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Brit Hume: President Obama Has ‘Good Reason’ To Prefer A Campaign Against Gingrich

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While the latest polls are showing that, in light of Herman Cain‘s exit from the presidential race, Republicans are increasingly confident in running with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, though not everyone agrees. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Brit Hume argued the point that too many voters don’t remember what Gingrich was like as Speaker, making him a ticking time bomb President Obama and his campaign would love to detonate in the general election.

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“It seems clear they would rather run against anyone but [Mitt] Romney,” Hume told host Bill O’Reilly, particularly because their attacks had been aimed at him. O’Reilly asked him to compare that to whether the Obama campaign would like to run against Gingrich, to which he replied enthusiastically, “Would they ever! And with good reason.” He noted that Gingrich was “the only Speaker in history to be sanctioned for an ethics violation,” and that after that scandal was over, “he was the object of a mutiny within the Republican ranks in the House” and was “ultimately forced to resign as Speaker and resign from Congress itself.” That history, Hume argued, will be new to young voters and have a signficant impact.

O’Reilly took the self-professed “devil’s advocate” role and argued that the struggle that led to the mutiny (and a shutdown of the government) was an attempt to keep spending at a minimum, and that Gingrich could say “I did the right thing back then by trying to get spending under control.” That to Hume did not diminish the opportunities to “demonize” Gingrich from the left.

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As for Gingrich’s renowned ability in debates, which Hume admitted some conservatives were “salivating” over, he considered it hit or miss at best– he could either win a debate with the President, or “suddenly blurt out, quite unexpectedly, something you never expected him to say– something you never knew he thought– and then you have a big problem on your hands.”

Ultimately, Hume did not appear to be convinced that Gingrich’s record was something that the candidate could surpass as a nominee. While noting that there was a wing of the right that argued that the President was so weak coming into the election that Republicans could get away with not running a moderate, the Speaker’s history was simply unconvincing to Hume.

The segment via Fox News below:

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  • Gloves M. Donahue

    Obama has been on Judicial Watch’s top Ten Most Corrupt since he came to Washington.

    Barry will continue to live it up till he is turned out next year. This month , he is heading far from Jesse Jackson,Jr, Rezko, Corzine,Holder, Solyndra and so many other problems. Hawaii !

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    The Gloves Donahue Family Christmas this year will be a feast of beans, malt liquor, and profound sadness.

  • Anonymous

    Dude Britt’s beginning to freak me out man and I don’t mean his stoicism.  He’s just not feeling the love for these candidates.

  • LindaLeigh

    Unfortunately the GOP is currently run by tea party people who love anything that most of the conservative media don’t care for and Fox News loves….even if the person they love is the establishment and against everything they stand for.  That is going to cost us (the GOP) even a chance at the general election.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll bet the profound sadness is a daily dish.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    The Tears of the Gloves Donahue Family is like a fine wine distilled from destitution, desolation, desperation, and despair. 

  • Anonymous

    What is the matter, Brit? Is FAUX News concerned the Gong Show rejects are going down in infamous glory. Here is the answer: HELP THE SOON TO BE UNEMPLOYED-DRAFT SCOTT WALKER. He is so much better than the charlatans which are running because he knows he is a snake and makes no attempt to hide it.

  • Anonymous

    Another Fox News pundit sounds the alarm. Add this to the sharp criticisms from Senator Tom Coburn and the devastating attack from George Will this weekend, and it becomes obvious that the knives are sharpening for ol’ Newt.

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    I don’t think women are going to forget Newt’s marital record!
    _____________________The Slimy NewtA slimy neocon who calls himself NewtHas always played the globalist skin fluteHe gets on his kneesAnd does what they pleaseAs he lines his pockets with their pilfered loot.With women, Newt’s always been a smooth dancer“Replace ‘em with an upgrade” is always his answerWhich caused him, of courseTo present his divorceTo his first wife as she lay dying of cancer.It seems Speaker Gingrich didn’t give a hootFor his family after he gave ‘em the bootHe came up completely short,Never paying child supportFor the entire duration of the dispute.Next Newt married a girl named MarianneWhom he quickly decided to canWhen she got a diagnosisOf Multiple SclerosisWhich threw a wrench in his political plan.At the time Marianne announced she was sickGingrich was boning his aide, Calista BisekCalista played Newt’s harmonicaAs he blasted Clinton for gettin’ a Monica‘Cause hypocrisy has always been Newt’s schtick.___________________________Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Anonymous

    Reading his posts, I’d think dementia, too. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    Noted!!!

  • Anonymous

    Only you take that rag seriously.  Another Right Wing money scheming rag.

