When people like Barney Frank criticize a GOP candidate it only helps their poll numbers.  When will they realize this?

Why did you have to go and spoil the surprise Barney!!!

SHUT UP BARNEY!!!  IXNAY!!!

Newt will be a great candidate!  Now go ahead and buy some of his history-ish books and videos, teabaggers.

Maybe they do.

Obviously a sign that the secular atheist radical Islamist homosexual agenda is scared of Newt Gingrich.

I think he realizes this – That’s the point.

I think they do.

Give us all a lecture on morality, Barn.

In that case, keep talking Barney. Newt Gingrich  for  the candidate in 2012. (( as a liberal, I never thought write those words)

So which is worse? What Barney did in his private life that effected the public sector or what Newt did in his private life?

we can only pray…
NEWT NEWT NEWT…

this could be the first election blowout in history…
i do not even think Texas could stomach newt..

Newt has had 84 ethic charges brought against him while in Congress, how many has Frank had? Newt’s own party forced him to resign over ethics and his poor leadership.

It’s like when liberals give Mitt a lecture on Wall Street.

Romney’s got nothin’ on the Bamster’s Wall Street cred..

Any of the Republican nominees would be “weak” and have no chance of beating Obama in a general election!!

Barney: Is that ‘weak’ as in, ‘limp-wristed?’

Barney Frank is on video stating a lie about Fannie and Freddie. That trumps all.

Newt Gingrich actually did what he accused Barney Frank of doing with respect to Freddie Mac.

But don’t forget, all Republicans have been systematically trained to believe precisely the opposite of the truth.  That’s why they now support a confessed criminal.

1) What did Barney do in his private life that affected the public sector?  No idea where you’re going with that one?  Something to do with his being gay, cause I think that stopped being an issue for him about 25 years ago… 

Also, love him or hate him, Barney is retiring from Congress, while Newt is trying to the the GOP candidate for President.  Toward that end, if you want Public arena issues, you could go with the ethics issues that drove him to resign in 1999; Or his very publicly leading the charge for the Clinton impeachment while he was in the middle of a 6 year affair; Or his petulantly causing the entire Federal Government to shut down at great cost because his ego was bruised; 

But by all means, get those Newt signs on your front lawn. It will be interesting to see the GOP nominate a man that half of even the Conservatives hate more than Obama.       

Don’t worry central- Newt isn’t Water Closet’s candidate.

 Excellent Iamsosure-you have revealed them to once again have no clue what they are talking about.

Fannie and Freddie. I believe he also got his boyfriend a job with the organization. Barney going on TV and saying that the financials for Fannie and Freddie were strong in 2008 or 2009. Not sure which year.

Newt isn’t my candidate of choice so I’m not defending the dude.

Awwww you sound “butt-hurt.”  I’m so glad you taught me that term!

Who says you can’t learn things from dumb people?

LOL

Speaking of slime, buffoon barney should be remembered for these:

1. Let us NEVER forget the two key enablers of the second-worst financial crisis in American history: COUNTRYWIDE SWEETHEART MORTGAGE DEAL chris dodd, and BUFFOON barney frank.

frank and dodd goosed Freddie and Fannie into supporting sub-prime mortgages for slugs, slackers, deadbeats, liars, freeloaders, losers, taxpayer-leeches, cheats, ILLEGALS and potheads and other typical members of the d-cRAT socialist party – which led to massive mortgage defaults from unqualified borrowers which was one of the root causes of the current financial crisis.

…and the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists NEVER LEARN FROM THEIR FAILURES (probably because there are so many of them they can’t keep track of them all.)

2. buffoon barney frank: “Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together.”
So, in other words, “Government is just one big clusterfrack”!!!

3. And for those who still admire buffoon barney (aka, “The Banking Queen”), here’s a news items from several months ago that’s still a true gem:

“Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island’s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday, 16 Jul 2010 Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn’t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.””

So buffoon baney throws a massive hissy-fit over having to spend $1 of his own money, but he doesn’t give the slightest consideration when he spends/wastes TRILLIONS of taxpayer money.

