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Joe Scarborough: Gingrich Is A ‘Danger To America’ Who Would Destroy The GOP

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Joe Scarborough had harsh words for Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich on the Tuesday edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, warning voters that the former Speaker of the House would “destroy the (Republican) party” if nominated. “If I’m a Republican in South Carolina and I don’t know just how erratic and undisciplined Newt Gingrich is, and what a danger to America he’d be, I would sit there and think, OK –here is a guy, Newt Gingrich, who faced down Bill Clinton in 1994, came in, gave Republicans their first majority in a generation,” Scarborough surmised.

“Gingrich masterminded a takeover, first in a generation, within a year we balanced the budget, had a balanced budget amendment out, within three years we balanced the budget for the first time in a generation, four years in a row for the first time since the 1920′s, passed welfare reform. All I’m explaining here is why Republican voters across America who haven’t seen the train wreck that has been Newt Gingrich’s political career and life would say you know what? I’m going to vote for him instead of Mitt Romney.”

RELATED: Morning Joe Looks To The Past To Gauge Newt Gingrich’s Eventual Collapse

“He is a bad person when it comes to demonizing opponents,” Scarborough continued. “When he puts on his political helmet he is a terrible person…Let me tell you something: the Republican establishment will never make peace with Newt Gingrich: they just won’t! They won’t: this is an important point. Because the Republicans I talk to say he cannot win the nomination at any cost: he will destroy the party. He will re-elect Barack Obama and we’ll be ruined. That’s going to happen. I mean Newt Gingrich would possibly win 100 electoral votes.”

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  • Gloves B. Donahue

    The biggest danger to America has his feet up on the Resolute desk these days.

  • Anonymous

    I think this site pays way too much attention to Morning Joe. 

  • http://twitter.com/jtanglewood76 realist

    Is Joe a Republican or not?  Sick of his constant trashing of the GOP.  

  • Anonymous

    May be people are yearning for a really bad ass in the white house who can take names and bang heads to get things done after this wuss in the white house emotionally drained the entire country and his supporters with his beer summits and obsession with ‘compromise’

  • Henry Wood

    You’re saying this because Osama Bin Laden is dead now, right?

  • Anonymous

    Yep, that’s the plan. The next election will be a massive dem victory across the board.

  • Hout Bosques

    Me likey this.

    Morning Goe has a long dishonorable history of Being Wrong.

    Obama likey this MUCH MUCH.

    Can haz charge account at Intrade?

  • Mo Fokker

    Then the GOP should vote for Manchurian Mitt, and see what he secretly has in store for America.

  • Anonymous

    Here comes the state-supported propaganda machine, er, media to go after the next candidate in a feeding frenzy while downplaying the likes of John Edwards, Holder, Aires and scandals like Solyndra, etc.  Unbelievable.  

  • Anonymous

    well it is not like newt has not done it before…

    skunk cannot change his stripes…

    newt will get -0- electoral votes..

  • Anonymous

     I want Newt to win. Obama must be rubbing his hands. hehe.

  • Anonymous

    He is a bad person when it comes to demonizing opponents,”
     
    Isn’t that what politics has devolved to these days? He should fit in fine.

  • Anonymous

    This guy won’t let it go. Gingrich might have pissed him of during their time in congress. 

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich did get kicked out of his leadership job for being…well…a terrible leader.

  • Gloves B. Donahue

    In the year of 2011, it was only a matter of time before Skyfet became self-aware.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    The Republican Party is a Danger to America and who gives a damn about the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    Joe is a douchebag

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    If George Bush couldn’t destroy the GOP (and lord knows he tried!) Newt will have no chance…

  • Anonymous

    “Obsession
    with compromise”

    It’s
    called governing and give and take. What you are looking for is a dictatorship.

     

  • Anonymous

     Man, Newt must  have really spanked Goober’s insignificant ass back in the day!
    Just another “if a tree fell in the forest”  moment, though”.
    Don’t you just love it when Mika is rolling eyes and sighing deeply when she
    is trying to get a word in and the boys simply ignore her?

     

  • Anonymous

    He is not trashing the GOP, he is pointing out the reckless process currently playing out in the GOP primary process. Unless you are so far ideologically out there it is hard to defend or support what is going on in the republican selection process right now. Where are the intelligent candidates, and please spare us the Newt is an idea man nonsense, who can take on Obama during the general election? How far down the rabbit hole do these candidates have to go before enough is enough?

  • Anonymous

    can’t be as bad as what obama has done to this country in 3 short years….

