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Newt Gingrich...

  • His drum is beating very loudly all of a sudden... more and more people seem to like what he brings to the table. He's very knowledgeable, articulate and witty... I'll give him that.

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    JawJacker

  • Can you really have a president with that name though? Its such an awful name...

    QueenLizzysWildcat

  • I think that Romney is the GOP's only hope of beating Obama. This is the worst field I've ever seen for either major party's primary. The knock on Romney winning the general election is that he's Mormon, which apparently turns a lot of people off.

    Newt is polarizing even within the party, and is extremely unlikable. Bachmann actually seems intelligent, but crazy as shit. Cain looked good at first, but he has turned out to be a delusional perv. Paul is far too extreme in his libertarian beliefs to have a shot at the primary, much less the general election. Rick Perry, well, I forgot what I was going to say about him.

    BigTyrone

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    I think that Romney is the GOP's only hope of beating Obama. This is the worst field I've ever seen for either major party's primary. The knock on Romney winning the general election is that he's Mormon, which apparently turns a lot of people off.

    Newt is polarizing even within the party, and is extremely unlikable. Bachmann actually seems intelligent, but crazy as shit. Cain looked good at first, but he has turned out to be a delusional perv. Paul is far too extreme in his libertarian beliefs to have a shot at the primary, much less the general election. Rick Perry, well, I forgot what I was going to say about him.

    Newt is a tool and flip flops too much. He is smart but an elitest to the max.

    Romney is a RHINO. He will say anything to get elected and is a big spender that won't reduce the debt.

    Cain is a legit Candidate. Perv? Funny how these women shut up and crawl under their rocks after he hired a defamation atty.

    Ron Paul is the best choice for America but the powers that be will not allow him to be taken serious or win. Sure, I disagree with a lot of his stuff but he is correct more often than not.

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    Stoopified!

    cobbycobb

  • .... is for Amnesty.

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    CarlLexington

  • I still think Cain has a strong shot... and CAN beat Obama. He was leading the polls when all of the slanderous, false accusations started... one woman of which, came from the same condo bldg in Chicago as Obama's buddy David Axelrod (imagine that). Axelrod left his White House position in early 2011 to return to Chicago and was expected to assist in Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. The first thing he did was find a woman desperate enough to falsely accuse Obama's biggest threat for 2012 (Cain). Hell, Cain has NEVER worked OR lived in Chicago. The biggest threat to the left, is a smart, black conservative. Newt and Romney can also beat Obama... I think any of them can really, but Newt and Romney would destroy Obama in a debate.

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    JawJacker

  • I think they all suck, including Obama, and I plan on staying home. I refuse to participate if this is the best America has to offer. All of them are either idiots or are cowards or are both. Flush em all and bring back JFK. A dead JFK skeleton could do a better job than any of these pinheads. As a disinterested observer, Cain is dead in the water. If it was one girl you could have an argument. When it's several that were paid off odds are they aren't lying. Add that to his recent "duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" rick perry impersonations and he's done. Just save us all some time and put Romney and Obama on the ballot. Vote tomorrow. And be done with it already. Another year of this crap.

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    CarlLexington

  • We in Kentucky got a look at what a Gingrich candidacy would be like. He and David Williams are very similar--smart, strategic, fundamentally sound to their party. But Newt would end up with similar results. They both have the fatal flaw of very low popularity among the power brokers in their parties.

    There's a huge difference between people who don't necessarily like a candidate (as many feel toward Romney) and actively hating a candidate (which is how a lot of key Republicans feel: Boehner, Mitch, the Bush family). To win the presidency, you've got to have people out there busting their hump for you and to have powerful people sharing their political capital with you. Newt won't be able to rally that kind of support.

    djkycat54906

  • I hate Newt because he's a hypocrite. The whole time he was calling for Clinton's head about an affair he himself was in the midst of having his own affair. He's a POS.

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    CarlLexington

  • I'm not crazy about Newt, but I'm warming up to him. He's moved into #4 for me. Santorum, Bachmann, and Cain remain my top 3.

    I often hear Romney supporters say people fear his Mormanism, but I've never once heard someone say that. It's usually that he's too much politician and will say anything to get elected. BTW, love the morman commercials. "I'm just like you. And I'm a Morman." lmao

    DA23_rox

  • DA23_rox said...

    I'm not crazy about Newt, but I'm warming up to him. He's moved into #4 for me. Santorum, Bachmann, and Cain remain my top 3.

    I often hear Romney supporters say people fear his Mormanism, but I've never once heard someone say that. It's usually that he's too much politician and will say anything to get elected. BTW, love the morman commercials. "I'm just like you. And I'm a Morman." lmao

    Rick Perry has quietly tried to make it an issue. Of course he doesn't have the guts to do it himself. He uses some of his evangelical proxies to do it for him.

