I have often noticed that Newt appears to be on drugs.

Don’t most conservatives want to engage in the very same conduct that they want to criminalize?

Johnson is now pretty clearly running for the Libertarian Party nomination as he has stopped appearing at GOP events and showed up at the LP Florida Convention last weekend.

Gingrich makes it sound like the whole country’s mind changed on 

Oh, please. Smoking weed was all the rage in the late sixties. Its statistically, logically and realistically less harmful than alcohol. This country is forever  puritan and myopic.

If Johnson is a fourth tier candidate I hope you introduce Jon Huntsman the same way in all your articles.

As for Newt I don’t see him being a factor in this race.  He will be lucky to finish 5th in Iowa after the next 3 weeks of getting hit from the RIGHT.  His crash will make Hermain Cain and Michelle Bachmann’s  fall seem like a soft landing.  Newt just has too many skeletons in his closet (a graveyard if you will) and this time the criticism will be coming from right wing critics that GOP voters trust.  Newt will be a real four letter word by the time Iowans walk into the room to caucus.

This election will be a three person race between Perry, Romney, and Paul.  And unforntunately I see Perry pulling out an improbable win.  He is the Tim Tebow of GOP politics.  All he does is win.

We conservatives should not argue in front of the children (libs).

Johnson is the real deal. It is more of a commentary to the non-seriousness of the media or the Republican nominating process that he hasn’t been a part of the conversation. Sure, he couldn’t win, but he has way more to say than any of the other folks who’ve actually been on stage.

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit ….

I’ll be voting for Ron Paul or Gary Johnson for the libertarian party.

Yep like substance abuse.

you didnt get the memo? If you want to become a big time republican, you must flip flop on your principles/past.

good examples

-a gay-bashing republican looking for gay sex
-a republican having affairs while claiming to be a family guy with family values
-a republican bashing welfare while receiving government grants
-a republican wanting limited government but wanting govt to interfere with abortion, iran, gay marriage and peacefule demonstrations (OWS)

Or you could be

-an anti-prostitution crusading Democrat who uses prostitutes.
-a Democrat having affairs while claiming to be a family guy with family values
-a Democrat bashing Wall Street while enriching themselves by insider trading
-a Democrat wanting compassionate government while raiding medical pot clinics and busting Amish milk sellers

BTW, who’s the Republican that’s busted up an Occupy camp?

Johnson was my first pick. He could wind up being my last.

Gary who????

Great reply, Pablo. Unfortunately, you fail again!

1) Democrats do not run on the family values thing- its a republican tag line
2) Some republicans were supporting the OWS busting by the police….eg Pablo, Fox News….

You’re absolutely right. Your hypocrisy sends mixed messages. Do as I say, not as I do is no way to raise kids.

not a big surprise since most of the anti-gay cons smoke schlong…

for the record–Gary J–could actually beat Obama..

Maybe when Newt gets the nomination we will see a debate between him and Obama as to who smoked the most ganjah. 

Ditto

No one cares if Presidents did drugs in the past.

Let’s all listen to the political prognostications of the Herb Cain supporter!

Pretty minor rebuttal, but enough to keep you from looking flat-footed.

and I’m sure you said that about President Clinton? And the issue isn’t that he may have smoked it, but what he says in public. Why is it that you Republicans are so darned thick?  It’s called HYPOCRISY — something the GOP is oh so good at – http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-johnson-gop-official-same-sex-marriage-donated-sperm-lesbian-couples-report-article-1.990722

The issue isn’t that he donated sperm; the issue is that he rails AGAINST same sex marriage, but quietly supports same sex parenthood. GOP: do as I say, not as I do.

Tommy is REALLY reaching!  Next he’ll write about what some third world scrap metal dealer thinks about Gingrich.

“the criticism will be coming from right wing critics that GOP voters trust.”

The problem with that statement is that GOP voters don’t trust the establishment anymore. Having the endorsement of those previously “trusted” sources may actually be a reason NOT to vote for somebody. Conservatives are sick of Washington politics, even from the Republican Party. If Karl Rove hates Newt, that is probably a plus for Newt!

