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The (Bad) Ideas Guy: Who Let Newt Gingrich Get Away With The GOP ‘Thinker’ Moniker?

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He doesn’t believe “Palestinian” is a real ethnic group. He has proposed a child janitor and inner-city Apprentice program to help underprivileged youth. He wants Rep. Barney Frank arrested and thinks same-sex marriage is a “temporary aberration.” And yet it appears many in the media are willing to dismiss some of Newt Gingrich‘s wildest ideas, focusing instead on his personal shortcomings and general unpleasantness, letting Gingrich-backing Republicans get away with the bizarre meme that Gingrich deserves to be considered a member of the Republican “smart set.”

RELATED: Newt Gingrich: Palestinians Are An ‘Invented’ People

The return of Newt Gingrich the frontrunner out of the ashes of Newt Gingrich, the Tiffany’s patron who warned, “any ad that quotes what I said… is a falsehood,” is one of the more bizarre political stories of this century so far, particularly for those who were expecting that the thirst for a “generic Republican” would lead to a safer frontrunner in 2012 (well, mostly just myself and Lawrence O’Donnell). This was the candidate random people felt the need to stop in hallways just to remind him (accurately) that he was an “embarrassment to our party,” the only House Speaker in history to be sanctioned for ethics violations. And now, suddenly, he’s the only Republican primary voters seem to trust with the nuclear football.

Who fell asleep on the job to permit such a destructive, seemingly indestructible virus to adopt the Republican Party as its parasitic host yet again?

One reason seems to be that no one saw it coming. Gingrich was considered a complete non-factor in the 2012 race this summer, with the highlight of his run being a Homeric hymn written to His Newtness by a spokesperson with too much time on their hands that served for the single greatest Colbert Report moment of the year. This week, Tucker Carlson (among others) proposed that Democrats were caught entirely off-guard by Gingrich’s rise; the same, many argue, can be said about the right, which explains why some conservatives like George Will and Joe Scarborough have gone all-out in targeting him in an attempt to stunt his political growth. The panic among Republicans who were around for Speaker Gingrich’s reign has escalated to such heights that they have reanimated the political corpses of Dan Quayle and John Sununu– names that, for people my age, sound about as vaguely familiar as Dave Coulier and Des’Ree– to help strengthen the other frontrunner, Mitt Romney, and remind people that Gingrich is “unstable.” That his side of the aisle is calling him unstable while certain other ’90s icons are parachuting into the conversation to praise him for “thinking” should be a red flag to analysts in the media, but with few exceptions, the outrage and disgust that came from many over Herman Cain‘s 999 plan or Rep. Michele Bachmann‘s HPV vaccine scares have been noticeably absent.

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  • Anonymous

    How about giving him an accurate moniker this time: ‘Slime’

  • Anonymous

    There is always going to be a person who is the smartest in the room.  It usually isn’t the person who says, ‘I am the smartest person in the room’.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans think?  I thought they just went with their guts. 

    These Republicans are crazy and you can’t talk to crazy.
    Crazy belongs in a mental institution, not an important governing body such as
    the Congress or the White House.

    Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned
    Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks,
    took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave
    themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither.

  • Anonymous

    Newt Gingrich is the kind of guy who shows up at the emergency room with a hair dryer stuck in his butt. (This kind of thing is much more common than you might think.)

    Hair dryers are great for drying hair, but when you put one in your butt, you’re only looking for trouble.

  • Darr247

    > letting Gingrich-backing Republicans get away with
    > the bizarre meme that Gingrich deserves to be
    > considered a member of the Republican “smart set.”

    “a member of” ???

    Actually, he IS the smartest republican, so what’s the big deal?
    If they want to worship him, let ‘em… maybe the ‘blue dogs’ can even take back the house and get a fillibuster-proof majority in the senate about 332 days from now.

  • Anonymous

    The whole GOP is like a clown car these days.

  • http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs322.snc3/28695_104339339610961_100001046869519_36793_4471129_n.jpg COB™

    Another hackjob editorial.

    You wrote: “He doesn’t believe “Palestinian” is a real ethnic group. Gee what  racist fool, right? But wait is that what he really said??

    What Newt said: “I believe that the Jewish people have the right to have a state,” adding that “we have an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community” and who have “sustained this war against Israel.”

    His Meaning: Palestine is not a State, but one that has been assumed because of the occupation of the West Bank.

    How about less editorial, and more unbiased reporting here… oh wait. This is Mediaite.
    Never mind…

  • Anonymous

    COB, take your RW trolling back to Fox where you belong. 

