Newt is nothing more than the barker to the sideshow that is himself…

Just don’t try to go more than 12 miles away from your house without a full tank of GAS. The thought of a person who makes over $170k per year (how much you have to make to be a typical volt purchaser/sucker/Obama supporter) going hunting in a Volt is hilarious. A hunt at the local high-cost restaurant maybe…

Wait, I thought only poor people voted for Obama

And those are the best comebacks you can muster after Newt was proven wrong?

Really Chuck, being so against any progress in technology is pretty pathetic.

I’m all for progress.  I’m not for gifting taxpayer money to corrupt union bosses and stiffing retirees and investors – I don’t care about rich investors (except in principle) but I care very much about those who didn’t trust social security and set up their own retirement plans to include investing on major companies.  The Volt is a joke.  GM would have been better off returning to low power cars like we had for decades before the hummer boom and sold a 45+ mpg car and dump the not-ready-for-prime-time batteries.

Digital dialogue in the expanded public sphere. Good stuf.

Chuck says: ‘Horseless carriage – poppycock!!’

 So you’re for gifting of taxpayer’s money to the largest company in the US…Walmart
where many city’s have given a tax abatement of 20-30 years?

 You’re for gifting of taxpayer’s money to farmers? So they are guaranteed $500k a year?

 You’re for gifting the same farmers money not to grow any crops?

 You’re for gifting $10 per $1 earned by ArcherDanielsMidland (ADM) to produce High Fructose Corn Syrup.

 You’re for gifting $30 per $1 earned by ADM for producing Ethanol?

 You’re for gifting of other company’s to received tax breaks to keep jobs in America?
But not GM because they have unions.

Why would Newt know anything about guns. He isn’t exactly the sort, is he?

Tax breaks to keep jobs in the US?  Good.  
All the others?  Bad.   
Crony capitalism?  Bad.    
Building a car that people actually want to drive and will actually get them to work and back?  Very good.

GM can attempt to develop technology other companies already ave on their own dime, they don’t need mine.

With all his ex-wives?    Just kidding.  Not really.  Well, yes, maybe.

As if the rich ging EVER knows what he’s talking about.

Actually, you can drive 20 miles to work, then the battery recovers enough, while you slave 1/3 of your life away, to make it back home without the engine kicking in, too. So, 40 miles without charging, then it can take up to 8KWhours to fully charge the battery. At 10 cents/kilowatthour cost from your PV array (see This Old House, episode 3120 – part 4 of 10 in the Barrington Project), that’s 80 cents worth of electricity… while the driver of a gasoline-engine car that gets 30 miles/gallon pays over $5 to make the same commute.

I say it’s time to get busy repealing the 22nd amendment, so Obama can be president for 3 or 4 terms.

 I want a Tesla, and it is a chick magnet by all accounts so it should satisfy the compensating for their lack of…..conservatives, as well as us progressive give a speedy little road eater car that could do a Route 66 kinda thing

I’m certain that past stretches of history would have improved under the return of a more experienced president. The future the same. If Obama can emerge as a great leader in this next term then we might need his extended leadership to counterbalance the chaos of right wing fracture.

Eeeww.  That was an ugly ObamaGasm !!

Newt’s not having much success with vehicles these days. His bus broke down in West Hollywood and residents were none too sympathetic:

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/02/16/4709/newt-gingrich-bus-breaks-down-west-hollywood/

Just look where his most concentrated support comes from (ie the only state he’s won so far).

“Newt Swingrich…your wife might like him too”

This is typical Newt, he lies and within minutes someone calls him out. Nothing new here.

Dude, that’s not a gun rack; it’s a bunch of pvc pipe with hooks.

That and you can get 200+ miles out of a charge on a Tesla.

Assuming your figures, including the utterly illogical idea that letting the battery “rest” will get you more charge out of it, how many days do you need to save that $5 before you’ve offset the $20K higher price and the $2K the charger is going to cost you? Here, let me help: 4400 days. Assuming that you work about 250 days a year, you break even in just 18 years! Except that you’ll have to have changed the batteries out 3 times by then, and a cost of $8000 a pop.