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    CarlLexington

  • Yeah, a candidate and his operatives are saying it. I've never heard it spoken by anyone who matters.

    DA23_rox

  • One thing I learned many years ago about politics is regardless if you are running for county commissioner or president of the united States, people have to like you in order to get elected. Without even getting into all of Newt's baggage and misstatements this guy has an angry streak in him that doesn't not sit well with people. No one wants an angry president. That alone makes him unelectable IMO.

    “Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood” Newt Gingrich

    This post was edited by Deeeefense on 11/27/2011 at 11:48 AM

    "Ignorance is constricted awareness" - Deepak Chopra

    Deeeefense

  • The only republican candidate I don't consider a complete joke is Huntsman. And It has little to do with his views. He has some views that he knows hardcore conservatives won't like but he sticks to his views anyway. That shows bravery and integrity. You may not agree with him on some things but at least he isn't a coward saying anything he can to get elected. You could say the same thing about Ron Paul. The difference is that Paul is an idiotic nutcase that morphs every answer he gives into a rant against "The FED!!" and Huntsman is actually smart.

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    CarlLexington

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    The only republican candidate I don't consider a complete joke is Huntsman. And It has little to do with his views. He has some views that he knows hardcore conservatives won't like but he sticks to his views anyway. That shows bravery and integrity. You may not agree with him on some things but at least he isn't a coward saying anything he can to get elected. You could say the same thing about Ron Paul. The difference is that Paul is an idiotic nutcase that morphs every answer he gives into a rant against "The FED!!" and Huntsman is actually smart.

    Yeah, I agree with your above post... you should just stay home and NOT vote. biggrin

    Seriously though, I like what Cain stands for and he is still my first choice... but I really believe that Newt, not only knows what's best for America, he has the balls to get it done. I think he's beyond all of the "establishment" bs and truly wants to turn things around for us. We should not let petty or immoral infractions of a younger man, rob us of his knowledge or wisdom when he's an older man. Make sense?

    Truth is... I will vote for WHOEVER the GOP nominee is, to be our next POTUS. shrug

    This post was edited by JawJacker on 11/27/2011 at 2:32 PM

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  • CarlLexington said...

    The only republican candidate I don't consider a complete joke is Huntsman. And It has little to do with his views. He has some views that he knows hardcore conservatives won't like but he sticks to his views anyway. That shows bravery and integrity. You may not agree with him on some things but at least he isn't a coward saying anything he can to get elected. You could say the same thing about Ron Paul. The difference is that Paul is an idiotic nutcase that morphs every answer he gives into a rant against "The FED!!" and Huntsman is actually smart.

    By that logic you have to also like Santorum, but I suspect you're full of shit.

    DA23_rox

  • JawJacker said...
    We should not let petty or immoral infractions of a younger man, rob us of his knowledge or wisdom when he's an older man. Make sense?

    Of course we should forgive youthful indiscretions. Newt was a mere lad of 56 the last time he cheated on his wife (that we know of) and almost an infant when he was censured by the Congress for ethical violations at the tender age of 54.

    djkycat54906

  • DA23_rox said...

    By that logic you have to also like Santorum, but I suspect you're full of shit.

    That's nice. How is it brave to feed starving animals the red meat they require? Santorum isn't brave and has no integrity that I know of. He's just blasting off tea party sound bites that the less than intelligent cons like you eat up. So no. Completely different situations.

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    That's nice. How is it brave to feed starving animals the red meat they require? Santorum isn't brave and has no integrity that I know of. He's just blasting off tea party sound bites that the less than intelligent cons like you eat up. So no. Completely different situations.

    Yeah. It's sure winning him a ton of votes. Then you go and bring issues into it. I knew it! I knew you were full of shit!

    DA23_rox

  • dj-ky-cat said...

    Of course we should forgive youthful indiscretions. Newt was a mere lad of 56 the last time he cheated on his wife (that we know of) and almost an infant when he was censured by the Congress for ethical violations at the tender age of 54.

    Dagnabbit DJ!!! You know way too much... how am I supposed to convince people to vote AGAINST what we currently have, if you are going to keep pointing out all of the negative stuff about the GOP candidates? You are NO HELP at all here. haha

    Seriously, what I meant by that dumb quote of mine was this... people make mistakes, but we can't always allow infractions of the past to put blinders on us that prevent us from seeing the good in people. The left sure didn't have a problem with Clinton's indiscretions while serving as President did they? It was all about what good he was doing (or could do) for the country. Why is it different for a GOP candidate, who's had the same (or no worse) kind of immoral indiscretions? Isn't it possible that he/she could still do "good" for America as POTUS?

    Just asking

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    JawJacker

  • JawJacker said...

