Posted on 11/19/2011 4:35:34 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alluding to the scandal embroiling his ascendant campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a crowd in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday that he would “cheerfully answer every single question” reporters had.
Following the event, however, he refused to answer any questions about the work he did for mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
In recent days, it has been revealed that Gingrich earned $1.6 million for work he did for Freddie Mac, the agency many blame for the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.
“In the next three weeks I predict to you, we’ll have all sorts of questions about me,” he said. “And it’s fine. You cannot ask the people of the United States to [give] you the most powerful governmental job in the world, particularly on a campaign that is promising very dramatic change, and not have them vet you carefully and thoroughly.
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Newt helped write DOMA. The bill passed and was signed into law by Bill Clinton.
Excuse me. But before this immoral election, the sanctity of marriage was front and center. Sadly people who are liberal like yourself are trying to change that. Marriage should be number one importance. Of course you are prime reason why gay marriage has become the latest flavor. You cannot be conservative if you treat marriage like an old pair of socks. Without putting marriage number one, you have zero principles.
Not your imagination IMO....and Newt's favorable threads are immediately filled with those opposing Newt spamming the threads, dragging their same comments from other threads.... even triple posting.
So it would appear there's a real push to discredit Newt ....especially distasteful is when they have to resort to 'Politico" or 'Salon' as their source...which IMO puts them makes them trolls working for the Liberal/Democrates.
Barr took a lead in legislative debate concerning same-sex marriage. He authored and sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act, a law enacted in 1996 which states that only marriages that are between a man and a woman can be federally recognized, and individual states may choose not to recognize a same-sex marriage performed in another state.
I don’t see Gingrich in this at all. Are you saying that Barr had help in writing it. I looked everywhere to find Newt’s name in many sources and it is absolutely nowhere.
You wrote: “The tactics they used on Sarah Palin were first used on Newt and for the same reason; Elected Conservatives Must be Destroyed.” bttt
Evan Thomas (Newsweek 2004: “.....there’s going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.”
NewsMax estimated that the liberal media’s coverage essentially gave Kerry a $2 billion “in-kind” donation through their liberal coverage.
More:
NewsMax
Sunday, July 18, 2004 12:50 a.m. EDT
Newsweek Big: Media Bias Worth 15 Points for Kerry-Edwards
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/18/125224.shtml
The American press has dived so deeply into the tank for Sen. John Kerry’s presidential bid that they don’t even bother concealing their pro-Democrat bias anymore.
“Let’s talk a little media bias here,” Newsweek’s assistant managing editor Evan Thomas told PBS’s “Inside Washington” last week, reports Sunday’s New York Post.
“The media, I think, want Kerry to win. And I think they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards - I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox, but - they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all, there’s going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.”
Newsweek’s July 19 issue “certainly backs up Thomas’ contention,” notes the Media Research Center, which first uncovered the amazing admission.
“Over a smiling photo of Kerry and Edwards on the cover, Newsweek ever hopefully asks, ‘The Sunshine Boys?’”
Thomas’ comments also support NewsMax Magazine’s special report “The Media War on Bush.”
http://archive.newsmax.com/adv/june04/
In that report NewsMax estimated that the liberal media’s coverage essentially gave Kerry a $2 billion “in-kind” donation through their liberal coverage.
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Rush Limbaugh
Thought We Wouldn’t Fight Back?
August 5, 2004
“.... I’m going to tell you what. You liberals, everybody is trying to understand you, and it’s very difficult to understand you because you defy logic. Some people say, “Ah it’s a religion, and religions are based on faith, and you can’t challenge their faith. Nobody is going to give up their religion.” That’s partly true, but I think liberalism is a psychosis. I think it’s a psychological problem. .....
“...What do you libs think? You think we’re just going to sit here and keep bending over forward and grab the ankles while you get away with a balsawood-constructed foundation on which you’re standing? You think that we’re going to sit around and let you get away with this tripe from that bloated bigot, Michael Moore? You think we’re going to sit around and just let Richard Clarke and Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton and your willing accomplices like Evan Thomas at Newsweek who says the mainstream media is going to give Kerry a 15-point bounce? .....”
This is CLEARLY a guy who does not take marriage as priority or seriously.
Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26.[117][118] Gingrich and Battley have two daughters from this marriage: Kathy Gingrich Lubbers is president of Gingrich Communications,[119] and Jackie Gingrich Cushman is an author, conservative columnist, and political commentator[120] whose books include 5 Principles for a Successful Life, co-authored with Newt Gingrich.[121] In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne Ginther.[122][123] 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.[124] Gingrich has disputed that account.[94] 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.[125]
Six months after the divorce from Battley was final, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther in 1981.[126][127][128][129] In the mid-1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior. They continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal, when Gingrich became a leader of the investigation of President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his alleged affairs.[130] In 2000, Gingrich married Bisek shortly after his divorce from second wife Ginther. He and Callista currently live in McLean, Virginia.[131] In a 2011 interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network Gingrich addressed his past infidelities by saying, “There’s no question at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.”[128][129]
A Southern Baptist since graduate school, Gingrich converted to Catholicism, Bisek’s faith, on March 29, 2009.[132] He said “over the course of several years, I gradually became Catholic and then decided one day to accept the faith I had already come to embrace.” The moment when he decided to officially become a Catholic was when he saw Pope Benedict XVI on his visit to the United States in 2008: “Catching a glimpse of Pope Benedict that day, I was struck by the happiness and peacefulness he exuded. The joyful and radiating presence of the Holy Father was a moment of confirmation about the many things I had been thinking and experiencing for several years.”[133] Gingrich has stated that he has developed a greater appreciation for the role of faith in public life following his conversion, and believes that the United States has become too secular. At a 2011 appearance in Columbus, Ohio, he said, “In America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life.”[94]
Gingrich has been a prolific amateur reviewer of books, especially of military histories and spy novels, for Amazon.com. As of 2004, Gingrich held the #488 spot among Amazon’s top reviewers. Although an author himself, Gingrich does not review his own works. According to Katherine Mangu-Ward at The Weekly Standard, it is “clear that Newt is fascinated by tipping points—moments where new technology or new ideas cause revolutionary change in the way the world works”.[134]
Gingrich is known for, and has written on several occasions about, his great interest in animals.[135][136] According to USA Today, Gingrich’s first engagement in civic affairs was speaking to the city council in his hometown, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about why the city should establish its own zoological park. Gingrich wrote the introduction for the 2008 book America’s Best Zoos.[137] Gingrich is also known as a dinosaur enthusiast. A New Yorker comment on his 1995 book To Renew America noted: “Charmingly, he has retained his enthusiasm for the extinct giants into middle age. In addition to including breakthroughs in dinosaur research on his list of futuristic wonders, he specified ‘people interested in dinosaurs’ as a prime example of who might benefit from his education proposals.”[138] Another subject of interest to Gingrich is space exploration, originating in a fascination with the United States/Soviet Union space race during his teenage years.[139] Gingrich has stated that he would like to see the U.S. aggressively pursue new achievements in space, such as sustaining civilizations beyond Earth,[140] and he advocates relying more on the private sector and less on NASA to drive progress.[141] As of 2010, Gingrich serves on the National Space Society Board of Governors.[142]
You're not alone in that thought Mojoe......spamming threads stating they're having fun doing so. So what's up with that? ...especially when they're using liberal tactics and their resources.
It's like FR has caught the media "virus" to undo the Republican candidates right here and now.
I think it has more to do with the suckage of the candidates than Freepers in general.
well... get accused by annonomous people of annonomous things was a scandal.
Forget Newt, get on the Cain train!
You are one of the trolls Org. IMO even here double posting your comment, you make yourself obvious.
Obama “takes marriage seriously”. He’s never been divorced. /s
Jimmy Carter was a relative “paragon of virtue” for Presidents....problem is, he sucked.
“Sadly people who are liberal like yourself are trying to change that.”
Don’t be an idiot. I’ve been married to the same woman for 43 years. Probably before you were born. That doesn’t make ma a conservative though, you’ll just have to trust me on that point... Or you can check my posts on here since July of 1998.
Well that is true that you are married before I was born. However, I guarantee you in 2000 or 2004, Newt would not be praised and supported for President. Those were the days where principles were important. How you can call yourself a conservative (which I believe you think you are) is beyond me. If we start ignoring our main principles then we will just continue to pick moderate to liberal candidates every time until you SERIOUSLY won’t be able to tell the difference between Democrat and Republican. It is getting closer to that as it is.
This is the CNN New Hampshire debate on June 13, 2011. Newt states he helped write DOMA and stands by it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN6X0M0rev8
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