  • Anonymous

    “Obsession
    with compromise”

    It’s
    called governing and give and take. What you are looking for is a dictatorship.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans don’t have the ability to differentiate between a qualified leader and human refuse. This is what Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have created.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP has had it coming for some time. When you turn the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan into the party of Bachmann, Gingrich, Palin and Perry, you have to expect that the few remaining adults are going to have something to say about it.

  • Scott Callaway

    You can praise Obama for his militaryk exploits (I do) and still recognize he is the weakest leader ever to occupy the office (doesn’t even lead from behind anymore), likely the worst president ever and is hopelessly over his head in dealing with our economic nightmare…and, has in fact made our economic nightmare worse.

  • Anonymous

    Yawn.

    MSNBC’s viewers are not as easily manipulated as Fox’s, who jump at anything that’s called a “scandal,” no matter how trivial and irrelevant. Terrorist fist bumps? ACORN? The New Black Panthers? Common? War on Christmas? What a joke.

    Fox is all about keeping their low information viewers entertained and perpetually outraged. Joe Scarborough doesn’t have to play that game.

  • Anonymous

    The biggest threat to this Country and the World for that matter is taking another 17 day vacation on the tax payer dole in Hawaii while the rest of America is forced to suffer for his incompetence!!

  • Anonymous

    Not quite, just an LBJ, an FDR or even a Bill Clinton.. effectiveness does not equal dictatorship

  • Steve P.

    Joe is so lost now, he has been sniffing Obama Butt and has turned to the dark side.

  • Anonymous

    That voter in South Carolina sure doesn’t want OBAMO, who lusts after ruining the lives of aircraft builders and other talented people that a Boeing facility would employ. You’ll vote for Chuckles The Clown before you vote for OBAMO. And therein lies the rub that ‘Coke-Bottle-Glasses’ Joey doesn’t get: People around the country aren’t buying your shrieks of panic and ‘DANGER!’ with respect to the various candidates. Everyone KNOWS that these Leftist Media HACKS (Joey being one of them) want to usher in OBAMO’s 2nd term and people are discounting whatever they say because of that FACT.

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s a Neo-con. Woohoo!

  • Anonymous

    And you say this because?

  • Mo Fokker

    ” You’ll vote for Chuckles The Clown before you vote for OBAMO.”

    Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma will vote for Obama before he votes for Newt Gingrich..

  • Anonymous

    You do apparently. Hence, your comment.

  • Anonymous

    Compared to Bush’s eight, Obama’s years have been a joy ride.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    “Congressman Newt Gingrich has been married three times. His first and second marriages ended because he began relationships with the women who would later become his second and third wives. He has been accused of having multiple additional affairs. While Congressman Gingrich was leading this private lifestyle, he publicly campaigned on family values, publicly shamed other representatives who were caught in similar behavior, and led the charge to impeach President Clinton for matters relating to his affairs. 
    Newt began a relationship with his first wife, Jackie, when he was 16 and she was his geometry teacher. He married her after high school, they had children shortly thereafter, and were married for roughly 18 years. During that time Jackie supported Newt while in College and during two unsuccessful Congressional campaigns. His campaign staff has stated that Newt carried out multiple affairs during this time. After a successful 1978 campaign, Congressman Gingrich moved to D.C..
    In 1980, Newt began a relationship with a woman he met at a political fundraiser, Marianne. Newt divorced Jackie in February of 1981 and married Marianne in August. Congressman Gingrich was accused of negotiating divorce details while his wife was recovering from surgery, and then refusing to pay child support and alimony to speed up the divorce process.
    Although she was active in his political career, Newt and Marianne separated from his second wife around 1988 and then reconciled around 1994. At that time, Congressman Gingrich became Speaker of the House and began a relationship with a congressional intern, Calista. After a six year affair, Congressman Gingrich divorced his second wife and months later married Calista in 2000. Newt was 57 and Calista was 34. During the divorce proceedings, Congressman Gingrich refused to participate in the discovery process and finally claimed that he and Marianne had an “understanding” about his affairs. Marianne denied this claim, and in a subsequent interview stated that she could end Newt’s political career in a single interview.
    At the end of both his marriages, Congressman Gingrich proposed to his new wife before asking his current wife for a divorce. Marianne stated that this was very telling of Congressman Gingrich’s character. Before marrying Calista, Congressman Gingrich asked the Catholic Church to annul his 18 year marriage to Marianne.
    There have been numerous accussations of additional affairs during all phases of Congressman Gingrich’s life, including a woman who claimed she had a relationship in the 1970′s with Gingrich before he was a Congressman. Strangley enough, this woman states that Gingrich sought oral sex only so that he could later deny sexual relations if they were discovered. This was the same tactic used by President Clinton when he was accused of adultery.  
    As Speaker of the House, Congressman Gingrich led the charge to impeach President Clinton. He has acknowledged that while he was doing this, he was carrying out an affair with his current wife. When asked about the hypocrisy of these actions, he has noted that President Clinton committed perjury to cover the affair and this was what he was impeached for and not the affair itself.
    However, in 1983 Congressman Gingrich made speeches in response to the affairs of other Congressional members lamenting the moral decline of leadership in America and claiming that the country cannot remain free without moral leaders.
    After making plans to run for the Presidency in 2012, Congressman Gingrich stated that his work ethic and love of country caused him to work too much and led to his affairs. He has acknowledged that his behavior was wrong and that he knew it was wrong when he was doing it.”

