It's misfiring hit ads like this that may give rise to a new politico-phrase: "Newt-picking." The hallmark of Newt-picking is to mercilessly assault someone for inconsistencies which, real or imagined, just don't enrage many people.
Me thinks it's time for a PAC to get Newt's ex-wives on the air.
"Newt ran away from his cancer stricken wife while Mitt stood by his. If Newt's cancer stricken wife can't trust him, neither can the American people."
would the republican candidates please tell me why conservatism is better for the country and why/how they plan to enact conservative legislation. That is what I want from a candidate not this.
Romney said he had never voted for a Dem when a Repub was on the ballots. Here in Georgia, we cannot vote in both primaries. When he voted for Tsongas in the primary, there were no Repubs on the ballot.
Couldn't Romney run the same ad about Newt? How can we trust someone who made a global warming pitch with Nancy Pelosi, etc? I'm not defending or condemning either of them - it's hard to think of a politician who doesn't have at least this level of inconsistency in their record. (E.g. "How can we trust Ronald Reagan when he was a registered Democrat who voted for FDR?")
Pretty hysterical for Newt to mention Fannie and Freddie in this ad. Didn't Newt receive over a million for advising the giant lender ($25k/month)?
Politics has always, always been dirty stuff and not for the faint of heart or thin-skinned. I have read the Reagan/Ford convention was quite bloody. But we did not have a 24 hour news-cycle and the Internet to view every action under the microscope of judgement day. So we were free from hearing the Eeyore crying and lamentations when their candidate was not chosen. People just went to the polls and voted against the radical Democrat. It is that simple to do this November.
Iron Fist, No, that was for his role as a historian, no wait, strategist, no wait, he WAS a lying lobbyist shill for Freddie Mac! Who woulda thunk It? Cordially, Bill
Funny, your second paragraph is kind of what I wrote in a post elsewhere. It really is a joke. Although I don't mind counter-attacks, in general. I just can't stand stupid ones, or misleading ones, or bald-faced lying ones.
Eye on the prize = simple concept, yet followed by no leading (R)s.
Newt's use of this Huckabee quote means that we must now conclude that every word Newt has said in the current campaign is the truth, and reflects his genuine opinion, and is not just something he has adopted for political effect.
That means we have to conclude that Newt hates lenders who foreclose, and hates private equity firms, and will stop both of these types of evildoers once he is in office.
Congratulations, Newt supporters. You are now all to the left of Elizabeth Warren.
Fran He could have voted in the republican primary for GH Bush or Buchannan.Don't try to defend. Mike Hukabee hated Mitts guts because he did the same thing to him as he is doing to Newt.
Gingrich was being billed as a strong challenger to Obama, and all he does is show the opposite. All Newt does is whine, whine, whine. He was exposed as being an average debater without the aid of distraction by attacking the MSM or having a crowd cheer him on as he wagged his finger at the camera.
Gingrich tells us he won't debate without an audience inclusion (ironically the Presidential Debates will not allow for audiences cheering), then when it is revealed when the audience doesn't go Newt's way he complains further suggesting they were biased. Now Gingrich projects his own fraud, claiming he was just thrown off because Romney wasn't honest?
Oh my. Gingrich sounds like he has spent too much time on the moon. It was Gingrich who lied through his teeth about so many things, including his pathetic "ghetto" comment. He could not even be honest about his support for Rockefeller in the past.
The misguided Gingrich hype has been sinking the Conservative Movement regretfully. He simply is such a spoiled Beltway Insider he has no concept of personal responsibility, which is central to Conservative Principles. Newt is no Reaganite, just a con artist.
And so many lost their reputation jumping on this deceitful Washington Politician's bandwagon, as he went on to sink moral standards, run leftist attacks on Private Enterprise, pushed for mindless Amnesty, even played the victim card like Democratic Partisans with fear mongering on "Grandmothers".
Newt Gingrich is a comedy of self serving errors. It was stunning to think some of the big names on Our side would enable this terribly weak offering.
There are sure a lot of Romney shills on this message thread. Working all the angles I see.
Romney is a fraud who has stood up a straw man of himself and hides behind it. When he can't answer a question it’s because he needs time to sort out all the lies so as to not get caught...
