Posted on 05/16/2011 7:17:02 PM PDT by Rational Thought
‘Unforgivable’: Intense Video Captures Iowa Voter Calling Gingrich ‘Embarrassment’ for Ryan Remarks
This was the spontaneous encounter that Newt Gingrich absolutely did not need today. Already in damage control for his comments implying that Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to fix Medicare amounted to “right-wing social engineering,” and the fuzziness of his how his views on individual healthcare mandates might differ from Obamacarian ones, Gingrich had even posted a video clarifying his views. And then this happened. Just one of those chance meetings in the lobby of a Holiday Inn that can prove enormously problematic for a presidential candidate. Key part of the clip hits about 1:40:
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Newt is toast!
Like Ryan said, "with opposition like this (Noot), who needs liberals?"
I’m not a Newt fan, but at this point in the game, the more running the better. Let them battle it out and let the cream rise to the top. I’d rather have a candidate selected that way than by the establishment (who gave us McCain and Dole).
Newt needs to run in the Democrat Primarys.
Everyone but his media pals think he is a joke.
neutered is a rino.
I feel exactly like the guy in the video. Does Newt think that we’ve been sitting around waiting for him?
Every time I see him, I imagine him just coming from dinner with Colista at a fancy restaurant. That’s what he is good for: being a fixture on the DC circuit.
Rush had some irate callers today too, one going off on a certain “Conservative talk show host” who is promoting Newt on his radio show...Guess that would be his good pal, Hannity.
Give it up already, you guys. And Newt, go away and stay away!
He has become an embarrassment.
burnt toast!
NEXT!!!!!!!!
The man gave Newt good advice. Get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself.
Newt just shot himself in the foot,ended his campaign before it got started.
Going on MTP was a huge mistake for Newt, or for any GOP candidate, but I'm glad he did and completely imploded. These people are subsidies of the DNC and their #1 objective is to get Obama re-elected at all costs.
Notice how Sarah has control over her own message and doesn't allow these clowns to set the narrative. The days of Republican candidates courting the middle or going after moderates is obsolete. Conservatives are hungry, and we're not going to hold our noses anymore for another squish picked by the liberal media.
What’s sad is Newt really does have some great conservative ideas now and again. I think if he were President his heart would mostly be in the right place. But he is a babbler, thinks out loud and is prone to looking for “common ground” with far leftists like Pelosi on things like the global warming scam.
Newt never really had much of a chance, but declaring Ryan’s medicare reform radical right wing social engineering is a massive stab in the back of virtually every congressional Republican who really stuck their neck out to try to fix an out of control entitlement. Newt is absolutely done.
Shoot, the entire GOP field did that in '08 from the Michigan debate on. Totally.
Yep exactly.
I don’t know - didn’t Biden announce in the morning and then make that “clean, articulate” comment by that same afternoon?
Newt is toast, done, finished, wiped off the board, flushed down the toilet, a traitor, a lover of Pelosi and dirt bag Obama. Why, Newt is now a Democrat and so is Mitt Romney!!!
Newt what the hell happened to you? Go get a mental evaluation!
It is truly amazing.
Like a Lion hunter that fell in his own trap and got pierced by the punji sticks
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