    Newt is a fraud!!

  • Anonymous

    For the record the like was a huge typo!
    Meant to point out you are an idiot!
    There, I fixed it

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    “Although his views on energy are definitive, Congressman Gingrich’s views on the environment and it’s relation to energy are not. Congressman Gingrich testified in hearings (not as a Congressman) against the Waxman-Markley cap-and-trade program, and has asserted his strong opposition to the program numerous times. However, Congressman Gingrich has also advocated for programs that incentivize the reduction of carbon emission. 
    Congressman Gingrich’s views on global warming are also nebulous. In a 2007 debate with Senator Kerry, Congressman Gingrich stated that the evidence was sufficient that global warming existed and that action needed to be taken immediately. The obvious implication being that if action can address the issue, then it was man made. That same year, he introduced a “Contract with the Earth” and spoke about the concept of “Green Conservatism” as a method of winning the environmental debate against the left. In 2008, Congressman Gingrich made a public service announcement with House Speaker Pelosi noting the dangers of global warming and the need to take action to solve the problem. However, at a conference that same year, he stated that as a historian, it was impossible to known the extent of global warming and how much humans were contributing.”

    Newt is a fraud!!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    see the election of 1996 and 2004

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    so you must have criticized Bush the same way yes?  Especially when he didn’t want to interrupt a vacation by reading a presidential memo in August of 2001?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Um you don’t read the news do you?  That Boeing issue has been resolved and the factory will go through as planned.

  • Anonymous

    Because Newt Gingrich is the republican candidate.

  • Anonymous

    Come on scott. The worst president ever? The weakest? Or is it just because he is the blackest?

  • Anonymous

    Not a neo-con, but definitely he is following through with some of Bush”s foreign policy initiatives. And for that, he is “weak”?

  • Anonymous

    And watch out for that third party…

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What a brilliant observation, Bidet. You are aware that W couldn’t turn around the mess his Administration made of Iraq until he booted or silenced the Neo-Cons? Might I suggest you post only when you have something to contribute? 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Thanks for this summary.

  • Anonymous

    I love how the ONLY thing Democrats can say is that “at least Obama is not as bad as Bush!”

    That’s like saying, “yes, I have a ghonoria – but at least it is not as bad as syphilis!!!!”

  • Anonymous

    Yup – I took the time to read that entire post.

  • Anonymous

    Bush was a horrible President in many ways and I left the GOP because of him….and Obama is a mirror image of him so if you hated Bush you must also hate Obama yes?

    Ohh forgot…double standard among those on the left!!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    just trying to keep you honest

  • Anonymous

    Even in Republican circles Newt scares a lot of people.   

  • Anonymous

    I think the 2008 election was rigged by the corporatists in charge of this country — the 1%ers — but not according to the “proof” the above um…character suggests.

    I think they knew their Republican sycophants and bullyboys were just too economically incompetent to keep from completing the financial destruction they started.  Remember McCain saying he was not as familiar with economics as he should be?  

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html

    And what he did in September 2008?  (PANIC!  Suspend campaign!!)

    So they tanked the McCain campaign in August 2008 with bringing on board the incompetent and utterly hateful Palin, who brought out the worst in a proportionately tiny segment of our American electorate, and scared everyone else.

