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Gov. Christie: Newt Gingrich ‘Has Been An Embarrassment To The Party’

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appeared on Meet the Press today to do damage control for Mitt Romney and to explain why Newt Gingrich would not be an ideal Republican nominee despite his strong victory in South Carolina last night. He claimed that Gingrich’s past actions have embarrassed the Republican party, and Mitt Romney was more suited to be the nominee because of his record and how he conducted himself in office as opposed to Gingrich.

RELATED: Chris Christie Threatens To Go ‘Jersey Style’ On Iowa If They Don’t Vote For Mitt Romney

David Gregory asked Christie to explain what about Newt Gingrich’s politics or his character disqualified him from being the Republican nominee against President Obama. Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama, and “we don’t need another legislator in the Oval Office.” He reminded Gregory that Obama jumped directly from a position as a legislator to the presidency, making the argument that executive experience was vitally important for the next president to draw a stark contrast with how Obama has governed.

And Newt Gingrich, in Christie’s estimation, does not possess the kind of executive experience that he believes Romney does. Gregory pointed to a comment Christie made in December that Mitt Romney would not “embarrass America” and asked Christie if he thought Gingrich would. Christie agreed, pointing to times in the past when Gingrich has embarrassed the Republican party.

“We all know the record. He was run out of the speakership of his own party, he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. This is a guy who’s had a very difficult political career at times and has been an embarrassment to the party… The fact of the matter is I don’t need to regale the country with that entire list again except to say this. I’m not saying he will do it again in the future, but sometimes past is prologue.”

Christie said he wouldn’t go after Gingrich’s character, but thought that how one conducts himself while in public office is a significant factor for voters to consider. However, he did give Gingrich credit for doing great things for the GOP in the past. When asked if a Gingrich nomination would be good news for the Obama reelection team, Christie countered by saying a Romney nomination would certainly be bad news for them.

RELATED: Chris Christie: ‘Those Who Underestimate Barack Obama, Underestimate Him At Their Own Peril’

However, Christie admitted that there is a possibility Gingrich could beat President Obama in the general election, even if he slightly hesitated before saying so.

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  • Tucsonense

    That is Rich!!!! Tell that to the republicans in South Carolina. This show gets funnier and funnier. Stay tuned!

  • Gloves Lloyd Donahue

    That’s why Alvin Greene is the one to back for the Dem nomination over Obama. No one has questioned his character lately, except maybe the cops, and he has no experience and he is willing to learn on the job. Alvin hopes to meet some chicks during the campaign who would like to be First Lady.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Why not? Alvin Greene had the same amount of executive leadership that Obama had.

    Alvin! Alvin! Alvin!

  • Anonymous

    It will be fun in a couple of months if Gingrich gets the nomination to hear these same people tell us that Newt is the only person who can save America.

  • Anonymous

    I noticed in this interview that Chris Christie left the door open for a Vice-Presidential acceptance if Romney were to ask. This is first time he’s left THAT door ajar, which may be why Ann Coulter and Ken Langone are so supportive of Romney. Romney has also indicated (earlier in this election cycle) that he might only want to be a one-term President.

    Anyone else see a fine Italian hand at work?

  • Gloves Lloyd Donahue

    Obama doesn’t want the job anymore. It’s hard !

    “In his apparently endless series of speeches, Obama sounds a lot like a paramedic who arrives at the scene of an disastrous accident, looks at the injured who are lying among the wreckage and bleeding to death, and then calls a press conference to spend two hours explaining how HE didn’t cause the accident, it wasn’t HIS fault that there are people bleeding and dying because of the accident, and that he and Michelle will now take a vacation to Vail or Martha’s Vineyard or Costa del Sol or somewhere else to relax from this trying experience.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/01/look_at_me_pretending_to_care_mr_president.html#ixzz1kD7iZ2wV

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    May I remind you Governor Christie that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

  • Anonymous

    I hope he doesn’t get nausea with all that spin.  That could get ugly!

  • Anonymous

    This would assume that rank-and-file Republicans — the people who took seriously the candidacies of Bachmann, Cain and Perry (and even flirted with Trump) — are even capable of embarrassment.

  • Anonymous

    It has been Cain, Perry, Bachman, Gingrich, and Mitt and we have only had 3 primary events!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Because they hate Gov. Christie?

  • Anonymous

    No one took Bachmann, Cain or Perry seriously. Except for Pablo.

    It was ever only going to be Romney vs. Newt aka Romney vs Palin.

    Boooooooom.

    And watch Newt go down in flames in 2012. The Republican base knows that it’s going to be hard for ANY person to win against O, with a sycophantic media. I’d rather go with the bomb thrower and make it fun. Then when the DNC is decimated because it literally has no one to run and the RNC bench is so stacked, look who will have the last laugh.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Going with the “bomb thrower” might be fun, but it almost guarantees the Republicans will be the one’s “going down in flames” against Obama!!

  • Anonymous

    Newt just needs his own James A. Baker. I don’t know who that might be, but he will find him.
    I still say that a Gingrich/Santorum ticket would be excellent, but Santorum is beginning to rule himself out.

    May I also ask, why is Christie (who had no business or executive experience prior to becoming governor of NJ) is considered outstanding at reorganizing the government of the state of New Jersey? Moreover, wasn’t there an ethics investigation of Christie that was spurious, but he did have to pay some costs for things that he had previously expensed?  (Don’t throw stones, Chris, I think you know that biblical passage!)

  • Anonymous

    This is getting good! And they can’t blame this on the “loony liberals”!!!!  Popcorn over here please!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Which is why a Romney/anyone ticket would fail.

    And hate is such a strong word.

  • Anonymous

    No Republican is going to defeat Obama. I would go with Newt too for entertainment. And teach the RNC a lesson.

    The Obama campaign has nothing to run on. And in June, when the SC decision comes, they will really have nothing to run on.

    The DNC has NO ONE that it could viably run for a Dem. Presidential ticket.

  • Anonymous

    So it’s the media’s fault that the Republicans are going down in flames.  What does “aka Romney vs Palin” mean?  I’m incredibly curious.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Did you look at the comments from the cons on your link. Yikes! Worse than what you would see here for sure. You all are brutal toward your own.

  • Tucsonense

    Like any of what you just said had anything to do with this clip on Christie!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Judging by his girth, Chris Christie doesn’t practice much moderation himself.