The car is a financial loser unless you place a high value on smug.

FROTH LIKE CHUCK!

I am betting the first thing the Dweeb shoots is his Volt.

fact checking jokes???  Wow does tommy do the same to any of Obamas jokes that he tells???

When the middle east embargos oil imports like they did in the 1970s, we can make it back in a year charging the hydrocarbon-driving neanderthals clinging to their charge-it-but-skip-out-on-the-bill theocracy $10/day for a ride to work. (tax-and-spend liberals will pay only a buck/day.) And that’s not even counting the $7500 ($10,000 starting next year) tax credit.

And the Volt comes with a free charger, lying pablum.

The optional 2-pole single-phase charger costs $490 and I can install it myself on an existing 15A 240V breaker already in my garage sub-panel, using about $10 worth of #14-3 with ground.  I’ll gladly charge YOU $1500 to install one, though. I won’t even make you pay brotherhood rates.

Religious-radical, right-wing nut-jobs are leading this country down the path to fascism; their ilk makes me wish there had been a few *more* abortions performed.

Aren’t you lovely.

Well Titz, if homemade is not for you… 

http://www.cabelas.com/auto-gun-storage.shtml

Ya, Gingrich should know his market before he speaks.  

That’s the stupidest thing I ever seen.. The point of Newt’s statement was that Americans love their Independence, their Freedom, their Religion, their Guns, aka, the American way of life, which is symbolically representative of, and in our pick-up trucks and gun racks.

Morons, they just don’t get it, and never will. That’s we will throw them all out of power and office by 6 Nov. !

Good one.

I’m a republican, support the second amendment, and I don’t make anywhere near 170k a year.  I’ve put 1200 miles on the volt and only burned a couple of gallons of gas.  I can say without a doubt; you sir, are a know-nothing echo chamber.

The volt goes 35 miles on electricity and another 375 on a tank of gas - further than a f-150 with dual tanks.  It also starts at 31k, and there’s a $7500 tax credit, making it a pretty affordable sedan.  Why hate on hybrid cars?  Even if you don’t buy one, reducing the demand for gas will make filling your car up cheaper.

I believe you have a valid point as I have 4 cars in my household, but I wish people would then stop complaining about the price of gas, because this is the price we pay to drive whatever we want.

I agree with you 100% on Newt’s point, but I would suggest that Newt pick his dialogue a little better next time, so as not to open himself up to ridicule.

Why don’t you try to rob his house and find out.

Since when did ‘moron’ change its meaning to ‘someone I don’t like’?

Too lazy, I suppose. :)

Gun racks and pickups represent a redneck way of life, not the Amercian dream.  And to butcher chrisianity to fit these ideals is pathetic.

I would like to see just how much maneuvering the guy had to do to get those weapons into that Volt, They are touching both sides of the interior.

Besides why when a liberal makes a rhetorical statement doesn’t the News Media get all apoplectic and call liberals out on it the way they do a Conservative?

You dam right.  Wif xtra ammo tew.  Dew it quick  -  for Bama cums fer yer guns!

Obviously, yer a gun retailer fanning the flames for the ole bottom line.

So the CHEVY volt is a LIBERAL car now? That’s un-American. What’s next, G.E. bashing?

Yer un-American. Since when has it been wrong to own a CHEVY. 

Do any of you honestly believe old Newton has ever owned a gun rack,let alone installed one?
Once again, Newt lies and is caught immediately and once again the wingnuts come out of the woodwork to deflect or try to deny his craven political pandering.

 Chuck “outs” himself as a Luddite.

 Pablo say: Do Nothing, God will provide.

 Doubt he has anything I want.

Obviously Titsy is not too familiar with my friend Goober’s homemade wooden gun rack, that he made for his 8.1 liter 4×4 dually pickup that set him back $62,000 and gets about 11 mpg.  Not everything has to be store bought like Titsy’s Laura Ashley frocks.