  • Anonymous

    Only when they aren’t kissing John Stewart’s behind.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Damn Lee, I thought you were Rex for a second with the length of that post.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    My apologies on my language earlier and sincerely appreciate you enlightening me on some issues!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    =)

  • Anonymous

    The scandal about Solyndra is that the right-wing-leaning mainstream media (yes, despite right-wingers insisting the opposite) keeps suppressing the back story… 

    …that the Solyndra loan guarantee was promoted in 2007 by the Bush administration…

    …and would have been approved before January 20, 2009 were it not for the incompetency of the agency who wrote up the proposal for the appropriate Congressional committee to approve just days before Barack Obama’s inauguration.

    http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/09/13/317594/timeline-bush-administration-solyndra-loan-guarantee/

  • Anonymous

    That’s working out Great in Pakistan, right? 

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Isn’t it fun to say “weakest leader ever” and “worst president ever” and “made our economic nightmare worse” without having to provide any evidence, facts, or support for your opinions?

  • Ben Dover

    Awww. Newty will flame out long before he becomes a threat to the GOP.  He is his own worst enemy.  All Mitt has to do is trail some nice hot poontang across Newty’s path and BAM!!! Newty will walk right into the honey trap.  Then it’s off to Tiffany’s to buy Miranda some makeup jewelry.  Wheeeee!

    In the end, Huntsman will end up as the only viable candidate.  After all, he has gone from “margin of error” to 9 pts recently and he, unlike Mittsy, is not made of cardboard, and has a personality….

  • Anonymous

    Yes, WCin.  A Neo-con because he tracked down and killed the man responsible for 9-11.  Excellent analysis. 

  • Anonymous

    dsgspm has a point.  Bill Clinton never compromised and ruled with an iron fist.

  • Ben Dover

    I agree, Presidents should be chained to their desk so they can’t spend a quarter of their term hiding in Texas swatting flies.

  • Anonymous

    …the GOP candidates are complete jokes.
    …the GOP offers no solutions to our current problems.
    …the public widely disagrees with the specifics of GOP policies.
    …the public isn’t as stupid as the GOP would hope.

  • Anonymous

    “what obama has done”

    What has he done?

  • Anonymous

    Feel better now?  Need a nap?

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    The low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans can thank Fox News for turning ethically challenged Newt Gingrich into a viable candidate.

    This shameless lobbyist, flip-flopping, cheating-on-sick-wife, disgraced former speaker is now ahead of the pack? And can become the President of USA?

    I guess this what the right means when they say “they want their country back”.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Sorry, wanted Newt’s full story on the issue to be shown!!

  • Anonymous

    You had me at your first use of OBAMO.

  • Anonymous

    Results.. results.. solid results speak louder than whining… when this one is booted out of office, he’ll be fondly remembered for his whining and nothing more

  • Anonymous

    Presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter may be “sound” in their relationship with their wives, but as presidents, for many, they are and were failures.  Others see the same “failure” in George Bush, Bill Clinton, etc.

    Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, MLK jr., Ike, FDR and others in politics in the past and in the present have had relationships that would “equal or surpass” those of Gingrich or (if true) Herman Cain.   Rumors, halftruths, innuendos, and even truths about sex seem to be on the minds of too many who want to cast a lot of stones at too many.

    Although I have not made a decision as to whom I would vote for for president, we all need to realize that we’re electing a person to a political office not to sainthood. 

    There simply is no “perfect’ person walking the face of the earth, and the few closest to perfection, in today’s society, don’t want to run for political office.  Maybe, that’s why it seems we always have the lesser from which to select.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, don’t insult douchebags!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marcus-J-Wilson/11510680 Marcus J Wilson

    You’re right in your sentiment but honestly habeus corpus Lincoln and socialist Roosevelt aren’t exactly something to hold in esteem. 

  • Anonymous

    You can’t teach them.  They’ve been systematically trained to reject truth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marcus-J-Wilson/11510680 Marcus J Wilson

    What the hell is your problem? Wake up.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The problem is that none of the names you mentioned above went around preaching to others about “Family Values”… while having none themselves!!

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

    they just can’t seem to remember the economy falling off a cliff in Nov. 2008, under the leadership of ‘true conservative chosen by God” George W. Boosh.

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

    or they could just be like the GOP, and pretend nothing happened before January of 2009, and refuse to accept any responsibility for the mess their party left.

  • Anonymous

    Uh, no.

    Your analogy doesn’t work at all because Obama has spent most of his presidency cleaning up the handiwork of Bush and his cronies: bringing two mismanaged wars to an end, curbing the excesses of Wall Street, stabilizing the markets, rescuing the auto industry, keeping the nation from suffering a depression, ending torture, restoring respect internationally, putting America back on the side of science and reason.

    Congratulations on having the sense to leave the GOP (we’re together on that), but it sounds like you’re much more wiliing to be duped again than I am.