  • Anonymous

    “Yet the elites ignored the roar.  After all, the roar came from the unwashed. It came from the fans of cockfights.  It came from tea party folks and other such rabble.  Inside the sterile cable studios and on their laptops, the pundits scored their debate and their election prospects without the roar.  They have their little formulas about who has to raise doubts here and who has to score points there.”

    “What they don’t understand is what the roar means.”"The roar is passion.  The roar is intensity.  The roar is pent up frustration.  The roar, put another way, is the national mood of conservatives.  It is a roar that will demand a fighter.  It will demand that those who want our votes must not cower in the face of the liberal template.  If fact, it is a roar that demands that we do not accept any liberal templates.”

    “That’s why Newt has gotten all the roars, and why he has vaulted into serious contention only days after being written off.  Anyone else who wants the roar should heed the lesson.  The roar comes only at the expense of liberals and liberalism.  You won’t get the roar attacking others on the stage.  Tell your consultants to take a hike if they tell you otherwise.”

    “That roar was an easy predictor of what would happen Saturday night in South Carolina.  I knew it and everyone I know knew it late Thursday night.  And it was.  Seems like no one inside the beltway got it.  Until Saturday evening.” 

    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/psst_hear_the_roar_and_pay_attention.html#ixzz1kCtJjh00

  • Anonymous

    No Greg. Liberal words are far more harsh. Check out any Palin thread on here. Even when there’s a DWS clip on Mediaite, conservatives are tame. There is no comparison to the Mediaite hate and conservative jokes.

  • Anonymous

    If it wasn’t for those expensive vacations and concerts, he’d have no reason to stick around.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t worry what Romney vs. Palin means. You’re an Obama voter. Talking to an Obama is like talking to a wall.

    The Republican nominees are horrible, but are far better than Obama.

  • Anonymous

    The clip speaks for itself.

  • Gloves Lloyd Donahue

    Look at the same horrible Internet lies these dopes post on every Rush thread.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    That’s super bonkers. A half dozen citizen Patriots over at the FOX Nation called me every brand of name for explaining that Obama’s homosexuality is not an established “fact”.

    When Cristie was discussed here the other day, liberals were critical of his oval shape and lack of discipline at the very worst. The con’s on your link are calling him a gun grabbing butter pants who is now dead to them (synthesis).

  • Gloves Lloyd Donahue

    Alvin knows people who work hard. His classmate’s 1/2 step-aunt makes $91.52/hr on the Internet. Some of us are planning a robbery when she puts enough of it under her mattress.

  • Anonymous

    If your suggesting we’re not swayed by stupid slogans, you’d be right. Show us you can do the job or get the hell gone. That’s a mind set foreign to Liberals. In Liberal-land it’s slogans and “what do I get for nothing if I vote for you”.

  • Anonymous

    If you apply that to the Conservatives that voted Obimbo you’d have a point.

  • Anonymous

    How true.

  • Anonymous

    Greg -

    Conservatives don’t go to Fox Nation. Stop visiting so many blog sites. I visit and comment on three. HotAir, this one (which I’ll probably give up when I go into law school) and a politician supporter site.

    Step away from Fox Nation. I was comparing Mediaite and HotAir. Mediaite is far more brutal than HotAir because liberals aren’t making jokes. The HotAir crowd doesn’t like McCain (daughter/father) and is mixed on Christie. They’re good people though. HotAir also polices its site unlike Mediaite and Fox Nation.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Yeah you guys are special… Not sure how you have made it so far carrying the weight of the cities, universities, public employees and working class. What a rotten burden you carry.

  • Anonymous

    Greg -

    Bishop is the resident comedian over there. If you follow his posts, he says lots of funny things all of the time. He has a reputation.

    And people don’t like Christie’s gun stance so that is a legitimate criticism.

  • Anonymous

    Wow…..nice way to deflect! why not stay on topic and discuss the embarrassment that Newt is?

  • Anonymous

    Avoid topic much? Why not talk about Gingrich?

  • Anonymous

    ROTFLMFAO Well, it certainly looks like the inmates are starting to flex their muscle and they want to run the asylum. The GOP’s only hope is for a brokered convention. After five more months of infighting, who would want to accept the nomination? I know, Sarah Palin. Let’s go from the frying pan, into the fire.

  • Anonymous

    You’re arguing with a cypher.

  • http://3chicspolitico.com/ SouthernGirl2
  • Anonymous

    “The Liberal Media” is their tired old crutch. They’ve used it to explain every failure of the conservative movement for the last three decades.

  • Anonymous

    newts idea of liberty and justice is what he thinks liberty and justice should be at the moment.  i am stunned that no one has brought up his crazy immigration policy that he brought up in the debate.  newt is every bit as big government, i know whats best for you, as obama is.

  • Anonymous

    newt is every bit as big government, i know whats best for you, as obama is. if you dont think this guy suffers from some grandiosity problem your kidding yourself. yea he thinks big, big government and i am so much smarter then the rest of you  i should be able to tell you how to live  your life big. he is the republican version of left wing elitist that found their savior in obama.

  • Anonymous

    I did talk about Gingrich. Below. If you would read threads instead of commenting, you would have realized this. :) Now be a dear and refrain from talking to me. We work better that way.

  • Anonymous

    Greg -

    The nation is center right. The RNC doesn’t label people.

    Look at what you did. HAHAHAHA

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    It was a Goldwater reference.

  • Anonymous

    Nice try, your first two comments (in reply to Gloves) were not about Newt!!

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Big Heavy is the GOP Establishment hatchet man. Who would have ‘thunk’ it?

  • News Of The World

    I just LOVE watching this train wreck of a GOP.  These clowns NEVER fail to entertain.  

  • Anonymous

    “Chow down, wide load!”

  • Anonymous

    What about the clown in the White House? He’s a sad clown.

  • Anonymous

    yes, the man who lost 49 states in 64.   about the same as newt would do in 12.

  • Anonymous

    Neither were yours genius. :)

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you mean the embarrassment that Chris Christie, who happens to support Mitt Romney and probably will be Romney’s running mate, THINKS newt is?  Evidently the voters of SC do not consider Newt an embarrassment, nor do those who watched the last two debates.  However we DO think Romney is a pretty boy, spoiled brat who plays poorly with others!

