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Newt Gingrich: Obama Is So Bad, Black People Will Vote Republican

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BALTIMORE, MD — Newt Gingrich fired up the crowd in this blue state with the promise that President Obama is so bad that he’s made it possible for the Republicans to win over the African American vote in 2012.

Gingrich stopped off at an airport Marriott near Baltimore Thursday to keynote the Maryland GOP’s annual Red, White & Blue banquet. Before the speech, he assured reporters that his campaign was still going strong. When he took the podium, he offered Republican donors a long, dense speech full of red meat and warnings about the state of the world around us.

He also said it was time for Republicans to tell African Americans how terrible Obama has been for them.

He broke out the “Obama is the food stamp president” line that got him in racial trouble earlier in the campaign.

But this time, he spun the line into a suggestion that the African American vote is ripe for the plucking.

Here’s how the line works: Obama is the food stamp president, Gingrich says, whereas he wants to be the paycheck president. The difference comes down to creating jobs or not, and Gingrich says he knows how to create them.

And that’s where the black vote comes in.

“No administration in modern times has failed younger blacks more than the Obama administration,” Gingrich said.

He explained that “in May, we had 41% unemployment among black teenagers in America.” That means if Republicans can put on a brave face, they might be able to turn the African American vote their way.

Think of the social catastrophe of 41% of a community not being able to find a job. But we have to have the courage to walk into that neighborhood, to talk to that preacher, to visit that small business, to talk to that mother. And we have to have a convincing case that we actually know how to create jobs.

“The morning they believe that, you’re going to see margins in percents you never dreamed of decide there’s a better future,” Gingrich said. “It takes courage, it takes hard work, it takes discipline and it’s doable.”

“I will bet you there is not a single precinct in this state in which the majority will pick for their children food stamps over paychecks,” he said.

Gingrich isn’t the only Republican on the trail talking up Obama’s failures when it comes to minority populations. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told an audience of Republicans in New Orleans that Obama “has failed the African American community” on jobs. She said that he’s failed the Latino community — which is also suffering from record unemployment — as well.

Most of Gingrich’s speech wasn’t about wooing minority votes. He spent much of his time on stage talking about a coming “tsunami of violence” from terrorists and warning that Obama’s “vision of the American Constitution is a mortal threat to our freedoms.”

This post is written by Evan McMorris-Santoro for Talking Points Memo and appears on Mediaite via a content sharing agreement.

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  • Sanders Youth

    And Newt is so bad, white racists who can’t spell aren’t going to vote for him.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: He’s wrong doesn’t matter what he does wrong on policy blacks will only vote for a black and Cain isn’t getting any shot himself due to the Obama effect on him.

  • Just4thefax

    Sanders Youth said:
    And Newt is so bad, white racists who can’t spell aren’t going to vote for him.

    Fact: Cut out politically correctness bullcrap and you find no white racist alive today just big-time black racist.

  • Big Eddie

    Newt Gingrich: Obama Is So Bad, Black People Will Vote Republican

    More likely , they won’t show up in large numbers like before . Gingrich is not wrong about any of that .

  • BatBoy

    The Democrat Party has failed the Black Community for the last 50 years.

    If it has failed for the last 50 years, why do you thing it would change next year or after the next election.

  • skyfet

    Coming from a disgraceful POS like Newt, is almost comedic.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Who is Newt Gingrich? The guy who makes all the comments appear in italics?

  • Big Eddie

    skyfet said:
    Coming from a disgraceful POS like Newt, is almost comedic.

    Please stop your filthy language , skyfet , you’re scaring the children .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Timothy-Wright/774124882 Timothy Wright

    But would serial adulterers still vote for Newty?

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Cut out politically correctness bullcrap and you find no white racist alive today just big-time black racist.