  • Anonymous

    Obama has had to spend most of his presidency cleaning up the mess left behind by Bush and his incompetent cronies. So I’m quite willing to give him a lot more leeway. No one is going to tell you that the country is in great shape, but considering where it was headed three years ago, it’s practically paradise.

  • Anonymous

    So Teddy Roosevelt is now considered a socialist?

  • Anonymous

    Are these the ” boogeymen of the day “. Thanks for updating me, I still thought everything was the Koch bros fault.

  • Anonymous

    Where are the intelligent candidates?  Is that in comparison to Obama?  If so, can you please substantiate how you come to the conclusion that Obama is more intelligent than the GOP candidates, otherwise, your comment is useless conjecture.

  • Anonymous

    Which Bill Clinton are you talking about?  If you’re talking about President Clinton, he compromised on welfare reform, the contract with America, and a whole slew of lesser legislation.  He was the master of triangulation…not an Iron Fist ruler..

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t see too much compromise from January 2009 to the mid-terms in 2010 “we won the election”.  Why is it a big deal now?

  • Anonymous

    What flavor cool-aid is that?

  • Anonymous

    I agree with your assessment.  Bush’s wretched employment numbers below 5% were much worse than Obama’s 9%, and Bush’s 4 trillion in debt over eight years is much worse than Obama’s four trillion in four years.
     
     
    Your spot on…

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for your useless conjecture….

  • Anonymous

    I have a source that says the exactly opposite of your left-wing source.

    http://rightwinghack.org/yoursourceiscrap

  • Anonymous

    Are you allowed to vote?

  • Anonymous

    Based on your original post, I’d say you’re an expert on useless conjecture.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Baghdad Bob…I see your going with your fruitcake liberal personality today….but still the same old tired gibberish.

    Ya know…the comments starting with “you have to understand” or “you have been programmed to think”  “all republicans are liars”.

    Like most schizophrenics, you eventually come full circle in your inane rantings…..for you that circle is fairly small and quickly traversed.

  • Anonymous

    Do you do this as an alternative to farting in a bottle and smelling it later?

  • Anonymous

    Intelligent candidates for the Republican nomination realize that the media will do anything and everything to re-elect Barack Obama.  What is the point of combatting the combined forces who have already displayed such willingness to blindly support our current president; you don’t honestly think that John McCain was the choice of the Republican Party in 2008, do you?  When needed, the media was counted on to trash Hillary Clinton and eliminate true conservative competition in 2008, and will do the same this year.

  • Anonymous

    Glad we agree. I’d hate to think that you were one of those arrogant apologists for Bush who thinks that leaving behind an economy in free fall, staggering debt, two mismanaged wars and unfunded tax cuts was going to be fixed in three years.

  • Anonymous

    Enhanced interrogation is simply outsourced now like it was with clinton, and the source use to pinpoint Osama was gained through enhanced interrogation..go figure.

    As for the deregulation of the banks, Bush tried in in 2003 and it was shot down by the democrats in the banking committee. 

    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html

    As for the healthcare issue…thats a whole other discussion.

  • Anonymous

    Or Hawaii?

  • Anonymous

    Were you born after Newt Gingrich was kicked out of Congress?  

    Things went along swimmingly before he became Speaker of the House, and it’s been partisan no-compromise politics ever since then, primarily instigated by Newt’s own attitude adopted by like “thinkers” in his own party such as Peter King in the House and  Mitch McConnell in the Senate to name just two miscreants.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Wanna bet huntsmen doesn’t even come close to getting the nomination?

  • Anonymous

    Blahh Blah blah, opinionated conjecture, blah blah blah, forgetting about clinton and edwards, blah blah blah, ignoring obama’s flip flops and lobbyist connections, blah blah blah….

  • Anonymous

    The country was financially worse off than it is now in 1980, and was roaring towards recovery by this time in 1983. 
     
    Do plan on giving him another five years of leeway, and if not, when does your leeway run out?

  • Anonymous

    Well, when thats the only thing posted by folks like yourself on this website, its hard not to be an expert on it.

  • Anonymous

    Hey..Alright!  Baghdad Bob is back to his old “systematically trained” BS again.

    Your as predictable as a clock…and as boring

  • Anonymous

    It depends on the state

  • Anonymous

    If I did, it would stink less the when you vomit the contents of your brain onto this thread..

  • Anonymous

    seriously?  You’re trying to blame this on the right?  Grow up and accept the fact that the entire escapade what orchestrated,  screwed up and covered up by the left.  

    The ability to spin and distort that you guys engage in makes me want to puke.