What in the world do you know of how Gingrich grew up? He, most likely, isn’t as handy with a gun as Rick Perry or I am, but I doubt he’s unfamiliar with guns. 

For all of you who love this homemade “gun rack,” that guy couldn’t any more access any of those guns without getting out of the Volt,opening the hatchback and angling the gun out. By that time, you’re either dead or whatever you want to shoot at has long gone.

 Actually, you are completely wrong.  That wasn’t Newt’s point at all.  His point was, once again, to denigrate President Obama, by insulting his agenda to provide cleaner energy and less oil dependence.  So, this time, Newt decided to insult all of GM also.  Oh well, being as anti-union and anti-worker as the republican party is, I doubt it had any impact, as GM and the other big car corps know this.  Not that Newt ever had a chance anyways.

No, actually you are wrong, Newt meant all of it..

People like you said the same derogatory insultive remarks about Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980.. Thank goodness Ronald Reagan and the American people never listened to people like you..

Reagan and Reagan conservatives believe in the American people themselves, and not the unions to be prosperous, free, independent, self-reliant, with a pick-up truck and a gun rack.

That’s an absurd statement. First of all, people don’t keep guns in gun racks for personal protection. They’re for hunting so your theory about being dead is moronic. Secondly, if your prey is gone by the time you get your gun out, that you spotted an animal along the road and stopped to kill it, illegal in most states and commonly known as poaching.
As far as Gingrich goes, I stand by my statement. He’s a full member of the “Elite” he loves to rail against with his faux populism. Beyond that, he’s too fat to safely handle a weapon.

“Beyond that, he’s too fat to safely handle a weapon.” This is probably one of the stupidest statements I’ve ever read. Weight matters not when shooting, except, possibly, if you’re too skinny to absorb  the recoil.

“He’s a full member of the “Elite” he loves to rail against with his faux populism.”
Second most stupid statement- do you know how Gingrich grew up? Or what he did as a career before entering politics? He and Santorum are the two candidates whose upbringing was in the least “elite” status. Romney and Huntsman have been the two most elite of the candidates- sons of famous and wealthy fathers.

While a truck gun rack isn’t primarily for protection, it IS for protection if necessary. Trucks are used for a variety of purposes, but often on farms and ranches and you CAN shoot on private property. Ever heard of shooting a snake or a coyote or a javelina? Not all shooting is for birds, deer, etc. In Texas, we can hunt wild hogs out of helicopters with automatic weapons. I don’t happen to like deer hunting (too many years of watching “Bambi”) but birds are a different matter- and varmints, like snakes, armadillos and possums, don’t bother me at all. 

I seriously doubt you even own a gun.

OK when some road rage nut rear ends you your gun rack will be in your ear

Yes idiot people do carry guns in gun racks for protection; including the police.
Next its not poaching dummbassss, it “shooting from or across a road”
Finally, your last line is absolute proof you know nothing about guns (or politics)
You just have to be a left wing no-nothing; or a RINO embarassment to Conservatives.

Financed by our liberal president and administration sure does sound like a liberal

Nobody has to make a point to “denigrate dumbphug obummer” he takes care of that all by his lonesome.

“butcher Christianity”???? Apparently other than being a rabble rousing idiot, AND being a city boy, you dont know squat about guns, trucks, or politics. And I bet your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend says your no good in bed either; most city boys are afraid of s  e  x..

This is the price to pay because of Obummer!

“I own 4 cars”; big phugging whoopie! Braggart!

I stand by my belief that Newtie’s corpulence would prevent him from handling a rifle safely. I don’t think he could get his forward arm around his girth to hold the forestock. Maybe I should have been more specific. Also, are you agreeing that “idiot people” would carry a gun in a rack for protection or are you baffled by punctuation?
It is illegal to hunt from the roadside in many states but that’s minor point.

See my response below about being fat and handling a rifle.
I’m glad you clarified the definition of “elite”. If, by virtue of their early circumstances, Newtie and Rick can’t be elite, you all need to stop refrerring to Obama as such. I know people want to have it both ways but you can’t.

Price you pay to own autos.