  • Anonymous

    Christie may be for Romney, but he wouldn’t have said this against another Republican if he didn’t truly believe it.  Newt’s immoral background doesn’t give him any creditability to talk about morals.  He cheated on both of his past ex-wives for several years before finally getting a divorce from both who were also seriously ill when he asked for a divorce.  No one, Republican or Democrat can be lower than that.  If nominated, he’ll only make it easier for Obama to win.  But then again, both Romney and Newt are becoming less and less capable of winning against Obama as more information comes out about them.  I’ll bet the Republican establishment are kicking themselves for allowing so many debates and I seriously doubt will see anything like this in the future.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans beginning to tear ravenously into each other over the ‘soul’ of their party.

    Hope Gingrich keeps making inroads with capturing the far right philosophy.

    Let him get the nomination, with their backing.

    Look forward to seeing more of his Mistress on the campaign trail. Wonder if there will be any tuneable shenanigans…

  • Anonymous

    I supposed you missed the 2008 primaries between Obama and Hillary, where they even threw the kitchen sink at each other…only to walk off into the sunset practically holding hands?  And now Obama even has Bill Clinton stand in for him at those pesky press events!  Why should it be any different in the Republican primaries?

  • Anonymous

    You know, I can think of 7.77 trillion reasons you are full of it. Can you?

  • Anonymous

    I guess it is only fair that Dems are entertained by the GOP’s contested primary this time around, cause Republican sure had a lot of laughs watching the antics between Obama and Hillary in 2008!  Of course, the Republicans have not played quite as dirty against each other as Obama and Hillary did, but it is early days yet!

  • Anonymous

    ????????????????????

    You mad, sis?

    My comments mentioned were about you and gloves avoiding Gingrich……keep lying! lmao

  • Anonymous

    lol…..you should change your name to “Failing123″

    Newt is an embarrassment due to his hypocrisy on family values, healthcare and ethics. 

  • Anonymous

    Can sombody get this fatty a pie so he will shut up?

  • labman57

    Gingrich is an arrogant, sanctimonious, hypocritical, self-serving, condescending, race-baiting, morally-bankrupt and ethically-barren scam artist and master lobbyist — making him the ideal candidate to represent the principles, values, and political agenda of the Republican Party.

  • Anonymous

    The Repug RINOS are really in a snit over the fact that a CONSERVATIVE will win the nomination (and then the presidency). I’m lovin’ it!

  • Jay Hanig

    Actually, I happen to know a few South Carolina voters personally that were horrified by their state’s results yesterday.

  • Jay Hanig

    Every day?  What happened on Election Day of 2008?  Seems like you might have let one of those damned liberals slip through.  Fortunately, the office wasn’t that important.

  • Anonymous

    Look who’s talking! Fatso Christie is an embarrassment to humanity. Why can’t he show a little class, like Gov. Nikki Haley, who congratulated Mr. Gingrich on his win?

  • Anonymous

    Here’s how Gingrich explains it, Greg.  Perhaps, his message is getting out?

    “I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican party is we don’t encourage you to be nasty.  We encourage you to be neat,obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.”–Newt Gingrich

  • Anonymous

    Family Values

    Using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife.

  • Anonymous

    No, I am!

    I’m lovin how Newt Gingrich is being called a conservative because he has taken the mantle of oppressed and belittled “true” conservative hero.

    Need to overcome a career of political hackery and get the love of the clueless? Blame the media!  

  • Anonymous

    Hi stalker!

  • Anonymous

    Well of course you do!  There are liberals living all OVER this country!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks, I’ll take your suggestion under advisement…how could I possibly not take advice from a self admitted rude eleven year old boy?

  • Anonymous

    There is an anecdote about Winston Churchill who liked to have a drink once in a while.

    On one occasion when he was slightly tipsy, a proper lady excoriated him saying: “Winston, you are drunk!”

    To which Churchill replied: “You, my dear, are ugly! And I will be sober tomorrow!”

    Chris Christie may very well be rotund and corpulent today, but it is well within his power to change that.

    On the other hand, your mental condition is permanent.

  • Anonymous

    “The Republican nominees are horrible, but are far better than Obama.” LMAO!

    You should stick to “talking to walls”

  • Anonymous

    I guess Christie isn’t counting on getting the SC vote when he does decide to grace us with a presidential run.

  • Anonymous

    I was glad to see Newt Gingrich put John King is place, and John King isn`t even black.

  • Anonymous

    EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!

    “rudeboy” does not mean “a boy that is rude”

    Learn more;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82VE8UtW8A 

  • Jay Hanig

    You use “South Carolina voters” and “liberals” in the same sentence?  There’s probably a law against that.

    The two folks I know who were horrified are both lifelong Republicans, as I was until I became unaffiliated.

    I believe in the death penalty, a strong military, 2nd Amendment rights (along with all of the rest of the BoRs) and a crackdown on our porous borders.  Does that make me a liberal or a conservative?

    I believe that life begins at birth, women’s and gay rights, freedom from religion and that we share *some* responsibility to help our fellow man if we are able.  Does that make me a liberal or a conservative?

    There is nobody out there running for president who represents my views decently.  Once again, I have to choose the “lesser of two evils”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_67LLYCGB73QTVW4YE2BTS5Z3CE Manny

    This joker Chris Christie enjoying being in the same party that Newt Gingrich brought into power for the first time in 40years. How embarrasing is that and he got the guts to say that he is not the part of the establishment… 

  • Anonymous

    ” Alvin hopes to meet some chicks during the campaign who would like to be First Lady.”

      Just like Newt. 

  • Anonymous

    you like gingrich? I guess that figures. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s hilarious to see conservatives who once touted christie as a paragon of their values now seek to attack him mercilessly for his dislike of a candidate they support.

  • Anonymous

    Now I’m confused. You mean the Republicans weren’t looking for the candidate that was the most embarrassi­ng to the party?

  • Hout Bosques

    There we are: another tell that Gloves uses multiple avatar names to conduct his faux colloquys.

  • Hout Bosques

    No, he means because cons are prepared to kill.

  • Hout Bosques

    More of a Rove hand, me thinks.

  • Hout Bosques

    Newt would do better, STATISTICALLY – only losing 49 in 57. 

  • Anonymous

    _______________ has been “an embarrassm­ent” to the Republican Party who didn’t have the background or capacity to serve as an effective president.
     
    Please insert Republican name of your choice. It fits all.

  • Anonymous

    Dear, if you need a video to explain that you are not a rude 11 year old boy, you are the one who has failed.

  • Anonymous

    It is more effective than talking to an Obama voter.