    They would have, could have, should have – but THEY FREAKING DIDN’T fool!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    do you have the article linking that the info was gained by enhanced interrogation?

    also i do stand corrected, the deregulation was started under Clinton.

  • Anonymous

    Would employment rate, economic growth rate, national debt, welfare/food stamp increase, and overall approval rating suffice enough for your need to see evidence?

  • Anonymous

    Great point there Karen…and to further substantiate it, here is another link that shows that Scott’s opinion is clearly the minority.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx

  • Anonymous

    …Because I say it, it is so

    ….I dont need to prove a damn thing

    …..I can make statements that I in now shape or form are prepared to back up

    ….And that is how I refute your points

    …..I’m a liberal

  • Anonymous

    No..I’m an arrogant Obama apologist who ignores the unemployment rate, the perpetuation of abuse of our public safety net, and has no problem with the increase in our  national debt equal to Bush in half the time.
     
    I’m also going to continue to be an apologist for him when he passes the still free-falling economy off to the next guy, and then ask why it isn’t fixed in three months when he takes office.

  • Anonymous

    Nope – You’re right. He won’t get anywhere near it, even though on paper he is economically the most conservative.   But along with that he’s also dignified, not afraid to show that he is well educated, and doesn’t seem comfortable pandering to the moron elements in his party that need to feel that their candidate is not too smart, too educated, and want to make sure he fears the same phantoms they do, and hates has hard and as widely as they do.   That kind of candidate is DOA in the Tea Party era.

  • Anonymous

    Not a problem, unless you’re electing someone based on “family values.”  My contention is the best person for the job may not be “sound” on what you call “family values.’ 

    I don’t recall anyone of those mentioned (other than (not mentioned) Mike Huckabee) being qualified to “preach,” but I’ve sure heard a host of republicans and democrats speaking to crowed pews before many a church or a church-like gathering. 

    I seem to remember that Obama drops his endings…and Hillary seems to get into a preaching accent when they are preaching to their “choir.”  GOPers quote the Bible with the best of them; however, if the lack of moral values eliminates a person for office…then there will be very few qualified to run.  

    You can find a steady group of democrats preaching these days as they try to win some of what they consider the lost voters.  Have you heard of “Sojourners?”

    As for histroy and those mentioned, the religion of Carter was often front and center…same with the Kennedys.  You can find many, many (not done today) references to religion and God and his blessings in the speeches of FDR, Ike, TR and certainly (not politician office holder) MLKjr.

    The errors of those in the GOP who don’t measure up in the “family values” area (not totally sure who’s qualified to make the measurement; the press?)seem to make the headlines while many of those who don’t make the standard on the left are often ignored or given a ”lighter look.” 

    I want a person who can do the job.  If that person has “family values” whatever they are, then that would be a plus but not the overriding reason he or she would receive my vote.

    If “family values” is a major reason someone uses in making a choice, than those same standards should be applied to any person, no matter what party he or she is in and no matter how vocal or non-vocal that person is about “family values”‘; use the same standards for whomever is seeking your vote.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    as a conservative i have to hold my nose when i vote for these clowns…  i say if gingrich destroys the gop he’d be doing us all a favor…

  • Anonymous

    Actually, I’ll tell you what you are: an enormous idiot who’s too stupid to realize that Bush wrecked this country for a generation with his policies that were designed to redistribute wealth to the top and screw the middle class. That you blame Obama for that shows that you’re completely clueless and not worth spending any more time with.

    Buh-bye, clueless foxtard.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    god joe has sold out

  • Anonymous

    Well, obviously he wasn’t the kind of man to bend down and kiss his party’s boots and conform to nonsensical ideology he disagreed with; therefore he was clearly a big bad socialist bent on destroying America.

  • Anonymous

    Joe Scarborough has methodically torn to shreds each and every GOP frontrunner since this process began. He is a smug, egotistical RINO of the worst kind. Sad thing is, bobblehead Mika makes him look like a genius.
    Sorry Joe but you are not fooling anyone with your constant “I am a fiscal conservative” b.s., we see right through you to your Obama azzkissing bottom.

  • Anonymous

    New Gingrich destroying the  Republican party?  What!!!  Its already destroyed with its past and present proposed nominees for president.  Herman Cain, philanderer , far from the brightest bulb in the box.   Yes I know he’s gone.  Michelle Bachman with her weird beliefs, ideas, eg  claiming .  Getting rid of the US Dept  of education.
    (1) BACHMANN WARNED ‘THE LION KING’ WAS GAY PROPAGANDA: .”