    Seriously, what I meant by that dumb quote of mine was this... people make mistakes, but we can't always allow infractions of the past to put blinders on us that prevent us from seeing the good in people. The left sure didn't have a problem with Clinton's indiscretions while serving as President did they? It was all about what good he was doing (or could do) for the country. Why is it different for a GOP candidate, who's had the same (or no worse) kind of immoral indiscretions? Isn't it possible that he/she could still do "good" for America as POTUS?

    Just asking

    There was an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm this year where Larry decided to invest $$$ with an inventor he just met because he was a young good looking guy with a fat ugly wife. He assumed the guy must have character. He also fired his business manager who was a bald ugly dude who had a hot wife, for the opposite reason. He decided he wasn't trustworthy.

    Newt is a little fat ugly dude with a reasonably hot wife 20 years his junior--and he dumped his previous wife to get her (and had done the same thing to the wife before that). Maybe we all think about trading in our wives after 15-20 years, but very few of us ever do it. So he's got to convince the male electorate that a guy like him can still have a pretty wife and be trustworthy. There's no use in even trying to convince the female electorate of that--he can't win with them.

    djkycat54906

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    Yeah. It's sure winning him a ton of votes. Then you go and bring issues into it. I knew it! I knew you were full of shit!

    I didn't bring up any issues.

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  • JawJacker said...

    Seriously though, I like what Cain stands for and he is still my first choice.

    http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/28/9074100-cain-denies-new-allegation-of-affair?

    And they keep rollin rollin rollin. Keep rollin rollin rollin. If it's one maybe a put up job. If it's 2 maybe even a conspiracy. But we're working on what now? 6? 7? 8? and this one maintains they had a 13 year relationship. Sorry but he's done. Yeah his republican opponents are most likely leaking some of the stories but they didn't make him be a perv that diddle all those girls.

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    CarlLexington

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    http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/28/9074100-cain-denies-new-allegation-of-affair?

    And they keep rollin rollin rollin. Keep rollin rollin rollin. If it's one maybe a put up job. If it's 2 maybe even a conspiracy. But we're working on what now? 6? 7? 8? and this one maintains they had a 13 year relationship. Sorry but he's done. Yeah his republican opponents are most likely leaking some of the stories but they didn't make him be a perv that diddle all those girls.

    The fact that they waited YEAAARS... until he's running for president, doesn't bother you at all? Of course not... not if you are hoping he gets knocked out of contention, right? Where were these ho's when he was just a wealthy CEO? Usually, these kind of women make the same accusations while someone is in a high position. It's funny how they waited until he is running for office. Odd... just odd. I suspect they were rounded up and coached by the slime on the left. WTH though... sure, let the slanderous, unproven accusations keep coming... whatever it takes to keep Obama in office, right? SMDH.

    Aren't you supposed to be occupying wall street? You better get back to your tent, before your mug ends up on a milk carton.

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    This post was edited by JawJacker on 11/28/2011 at 11:39 PM

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  • JawJacker said...

    The fact that they waited YEAAARS... until he's running for president, doesn't bother you at all? Of course not... not if you are hoping he gets knocked out of contention, right? Where were these ho's when he was just a wealthy CEO? Usually, these kind of women make the same accusations while someone is in a high position. It's funny how they waited until he is running for office. Odd... just odd. I suspect they were rounded up and coached by the slime on the left. WTH though... sure, let the slanderous, unproven accusations keep coming... whatever it takes to keep Obama in office, right? SMDH.

    Aren't you supposed to be occupying wall street? You better get back to your tent, before your mug ends up on a milk carton.

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    They didn't wait years. They brought it to peoples attention years ago. And got paid off for their silence. As for this new woman it isn't that kind of situation. It's a woman that carried on a 13 year relationship with him. I like how you use "these kind of women". Like they are automatically lying. In unison. It isn't the left that Cain himself is accusing for bringing all this back up. He's blaming his republican opponents. Mainly Romney and Perry. You're so busy with your anti-left rhetoric you don't even care about facts. You're blaming the left when the man himself is accusing his republican opponents. That's funny. Did it ever occur to you that he might not be such a great guy? Did it ever occur to you that a man can be a pervert and still be a great leader? MLK - notorious womanizer. JFK - need I say more? You probably don't like him but Clinton didn't do too bad as I recall. If you need a republican example look no further than Ike. If I'm not mistaken he carried on an affair for decades didn't he? If Cain's your guy your only answer to people bringing it up should be "so?" and then recite the examples I posted. And for the record I don't give a crap if he wins the nomination or not. And did I not make it clear earlier that I don't like Obama either? Did I not say I'm staying home on election day? I don't think a guy trying to get some strange should disqualify him from being President. Just don't sit there blaming everyone but him. Don't sit there blaming the other party when it's the people in his own party that are doing it. Obama would love for Cain or any tea party candidate to win the nomination. If Obama knew about those stories I bet they'd bury it or at least hold on to it until it was sure Cain was his opponent. Think about it. But this kind of thing kills campaigns and his numbers are showing it.

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