Calm down, that is why I said Pablo had a great reply.

There are democrats who have flip flopped. The difference is that it is becoming consistent with the republican party

The only way that Gary Johnson could beat Obama would be to take him across his knee and beat him with a strap.  Hey, maybe Michelle Obama would be willing . . . .?  NAH! LOL

I think they should have a Lincoln-Douglas style debate with the ony rule being that they both smoke joints throughout the debate.  The last man who munches on brownies wins!

So to recap:

Newt Gingrich cheated on his wife out of patriotism (which, by the way, should anger anyone who’s ever served in our military or lost a family member/friend in the service.) 

“See, when I smoked pot it was illegal,” he told WSJ’s Hilary Stout in 1996, “but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn’t change, only the morality… That’s why you get to go to jail and I don’t.”  ~Newt Gingrich

Anyone who thinks that more Marijuana was smoked in 1988 than in 1971 wasn’t around in 1971!

Given that rates of marijuana usage are much higher now than they were then, I’d say it’s still all the rage :)

Here’s something to chew on, idiot boy! http://news.yahoo.com/obama-headed-landslide-094500953.html Obama: Headed for a Landslide?

Think out with Obama, in with the lesser of the evils.

The ultimate drone will be a marijuana
sniffer. Billions are smoking dope and the sniffer will find them at home or at
a music festival. The contractor that develops this drone will also sell
private prisons to overburdened police officials. The war on opium and cocaine
will remain until the sniffer is updated to include all drugs.

Maybe you just don’t get invited to the right parties?

A regular Jules Verne over here

They’re Republicans FYI

Tommy, what else is Journ o list planning to “report” as news?

Agreed.

Lol!! Newt is a Hippie Stoner!!

“proposed the death penalty for marijuana — for possession of marijuana above a certain quantity of marijuana…..”

To RINO Gary….The keywords here are “above a certain quantity”
I hate when a fake Republican acts like a snarky liberal with this sort of bullshit.

You are a COMPLETE idiot.

Didn’t Gary Johnson bring up talking about drugs when Bush was first elected?

Then came 9/11 and buying pot supported terrorists

How about NO death penalty for anything?

But buying a bag of Heroin supports our allies in Afghanistan.

Opium production at time high, Heroin prices at all time low, since NATO invasion of Afghanistan

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Why does it even matter? Should we excuse the poor conduct of our politicians just because the ‘other guy’ does it?

i think you got Obama mixed up with Newt.  ;)

I love how this guy omits the quantity …i believe its a couple tons worth of
Marijuana wold get the death penalty.

No, my dear rudeboy, you are as wrong as you’ve ever been. John Edwards ran as the dedicated family man while he was making a love child on the campaign trail, unbeknownst to his cancer stricken wife whose illness was used as fundraising fodder. All of them trot the families out. It’s what they do. And then there’s Bubba.

As for OWS busting, Democrats DID IT. Not Republicans. Fail.

No, nor should we throw stones from our glass houses.

And let’s make inane, pointless, content-free comments on the internet!

“Family-Values”, your hanging your Liberal hat on that issue? I support the Repulican leaders who are supporting the busting of criminal OWS…..duh…

Johnson is switching over to the Libertarian Party. He has all but announced it as he has stopped campaigning in the GOP primaries and is now campaigning at LP events.

Oh yeah… that’s sounds much more sensible.  Kill a guy for having A LOT of marijuana.

We have a coke head in the oval and we get a story about Newt and weed.

Go figure.

And Obama’s campaign has called Newt a monkey and we have silence at mediaite.

Another go figure!

What, like that’s a surprise after all the conservative closeted homophobes who fiercely opposite any kind of equality for gays?

He really has?  Care to share any links you have?

Then how would conservatives get rid of poor people, minorities, and other undesirables?

A coke head?  But Bush is out of office now …

If you include fetuses (Babies) in that comment….we have a discussion.
If not….Just F*ck Off.