The Central Scrutinizer – I love a good reference…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Afa0F-UBo 

There is only one Party. Keep up.

Barney Frank saying something about Freddie Mac trumps the Republican majority’s failure to protect Freddie Mac, even though they were the only people with the power to do so?  Really?

It seems to me that you have been systematically trained to believe precisely the opposite of the truth.

Newt Gingrich is on video stating a lie about Fannie and Freddie. That trumps all.

Insipid nonsense.

You dems spend too much time worrying about the GOP.  You really need to begin to groom your runner for ’16.  Right now your most viable candidate is Miley Cyrus.

Barney Frank is definitely playing the Republicans on this one.
Comparing Newt to Goldwater? They are leagues apart. The liberal NE Republican wing itself turned on AuH20, and thus was born Reagan’s 11th commandment (actually from a GOP guy in Cali, but close enough)

Barney, please go to Iran and protest in the streets for the rights of Gays in Iran.  Please.  In fact, go to any Muslim country and hold up a sign that says “Muhammed was gay”.  Spread the word Barney or you are a coward.

Barney needs to go to any Muslim country and be seen holding a sign proclaiming “Muhammed was gay and proud of it”…

Hey everybody remember when Newt and the Heritage foundation created the conservative idea of healthcare mandates? Funny how that wound up being a central part of Obamacare.

I’m sure that won’t come up again!!! Newt is golden!!!

Liar.  The Heritage Foundation proposal was for affordable choices among PRIVATE competing health care plans, much as federal employees have long enjoyed.  They also provided for tax credits for the lower income.  The Heritage Foundation believed health care needed to be provided for all at an affordable price but through the PRIVATE SECTOR.

Bwarney, tell us again how your gay “soul mate” ran a gay prostitution ring out of your DC apartment for years without you catching on.

Hey, my dear Republican website sharers. Hopefully, reality is beginning to descend. Your party is bankrupt, kaput, finis….You’ve been villifying Democrats and Liberals for so long that you can’t tell the difference between your lies, distortions and reality. If you weren’t so homophobic you might have picked up a long time ago that Frank is not the gay monster you make him out to be. He’s a very astute pol who’s done more to help average Americans than 99% of his fellow Congresspeople, and he’s not enriched himself like so many others.

Gingrich is going to provide great entertainment for the next month or two, but his baggage may be the heaviest of all, after, of course, Herman Cain’s departure. Talk about chickens coming home to roost. Something else you haven’t picked up on and Frank alluded to, is that the script now emerging is that Obama was handed a mess, and even acknowledging that his responses have generally been piss poor, and the rightwing has opposed him all the way, disaster has probably been averted and the economy will continue to improve, albeit slowly. At any rate, there’s very little chance that the Republicans can win in 2012, and there’s a good chance it may be a rout

Ummm, did I miss something during the HCR battles last year:  The part where the Dems never even whispered Single Payer, and Public Option was shot out of the air like a duck?  Therefore the resulting HCR package is a Mandated Enrollment in PRIVATE health care plans? 

Hence the final result is very much what the Heritage Foundation and Newt had been championing ?

Gingrich backed the individual mandate as recently as 2005 (with VIDEO):

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-29/politics/30453523_1_individual-mandate-mandate-for-health-insurance-single-payer-system

You haven’t dealt with your reality yet, so please don’t worry your pretty little head over ours. 

Yes, and now they are all promising to do away with the republican plan called Obama Cares.

Musa, please try to understand that you have been systematically trained to believe precisely the opposite of the truth.  So-called “Obamacare” IS a plan of “affordable choices among PRIVATE competing health care plans.”

Republicans know they can make you believe ANYTHING.  That’s why they were able to make such a fool of you.  Don’t feel bad, though.  All Republicans are just as misinformed as you are.

Well put – I think the ability of the GOP to create their own “facts” is finally coming home to roost.  15 years of Fox, 25 of hate radio, a network of web sites like World Net Daily, Newsmax, American Spectator, etc have created a bubble of misinformation so skewed that the inhabitants, which really is about 20-30 percent of the country,  have no clue as to what is real anymore. 