    That’s fo sho.

  • Anonymous

    Hilarious indeed.

    But why do they support Gingrich? Because of corruption, because he was divorcing his wives when they got sick? Because he’s a war-monger who avoided serving in the military himself? Latent racism might be a partial explanation too.
     

  • Anonymous

    Gov. Christie, your gigantic weight is an embarrassment to the Republican party. 

  • Чёрт Возьми

    When the Republicans are in power in the Congress, it really screws things up!

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Oh. MY! They are 1.5% of the population!

  • Anonymous
  • Чёрт Возьми

    Gluttony is bad, though it only hurts the glutton. Adultery is good, though it breaks up marriages. This is your point of view? Or is it that your infantile mentality must attack with insults that which you cannot attack with logic?

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Liked in general, but for the attack on Obama. Gingrich is all about Big Government. No doubt about that.

  • Anonymous

    heck ya!! GO NEWT!!! ….i just realized how big of a BOSS Newt is…. and i quote:
    “Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear cut idea about America’s enemies…KILL THEM”
    LOL…come on, he sounds like the ex–cali governator/terminator .. I LOVE IT!
    video:
    http://www.peeje.com/newt-gingrich-americans-want-paychecks-212/ 

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Ah. Yes. Hoist with his own petard.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The spring 2013 introduction of FOX’s “America’s Next Top Secessionist Leader” will begin with awkward rural 20 somethings speaking slowly with heavy reference to crib sheets. Later episodes will feature more attractive and completely buit young men declaring allegiance with God’s holy fist.
    After the winner is revealed (determined by votes tallied on the Exxon Mobile hotline, “Life is always better when your mobile, thank you for your vote”) the revolution begins in the morning… with an interview on GMA. He explains the shows top 8 populate his staff determined by fan votes as well) and they were on their way to take a substantial in size and liberal in persuasion southern city.
    After a quick flight to Ashville, he and his staff set up camp at the KOA on Wiggins road (access to flush toilets being a non negotiable). They draw up their plan and strike Ashville west at night, smashing the photovoltaic cells on the roof of an organic bakery that heat the kitchen and rest room water.
    A band of well lubricated and tattooed hipsters on single speeds catch the scene as they pedal through town. In the top viral video of the year, they promptly whoop some secessionist butt. This guarantees that our FOX winner looses all corporate sponsorship… takes up a career advising student counsels and FOX announces Ted Nuggent to be added as next seasons newest judge.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    The South Carolina dream ticket: Gingrich/Santorum.
    South Carolina dream = American nightmare.

  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    Gingrich/Palin 2012

  • Anonymous

    How about that one-month long bender W. Bush spent in Texas in August, 2001?  That one turned out to be pretty costly…

  • Anonymous

    God, I hate agreeing with this fat bastard, but he’s right, Gingrich is an embarrassment to Republicans everywhere. So please, run him for President. Perhaps on the Family Values ticket.

  • Anonymous

    Romney should ask Newt to release his tax returns for the years he received 1.6 million from Freddie Mac when they were going under and the millions he received from the drug companies.

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Christie, along with his buddies Romney, Boehner, McConnell, and Cantor, are the embarrassment of the GOP.  They are exactly what’s wrong with the GOP Republican Party establishment.. They are Liberal, aka, not Conservative.
     
    That’s why Ronald Reagan is loved, admired, respected, and revered to this day, and will be well into the future, because he believed in, adhered to, and embodied the spirit of real constitutional conservative values and principles of American Democracy, Individual Freedom and Liberty, in and of, the U.S. Constitution and the American Declaration of Independence.
     
    Christie and his fellow liberal RINO ilk, live in their elitist political class bubble world, and are the reason why the Republican Party is no longer the party of opposition to the Liberal Democrats / Obamacrats, but the party of collusion and capitulation.  And is why you see Boehner and McConnell and Cantor, capitulating to Obama and the liberals, every step of the way since they took power, after the 2 Nov. mid-term elections, for which it was the Reagan Conservative Tea Party folks that put them there, and it will be the Reagan Conservative Tea Party that removes them.

  • Anonymous

    Oh just shut up. I think the Democrats are morons too.

    I just think these guys are worse.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    They still exist?

  • Mo Fokker

    Meet RINO Ronald Reagan:

    Reagan tripled the national debt
    Reagan raised taxes 11 times
    Reagan expanded the size of government
    Reagan supported the “socialist” Earned Income Tax Credit
    Reagan negotiated with terrorists in Tehran
    Reagan sought to eliminate nuclear weapons
    Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants
    Reagan approved protectionist trade barriers
    Reagan signed abortion rights law in California
    Reagan eventually debunked AIDS myths Republicans continued to perpetuate

  • Anonymous

    He has no self control..so he is powerless to change it…a fat weakling.

  • Anonymous

    TEA PARTY,

    Unfortunately, I have to agree with you.  I too have been a supporter of Tea Party politics, since 2009.  This should be a fairly simple formula for getting Obama out of the White House, and the Socialist Democrats to emigrate to North Korea or Venezuela?  However, and typically, we Conservatives are, presently, our own worst enemy.Moreover, the prescribed formula of fraternal Conservatism is imperative as the Republicans must stop criticizing each other.  Furthermore, I desire that the ancillary social issues be relegated to future discourse, as the “issues” of the here and now are what threaten the Nations very existence.To hear Romney and Christie talk about Gingrich would make any centrist think twice!Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    don’t forget Trump

  • Anonymous

    The sentence/question that follows your name, is that original or, attributable?

    I have another question for you:  Would the planet earth be better off with, or, without human beings?

    “God made man, and man being a gentleman, returned the favor”   ?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    My old man used to say: “With friends like yours, who needs enemies?”

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    In 2012, Ronald Reagan would be vilified as a RINO.  He raised taxes.

  • barbara clemen

    I agree, Purveyor.

  • Anonymous

    Someone who uses an avatar of Che Guevara, suggesting someone or something else is an embarrassment, is laughably incongruous.  Ouch!  

    (YES, I suppose that is an example of ad hominem, however, apropos)

    Purveyor

  • Mo Fokker

    1. attributable
    2. Irrelevant, since if were weren’t here, who or what would be capable of making a judgement as to whether it was “better”

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Raising taxes in of itself, is not anti-Tea Party Reagan Conservatism, let alone, synonymous with being a RINO. It’s the disporportionate raising of taxes, along with excessively unsustainable massive spending and borrowing, especially in economic recessionary times, that is of concern to Reagan Conservatives, of which President Ronald Reagan would agree.