But always a step above you….silly boy

Axelrod on Newt: “The higher a monkey climbs on the pole the more you can see his butt.”
Everyone else on OBAMO: “The higher a monkey climbs on the pole the more you can see his butt.”

Right – thecoke head is now in the oval….was one after Bush 41 and one after Bush 43.

Good, decent…Murcuhn. Christian.  Patriot.  Heero.  Yup.

Well, duh! Just like we should have been sentencing evil, immoral alcohol drinkers during the Prohibition Era.

I agree with the hyper distrust of anything Washington, especially among conservatives.  The problem with that is the “I-hate-all-Congressman-except-my-own” voting mentality that perpetually sends these goons back to Washington, “to fight for their constituents.” 

If neither Romney nor Gingrich can beat Obama in South Carolina, the first state to secede from the union…how the hell are they going to win ANY state? 

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-headed-landslide-094500953.html

Yeah, last time I checked, it was the republicans that were against the OWS…..you fail

Family values is the republican tag line…………..you fail again

????

When they make a movie, he can be played by pauly shore.

Me too. If not Constitution party. In this election they should run a fusion party and run Gary Johnson and Ron Paul. Or Buddy Roemer and one of the other guys.

They’re not establishment. That’s all I care about.

RON PAUL
all ur base r belong to us
2012

Here are a couple-
http://www.freep.com/article/20111213/NEWS15/111213031/Herman-Cain-Gary-Johnson-Michigan-Republican-primary-ballot

http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-west-palm-beach/gary-johnson-west-palm-beach-tonight-will-he-announce-libertarian-run

I never understood how the Constitution Party could be Paul or Libertarian fans. So much of their platform is completely antithetical to the LP platform.

Really? The one time they let him on stage all he said was … “In 2013 I will be introducing a bill”. Not to take away from him, because I think he represents a lot of what I am for, but it was kind of embarrassing.

Support Gary in the general if you must, but go out for Ron Paul in the primary. He has a legitimate shot at the nomination and it can do a lot for the movement.

I don’t think the underlying issue is that he did drugs. It’s his insane policies against drugs. People should not be murdered for smoking marijuana, or even dealing it — for that matter. He advocates the Singapore system. You know what they do in Singapore for marijuana use? They hang people. This is America and that policy will not fly. It’s fascist.

Uh no.

“As Speaker of the House, Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.”The bill would have required a “sentence of death for certain importations of significant quantities of controlled substances.” It would have applied to anyone convicted more than once of carrying 100 doses — or about two ounces — or marijuana across the border.”

Gingrich is a maniac.

Newt Gingrich is a stinking pile of shit

Save your gas money and don’t go to the polls.  Your votes mean nothing, anyway. Secret voting machine programs get to elect the prez.  But not always.  Sometime the U.S. Supremes usurp the computer programto appoint their own prez.  When they appointed GWB, they gave the citizens day 9-11, an endless war on “terror,” and DHS. Let’s only hope the Supremes don’t decide to appoint prez’s very often.  It can make a citizen’s buns hurt when one sits down on a shaft that large.

This is an intelligent post; I’m surprised the moderators haven’t come on board and deleted it!  Good job libbie….

geez

No problem. Nobody is voting for John Edwards, but Newt thinks he is a legitimate candidate.

He is not.

I hope the GOP nominates Perry. After all — he is not electable in terms of the independents, and anyone who has been paying attention over the last 4 presidential elections understands that it is the independents who actually elect the president.

Like gay sex.

Absolutely.

You want to hear about the most advanced computer in the
world using the most advanced Artificial Intelligence system? Do you know what
the Futures markets are? Like Gold, Oil, and all Currencies? Well guess what,
they are all controlled by a computer program, they do not trade, rather they
are 100% controlled in advance by a computer.Google “Gold Trading Academy” to
learn more.

Oh and didn’t Newt do the same? And Newt married thrice. he cheated on his cancer stricken wife too. Talk about hypocrisy. Do you guys really watch too much Fox news?