    (2) BACHMANN CLAIMED ABOLISHING THE MINIMUM WAGE WOULD CREATE JOBS: ”

    (3) BACHMANN CLAIMED THAT SCIENTISTS ARE SUPPORTERS OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Du.
    Rick Perry who famously can’t count to three when asked in a Republican debate what US cabinets he’d eliminate.  I think    these folk pretty much destroyed any respect for the GOP already. The relatively sensible candidate John Huntsman quit the race.
    Lastly they are disenfranchising disabled, senior citizens, minorities with their photo ID laws.  These groups mostly vote Democratic.  See a pattern.  I sure do.

  • Anonymous

    Newt Gingrich is to unpredictable. As Speaker he failed to uphold the Constitution. I read recently that his is now a member along with those that support “personhood.”

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I need to substantiate their stupidly as much as I need to substantiate the effects of gravity.  If you think these are the winners of the party, you are immune to factual evidence.

  • Anonymous

    your desire to resort te personal attacks as you attempt to defend the indefensable is predictable, especially as you failed to talk to any of the points made….unemployment, GDP, foodstamps, etc.

    So how about this skippy, why dont you name the bush policy that has apparently wrecked the economy for decades….and here’s the trick…explain HOW it has done what you claim it has done.

    Until then, your just the garden-variety liberal, who makes grand claims about things based off talking points they’ve heard, but resort to the standard “your an idiot” retort when some one call them on their bullshit./..

  • Anonymous

    Okay, you can make the effectiveness argument.

  • Anonymous

    your desire to resort te personal attacks as you attempt to defend the indefensable is predictable, especially as you failed to talk to any of the points made….unemployment, GDP, foodstamps, etc.

    So how about this skippy, why dont you name the bush policy that has apparently wrecked the economy for decades….and here’s the trick…explain HOW it has done what you claim it has done.

    Until then, your just the garden-variety liberal, who makes grand claims about things based off talking points they’ve heard, but resort to the standard “your an idiot” retort when some one call them on their bullshit./..

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

     Is Fox News considered the media in your mind?  What about Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Newsmax, World Nut Daily, Mark Levine, etc?  Are they in the media?  Do they do anything and everything to re-elect Barack Obama? 

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, but I thought the republican party was a religious organization. 

  • Anonymous

    You failed to mention that Marianne had been diagnosed with MS when Newt asked her for a divorce to marry his latest affair, Calista.  Callista.  A “First Lady” with perfect hairdo, obviously a hot crotch, no conscience from cheating with a married man and a lot of ornaments from Tiffany’s. Obviously a fan of “family values”. Can’t say that the word “lady” would describe her.

  • http://twitter.com/jtanglewood76 realist

    The GOP knows that the global collapse is coming in 2012 – and no one but the largest of egos (or completely out of the loop pawns) wants to be at the helm when it hits.  The smart ones are leaving it to Obama.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Flynn/1206363468 Peter Flynn

    He is a douchebag. EVERYONE in DC is a douchebag. The question is, “who does he tell the truth about”. If he’s truthful about the people he tells tales out of school on, then he can be the biggest douchecopter in the universe but still serve the Public Good. 

  • Anonymous

    In other words, you don’t have a damn thing to back up your claim…

  • Anonymous

    You got me, can’t come up with anything. I have to go now I’m working on a paper on how the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery, after that I have to do a paper on Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan, and after that, well I forgot the third thing I have to do.

  • Anonymous

    First of all Joe needs to get his facts straight.  Newt had nothig to do with balancing the budget, it was Bill Clinton, who got the deficit lowered and gave a surplus.  Don’t get it twisted!

  • Anonymous

    Blackest? Seriously? His mother was white and you make a dumb ass statement like that. So, if all the white people who voted for him now disdain him and regret their vote, does that make them racists?
    Put your racists card away and accept the fact that he is the worst President I have ever seen and I go back to Ike.

  • Anonymous

    GWB is the luckiest mofo in history, 9/11 happened when he was on the way in and the financial crisis happened when he was on the way out, and conservatives make everything Clinton and Obama’s fault.

  • Anonymous

    Sure. The unemployment rate skyrocketed under Bush and is now up a little over 1% since the beginning of Obama’s term. The economy contracted the year Obama came into office and is now growing again. And a lot of people would not be getting unemployment or foodstamps if the sociopathic GOP had their way.

  • Anonymous

    Yes he’s the blackest, he’s 50% more black than any other President, dude.

  • Anonymous

    Oh don’t get us wrong, he’s better than most modern Republican presidents.