    Yes he raised taxes, but he also cut taxes enormously, particularly in the context time, when then Speaker Tip O’Neil, ensured President Reagan that Congress would cut 3 dollars of spending, for every 1 dollar of raised taxes Reagan signed off on..

    As much as I dislike this kind of trade off, that’s why President Reagan agreed to raise taxes at the time.

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    : ) Of course, if I were to say I was in shock, would be true.

  • Anonymous

    Christie Quotes:
    “Default pro-choice” until hearing 13-week fetal heartbeat.
    Pursue civil unions in NJ, but not same-sex marriage. (Jun 2011)
    Homosexuals are born that way; they’re not sinners. (Jun 2011)

    Shame the bankers out of greedy bonuses, but don’t regulate. (Jun 2011)
    The future for New Jersey is in green energy. (Jul 2011)
    Don’t tap strategic reserves for political purposes. (Jun 2011)
    Incentivize energy manufacturing & wind turbines. (Nov 2009)
    Jersey shore for tourism instead of offshore drilling. (Aug 2011)
    $157 million for Green Acres open-space acquisition. (Aug 2011)

    $9.7 more for Early Childhood Intervention Program. (Jul 2011)
    The worst:

    HANNITY: Are there any issues where you are, quote, moderate to left as a Republican?

    CHRISTIE: Listen, I favor some of the gun-control measures we have in New Jersey.

    HANNITY: Bad idea.

    CHRISTIE: Listen, we have a densely-populated state, and there’s a
    big hand gun problem in New Jersey. Now, I don’t support all the things
    that the governor supports by a long stretch. But I think on guns —
    certain gun control issues, looking at it from a law-enforcement
    perspective, seeing how many police officers were killed, we have an
    illegal gun problem in New Jersey.

    HANNITY: Should every — should every citizen in the state be allowed to get a licensed weapon if they want one?

    CHRISTIE: In New Jersey, that’s not going to happen, Sean.

  • Anonymous

    I take it philosophy is not your cup-o-tea?

    I intended on complimenting you for the quote, if it was original? However, now I suspect you nominal plagiarism. (and cowardice)

    By the way: The quote in my post was from Rousseau… (albeit truncated)

    Purveyor

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    President Reagan, after implementing his Economic Recovery act of 1981 through 1989, resulted in a restored U.S. Economy, returned economic prosperity to America and all American’s, by lowering the tax rates across the board for everyone, Individuals, small businesses and corporate America, alike, thereby bringing in much needed private sector revenue for the govt. to pay for all that was need to maintain America’s obligations at home an abroad. Thus enabled him to defeat the USSR Communists in the Cold War, which free millions of people in Eastern Europe, from tyranny and oppression.

    Reagan after 8 years as US President, not only restored US Economic prosperity, but restored America’s preeminence and pride once again in the world, as well as at home, after Liberals like Jimmy Carter, destroyed all that America was, and represented, economically, politically, and socially.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ 2008CoupExposedClickHere4Proof

    Osama Obama Biden (Bi)n La(den)
    One coincidence? Two coincidences?
    NO COINCIDENCE, Do the math the odds are in the billions

    Unelected officials have taken over Washington and are orchestrating the daily news. 90% of the comments and replies you’re reading online come from an NSA software program spamming the internet. COMMENTS ARE CREATED BEFORE THE STORY IS REPORTED. They are designed to generate a response and will engage people in real time.

    The oldest, first, highest, best, and most popular rated comments are all propaganda. They are conducting Psy-ops (psychological operations) for domestic spying. They have 1000′s of handles and are determined to bury the truth or attack anyone leaking it.

    Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. The biggest cover up is exposed at the link in my name.

  • SoThere

    Reagan’s dead.  Time moves on.

  • Mo Fokker

    Why don’t you report me to the authorities…..dick.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2012/01/romneys-ugly-politics-now-surfacing-in-surrogates.html

    “Romney’s Ugly Politics Now Surfacing In Surrogates”"One of the things fellow Republicans and political observers have never liked about Mitt Romney is the wholesome piety he exhibits on the stump, while his hacks and PACs engage in some of the ugliest politics around. He can flash that plastic smile and pretend all he wants, but people know the cold fish doesn’t shy away from the politics of personal destruction. If anything, his campaigns embrace it more than most, while feigning ignorance and pretending otherwise himself.”"This is why so many people in the GOP have come to dislike Mitt Romney.”"Mitt Romney backer and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s comments this morning that Newt Gingrich “embarrassed” the Republican Party has the formerr House Speaker’s Florida campaign co-chairman, Alan Levine, fuming.”"Far be it from me to tell the governor of New Jersey to focus on his own state, but this isn’t a way to begin a campaign in Florida. It’s disappointing,” said Levine, a former healthcare chief under Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal who is new a private-sector hospital executive.”

  • Anonymous

    I THINK, I recall where the quote after your name came from?  

    Although it might just be your straightforward character, there was a movie where an old grizzled veteran made that comment to reassure his new found compatriots?

    And yes, you “know stuff.”

    Purveyor

  • Mo Fokker

    We also thank Reagan for helping create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden, by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin
    fighters in Afghanistan, including Osama Bin Laden. Also, the money he channeled through the Pakistani intelligence service led to the development of strong ties between the ISI and many of these Taliban fighters.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    And the GOP politicians and electorate are an embarrassment to the USA.

  • barbara clemen

    They appear to be stagnating, rehashing tired ideas, and quite a few aren’t
    accurate also, SoThere.

  • barbara clemen

    On a wide range of subjects too.
    A good place to learn.

  • SoThere

    It’s a new Leftist strategy to trash Ronald Reagan. They hate the guy. He saved the country from the Liberals in the 80′s and they’re scared sh*tless it’s going to happen again this year.

    They have nothing. Newt scared them when he challenged the Liberal media last week. They’re scared it’s going to become a trend.

  • barbara clemen

    Well, with the Internet, and us younger folks telling them to grow a spine, quit being quite so nice..challenge them when their wrong…and the trend is picking up speed!

    We all do our part to educate the ignorant. What I find hard is separating their personal animosity, when it has no place in the exchange of ideas, and opinions.

