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I don't know about that, but if RP runs third party I'd have to consider that. As it stands my vote probably goes to the genial but feeble LP-USA candidate, Gary Johnson.
I don't know about that, but if RP runs third party I'd have to consider that. As it stands my vote probably goes to the genial but feeble LP-USA candidate, Gary Johnson.
I was speaking specifically about the primary; in the general - that sounds about right.
Bingo.
Except you left out the most important part of this article...that Adelson is Jewish and Newt has promised to bend over anytime for Israel and their "interests"
Wouldn't be surprised if he actually goes very far as the U.S. has always had Israel's interests at the forefront of their agenda. The rest of the world can continue to hate us while we continue to serve Israel.
Trying to get blacklisted by the liberals here, linking Ann Coulter?
Newt still may have a chance in the Southern primaries. No?
she is a plagerist after all
Maddow: GOP elite going all out to stop Newt
Recent days have seen an unprecedented push by some of the most powerful lawmakers and opinion-shapers in the Republican party to arrest Newt Gingrich’s rise to the top of the Republican ticket this fall. Friday night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel recounted and provided historical context for some of the attacks on the former Speaker of the House and discussed how his prospects would be affected by a win in Tuesday’s Florida primary election.
Former presidential candidate and Viagra pitch-man Bob Dole weighed in with a column in the National Review Online in which he said, “Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself.” Gingrich, he wrote, was an “off the wall” show-boat politician who was rapidly becoming the most unpopular public official in the U.S. right as Dole was trying to mount a campaign to unseat President Clinton.
Other magazines and conservative news outlets have all weighed in, most feverishly trying to put a halt to Newt’s momentum. The Washington Post‘s Karen Tumulty joined Maddow in a discussion of the situation, which has some Democrats rubbing their hands together with glee and many Republicans becoming increasingly panicked.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/2...=Google+Reader
If you read it and actually had high school reading comprehension skills and similar critical thinking skills then you would quickly realize that she is deriding rhetoric that you yourself have been spouting in recent weeks.
The GOP is a mess. You are dumb. C'est la vie.
Again, you missed the point. Yes, I like Ann Coulter. I was shocked that WH would link her.
God you are stupid. The point was that she was trashing the rhetoric that you yourself have been using for the past several weeks. Thus his linking. Am I using too big of words or something?
Facts are facts, and to repeat them isn't plagiarism. I agree the wording of a few sentences are very close, but that happens when you put together facts from the way English is structured. Do you contend someone change the facts as not to be accused of plagiarism?
I'll bet if you worded something in your own words, using known facts, that someone else has said nearly the same identical thing.
The search tool that discovered these has since been scoffed at for how many false hits it creates.
Again, I was surprised WH linked it. Make up what ever you want. I expect nothing different from you.
And again I was telling you why it was linked by him. Seeing that its human nature to assume that others act as oneself, its little surprise that you limit what you read to only that which you agree with.
Newt:As nominee,I won't accept debates in fall in which reporters are moderators.
What a wuss.
Newt:As nominee,I won't accept debates in fall in which reporters are moderators.
What a wuss.
crack pipe dreams
I hope he keeps it to continue.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/g...014411649.htmlFor each caucus or primary during the 2012 presidential campaign, Gingrich's campaign has organized transportation for the reporters assigned to cover him--as is customary for nearly every presidential candidate. Each news outlet chips in to pay for the bus that trails Gingrich between each stop, and the campaign often lets reporters pay for a seat on charter flights for longer journeys. Many times, it's the only way to ensure the national media are with him at each public appearance.
That working relationship pretty much stopped working this weekend, two days before the Florida primary.
little Newt is taking his campaign to the internets and beyond.
he does not need no damn human reporters anymore.
Noot's campaign is as doomed as JimmyRicky's was.
Sheldon Adelson can't possibly outspend what Wall St is giving to Barry and Willard Gecko, and above all, who has the most money wins. The Presidency and all Congress is for sale.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9099In mid-January, in a little-noticed blog item by the Washington Post's Anita Kumar, it was reported that the SBE was requesting a probe by the office of VA's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) into what SBE chairman Charlie Judd described as "irregularities" found on the Gingrich pe ions.
Late last week, SBE Deputy Secretary Justin Riemer confirmed to The BRAD BLOG both the referral to the AG's office as well as the fact that an investigation into the ballot pe ion fraud was officially being carried out by the AG.
"This issue has been referred to the State AG by the State Board of Elections, after learning of allegations of fraudulent signature gathering in that case, and a number of others," Riemer told us by telephone. "My understanding is that an investigation is under way," he said.