  • Anonymous

    Hume has been to the rodeo a few times. He sees the writing on the wall, that Gingrich would be a disaster for the Republicans. That’s why both he and Rove are working overtime to shut down this Gingrich boomlet. Too late guys. The toothpaste is out of the tube . Hume and the other wingnuts at Fox have created a Frankenstein monster that they can’t control. Forget about O’Reilly. He would support Jo Jo the Dog Face Boy if he became the nominee, as long as he was a Republican and far right conservative. O’Reilly will in a kneejerk fashion support any right wing goober.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Newt currently polling at 26%.
    Chance of Newt becoming next POTUS = less than 26%. Far less.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    You made me look. Judicial Watch is as credible as Freedom Foundation or any other false flag organization that has a clear right-wing agenda hidden behind a “positive” name.

  • Anonymous

    A mannequin can beat Obama right now.
    Nobody is going for four more years of this disaster.
    I’ll roll the dice with Newt.

  • Anonymous

    its sad that Hume thinks Romney cannot win nomination because he is Mormon….Who said right wingers are not bigoted,if true…

  • Anonymous

    “I’ll roll the dice with Newt”

    A ringing endorsement from an Internet Hayseed. 

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you can get the mannequin to run for the GOP.  You’re probably right, it would be far better than the group of turds in the race now.  Write-in candidate you think?

  • Anonymous

    Cain was 999.  The Grinch is 395…to 28.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Gloves, yes.

  • Anonymous

    Go with Obama again and we’ll all be camping on the sidewalk.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The timing certainly favors the Newt, doesn’t it? Effectively, how much is going to happen between now and the first week in Christmas? Aren’t we all going to be fully deployed in the War on Christmas? The Newt is peaking at what seems to be the perfect time. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Willard keeps shooting himself in the foot and generally “icking” everyone out at break-neck speed.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It will be “Blazing Saddles” all over again, with sadness added in.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Judicial Watch? Larry Clayman? You have to be kidding! How can you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning? The biggest fraud in America. Him. You’re only second. A distant second.

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    Aged for years and then guzzled quickly any night the moon is out. 

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    If you compare Reagan’s and Obama’s presidencies, at this point in Reagan’s he had a low approval rating and high unemployment and was the subject of a lot of criticism in the media. The year of the election the economy started to turn around and the Democrats put up a weak candidate–Mondale–and Reagan went on to win by a landslide. 

  • Anonymous

    Please pick Newt! Please pick Newt! I can’t wait to see him explode!!

  • Anonymous

    Hume demolished Newt – brought up a lot of damaging information in his background.  I think it’s time to line up behind honest Mitt.

  • Anonymous

    I LOVE Scott Walker!  Hoping he’ll be in the mix later on down the road.  Thanks for bringing him up!  :)

  • Anonymous

    im a woman and could care less about his PAST.

  • Anonymous

    rove hasnt been trying to shut down gingrich.  what have you been watching?  i have not heard anything said by rove about gingrich that was demeaning.

  • Anonymous

    i am a conservative and i have never given his religion a 2nd thought.  please dont generalize.

  • Anonymous

    Watching Gingrich today in a press conference reminded me of why I despised this guy 20 years ago. He’s the same vicious, divisive animal he was back then. If he’s nominated, the American people will be so fed up with this guy’s gargantuan ego and arrogance, by election day he’ll lose all 50 states. His wife creeps me out too, she looks like cyborg.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    LOL judicial watch.
    Who are you going to cite next? Orly Taitz?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    The Romney News Channel is going to have to work pretty hard this month to save Mittens’ nomination.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    The only better candidate than Newt would be if they dug Barry Goldwater and ran him again.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Which places you out of the mainstream.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    You’re also a woman who doesn’t capitalize “I”, which shows a lack of self respect.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    “Stepford” Callista!

  • Anonymous

    Newt is a flash in the pan.  He has to much baggage.  For those who were not around in the 90′s to see some of the snake in the grass shenanigens this guy pulled and now the more recent insurance connections, Fannie and Freddie and I’m sure there some we have not head of yet. I think he will start losing his new shine pretty quickly.   

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Judicial Watch is an Rrrthoritarian-invented corruption of the Washington DC not-for-profit citizen whistleblower model. And that is ALL it is. If CREW names Darryl Issa to its “Most Corrupt List”, automatically JW adds Obama. JW is to CREW what Newsbusters is to Media Matters.

  • Anonymous

    Racist idiot. 

  • Anonymous

    Anyone of the GOP field can beat empty suit Obama.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Britt “Herman Munster” Hume was correct in pointing out Newt’s horrible past as Speaker of the House!!

    Can’t wait to see Pelosi release the unclassified documents on the ethics scandals Newt engaged in!!

  • http://twitter.com/RealKrisHardy Kristopher Hardy

    The only reason Obama should be scared is if he is up against Paul. THAT would be fun, even though I’m a progressive. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Newt has more baggage than a 747.

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