Thanks,.. you’re right. “Teas” have no “family values”!

What moderators…LOL!!!
Only the conservatives get modded here

“Teas” try!

a “stinking” pile of shit
I was unaware there was another kind
Do, enlighten me.

Just brainwash them and move on.

Yeah.

Yes, my comment was tongue in cheek; libbies get away with murder, but if a conservative criticizes these thin skinned authors around here — bam…axed.

http://www.ndsn.org/oct95/gingrich.html

[The death penalty for killings in the course of a large-scale drug trafficking
operation (called a continuing criminal enterprise) was enacted by Congress
in 1988. In 1994 Congress provided for the death penalty for any of the
organizers or leaders of a continuing criminal enterprise that grosses $20 million
in a twelve-month period or violates the Controlled Substances Act
with a quantity of drugs of at least 60 kilograms (kg) of heroin, 300 kg
of cocaine or coca leaves, 3 kg of crack, 6 kg of PCP, 600 grams
of LSD, 60,000 kg of marijuana or 60,000 marijuana plants, or 6 kg
of methamphetamine (18 USC 3591 (b)).

Does Speaker Gingrich know what the law currently provides? If not, since
he actually debated and voted for this law, it demonstrates how unlikely
it is that drug traffickers, who don’t watch C-SPAN or read the Congressional
Record, would know about these penalties. The sentences would hardly
have a chilling effect – And sentences of up to life imprisonment
haven’t so far. The triggering quantities are very low and would, if actually
applied, lead to hundreds of executions of “mini-kingpins.” Does
Speaker Gingrich propose lowering the triggering quantities so that mules
and couriers are subject to execution?

You gave to be the biggest dumba$$ here.

I am so sick of seeing this democrat vs conservative debate every time I look at comments on a political article.  Do you people not realize that both sides are just as bad? How about the fact NDAA passed 93-7 in the senate? Guess what, Democrats and Republicans both voted for it.  In fact, of the seven who voted against there were 3 democrats, 3 republicans, and 1 independent; since there are slightly more democrats in the Senate that means a higher percentage of democrats voted for it than republicans… 

What about Obama? I honestly think he should get an award for flipfliopping on policy.  What he’s done for the environment:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/nov/28/report-obama-broken-environmental-promises

Remember his promise to remove the troops from Iraq? Wait, didn’t he just do that? Well… not exactly. Bush did actually.
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-klass/half-an-ending-for-the-ir_b_1141835.html

“Yet the end of 2011 withdrawal is in the “Strategic Framework” agreement signed by President Bush. U.S. troops could only remain by amending this agreement. The Iraqi government would not agree unless remaining U.S. personnel were subject to Iraqi law, not given immunity under s status of forces agreement (SOFA).

“Didn’t he say he’s going to remove corporate influence? http://www.allmediany.com/details_news_article.php?news_id=25&news_artid=536

“Sperling, a former consultant for Goldman Sachs, has critics speculating that his appointment is indicative of President Obama’s soft stance on Wall Street.”

For a very thorough detailing of what he’s done take a look at this
http://davidswanson.org/content/obama-even-worse-bush

At this point, I have no idea who to vote for in this upcoming presidential election. 

God damn we need a new political party.

This guy has his head screwed on straight! Not to mention he’s even more handsome than his sister Candace Gingrich !
 I really think I will still vote for Obama but if Newt won I wouldn’t mind because Newt is like Obama on steroids! 

Killing them would reduce our carbon footprint! Think of the planet!

Well as long as they gave it up then you know they are OK now. They would never do drugs in office.It would be unethical.If they got caught they would get in big trouble and lose their job.They must be above reproach.Even though Gingrich is like Obama on steroids,he calls himself the GOP guy so I can’t vote for him because I am prejudiced against anyone who calls themselves a Republican.I am politically consigned to be emotionally polarized against the GOP because that’s how we roll in the USA.Divided we stand,United we fall.
Newt did have a good idea about executing pot smokers because they are the reason our country has been ruined almost beyond repair.He was prophetic because look at what happened after we let the pot smokers live all these years.
 They ruined everything.
 I think Obama needs to pick up on this executing marijuana smokers and run on it too!
I have faith in Newt and Obama.Either one will be fine with me! They are equally principled.I just can’t vote for Newt because he is white and a GOP guy.I think we’ll be just fine no matter which one of these fine fine men win!
 Anyone but Ron Paul the kook!    