    Fact: You are a racist

  • Nationman

    newt gingrich: “obama’s momma is so fat that…”

  • ProObamaAgenda

    i love it when you racist asswipes try to pretend you’re down with blacks and hispanics…..what you say with your lying ass mouths and what you do with your votes dont exactly match up…Black folks (excluding Cain, Thomas,Rice,McGowan and Steele) will NEVER EVA EVA vote republican…you LIE too much…create jobs for black folks my ass….you say that while at the same time killing every affirmative action policy in the country and claiming the playing field is level…hey NEWT maybe you need to know something, theres a million more po ass white people on food stamps than blacks…but unfortunatly even when white people dont have a pot to piss in they claim to be rich….like you broke ass morons on here claiming you hate government assistance for minorities while using your other open window to apply for medicaid……dumbasses….OBAMA IS GONNA KICK SOMEBODIES ASS…..YOUR JOB IS TO JUST PICK HIM A VICTIM

  • skyfet

    Big Eddie said:
    Please stop your filthy language , skyfet , you’re scaring the children .

    Children like yourself?

  • Big Eddie

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    broke ass morons

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    dumbasses

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    KICK SOMEBODIES ASS

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    my ass

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    po ass

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    racist asswipes

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    your lying ass mouths

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    you LIE too much

    You seem a lot more mellow . Yoga ?

  • Contessa

    Deluded fat person needs to go away.

  • Just4thefax

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Fact: You are a racist

    Fact: No I’m not. Black racist are though.

  • Dem4Ever

    History tells us that the voting habits of Blacks are dramatically monlithic.  To expect that pattern of behaviour to change simply because another Democratic president has failed to deliver as promised is not realistic.

    However, what we can expect is general complacency on the part of the Black community.  Obama can count on 95% or greater of the Black vote.  There is no question about that.  What he can’t count on is many of them showing up at the polls.

  • jddoubleu

    Big Eddie said:
    You seem a lot more mellow . Yoga ?

    maybe his welfare check hasnt come and hes out of 40s…

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Big Eddie said:
    You seem a lot more mellow . Yoga ?

    FUNNY YOU DIDNT DISPUTE ANYTHING I SAID ……I GUESS YOU CANT DENY BEING EVERYTHING I SAID….RIGHT A-HOLE????

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Dem4Ever said:
    History tells us that the voting habits of Blacks are dramatically monlithic.  To expect that pattern of behaviour to change simply because another Democratic president has failed to deliver as promised is not realistic.

    However, what we can expect is general complacency on the part of the Black community.  Obama can count on 95% or greater of the Black vote.  There is no question about that.  What he can’t count on is many of them showing up at the polls.

    KEEP HOPE ALIVE……SAY WHAT YOU WILL BUT FACTS ARE FACTS…..NONE OF THE STUPID ASS RACIST HOMOPHOBIC REPUBLICANS WILL BEAT OBAMA……I SEE THE BLAME GAME IS STARTING EARLY….PERHAPS YOU SHOULD JUST ACCEPT THE FACT THAT AMERICA HATES YOU DUMB ASS REPUBLICANS AND CHANGE YOUR WAYS…..WE’RE NOT GOING BACK TO THE BUSH YEARS NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DUMBASS MORONS BITCH ABOUT IT

  • LOGICandREASON

    Hey Mediaite! why are the comments in italics?

  • ModerateMan

    The imaginary headline made up by Talking Points Memo paints Gingrich as a racist who believes black people only voted for the dumb reason that Obama was black. In reality the actual substance of Gingrich’s speech was that the black communities have real economic reasons to not vote for Obama. He provided compelling statistics to show how Obama’s policies have damaged the employment opportunites in the black community.

    How is the “Talking Points Memo” allowed to get away with this misleading character assasination? Why doesn’t Mediaite atleast provide a disclaimer distancing the extreme liberal bias of TTM from their own site?

  • runner165

    Sure, Newtie … and you’re an ace with your finances. and Sarah Palin is not Trig’s mom (oh wait) ….. That’s what the GOP does … they say stupid crap and hope someone believes it.

  • Just4thefax

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE……SAY WHAT YOU WILL BUT FACTS ARE FACTS…..NONE OF THE STUPID ASS RACIST HOMOPHOBIC REPUBLICANS WILL BEAT OBAMA……I SEE THE BLAME GAME IS STARTING EARLY….PERHAPS YOU SHOULD JUST ACCEPT THE FACT THAT AMERICA HATES YOU DUMB ASS REPUBLICANS AND CHANGE YOUR WAYS…..WE’RE NOT GOING BACK TO THE BUSH YEARS NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DUMBASS MORONS BITCH ABOUT IT

    Fact: Here is my proof of being racist! Class dissmissed!