  • Anonymous

    5%? That’s a nice, round made up number. Bush was president until Jan 20th, 2009, friend.

  • Anonymous

    Ordered the raid that killed Osama and ended the Iraq war. I could go on, but I don’t really need to.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah Clinton committed perjury over a blow job. Gingrich committed perjury over tax evasion.

  • Anonymous

    spin = inconvenient truth

  • Anonymous

    Still bitter you gave all that money to Sarah Palin and she wussed out, huh?

  • Anonymous

    He WAS an environmental conservationist, that’s practically Stalin territory. Plus he won the Nobel Peace Prize, who does that? Socialists, that’s who.

  • Anonymous

    Shun the non-believer!

  • Anonymous

    “do you have the article linking that the info was gained by enhanced interrogation?”

    No because it was a lie Dick Cheney told to Fox News. That’s all.

  • Anonymous

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac =/= “the banks.” Nice try.

  • Anonymous

    Because in 2008 Democrats had 60 seats in the Senate and control of the House which = mandate. In 2010 Democrats retained control of the Senate and Republicans won the House, ergo divided government or “compromise”. When you have an overwhelming majority, then YOU can write your own ticket, and not before. Good luck getting one since the country’s gone completely dysfunctional since the midterms.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps you want to read about it – and find out the truth there sweetie.  The lies from the left about Solyndra is pathetic.  Absolutely pathetic and covering for a bag man for Obama.  

  • Anonymous

    What a hoot! What killed OBL was intelligence gathered by folks put into place by Bush following Bush-era intelligence tactics. BHO had nothing to do with it–what choice did the Idiot-in-Chief have when confronted with bin Laden-on-a-plate? Refuse to order the strike?   Yeah, he ended the Iraq War all right…of course, it was scheduled to end by Bush and the US agreement with the Iraqi government, but if you feel better by making up stuff for the Incompetent-in-Chief, that’s okay. My question is: what’s he going to do about unemployment and Iran, two disasters happening on his watch, not Bush’s. Besides play another round of golf…..

  • Anonymous

    will someone pleeze give Clusterfuk Bush sum credit for nailing Bin laden b4 these lame brain rite-wingers pee in their pants…. lololololol

  • Jeffrey Hardin

    I’m sick of these kind of lies coming out of our party, directed at those in our party, who are a direct contrast to Romney’s, Paul’s, kind of Christianity and Conservatism!
    And Joe would have us believe that Romney is the better pick? HA! What a bowl of Dino Poop Soup he is feeding us. Romney said his policies vary little from Obama’s! Romney said that Obama was turning around the economy. I’m from SCs bible belt and that belt as we like to call it, runs through my South and across and through the other Southern states, and I cannot vote for a man who is not a conservative and Romney is not a conservative. Newt is! I am also a Christian who will not sell his soul by voting for a cultist that believes Satan is Christ brother, and don’t you dare come to me and tell me they don’t teach that, don’t tell me we have freedoms that guarantee that we can teach and practice what we want, and those freedoms allow all people despite their faith, can do as they please “Tell that to the Muslims”, it is that mindset that has watered down Christianity and why we are having to fight to regain what God has blessed us with, that Romney and other Liberals and people of other faiths are stripping from us. ROMNEY, Mr Scarborough, is ABSOLUTELY the biggest danger to not only consrvatism but to Christianity and that’s a fact! Ron Paul threatens Israel, belittles them and will do more damage to our only Allie in the Mideast than Obama could ever dream of because he portrays himself a conservative, when he is in fact, not even closely resembling our party. Santorum is to weak!
    Newt will turn this around and he is the more conservative. Had West ran, I would be supporting him in stead. But we have Newt and that is the gist of it!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/H6XNG27HLCMSJIUCZJXDPIZRSA Skapanza

    Weakest leader ever to inhabit the White House? DId you fail US History? What about Nixon, who fostered the gulf of distrust that exists between people and government? What about Hoover, who twiddled his thumbs as rapacious stockbrokers traded on margin with money they hadn’t made yet. Quit vomiting up the latest asinine rhetoric you heard on Fox News and parroting it as your opinion. Your weakest President got Osama bin laden and got China to turn in iran’s nuclear program, all while suffering ceaseless attacks over a economic meltdown presided over by the right-wing uber-rich and the friends the had in their pockets on Capitol Hill.

  • Anonymous

    worst president in history? Dubya and Nixon….all presidents will have their bad and their worst….

  • http://twitter.com/spicy763 christl babcock

    If the deck wasn’t stacked there would be no race card.

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