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George Will On Gingrich: ‘Time Is Not [His] Friend,’ He Is Acting ‘Horrid’

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A new poll out from Florida shows Mitt Romney with a 15-point lead over Newt Gingrich, and on ABC’s This Week today, Jake Tapper asked how Gingrich’s Florida numbers will end up impacting the rest of the race. George Will didn’t mince words, declaring right out that Gingrich does not have time on his side, and the more time he has, the more he talks, and the more he talks, the more he makes somewhat divisive remarks.

RELATED: Newt Gingrich Suggests He Did Poorly In Florida Debates Because He Was ‘Amazed’ By Romney’s Lies

To get his point across, Will recited a short poem depicting a little girl who exhibited the extremes of politeness and rudeness, coming across as extremely “horrid” in the case of the latter. And Will argued that “we’re at the horrid stage with Newt Gingrich.” Donna Brazile pointed to the big coalition Romney has been able to build in Florida by campaigning there for months and encouraging many people to be early voters.

Ingraham brought up Gingrich’s remarks on This Week from earlier in the show, most of which were attacking Romney for distortions and negative attacks, and she noted that the only time a politician bothers “complaining about the other guy being mean” is when they’re clearly losing the race.

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  • Anonymous

    Well, surprise, surprise, surprise. After a party tolerates three years of baseless smears (birth certificates, Muslim, Communist, etc.), why do you expect to see anything else? 

  • 12voltman1

    George is not a Tea Party supporter.He is a main stream conservative.
    Of course he does not support Newt.

  • 12voltman1

    Newt has always has been in a “horrid state”

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    BASELESS???

    Obama didn’t show in Court to put the Birthers out of their misery!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Newt will bomb with women.

    The Slimy Newt

    A slimy neocon ChickenHawk named Newt
    Has always played the globalist skin flute
    He gets on his knees
    And does what they please
    While lining his pockets with their loot.

    With women, Newt’s always  a smooth dancer
    “Upgrade ‘em often!” is his standard answer
    Which caused him, of course
    To present his divorce
    To his first wife as she lay dying of cancer.

    Speaker Gingrich didn’t give a hoot
    For his family when he gave ‘em the boot
    He came up short,
    Never paying child support
    For the entire duration of the dispute.

    Next Newt married a girl named Marianne
    Whom he quickly decided to can
    When she got a diagnosis
    Of Multiple Sclerosis
    Which threw a wrench in his political plan.

    When Marianne announced she was sick
    Gingrich was boning  aide, Callista Bisek
    While Callista played Newt’s harmonica
    He blasted Bill for gettin’ a Monica
    ‘Cause hypocrisy has always been Newt’s schtick.
    ______________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney
     

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    why put them out of their misery?

  • val smith

    George Will don’t mince yo.

    Word.

  • Anonymous

    he never answer the question about Romney’s tax plan that Tapper asked him.  He responded with GOP talking points about Obama,

  • Hout Bosques

    If Obama had gone there, it would’ve just encouraged them further – it would light a thousand pyromaniacal fires, he’d face a firestorm of related challenges in every red state – maybe every red county – which would costs many tens of millions, bog down his campaign apparatus, deflect from dealing with other more threatening challenges, & turn the national conversation towards the Birthers’ contentions & away from things that are substantive, resolvable & go to the essence of the current argument between the Ds & Rs – equality of opportunity, equality at the ballot box, fairness, & jobs. 

    The smarter move is the one already in place: take the existing decisions & orders already filed in the federal court system & every time one of these stupid Birther challenges gets tolerated by a local or state judge, force it up into the federal district court where the ancient legal doctrine called stare decisis applies – it’s already been decided. This has the added benefit of forcing the Birthers through the guantlet of doing this process over & over again & again wasting money & piling up more & more federal district court decisions, injunctions & opinions against them, PERSONALLY, certainly in the case of the Birthers Joan of Arcadia, Orly Taitz.  

    It’s still enervating, expensive & tiresome, but the alternative you hint at, going at them local or state case by local or state case, is dumb, needless, & far more expensive. 

    The real question to me is at what point a federal district court judge jails her for contempt, risking making a martyr out of her. It’s going to happen, but I’m sure the Obama campaign would far rather that happen after November than before.

  • Hout Bosques

    I’d go just a tad further: he’s a mouthpiece for the establishment GOP.

  • Hout Bosques

    Yo homes, he a slasher – but he slashin somewhere new ever’ week, dog.

  • Anonymous

    On this same show, Tapper never questioned Speaker Boehner about the GOP Bogus Job Bills. J Boehner spouted this ridiculous canard about the alleged jobs bills the Republicans have passed that the “Democrat Senate” refuses to act upon. Their jobs bill includes such things as letting states cut unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless, toughen work search requirements for benefits recipients, and require the unemployed to pass drug tests in order to receive benefits.  But Tapper didn’t follow-up with any questions.  But to back up the GOP’s bogus public claims with what might appear to be “facts”, they’ve built a page on the House of Representatives cite with a list of their so-called jobs bills, which number 27 and not 30 as the Speaker claims.  What follows is a link that list and give a brief explanation of why they are not jobs bills:
    GOP’s Claim That House Passed 30 Jobs Bills? Bogus.
    http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/gops-claim-house-passed-30-jobs-bills-bogus

  • val smith

    Yo, George Will be poppin out wit a “BOOYA” on yo Butt Newtie. Conservative comin’ from the West-side son!

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

    I liked George Will better when he hosted “Sports Machine.”

  • Anonymous

    Strange…

    In full agreement with Laura Ingraham.

    Newt Gingrich has talked himself out of Florida by going all in with South Carolina.

    Brazalie was right in stating Gingrich will not appeal to either women or Spqnish speakers…

    The damage is done…

  • Anonymous

    maybe god wants us to meet
    a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet
    the person, we will know how to be grateful. 
    Find  true
    love? ——-> sugarcupid.C¤M 

  • Anonymous

    Let me be the first to call time a RINO.

  • Anonymous

    What court? This was an administrative hearing and the “judge” involved has no judicial authority what so ever he has to ask a real judge to do something and that real judge is smart enough to ignore this and save this state the embarrassment of being the latest conservative controlled state to suffer from rethuglican electile dysfunction. 

  • Anonymous

    Newt/Cain/Palin Launch new theme song: We’re just a Swinging! Hannity & Greta, from Fox News, are in the tank for these dividers!

  • Anonymous

    Please, someone tell me when Newt was not horrid.

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