Even the mainstream publications and networks have been cowed away from discrediting the lies – Instead, lest they be labeled the “liberal media” the most they will do is let a right wing talking head spin the BS concept, then let an opposing voice make the defense without ever doing any investigation to determine who is correct.  It’s just up to the viewer to rely on their preconceived biases to decid. Ugh.

The reliance of the highest level of the GOP on being able to build on lies was probably best layed out in 2004 when a senior Bush advisor mocked Ron Suskind (who was writing his second worshipful book on Bush at the time) for being in what the advisor dismissed as “”the reality-based community,”   He was proud that they were able to do things like create the majority impression of things like Hussein being a nuclear power, etc.  The guy goes on the brag to Suskind “‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And
while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll
act again, creating other new realities.” 

The irony is that between the economy and Obama’s so-so (at best) leadership, he would traditionally be a pretty vulnerable target for a sane republican.  I’d honestly be nervous to see him in the general against a lucid,articulate & generally sane GOPer like Huntsman or Thune, but in the crazy bubble of the GOPs own making, those guys aren’t extreme enough or ‘merican enough to go toe-to-toe with a bonafide  Muslim/anti-American/sleeper agent/Communist/Anarchist/Antichrist.

It’s true that probably 80% of national pols, regardless of party, are egotistical jagoffs in person. 

But when you are looking at blame for the financial crisis, you probably need to get a much better grip on the impact of the repeal of Glass Steagall, which was brought to you by primarily by Republican Senator Phil Gramm, Republican Representative Jim Leach and $300 million of lobbying from the financial sector led by Citigroup (but to be fair, was happily signed by Clinton with Treasury secretary Bob “Goldman Sachs” Rubin clapping like a seal for it.)

The collapse of the GSEs like Fanny and Freddie was a significant event, but was absolutely dwarfed by the Wall Street actions (Derivatives, Credit swaps, burying of toxic mortgages in multi tranch securities,  tapping of Insurance and Commercial bank capital for extreme speculation, etc…)  that went from illegal to totally legal when Glass Steagall went off the books.

And before you start winging around terms like socialist without fully grasping them, keep fulling in mind that the GOP is fully in favor of Privatizing Corporate profits but socializing the losses.  Also, Corporate subsidies and corporate welfare also dwarf traditional social welfare in cost annually, and that’s before you even start to discuss corporate tax loopholes. 

“One of our friendly counselors gave him a donut and told him to stick closer to church oriented social activities…” 

Nice post.

Barney Frank had an active member of his household working for the organization so yes, Barney’s words do matter.

It seems to me that you’re a broken record. Must repeat. Must repeat. Must repeat.

“Bamster’s”

No one takes you seriously. 

I’m glad you’re still here.  You make everyone smile.

Yawn…WC must be bored to care so much about Barney Frank.

I guess it proves how lame the GOP candidates are. She can’t even address Franks critique without attacking him.

Excellent post

This “musa” dude must be satire.  We’re on to you musa.  You’re just too good to be true.

Barney Frank had an active member of his household working for “the organization,” so Barney’s words destroyed our economy. Okay then. Makes sense. Nice work.

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you are a crazy person. You don’t have the ability to differentiate between fiction and reality. This is very common among Republicans these days.

 Don’t nominate Newt, GOP!
and please don’t throw me in the briar patch, Brer Fox!

Frrank is just stating the obvious. Ask Michelle Bachman, and even Ron Paul. Newt is going to get the public hearing on his life that deserves to be told. And after Hermann Cain, and the other Weiner, anything is game. My friend Larry Flynnt has one million all ready to go.

Just think: Since 2010, we have gotten rid of Bwarney Fwank, Anthony Weiner, and Alan “Fruitcake” Grayson.

Three extreme nutjobs. Gone. Out of power. Powerless.

Now all we need do is add Obama to the list next November, and the world will be a better place.

I don’t care what Bwarney does in his private life, except for the prostitution which he was never punished for.

I do care that he blocked any chance of reforming Fannie Mae and Freedie Mac, which caused trillions in losses and the 2008 economic downturn.

History will not treat Bwarney very well. I am just glad he will be gone from any position of power.