   As long as it’s less evil than the other guy then we win! That’s what voting is all about !

Don’t worry! The media will let us know who won! It’ll all be fair and square!
We;ll get the one we deserve!
 Newt or Obama…they’re both great! I’m voting for Obama but Newt is just as good! 

What kind of message would that send to the criminals? Nope.We gotta kill more for less .Let everyone see and they’ll be too scared to commit crimes!
 Their executions need to be played on TV over and over and people will learn to do as they are told.
 Then we will have Utopia! You want Utopia don’t ya? (Of course you do! Who doesn’t?)
 Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make a Justice Omelet.Just accept it and enjoy it !

Why not use unmanned anonymous drones and blame Al Queda? People would believe it if it was on the TV news! Obama uses drones all the time to kill poor people in other countries,and no one cares! Just call them insurgents.It’s easy these days! Drones are cheap.

Newt is just plain crazy at times.  I don’t think we want a schitzo in the white house – but, I think the republicans should run him against Obama.  Can’t believe how lucky that would be.

Obama never did coke, but George w Bush did a lot of work in the homeless kitchen for his use of coke.

That applies to both men.

Some Democrats do though. There is a pro-life, pro-family values, pro-social justice activist running in the primary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Terry

ron paul was in the libertarian party and switched to republican so he could reach more people with his message.

Perhaps.  But the “family values” types that are Dems don’t denounce The Gays each and every time they get the chance.  Ging-grinch and Romeny have had to toughen their stance of The Gays so they can keep up with Michele “God Told Me To Run” Bachmann, Rick “Frothy Mix” Sanitarium and Rick “Ooooops” Perry, but for those two flip-floppers that’s not a problem.  I find it interesting for a party that espouses smaller government and less government involvement in our day-to-day lives, the GOP want to alter the constitution to ban marriage for gay and lesbian Americans.  If they were really all about family you think they’d want to create more families!  Maybe they should put their money where their mouths are – if they really want to get serious about preserving families maybe they should ban divorce.  Maybe then people like Newt would take marriage more seriously.

Yeah, last time I checked it was Democrats locking OWS’ers up. Not Republicans.

Wait, the claim here is that Democrats have no family values and that’s why it’s fine when they don’t display them; they don’t claim to have them.

The Obama administration is prosecuting medical users in California. Looks like they’re all hypocrites.

Gary Johnson may switch over to the Libertarian party; there’s also Rocky Anderson, mayor of Salt Lake City, who is just in the process of starting up the Justice Party; he wants to put all the banksters in jail :)

Johnson is an almost complete unknown; he has been not invited to all but 2 speeches; it’s one thing if you’re a known quantity (Bachmann, Perry, to some extent Huntsman) and your poll numbers are low.  It’s quite another if no one has heard of you and your name is not included in the polls at all.  Johnson was marginalized because he makes sense; he could actually be the only candidate able to go head to head with Obama and pull Democratic votes off him; strange that the Republican party would rather run hypocrites and Christian right war mongers instead of someone sane.  Or is it because Johnson can’t be bought and he won’t invoke god every other minute?

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/about

Errrr.. please include the sarcasm button on everything you write from now on.  In the event you were not being sarcastic, you desperately need medication.

he cant just snap his fingers and change laws. the man aint god

I agree with catfish. Although I’m a Ron Paul activists, there’s no question that Gary Johnson is a solid conservative with all the credentials to back it up. Had Johnson been allowed to join the debates, we would have had two genuine small government candidates in the running. I find it very disturbing that the GOP prevented him from participation.

i liked that also

cool dude

To whom are you referring? If it’s Obama, then he doesn’t have to change laws. He could just leave the medical marijuana states alone.

actually, it’s all down to discretion of enforcement, the same way the hundreds of thousands of laws on the book now don’t all get enforced because some contradict other laws, common sense, or the reasons they were enacted are no longer relevant.  In the same way the executive branch picks and chooses which laws it will enforce and which it will not, like the DOMA act, Obama can lay off the stoners too.