  • Ryan Frederick

    you mean like this. http://youtu.be/CGmOCAgJ24U

  • SoThere

    YUP

  • Anonymous

     Only the delusionals of the Tea Party think that a racist, adulterer and big government employee represents the NON-ELITE. The disconnect from reality is staggering.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, Moderator(s): It’s a free country, and psychobabble is part of the political landscape, but this pitch advertising another website is getting old.

  • Anonymous

    “Reaganomics” was the starting point for mega-growth in federal government and deficit spending, and is why we’re in the miserable mess we now have.

    Fact:  He doubled deficit spending (from $73 billion to $153 billion) during his time in office.

    Fact:  When running against Reagan, Geo. H.W. Bush referred to Reagan’s economic plan as “voodoo economics.”

    Fact:  In the 12 years from Reagan taking office (1981) till H.W. left (1993) the national debt increased by OVER 400% … from less than $1 trillion to over $4 trillion.

    By the end of the Clinton presidency, we had balanced budgets and started to get some control over the national debt. Then baby Bush came along, and the Republicans went nuts again.

    That’s what your hero has done for America.

  • Anonymous

    Not to mention selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras … both against the law and, oh, by the way, pretty damn un-American.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Those sales were great for Diego Blandone.

    http://www.c-spanvideo.org/appearance/596948667

  • Anonymous

    Reagan’s dead, but his mythology lives on. As long as right-wing sycophants don’t have the guts to admit that his “principles” were the cause of, and not the answer to, our economic and moral decline, we’re going to keep heading into the crapper.

    You’re right about one thing. Ronald Reagan played the role of President of the United States perhaps better than anyone, ever.

    Truth of the matter is, you aren’t in love w/ Ronald Reagan, you’re in love with the talented scriptwriting of Peggy Noonan.

  • Mari Johnson

    Or reality.  Look, I am a Republican and it was such a relief to have a President who did not start 2 wars.  In fact, he finished one and is in the process on number 2 although he is dragging his feet far too long on that one.  Of course, should have gone after Afghanistan and that would have been a legit war. .  As it is, the war still drags on but at least, the Obama Administration nailed the 9-11 perp. s After his boorish outburst at a newsman,  Newt did noi even pass a minimal smell test on values with his big House reprimand and fine, And then there is the fact he cheated on his wife who had cancer, never mind this other charge which no doubt noting his disgusting lack of character.  I recall the details of his misogamy in spite of Nrwtie’s outraged whine.  In fact, considering his cheating on his wife while she had cancer and chemo was going, his behavior has made Clinton’s seem absolutely saintly.  No thanks to Newti’e the multiple time philanderer.  Your infantile outburst at the debates just shamed yourself, Newt.  Sick,

  • Mari Johnson

    Well, also, let us not forget we paid for his fence mending by one of the highest paid Pols in the world.  GW himself did it on weeks and weeks and weeks of fence mending time off,

  • Mari Johnson

    Not to mention all the time Newt was trying to grind Clinton into the ground, he was cheating on his wife suffering from cancer.  Do not trust this oaf to represent our party in any way.  I know that is for sure although I have no idea which of the candidates running with Newt will humiliate our party and the new wife who messed around with Newt while he was married to someone else, the ‘someone else’ who by the way, suffered with cancer and was enduring chemo,  Quite the hero there Newt, after railing against the morals of Clinton and now you have transformed Clinton into a moral giant compared to you.. 

  • Mari Johnson

    Nah, Christian Conservative in our party are disgusted with Newt.  He is an alley cat regarding his morals.

  • Mari Johnson

    Actually Christie is no doubt the only guy in our party with the guts to tell Newtie like it is.  Remember, Newt, the cad delivered divorce papers to his wife while she was receiving Chemo for cancer.  But that was not the worst.  He actually started this fling long before he sent the divorce notice.  He can blame John King for his problems but that just shows his bait and switch abilities.  And of course, we do know he KNOWS the moral absolutes on this subject since he blasted Clinton’s behavior.  However, Clinton’s wife was not being treated for cancer and was not ever taking chemo.  Only a first rate cad would cheat on a wife with cancer and particularly while she was struggling with Chemotherapy.  His behavior that she describes fits right in with his out of control life but who knows the facts. We do know it is a fact that he divorced his wife while taking Chemo for cancer! It is factual that the House charged him with several problems and they levied over $300.000 fine that apparently Gingrich did pay.  His 2nd wife’s wife cheating charge sounds pretty well like something he would be doing given that he started divorce while she was so ill.  WHAT A CAD!

  • Mari Johnson

    No defensible thing that can nice up old Newtie.  This tactic is called bait and switch and it seems to be the meme of many posters.  I would like a list of the House charges against Newt and the list of charges he was convicted on in order to EARN over a $300,000 fine.  Would be great reading.  Gonna check the net. 

  • Anonymous

    Yep just as I thought Chris Christie=RINO,

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    You know, I really think your Ronald Reagan derangement syndrome- RDS, is not only making you delusionary, but irratically unhinged at the senses..

    There are many specific records that can be stated and dragged out of the recoird books.

    So with that being said, let me ust say this.. After 8 years of President Reagan’s Economic, Political, and Social Policies, America not only rcovered and propered, but the Nation saw an economic boom, that lasted for decades, of which the likes of has never been seen, or replicated, in U.S. history..

    The economic policies enacted in 1981, known as “Reaganomics,” were an example of supply-side economics. Reagan aimed to encourage entrepreneurship and limit the growth of social spending, as well as the reduction of regulation and inflation. Economic growth saw a strong recovery in the 1980s, helping Reagan to win a landslide re-election.

    Regarding foreign policy, the administration was steadfastly anti-communist, calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and ending 1970s détente. Reagan accelerated the massive buildup of the military started by his predecessor, including an invasion of Grenada, the first major overseas action by U.S. troops since the end of the Vietnam War.

    The “Reagan Doctrine” granted aid to paramilitary forces seeking to overthrow socialist governments, particularly in war-torn Central America and Afghanistan. Afghanistan, being invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union-USSR, was a main US CIA-Military Intelligence covert operation, in his policy to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

    Reagan also promoted new technologies such as missile defense systems in order to confront the Soviets and their allies. In diplomacy, Reagan forged a strong alliance with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and he met with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev four times, aiming to shrink the superpowers’ nuclear arsenals.

    Reagan’s presidency has been termed the “Reagan Revolution,” or the Age of Reagan in recognition of the political realignment both within and beyond the U.S. in favor of his brand of conservatism and his faith in free markets.