  • http://sunnyrobinson.com Sunny Robinson

    Newt Gingrich is a political chameleon that has inexplicably managed to fool conservatives for 30 years. He is a globalist to the bone and supports every opportunity to erode American sovereignty and the constitution. He disguises his statist positions with an abundance of flip-flopping and pandering as needed. He has a long history of expanding the Federal Government and deficit spending. He is the very definition of an Establishment Insider.- Gingrich is a member of ‘Bohemian Grove’, Member of the ‘World Future Society’, Card-Carrying member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) a globalist think tank, and a “Distinguished member” of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (a neocon, pro-interventionism group)- Worked on the Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1968. Was mentored by Henry Kissinger- Was a draft-dodger during the Vietnam War, yet pushed aggressive foreign interventionism his entire political career, said that Vietnam was the “right battlefield at the right time.”- Says that Iraq was just step-1 in defeating the “Axis of Evil”- Supported Afghan War – Supported the War on Iraq – Calls for War on Iran & attacks on North Korea, advocates assassinating Iranian scientists.- Completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention over the course of 16 days.- Calls for “Geneva Convention for terrorists” so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to *including American Citizens*- Urged the House to repeal the ‘War Powers Act’ giving the Presidency more power.

    - Cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti-1st Amendment legislation), Says there needs to be a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.”

    - Voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps in 1991.- In 1993, he voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act, a blatant circumvention of Congress’ exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, taking power from the American people and put it into the hands of unelected Bi-national panels, made mostly of foreigners.- He supported the ‘GATT Treaty’ giving sovereignty to the U.N.

    - Criticized Obama for sending less U.S. tax dollars to Egypt.

    - Was “passionately in favor” of sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia in 1993.
    - Helped push through Federally funded loan guarantees to Communist China.
    - Advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens; stated that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico. 

    - Congress slapped him with a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.- Endorsed super liberal Dede Scozzafava- In his book, he explains his belief that ‘Climate Change’ (aka Global Warming) is man-made, advocates creating “a new endowment for conservation and the environment.”
    - He suggested a mandate for ‘flex-fuel’ vehicles for Americans

    - Supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.

    - Made a commercial with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change aka Global Warming.

    - He’s a lobbyist for Federal Ethanol Subsidies.
    -  Joined Al Sharpton and Education Secretary Arne Duncan in supporting Obama’s push for more charter schools, Gingrich praised Obama for having “the courage” to take on entrenched interests on both sides of the issue.- Said he has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage (now a $7.2 Trillion unfunded liability).- His campaign video claims he wants to “find solutions together, and insist on imposing solutions on those who do not want to change.”- Backed Obamacare, stating: “All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.”, was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.- Endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.- In 1994, he supported spending $30B for the ‘Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act’ that shackled gun owners with new restrictions.
    - Introduced H.R. 4170, demanding life-sentence or execution for bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
    - Believes anyone publishing leaked government memos should be ‘considered’ an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed – without trial.

    - States he plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.

    - Claims to have “helped develop the model for Homeland Security”

    - Said he’d ignore the Supreme Court if need be.-  Stated he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout had he been in office; says it was a “Workout, Not a Bailout”.- In Nov 2011, he acknowledged receiving personal compensation from Freddie Mac; the numbers thus far show his consulting firm received between $1.6 million and $1.8 million. ***********************************SAVE OUR COUNTRY, VOTE**** RON PAUL 2012! ****

  • http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs322.snc3/28695_104339339610961_100001046869519_36793_4471129_n.jpg COB™

    Yeah, that was an intelligent retort. -Nice Work! :OP

  • Anonymous

    Actually Palestinians are a real people.  They changed their name from the original Canaanites in order to not be executed for their crimes.  These are the good folks who were called by their priests to happily toss their eldest infant sons up to about three years of age, live, into a blazing alter fire, so the gods would be pleased.  

  • Anonymous

    I read some of your highlights.  You neglected to mention that the $300,000 fine he paid – was returned when the IRS said in fact he broke no laws.  In other words – it was a democratic witch hunt.  He was cleared on each and every one of the 80 + charges the democrats brought against him.

    So, since you neglected to state that FACT, I can only imagine a fact check on your tome would turn up a # of lies (misspeaks to the demos).

  • Anonymous

    Even if you are right about cherry-picking that one item, it is a terribly disingenuous way to completely dismiss and/or ignore every other single charge (alleged or otherwise) against him.

    If only half of them – a quarter of them – a tenth of them – are correct? That/they would be a terribly damning indictment against Mr. G. But it seems you would prefer to be in denial or are just plan delusional. So you will shut your eyes and hold your nose. And put your brain on hold.

    I guess it’s not enough that you hate Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/Leftists and would never vote for one. You also have to support Republicans even when they are so obviously not up to the requirements and rigors of the job.