Mine doesn’t stink. It must be just yours.

What about tomatoes? They used to be against the law in Europe, people feared they would make women loose; so to speak ;-). Or is it just certain parts of God’s Creation these Creationists want to destroy. I guess they should take that up with God considering they are obviously smarter than Him. God makes the plants grow according to them. Are they going to file charges against God? Talk about blatant hypocrisy!!!! The “Moral Majority” are clearly bankrupt of basic morals and have no respect for the Creator at all.

True but don’t forget that is how we fund Black Ops; cocaine, heroin, etc, have been imported by the CIA for decades. Which I guess, all bias aside, is just as bad as funding Al Qaeda!

What do you have against God and the plants he created for us? Did you notify him that you have declared war against his products? Wow, some people are sure full of themselves. Too bad we don’t have a law against stupid people who think they are smarter than God! But then Congress would be a ghost town.

We should play cards sometime. I like your attitude. So if I take only half your money, I guess you win! Yeah, that works…for me and crooked politicians. Do you walk around bent over?

I have been smoking since 1971 and from what I see, more and more people are smoking now than ever before. It used to be that you were lucky to find some, now you can pick from at least a half-dozen strains. Times are good in the land of the healthy green alternative to deadly alcohol, even with the Government’s silly so-called war on our freedom of choice. 

Naive with a capital N! Someone has been drinking way too much Koolaid at the Church Social!

Rich people in Singapore smoke weed and do a lot of Cocaine. Been to a couple of parties there that were unbelievable. Drug laws are for eliminating the poor people and satisfying the vindictive nature of the religious nut-jobs, be they Muslim, Jewish or Christian.

YEP! Another BIG LIE.. And More lined up behind him.

Fig Newt

Newt’s predilection for losing his temper and his demeanor would ted to prove that he still smokes pot. The Best Pot which Newt smokes is imported into the United States by drug gangs like the Zetas who are responsible for killing American DEA Agents and Mexican Police officials and Mexican judges. There is nothing particularly “immoral” about eating Veal. But I don’t eat veal because of the way that Veal Calves are made to spend their lives in cages, one atop another, covered in each others excrement.They are fed a starvation diet so that they will be anemic and incontinent every day, that way their flesh remains white or grey after it is cooked. Commercially produced Veal is much more tender because these poor animals never get a chance to stand-up on their legs. It’s torture, and I won’t support torture. I don’t support the marijuana industry because I don’t support the beheading and dismemberment of people while they are still alive, after they are beaten with baseball bats. or burned alive to make a spectacle at parties.While it ought to bother people that Newt spends $40,000 to $80,000 a year on Marijuana which supports narco-terrorists like the Zetas. But what really bothers me is that in Newt’s elite K street world of political immunity to drug laws Newt wants to put poor Black and Mexican kids in prison for life, or execute them for doing  what he does. If Newt asserts that he no longer smokes Marijuana, then let him submit to a hair test, or better yet, perhaps his barber, or someone who notices one of his hairs stuck to the headrest in his airplane seat will take the hair and have it examined. At least then we won’t have to listen to the Tetrahydracanabanol enhanced grandiose ravings of Mr.Gingrich. By the way, grandiose ravings and short tempers and easy frustration are classic symptoms of Marijuana Abuse. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, B.A., J.D., S.P.J.

And Calista, she looks like she either just took a bong hit, or had her face shot full of Novacaine by he dentist  before putting on that silly Jane Jetson wig and flashing her dental-veneer smile at rallies. I’ll bet that Calista gets a craving for sausage when she gets really toked-up. It appears that Newt and Calista have been visiting the Moon already! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, B.A., J.D., S.P.J.