    The Reagan administration worked toward the collapse of Soviet Communism, and it did collapse just as he left office. Victory in the Cold War led to a unipolar world with the U.S. as the world’s sole superpower. After 8 years, Reagan left office with a 63 percent approval rating, one of the highest approval ratings of any departing US President.

    After years of unstinting praise from the right, and unrelenting criticism from the left, historian David Henry finds that by 2009 a consensus had emerged among scholars, that Reagan revived conservatism and turned the nation to the right by demonstrating a “pragmatic conservatism” that promoted ideology within the constraints imposed by the divided political system. Furthermore, says Henry, the consensus viewpoint agrees that he revived faith in the US Presidency and American self-confidence, and contributed critically to ending the Cold War

    Reagan was an advocate of free markets and, upon taking office, believed that the American economy was hampered by excessive economic controls and misguided welfare programs enacted during the 1960s and 1970s. Taking office during a period of stagflation, Reagan said in his first inauguration speech, which he himself authored:

    Quote-

    “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

    Unquote-

    His first act as president was to issue an executive order ending certain price controls on domestic oil, which had contributed to the 1973 Oil Crisis and the 1979 Energy Crisis. The price of fuel subsequently dropped, and the 1980s did not see the gasoline lines and fuel shortages that the 1970s had.

    Reagan focused his first months in office on two goals, tax cuts and military spending, which was viewed as a successful way to tackle issues and echoed by later presidential advisers. Reagan’s economic policies, similar to supply-side economics and dubbed “Reaganomics,” achieved a 25% cut in the federal personal income tax, moderate deregulation and tax reform, which he believed would remove barriers to efficient economic activity. After a sharp recession, a long period of high economic growth without significant inflation ensued.

    Despite Reagan’s stated desire to cut spending, federal spending grew during his administration. However, economist Milton Friedman pointed out that non-defense spending as a percentage of national income stabilized throughout Reagan’s term, breaking a long upward trend; the number of new regulations added each year dramatically decreased as well.

    In foreign affairs, Reagan initially rejected détente and directly confronted the Soviet Union through a policy of “peace through strength,” including increased military spending, firm foreign policies against the USSR and, in what came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine, support for anti-communist rebel movements in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua and elsewhere. Reagan later negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and together they contributed greatly to the end of the Cold War.

    By the end of the Reagan presidency, a high level of public approval (63 percent of the nation) indicated that the administration had recovered its image among the American public because of the perceived restoration of America’s power, prosperity and national pride.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    So I’m a friend who votes differently. :-)

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Yes, I’m sure that’s why the radical intolerant hate mongering fanatical ar*b isl*mic musl*m extremelists, aka, terrorists, and their like minded dictators amd govt’s around the world, hate America, Americans, Israel and the Jewish people, along with everyone else in the western civilized word, who is not like them, and or does not bow to them in servitude.

  • Tucsonense

    Nice to read a coherent reply with much substance about the particular clip. Thank you. Please keep it up. I would have to agree with about everything you said.

  • bugspotter24

    Whom to choose from between an Israel-first Fed stooge or an Israel-first globalist clown, hmm…
    Let’s let the arms-dealer shill break it down for us on corporate establishment media.
    (shakes head)
    This country is going down the drain fast.

  • Anonymous

    That comment I made was aimed at your “Likes,” not so much toward you.  I should have been more clear about that.  My apologies.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Christie isn’t a RINO he’s a HIPPO.

  • Anonymous

    I believe that’s Captain Jack Sparrow.

  • Anonymous

    Christie reminds me more of the Penguin than the Joker.

  • expatpatriot

    Christie doesn’t take it nearly far enough. Gingrich is an embarrassment to the human race.

  • Anonymous

    You funny guy G.I., big riki tik.  You want boom boom, my baby sista, she numba one virgin!  You like?

    Purveyor

    (Note: Your avatar, kind of looks like the late John Candy?)

  • Чёрт Возьми

    I understand perfectly. We are “frienemies.” :-) Friends with different views.

  • Anonymous

    Newt does retail politics well.
    Newt does televised debates well.
    Newt does television well.
    Newt’s television translates well into youtube videos.
    Newt NEVER gets flustered because he thinks well on his feet.
    Mitt Romney has lots of money to pay for consultants and advertising.  He is OK at regurgitating sound bites, but doesn’t do well if knocked off message.  He often gets a deer-in-headlights look when flustered.  He has often gotten flustered on stage during debates.

  • Anonymous

    Newt does retail politics well.
    Newt does televised debates well.
    Newt does television well.
    Newt’s television translates well into youtube videos.
    Newt NEVER gets flustered because he thinks well on his feet.
    Mitt Romney has lots of money to pay for consultants and advertising.  He is
    OK at regurgitating sound bites, but doesn’t do well if knocked off
    message.  He often gets a deer-in-headlights look when flustered.  He
    has often gotten flustered on stage during debates.

  • Anonymous

    No, I see the avatar better now, is not John Candy. I meant no offense if such
    was taken. I thought Candy was a wonderful man.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    You want embarrassment?  Try President Obama’s greatest hits:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZKvy9wzuaI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpM_Pv430Qg&feature=related

  • Anonymous

    This guy really needs to get back on his meds.

  • Anonymous

    One more time…..the fact that the uneducated, ignorant, mindless voters of South Carolina who did not consider Newt an embarrassment, are, in fact, an embarrassment to themselves.  They are just to ill-informed to be aware of Newt’s lack of character.

  • Anonymous

    “By the end of the Clinton presidency, we had balanced budgets and
    started to get some control over the national debt. Then baby Bush came
    along, and the Republicans went nuts again. ”
    There was never a balanced budget during the Clinton years.  There was a PROJECTED budget surplus, if one did not take into consideration borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund.  The whole deficit discussion is nonsense; 43% of every dollar spent in FY 2011 – 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011 – was either borrowed from somebody or created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve. 
    The dollar is what I call Tinkerbell money:  As long as everybody believes it has value and keeps saying “I believe, I believe” it will buy things.  As soon as someone realizes it is all smoke and mirrors, it will wake a wheelbarrow full to buy a loaf of bread, ala Germany circa 1923.

  • SoThere

    Guess what? I really don’t care what a Liberal Progressive left-wing idiot has to say.

    Go spew your nonsense to some lefty.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    Actually..Newt lived/lives in Georgia. A neighboring state to SC, that probably had more to do with his win there.

