santorum say war is ugly, it is about killing. He knows nothing of the terrible consequences of war. You start the war, throw overwhelming force at the enemy. Kill enough of them and they quit. Pretty simple. Then you get the hell out of the country. You accomplish the mission, then you leave. We are not the policemen of the world. But no president has the right to send Americans to their deaths without a declaration of Congress. Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich are the only ones that know have enough sense to understand this. Not Ron Paul. He’s an isolationist. Wonder if Santorum ever heard the below quote.
“War is like a giant pack rat, it takes something from you and it leaves
something behind in its stead. It burned me out in some ways so that now I
feel like an old man [at thirty-one] but still sometimes act like a dumb kid. It
made me grow up too fast. You live so much on nervous excitement that
when it is over you fall apart.” ~ Audie Murphy
Newt will be attacted as going back on his word NOT to attack -
However - it looks like he’s going to do exactly what I’d hope he would - simply put the video clips out there of Romney himself. That’s not ‘attack’ - that’s just facts.
If Romney calls it ‘attacks” - how can he deny it’s HIMSELF in his own words - no one else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU
http://mrctv.org/videos/mitt-romney-2002-my-views-are-progressive
and this one - with the simply question “WHY?” and “What don’t you want us to see?”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/06/us-usa-campaign-romney-computers-idUSTRE7B500X20111206
Newt will be attacted as going back on his word NOT to attack -
Wrong.
Newt addressed this. He will continue to not attack others with LIES like Romney is doing. If he brings up honest points about Romney that are anti-Conservative, that isn’t going negative, that is presenting FACTS.
Romny’s ads are LIES and Newt has answered every lie in the ad. So Newt has every right to point out Romney’s Liberal Policies.
They FEAR Newt.
Both Romney and Zero fear Newt because he shines the light on their liberal ways in real time.
You didn’t learn anything in the last 15 years, why now? With no conservative in the lead, Santorum is the only good choice. Romney could win, but he is Bush III. BO would spank the Newt like a baby seal. So let the Newt continue play all sides of the fence and lining his pockets with lefty money and get behind someone who shares your values.
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