Newt lost me when started with the anti-capitalist arguments, but now he's beyond desperate. There was one clear black-and-white lie revealed this week: Gingrich admitted that he lied when he told John King his campaign offered witnesses to ABC to dispute his ex-wife's statements. It's hard to think of a more bald-faced lie told to a larger audience since "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
I live in CA which allows cross-party votes in state primary elections, so I too have voted for a democrat in a PRIMARY election. I do it for strategic purposes. Does it really matter which party Romney voted for in a PRIMARY election, especially since he lived in a very liberal state that had no chance of voting for the republican in the general?
This ad decreases my trust in Gingrich, not Romney.
If an ad against an opponent is going to be effective it shouldn't be so silly and over the top that it plays like an SNL parody. I was waiting for Romney to be accused of once having an overdue library book complete with the soundtrack from a horror movie . The ad reflects the amateur nature of Newt's shop rather than an indictment of Romney.
It's misfiring hit ads like this that may give rise to a new politico-phrase: "Newt-picking." The hallmark of Newt-picking is to mercilessly assault someone for inconsistencies which, real or imagined, just don't enrage many people.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWas Huckabee misquoted?
No? I bet not, given the cheap, mafioso tactics that Romney employs to win at all costs.
Like that misleading Abrams hit-job crud they peddled yesterday.
(As if anyone should care, in the end, what the sudden Demi-God Elliot Abrams thinks!)
I'm sure what Huckabee says here was tame to things he said at other times.
Easy for him to allow for by-gones when he's not running.
This is the kind of ad that Huckabee wishes he'd run four years ago, so it bothers him to see it now from another candidate.
Do politicians KNOW they are as transparent as plastic-wrap, without the utility of keeping things fresh? God, is their act pathetically stale.
No wonder 75% of adults don't pay attention to such childish theatrics.
SANTORUM FOR PRESIDENT!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBesides Sarah Palin (the gerbil with lipstick) no one can whine like Newt.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Anderson....Anderson...Anderson...."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMe thinks it's time for a PAC to get Newt's ex-wives on the air.
"Newt ran away from his cancer stricken wife while Mitt stood by his. If Newt's cancer stricken wife can't trust him, neither can the American people."
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusewould the republican candidates please tell me why conservatism is better for the country and why/how they plan to enact conservative legislation. That is what I want from a candidate not this.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRomney said he had never voted for a Dem when a Repub was on the ballots. Here in Georgia, we cannot vote in both primaries. When he voted for Tsongas in the primary, there were no Repubs on the ballot.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCouldn't Romney run the same ad about Newt? How can we trust someone who made a global warming pitch with Nancy Pelosi, etc? I'm not defending or condemning either of them - it's hard to think of a politician who doesn't have at least this level of inconsistency in their record. (E.g. "How can we trust Ronald Reagan when he was a registered Democrat who voted for FDR?")
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePretty hysterical for Newt to mention Fannie and Freddie in this ad. Didn't Newt receive over a million for advising the giant lender ($25k/month)?
Politics has always, always been dirty stuff and not for the faint of heart or thin-skinned. I have read the Reagan/Ford convention was quite bloody. But we did not have a 24 hour news-cycle and the Internet to view every action under the microscope of judgement day. So we were free from hearing the Eeyore crying and lamentations when their candidate was not chosen. People just went to the polls and voted against the radical Democrat. It is that simple to do this November.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIron Fist, No, that was for his role as a historian, no wait, strategist, no wait, he WAS a lying lobbyist shill for Freddie Mac! Who woulda thunk It? Cordially, Bill
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFunny, your second paragraph is kind of what I wrote in a post elsewhere. It really is a joke. Although I don't mind counter-attacks, in general. I just can't stand stupid ones, or misleading ones, or bald-faced lying ones.
Eye on the prize = simple concept, yet followed by no leading (R)s.
Idiots.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNewt's use of this Huckabee quote means that we must now conclude that every word Newt has said in the current campaign is the truth, and reflects his genuine opinion, and is not just something he has adopted for political effect.
That means we have to conclude that Newt hates lenders who foreclose, and hates private equity firms, and will stop both of these types of evildoers once he is in office.