  • Armageddon T Thunderbird

    There is absolutely no end to the stupid things this bigoted pseudo conservative racist hypocrite will say to try and get elected. The sadder thing is the fact that there is an entire country of people who are actually stupid enough to vote for someone like Gingrich. That is because there is an entire country full of people who are stupid enough to believe the vile gop and/ or teabagger spew that comes out of the mouths of people like Gingrich.

    Let’s see…now Obama is so bad (like all repugs contend) that even black people will not vote for him??? Let’s back out for just a minute and see what is so bad.

    Did he plunge a nation’s economy into severe recession? No. Did he help to de-regulate industries so they could play a role in making the nation’s economy crash as well as send millions of American jobs overseas? No. Did he murder hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi’s and American soldiers as well as make and disable thousands of American soldiers? No. Did he run on a platform of creating American jobs and then push for and create policies that screw over the middle class of a nation to line the pockets of the wealthiest at the top? No.

    Now who does all that stuff??? It is and always has been Republicans. Class warfare and corporate welfare are their true masters and they are that bad. All that can be said after that is….thank God Obama didn’t have sex with a white house intern. The world might then end. If you don’t believe me then just ask Newt Gingrich.

  • Gorgegirl

    BatBoy said:
    The Democrat Party has failed the Black Community for the last 50 years. If it has failed for the last 50 years, why do you thing it would change next year or after the next election.

    Specifically, what did the republican party do to improve employment in the black community??? Expand the NBA teams?

  • The Voice of Reason

    much of the African American community does hold social conservative ideals…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce

    Dem4Ever said:
    History tells us that the voting habits of Blacks are dramatically monlithic.  To expect that pattern of behaviour to change simply because another Democratic president has failed to deliver as promised is not realistic.

    However, what we can expect is general complacency on the part of the Black community.  Obama can count on 95% or greater of the Black vote.  There is no question about that.  What he can’t count on is many of them showing up at the polls.

    Here I am reading all these passionate posts about racism and then all of a sudden I come across your post. Your’re like my Political Science Professor quoting facts. You know, it really kind of kills the mood, if you know what I mean.

  • Terry3

    The real issue is neither party has delivered for the African American community. The Democratic party is more sympathetic to the needs of the middle and lower class so African Americans tend to support this party more. However, the real underlying issue is the White people that run these parties and determine their agenda and goals do not care about the current and future state of the African American community and unfortunately, the leadership in the Black Community has and is currently failing its people.

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  • donalda

    I agree with you.  Black leaders have failed our community.  Newt G is insane.  As a black woman I most assuredly will not be voting Republican, ever.  Racist, self-righteous homophobic chauvinistic psychos, no thanks.

  • Cianook

    Fact: “Black Racism” is impossible.

    What person of African decent that you know herded millions of white slaves into the bottom of their boats and enslaved them. Thats not a question because we all know the answer.

    African Americans need to get over alot of things, they need to rehabilitate themselves in many ways but dont make the attempt to spin US history. We as a people can and should all rally behind corrected mistakes, shared history, and shared ideals. 

    The rapist telling the victim: “you wanted it!” your comments are entirley bigoted!

    Fact: Newt will never be President or Vice-President, the man is an adulterer that left his wife for his mistress while she was bedridden with cancer! African Americans tend to look upon truths like that with disdain! 

  • Cianook

    And the republicans have sucedded in what exactly? privatizing prisons (a new form of slavery)? prosecuting the “war on drugs” in African American communities, destroying lives, families, and the community itself?

    Demeaning African American women with their laws to receive public assistance?

    The only part of the struggle that African Americans face that has changed is the new rationale for the discrimination.

    Here’s an experiment: ask the token black “friends” you “accept” about their extended families. Ask them about those lost souls and why they feel they have come to their respective sad passes!

    Newt Gingrich is using racist dogwhistle language and should be called on it! reading the comments here I see that it works wonders!

    The accusation is the racism and you bigots on this thread that agree with him should be ashamed!

  • Adeenmckenziekennedy

    I agree with you, Sanders

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