    Just as Romney won in New Hampshire, Massachusetts neighbor.

  • Anonymous

    True, but like you said I have lots of money. 

  • Anonymous

    Christie needs to challenge Newt to a Sumo wrestling match.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t TEA an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already”?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Christie can’t protect Romney forever. He should have ran, not Romney. He had to advise Romney to release his income tax return. Now he’s going to release 2010 and an estimate of 2011. I don’t want to see freakin estimates. I want to see 5 years of returns. His oldman released 12 years. The party will have to decide who they want to nominate, Romney the phoniest politician on the planet, or Gingrich a loose canon. Independents don’t like either. The clueless base had Huntsman (Look up his conservative credentials), but I guess he just wasn’t crazy enough. He dared to believe in Science. Phony doesn’t resinate and crazy never wins.  

  • Anonymous

    i am no friend of newt gingrich and don’t even like him, but to defend obama, the scum is going too far. obama has just as much dirt on his stick. remember the terrorist friend he had diner with (bill ayers) and the preacher who is not even allowed in hell.
    what experience does obama have. he did not start an external war, but sure is prolonging one of them and leaving iraq in shambles after we lost good people there. i love that although everybody thought iraq has nuclear weapons now everyone says they did not . monday morning quarterbacks.
    and lousy one’s to boot.
    you my friend are no republican, neither am i but i don’t lie about what i am.

  • Anonymous

    Money can’t buy you love, but sometimes it can get you laid.  It’s Romney’s only hope.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t need them to love me I just need them to vote for me.  I have enough money to give everyone in the country a dollar.  I got this taken care of.

  • Anonymous

    Look up Reagan’s administration and the National Debt in Wikipedia.  If you do you’ll find what other’s fail to mention about Reagan.

    1.  Our National Debt steep climb in debt started under Reagan.
    2.  Reagan to date raised the National Debt 189%, the largest increase of any President.
    3.  Reagan did lower taxes shortly after getting in office, but raised them when he saw the National was increasing at a record rate.
    4.  USSR was in a deep economic crisis even before Reagan took office, and were heading quickly to what eventually happened.  It’s a matter of question how much Reagan contributed to this.  One area that could contributed to him is his huge increase in spending on the military, particularly for such programs as his failed “Star Wars” satellite program.
    5.  He increased the debt limit 18 times, more than any other President.
    6.  His cut in taxes for businesses is a major reason why our National Debt is where it is now.  If you cut taxes, you must also find areas in the budget to cut at the same time.  Other wise you create the situation we are in now.    

  • Anonymous

    Newt didn’t drop his drawers in the Oval Office. He and Hillary have had an open marriage for years. Hillary agreed to that for the power. Then we have Obama, Ayers,Rev. Wright, taking drugs, SEIU, ACORN, etc. Newt looks Saintly next to these yahoos. No one else has ever challenged the MSM as Newt has. For that I give him 5 gold stars. I am not a Newt fan but would prefer him over Romney ten to one.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps they may not be as ill-informed as the educated idiots.

  • Mari Johnson

    HAHAHAHAHA!  The rule is if no defence, bait and switch.  I have not followed this discussion but am on my way to trying ot make sense out of many comments.  Thanks for the big giggle.

  • Mari Johnson

    Oh thos pesky FACTS!  Ruins these pro-Gingrich memes entirely,

  • Mari Johnson

    I assume you think that any Republican NOT for Newt, the cad, is a liberal.  Guess again.  Some of us actually believe in the values of our party and approving “cadship” is not on our list at all!

  • Anonymous

    Governor Christie is an ill-informed, educated idiot?  Huh?

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Please, stop the political RDS rhetoric, and admit the end results of all that acomplished after 8 years, compared to what America’s econmic Carter stagflationary resession, that all but crippled and destroyed the US Economy before Reagan took office.

    When Reagan took office the economy was one of the double-digit inflation and high interest rates. During the campaign Reagan promised to restore the free market from excessive government regulation and encourage private initiative and enterprise.

    Reagan’s economic policies came to be known as “Reaganomics,” an attempt, according to Lou Cannon, to “balance the federal budget, increase defense spending, and cut income taxes.” The President vowed to protect entitlement programs (such as Medicare and Social Security) while cutting the outlays for social programs by targeting “waste, fraud and abuse.” Reagan embraced the theory of “supply side economics,” which postulated that tax cuts encouraged economic expansion which in turn increased the government’s revenue at a lower tax rate.

    During his first year in office, Reagan engineered the passage of $39 billion in budget cuts into law, as well as a massive 25 percent tax cut spread over three years for individual, and faster write-offs for capital investment for business. At the same time, he insisted on, and for the most part, was successful in gaining increased funding for defense.

    Although inflation dropped from 13.5% in 1980 to 5.1% in 1982, a severe recession set in, with unemployment exceeding 10% in October, 1982 for the first time in forty years. The administration modified its economic policy after two years by proposing selected tax increases and budget cuts to control rising deficits and higher interest rates.

    After the 1982 downturn, the reduced inflation rate (under 5% for the remainder of the administration) sparked record economic growth, and produced one of the lowest unemployment rates in modern U.S. history (unemployment hit a 14 year low in June of 1988). As Reagan left office, the nation was experiencing its sixth consecutive year of economic prosperity.

    The eight years of the Reagan presidency was one of the most dynamic periods, in recent U.S. history, resulting in a major refocusing of the nation’s social, business, and international agenda. Few presidents have enjoyed the affection of so many of the American people.

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    : )

  • Anonymous

    On some issues, YES. Take Jessica’s law as one prime example!!!! Where is his support on that?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/realist49 Dave Rohde

    You sure listen and spew to a lot of left-wing talking points. You may want to check out your accusations before looking like an idiot.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    That’s my line.

  • Anonymous

    “When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it.”  Anatole France

  • Anonymous

    Delusionary?  I’m not the one deifying a president.

    Your factual errors and leaps of faith — forget logic — are too many and pointless to argue over several gallons of Kool-Aid.

    Case in point: Crediting Reagan alone … or even mostly … for getting a handle on inflation.  Yes, Reagan’s tax INCREASES helped.  But you can mostly thank Paul Volker, appointed as chairman of the Fed, for that.

    Reappointed by Reagan.  Oh, who appointed him?  Yeah, Jimmy Carter.

  • Anonymous

    Newt – an embarrassment – to say the least !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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