I hear that Bwarney is going into teaching.

He will be using the name “Ben Dover.”

Yep, ObamaCare is so popular that even liberal polls show that it is less popular than the clap.

If it were so popular, Obama the Marxist Cancer would have it in commercials. But it isn’t popular, so he doesn’t even mention it.

Obama is vulnerable because already a majority of voters don’t want him to have a second term.

And he is below Jimmah Carter’s numbers for job approval. Less popular than Jimmah Crapper? WOW!

Obama isn’t vulnerable…he is TOAST.

And if you believe otherwise, I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might wish to purchase, cheap.

You have no idea what “ObamaCare” is, and you’re too stupid to learn. It’s the same way with all Republicans. All Republicans are incredibly stupid people.

>> Barney Frank: “Obviously Mitt Romney is the Tin Woodsman, without a heart. And Rick
Perry is clearly the Scarecrow. Newt is the Wizard of Oz. Newt is the one who I just think there’s nothing there.”

The problem with Frank’s analogy is that he left out THREE core Oz characters…

Obama is the Cowardly Lion. A pleasant person on the surface, the kind of person you could like. Unfortunately, the more you come to actually know him, the more you realize you would NEVER want him in command since he IS scared of his own shadow and — to remain likeable — he always goes with the flow and does whatever other people tell him to do. In short, he’s the complete OPPOSITE of what a President or leader should be.

Which is why the American people are then Dorothy. After suffering through 4 years of this moron being in charge, we just want to click our heels together and get back home, so we can wake up in bed and say “Thank God THAT nightmare is over.”

Oh, and the third missing Oz character is obvious.
Nancy Pelosi is the Wicked Witch.
But everyone ALREADY knew that one!!!

Thanks! You are the perfect example of what I was writing about. 

You: “And he is below Jimmah Carter’s numbers for job approval. Less popular than Jimmah Crapper? WOW!”

Objective Reality: In the most recent polls by all the major groups, including the right slanting Rasmussen, Obama’s popularity is between 39-47%   Jimmy Carter’s job approval bottomed out at 28%,  Bush 43s hit 25% and Nixon’s was the all time lowest at 24%.

Obama could be beaten by Romney and a bad economy, but if you think Newt is going to be able to survive the primaries and make it through the general election — and the microscope it puts on past, personal shortcomings as well as public statements about policy — without having the vast majority of the electorate come away shocked by his personality, weaknesses and vision for the country, you don’t have a realistic view of the modern political process.   And the fact that you probably don’t is exactly the point I was making in the first place.  

Now get to bed, Fox & Friends starts early!

Repulsive geriatric homosexual makes sane people wonder why he was ever released from “the closet”. Start typing, fruits…

>> Ganymede: “At any rate, there’s very little chance that the Republicans can win in 2012, and there’s a good chance it may be a rout.”

Riiiiiiiiight.

Which would explain why in the latest polls out this weekend, in a head-to-head match up against Gingrich, Obama LOSES…

In a head-to-head match up against Romney, Obama LOSES EVEN MORE…

And that would explain why even in a head-to-head match up against a nameless “generic Republican”, Obama STILL loses.

Gee, it must be really nice in Fantasy Land.
Do you pay much rent or can anyone pretty much afford to live there?

Christianne actually asked Frank about Gingrich?

Oh so funny – it is no wonder she has become a laughing stock.  How stupid is she to ask this uber lefty liberal loon about Gingrich….what did she expect him to say?

Honestly ABC, you can do better than this.

Barney, please go to Iran and protest in the streets for the rights of Gays in Iran.  Please.  In fact, go to any Muslim country and hold up a sign that says “Muhammed was gay”.  Spread the word Barney or you are a coward.

Bwarney Fwank needs to hold up a sign in Pakistan that says “MUHAMMED WAS GAY LIKE ME, LIVE WITH IT”.

All this adulation of Barney Frank… What a joke. He’s a nasty old fart who nearly wrecked the entire United States economy. 

Isn’t there a fishing net in New Bedford that Barnyard Frank can become ensnared in?

The idea of those 2 turning you on?

Yet you continue to respond to me.

