No one outside the beltway pays attention to that stuff. If the field clears up a little, he maybe able to win this thing.

Anonymous wrote:He is a winner. Let get this thing going. Maybe Mitt can be vp?

You must mean he is this week's winner, because you have been saying that about everyone in the field.


1 He's the ultimate insider, when the tea party is supposed to kick out the insiders
2 He's a total hypocrite, going after Clinton's affairs while he was having an affair of his own
3 He got sanctioned by HIS OWN HOUSE WHILE HE WAS SPEAKER, for 84 ethics violation. He had to fork over 300K in fines to make it go away.
4 His own budget battle with the Dems was a resounding failure. Clinton won the shutdown because of Newt's personal comments to the press.
5 He divorced his wife while she was in the hospital with cancer
6 He has never defeated an incumbent in a race
7 In a an election where Obamacare is supposed to be pure evil, he is on the record personally supporting the dreaded mandated insurance
8 He filmed TV commercials with Nancy Pelosi supporting Cap and Trade
9 He resigned as speaker after his own party blamed him for losses in the 1998 election.
10He made $1.8 Million off of "history lessons" at Fannie Mae.
11 His own campaign staff bailed on him. That tells you something.

12 and most importantly, he lives in his own flexible reality. His excuse for his affairs is that he was working too hard serving the country. To him, financial institutions pay professors millions of dollars for history lessons. He goes after cheaters while he is cheating. He excuses himself for the standards he expects of the rest of the world, and that is bad.

The only place where he has integrity is on his ideas. Unfortunately some of his biggest ideas are anathemas to the current conservative positions.

He is a winner. Let get this thing going. Maybe Mitt can be vp?

In KS for Thanksgiving, GOPers in the fam LOVE him. I am the lone Dem in the family. I hope he wins the nomination because Obama will easily win against him because he is blow-hard.

If we could see more mid-1990s Newt, the one that seemed to actually WANT to come up with solutions other than "MOAR WELFARE" and "MAKE THEM STARVE", this might be an interesting election. OTOH, he has to pretend to be a teabagger to win the nomination.

I wish Chuck Norris would run.

He's NG.

No newts the one. He is just so smart...

Yes, I hate the intellectual pretense and snobbery!

Anonymous wrote:He is just so smart, and his answers to questions reflect deep thinking about the issues over decades. They are not just memorized responses like all of the other candidates (including Romney and of course Obama) have. I could vote for him -- too bad about all of the personal baggage that will probably derail his candidacy. And somebody really needs to do something about his wife's helmet hairdo.

as someone said this week, Newt is the kind of person who sounds smart to stupid people (not tagging you w/ that necessarily) ... he is an intellectually pretentious and inconsistent bloviator... he was a non tenured professor at a fourth rate college ... he is the only Speaker of the House ever fined for unethical conduct ($300,000); he is a proven serial liar (even by the standards of politicians).

He is in love with the sound of his own voice first and foremost.

He would be an easy knock-off for Obama because he will offend enough people and can't control his bellicose verbal diarrhea and that will alienate the middle, who will decide this election.

His answers are so smart, they are dumb. Deep thinking? LoL

Anonymous wrote:What's the over/under on when his turn is finished?

He is just so smart, and his answers to questions reflect deep thinking about the issues over decades. They are not just memorized responses like all of the other candidates (including Romney and of course Obama) have. I could vote for him -- too bad about all of the personal baggage that will probably derail his candidacy. And somebody really needs to do something about his wife's helmet hairdo.

Doesn't he stand a good chance? He's as viciously mean as most of the others, he's the right color, he's not a Mormon and they ain't got nobody else at this point.

What's the over/under on when his turn is finished?