Congratulations, Newt supporters. You are now all to the left of Elizabeth Warren.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFran He could have voted in the republican primary for GH Bush or Buchannan.Don't try to defend. Mike Hukabee hated Mitts guts because he did the same thing to him as he is doing to Newt.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMy goodness...
You cannot make it up.
Gingrich was being billed as a strong challenger to Obama, and all he does is show the opposite. All Newt does is whine, whine, whine. He was exposed as being an average debater without the aid of distraction by attacking the MSM or having a crowd cheer him on as he wagged his finger at the camera.
Gingrich tells us he won't debate without an audience inclusion (ironically the Presidential Debates will not allow for audiences cheering), then when it is revealed when the audience doesn't go Newt's way he complains further suggesting they were biased. Now Gingrich projects his own fraud, claiming he was just thrown off because Romney wasn't honest?
Oh my. Gingrich sounds like he has spent too much time on the moon. It was Gingrich who lied through his teeth about so many things, including his pathetic "ghetto" comment. He could not even be honest about his support for Rockefeller in the past.
The misguided Gingrich hype has been sinking the Conservative Movement regretfully. He simply is such a spoiled Beltway Insider he has no concept of personal responsibility, which is central to Conservative Principles. Newt is no Reaganite, just a con artist.
And so many lost their reputation jumping on this deceitful Washington Politician's bandwagon, as he went on to sink moral standards, run leftist attacks on Private Enterprise, pushed for mindless Amnesty, even played the victim card like Democratic Partisans with fear mongering on "Grandmothers".
Newt Gingrich is a comedy of self serving errors. It was stunning to think some of the big names on Our side would enable this terribly weak offering.
The dishonest Gingrich is pure political suicide:
"A Gingrich nomination, however, would be "a nightmare for Republicans" by turning many purple states blue and giving Obama a starting point of 303 Electoral Votes, 33 more than needed."
* Ironically, Rick Santorum is the same type of unethical - opportunistic Washington Politician:
"1994 Report: Santorum supported individual mandate"
S.E. Cupp is absolutely on target:
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Newt’s doomed crusade - The quixotic Gingrich campaign for the White House could sink the conservative movement"
There are sure a lot of Romney shills on this message thread. Working all the angles I see.
Romney is a fraud who has stood up a straw man of himself and hides behind it. When he can't answer a question it’s because he needs time to sort out all the lies so as to not get caught...
Good luck with that...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNewt lost me when started with the anti-capitalist arguments, but now he's beyond desperate. There was one clear black-and-white lie revealed this week: Gingrich admitted that he lied when he told John King his campaign offered witnesses to ABC to dispute his ex-wife's statements. It's hard to think of a more bald-faced lie told to a larger audience since "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseReally? Gingrich has the audacity to question someone else's character?
What kind of man asks his second wife to marry him while he's still married to his first wife?
What kind of man argues about the divorce with his cancer-stricken first wife while she is in the hospital recovering from surgery?
What kind of man takes up with a new mistress while publicly thanking his second wife for her support, and dedicating books to her?
What kind of man wants an open marriage?
What kind of man divorces his second wife after she's diagnosed with MS?
What kind of man throws his own party's president under the bus, thus ensuring the election of Bill Clinton?
What kind of man so overplays his hand that he ensures the reelection of Bill Clinton?
What kind of man castigates another man's sexual improprieties while carrying on an affair of his own?
What kind of man so alienates his own party that he could not get reelected speaker, and resigns in disgrace?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMSP, Wait, I'm keen to guess: A misbegotten influence peddling sleezebag hypocrite? In other words, a Newt? Cordially, Bill
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI live in CA which allows cross-party votes in state primary elections, so I too have voted for a democrat in a PRIMARY election. I do it for strategic purposes. Does it really matter which party Romney voted for in a PRIMARY election, especially since he lived in a very liberal state that had no chance of voting for the republican in the general?
This ad decreases my trust in Gingrich, not Romney.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf an ad against an opponent is going to be effective it shouldn't be so silly and over the top that it plays like an SNL parody. I was waiting for Romney to be accused of once having an overdue library book complete with the soundtrack from a horror movie . The ad reflects the amateur nature of Newt's shop rather than an indictment of Romney.
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