When we asked what "other" cases had also been referred to the AG, he referred us to the AG for more details, though he characterized the pe ion signature fraud described by Gingrich as "definitely an illegal act."
"We can confirm that there is an investigation underway," Brian J. Gottstein, Director of Communication for the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia confirmed to The BRAD BLOG via email on Monday, "but other than that, we cannot comment about an ongoing investigation."
When pressed as to whether Gingrich and his campaign were cooperating with the investigation, whether they had revealed the name of the "one guy" they claim created 1,500 fraudulent signatures, and what other cases were being probed as a part of the same investigation, Gottstein demurred.
"To maintain the integrity of any investigation, we can't disclose details. Sorry," he wrote.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Train 2012.
related to the allegation that 950 dead people voted in the SC primary:
http://scvotes.org/2012/01/25/sec_ex...d_voters_claim
How Newt Gingrich Crippled Congress
“I spent 16 years building a majority in the House for the first time since 1954,” Gingrich said during NBC’s Florida GOP debate Monday night, referring to the Republican takeover of the House in 1994. Over those sixteen years of personal and partisan striving, Gingrich invented or perfected many of the things that Americans dislike most about Congress. “I think I am a transformational figure,” Gingrich said before the 1994 election. “I am trying to effect a change so large that the people who would be hurt by the change, the liberal Democratic machine” will fight it, Gingrich explained.
There is no greater pathology in today’s Congress than obstructionism, from Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) refusal to raise the debt ceiling in July to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) taking disaster relief funds for Hurricane Irene hostage. Both parties have long used Congress’s procedural rules to promote legislation they favor, but Gingrich created something new. “There is the assumption—pioneered by Newt Gingrich himself, as early as the 1970s—that the minority wins when Congress accomplishes less,” Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the number-two Democrat in the House, explained in a 2009 speech at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. “Gingrich’s proposition, and maybe accurately, was that as long as…our party cooperate[s] with Democrats and get[s] 20 or 30 percent of what we want and they get to say they solved the problem and had a bipartisan bill, there’s no incentive for the American people to change leadership,” Hoyer told the Washington Post after the speech. “To some degree, he was proven right in 1994.”
In many ways, the obstructionist minority that Hoyer faced two years ago was following a playbook written by Gingrich over a decade earlier. Gingrich, in fact, took the debt ceiling hostage fifteen years before Boehner did, demanding huge, partisan cuts. In that case, the GOP backed down after President Clinton vetoed their spending bills and Moody’s warned of a credit downgrade. When Boehner refused to raise the debt ceiling, the threat of default lowered the US’s credit rating and was resolved by an complicated process involving a “supercommittee” and a two-step raising of the debt limit over a year. And it was Gingrich who, in one of his first acts as Speaker, patented the practice of refusing to approve disaster relief funds if they weren’t offset with spending cuts. Gingrich even held out after the Oklahoma City bombing later that year, prompting the Philadelphia Daily News to write, “Even Newt Gingrich must lose a little sleep at the idea of making political hay out of the mini-civil war that struck Oklahoma City.”
Of course, Gingrich’s greatest act of obstructionist brinkmanship was the 1995 and 1996 government shutdowns. Thanks to his refusal to concede on spending on social services, the government closed for five days in 1995, longer than the previous eight government shutdowns, and for a whopping twenty-one days a year later—the longest shutdown in history. Thanks to Gingrich’s obstinacy, health and welfare services for veterans were curtailed, Social Security checks were delayed, tens of thousands of visa applications went unprocessed and “numerous sectors of the economy” we negatively impacted, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Then there’s perhaps the most universally reviled practice of Congress: earmarking. Spending on earmarks doubled during Gingrich’s reign as Speaker, rising from $7.8 billion in 1994 to $14.5 billion in 1997. “Speaker Gingrich set in motion the largest explosion of earmarks in the history of Congress,” said Tom Schatz of the conservative group Citizens Against Government Waste. The pork binge was part of a Machiavellian plot to use taxpayer dollars to help Republicans get reelected, as Gingrich himself laid out in a 1996 policy memo led, “Proposed Principles for Analyzing Each Appropriations Bill.” The memo instructed the chairmen of House Appropriation subcommittees to ask themselves if there are “any Republican members” who “need a specific district item in the bill.” This apparently included Gingrich himself, as Cobb County, Georgia, which the Speaker represented, received more federal dollars per resident than any other suburban county in the country in 1995, except for Arlington, Virginia, home of the Pentagon and other federal agencies, and Brevard County, Florida, home to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.
http://www.thenation.com/article/165...el=emailNation
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