Rent-free.

Replace the name with Ronald Reagan, and you’ll no get no argument from me.

Rush, Fox & Friends, Rush, Fox & Friends, Rush, Fox & Friends.

Must repeat. Must repeat. Must repeat.

Still “butt hurt” eh?

Yeah you must be very bored.

And “butt hurt”

Indeed, to stay in the bubble where it all makes sense to you, you definitely need a constant re-inforcement cycle of Rush & Fox, lest any objective reality that could stand up to fact checking seep in.

They guffawed when Nancy Pelosi was first elected Minority Leader in the House.  they swore that it was the end of the Democratic Party, she would NEVER become speaker of the House.

They told us that it would be a cakewalk in Iraq.  Saddam’s weapons would finally be revealed.

They told us that the auto bailouts were doomed to failure.

They told us that repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell would destroy our military readiness.

Right wingers are never right about anything.

Why does anyone even bother to listen to them anymore?

That’s a wonderful reading of the polls, except for the massive oversight of not factoring in the impact of opposition media.  Obama has been subject to 4 years of 24 hour a day bashing by the right, and all those negatives are fully reflected in the current polling.  Now, whether anyone likes it or not, you’re going to see 10 months of relentless press scrutiny of the GOP candidate and 10 months of endless negative ads by both sides. 

Where Obama’s negatives, real and imagined, are not new to the the discussion, the vast majority of voters who don’t follow politics actually don’t know much about Newt or Mitt.   When their history and negatives (especially Newt’s massive baggage and skelatons) begin to penetrate beyond political watchers, care to speculate on how that polling moves?  

I used to go to newsmax before they went full birther-it was one of those places where you could find much of the GOP pundit class in one place without having to see the annoying comments of their often insipid and myopic readership. For example you do not want to expose yourself to the “commentariat” of say “townhall.com” or “Newsbusters.” 

No it doesn’t.

Ok, but what do you think about the points CentralScruntinizer is making, in this and his previous post?

Every republican candidate is repeatedly asked about Obama but it’s off limits to ask a democrat about a republican candidate?

Dumbass.

Consistent as always. If the question doesn’t feed into your personal obsession du jour, then it’s fraudulent.

Sold any scripts lately? I didn’t think so.

Newt Gingrich is
the shooting-star-of-the-month Republican candidate for president. He’s
proclaimed himself the front runner based on the polls; and it must be true
because all the other Republican candidates have begun criticizing him. But can
the chubby, twice divorced, former Speaker of the House with an attitude and a
record in politics longer than Moses’ trek in the desert win the Republican
nomination and the 2012 election? The answer to both questions is yes, and
here’s why.  http://ewross.com/can_newt_gingrich_win_the_nomination_and_the_election.htm

looking at that picture of fwank makes me wonder what has been in and out of that mouth over the years. disgusting!

Don’t let them fool ya they are scared witless over Newt.
Newts past has been well documented and hashed and rehashed.Clinton went through the same thing and a lot of people still like and forgive him.
One of the things is beyond laughable, about Newt serving divorce papers to his wife on her death bed 15 years ago….she still alive.
What is beyond laughable is his critics that scorn him over making money as private citizen through Barney Mae and Freddie Frank. When Fannie and Freddie have been the democrats biggest con over the last 10 years.And they don’t even look at what a whore Obama has been for Wall Street shaking them down for more money than anyone over the last twenty years.
I can’t wait for Newt to undress Obama and his policys and his record and philosophy.Get your popcorn ready!
It will be nice to see an adult in the White house again. GO NEWT!

“Obwiously Mitt Womney is da tin woodsman, wiffout a heawt. And Wick
Pewwy is qwearly da scawecwow… Newt is da Wizard of Oz. Newt is da
one who… I just fink ffere’s nothing dawe, he’s ginned up dis whole
big fing, but when people focus on him as opposed to him being da Not Womney, dis is a man who sewved as Speakew, twice wepwimanded by the
House… I just fink he is an obviwous weak candidate.”

There, fixed it for you Josh!!

Is that Barneys dating face.

Does anyone really care what this homosexual maggot has to say?