On the right again, and just as cute. Cute or not though, I disagree with her. Newt is not a candidate I admire, like, or trust, but Newt is tolerable and a whole lot better than Romney or Obama.
Posted on 11/23/2011 5:22:45 AM PST by MNJohnnie
I was only 15 in 1994, when Newt Gingrich experienced his last great moment. (Well, before this one, where he’s surging in the polls, with his campaign having figured out how to run for President.) So I don’t really remember Newt’s glory days.
I have interviewed him on many occasions, however, as far back as 2006 and as recently as last month, and every time we talk, I’m struck by how smart he is. Despite that, I can’t get past the nagging voice in my head telling me that no matter how good he would be at running the country, he doesn’t deserve to.
Call me a square, but Newt’s past mistakes occupy both columns: character and politics. From his ugly romantic entanglements to his flirtation with environmentalism to his questionable relationship with Freddie Mac, bad decisions and lapses in judgment have been too frequent for a man of such obvious intelligence.
And yet, for all his mistakes, Newt remains startlingly unembarrassed, which makes those mistakes even less palatable. Though arrogance and a lack of shame characterize Capitol Hill, I’m suspicious of a guy who’s had so many public errors, and is so untroubled by them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
“Newt had his chance, but he blew it: Why Gingrich won’t earn the 2012 GOP presidential nomination”
Was NEVER his to earn.
And some here believe if you aren’t in a Mexico border state, you have no right to criticize or even offer solutions.
Leave it to a woman from Minnesota to school everyone else.
What is the Federal statute of limitations for harboring illegals, making false statements, immigration offenses, and fraud?
Hint: It's a lot less than 25 years.
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Cool.
How is she going to round up and deport all those folks who have been here 25 years? How will she sell the idea of the US government using LEOs to split up families?
We are waiting to be schooled.
Hey, maybe she can bring Janet Reno back...
On the right again, and just as cute. Cute or not though, I disagree with her. Newt is not a candidate I admire, like, or trust, but Newt is tolerable and a whole lot better than Romney or Obama.
Sorry, but this whole debate last night was engineered to hurt Newt - the one the media fears most. All of you here complaining about him are giving the MSM a victory.
Newt was hardly called upon to answer questions - he could have knocked most of them out of the park. The focus was mostly on Paul to make it appear that he is “coming back.”
The few questions he was asked were designed to damage him - an assault by Wolf Blitzer, whom we know came into the debate with the intent to damage Newt.
The bottom line is that, like it or not, Newt is far better than Obama and the best of the field that can actually win the primary. Shhhhhh... don’t tell the MSM...
And, as someone has already mentioned, 25 years is not an arbitrary number... 1986 was the year Reagan granted “Amnesty,” even though he was duped. So, the people Newt was talking about are already legal under Reagan’s law.
Exactly! If we nominate someone easy to admire, then we should be working to elect that person. If we nominate a questionable RINO, or Romney where there is no question at all that he's far to the left, then that is all the more reason to get out and vote. We have to elect a House and Senate that will restrain the leftist tendencies of any candidate we cannot support. I will be voting in the national elections and working to get other patriotic voters to the polls, even if the nominee is the one I cannot support.
A? You obviously have issues with those "are the lines parallel?" puzzles, or were you hoping for more evidence?
Newt is a disaster. Always was. His supporters latched onto him as it appears there are few options.
I will not for Newt.
the evidence will be re evaluated. thanks for the exhi-bits
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Sounds like you’re OK with leaving them here. I’m not.
Every option should be on the table. EVERY option. Period.
Yeh Newt is a whole lot worse than the crack smoking, possibly gay Muslim Marxist who sits in the White Hut now. I’d rather SE would focus on that than eviscerating our guys.
All this stuff about how "conservative" and "family-oriented" Hispanics are is nonsense. Like other Catholics, they include some conservatives, but most of them do not even follow church teaching. They are just useful idiots for the Left. They have no cultural orientation towards limited govt. or even the rule of law. Those are ideas which developed in the context of an Anglo-Saxon population.
Please be specific and detailed for each step.
I remain 'waiting to be schooled'.
Excellent post, Jim.
Identifying Them? Cripe, there are illegals protesting everywhere!
But since you’re being an illegals apologist, I will answer your post when I head home from work.
In the meantime, what’s your solution, Newt Perry?
SE Cupp is right this time (broken clock?).
When are they going to wake up to the idea that the middle class has had it. The credit card is maxed.
While ‘separating families at Christmas due to the fact they are here illegally’ is sad, I had to tell my own kids that ‘Daddy’s earning 10 percent of what he used to earn, so things are going to be tight for a while’.
I’m out of sympathy for criminals, rich or poor.
Try Corzine and then KILL HIM!!!! We used to hang people for stealing horses. What’s the penalty for betting somebody elses money and being VERY wrong?
We can be humane about it, don’t hang them, or put them in plastic shredders, just do the lethal injection bit and then put the dead, cold, black corpse on a full page ad in the WSJ and say, “Think twice about stealing your clients money.”
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