  • Anonymous

    Whoever buried Helen Thomas will bury Newt’s adversaries and give him any moniker he desires

  • Anonymous

    Party loyalist die hards always engage in “cherry-picking” like that just like religious fundamentalists do. Kind of sad, really.

  • Anonymous

    “Newt Gingrich is a political chameleon that has inexplicably managed to fool conservatives for 30 years.”

    Yes, and I can’t understand how he keeps managing to do so. It makes no sense, but it looks like he’s’ going to be the next GOP nominee for President. And unfortunately will probably lose. Please, somebody tell me, what do all these Republicans see in this guy? Whatever happened to the party of family values?

  • Anonymous

    Nice hit piece. Had Gingrich said he wanted to extend the college work/study program to high school in order to help needy kids, rubes like this would not be able to make silly arguments. Let’s trade the establishment Republicans on a straight swap for the 70% of black and Hispanic social and fiscal conservatives.

  • Anonymous

    The term, “full of himself” doesn’t do newt justice. . . has he found a cure for cancer too?

  • Anonymous

    He doesn’t believe “Palestinian” is a ethnic group, in fact they are not,
    it’s an area on a map, no more than a Californian is an ethnic group.
    A Palestinian is in most cases an Arab……. Once again no such thing as an
    Palestinian/Race or a Californian Race……… AND no none nada an AMERICAN
    RACE…… it’s a place…period, a citizenship possibility…but not a race…

  • Anonymous

    Excuse me, but there was a very “damning” truthful list of faults we knew Obama had (Lord knows what else we’d find out if anyone cared to look) and you ignored them.  

    Those other charges?  Seriously, dude, for a man who has spent his entire adult life serving his Country in politics there are many things he’s been involved in.  Care to post a very long list of his accomplishments?  Of his bi-partisan dealings?  

    p.s.  one of the charges – he knew/worked under Kissinger.  Seriously, that’s a charge? lol

    …and he did a commercial with Nancy about global warming – another charge? lol

  • Anonymous

    So are Californians, a people, but not a race………………….. and
    the Palestinians can call themselves what they want, you make my point, but they
    are not a race.  

    BTW the good Californians……in lieu of fire..ABORT them…  

  • Anonymous

    A FACT……………………………BINGO..

  • Anonymous

    THANK YOU……………..Bingo

  • Anonymous

    Please tell me you are not a Conservative….please tell me that…

    Now brush your tooth and go to bed, yes you can take off your barbed wire gloves, and go to sleep with your love Sammy Hair Dryer..

  • Anonymous

    lol…….correct…….NEWT never said or says that, just his nervous
    detractors…

  • Чёрт Возьми

    “Family Values” is BS emptiness, especially when you look at all the politicians who regularly violate the principle. I do not say that Democrats are more “pure” in following Family Values, but they are no less pure as a group, and they don’t make a big deal about it.
    Politicians should run on the political issues, not “Family Values.” 

  • Чёрт Возьми

    And yet, he did resign.
    And, since he was the Speaker of the House, that is proof that the Republicans were in the majority. How did the majority let the minority pull off that “witch hunt?”

  • Anonymous

    Crazy apostasyusa…….damed if you are not correct, so thanks Mr/Mrs Crazy…
    Funny how many times, lies are the truth…

  • Anonymous

    Sunny…so hows your new BOOK GOING……. WAR AND PEACE …….

    LOL NEWT seems to be making you mess yourself, don’t change untill after tonight’s Debate.

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    News for ya Newt…Americans are “invented people” too,so are my people the Canadians,and a lot of other people on this planet too,Newt……”race” and “nation” are 2 different concepts,Newt.

    You stupid,stupid dumb ass…sigh..

  • Anonymous

    If the Palestinian people called themselves Canaanites, they would have a better argument because the Israelis kicked them out several times, like after the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and hauled them away for 50 years.  The indigenous folks, whomever they might be, took over the olive groves and vineyards every time and the Israelis would come back and find a way to get them back. 

    Newt makes a good point, and the Palestinian voting block in the US is not as big as the Amish voting block.  Jews usually vote Democrat, but they must be getting as tired as the rest of us of the current White House resident.

  • Anonymous

    “Excuse me, but there was a very “damning” truthful list of faults we
    knew Obama had (Lord knows what else we’d find out if anyone cared to
    look) and you ignored them.” 

    People knew plenty about Candidate Obama and still voted him President.

    And “anyone cared to look”? Where was the right wing media, i.e., FOX reporters? Or the folks at the WSJ? Couldn’t they have ‘exposed’ Obama? Conservatives
    are always crowing how FOX has a large viewership and that most
    Americans lean to the right, so it’s not like any real and relevant
    story they reported wouldn’t have gotten traction. They had a minimum of
    six months to get the ‘goods’ on Obama.Also, this is a thread about Gingrich.

    “Those other charges?  Seriously, dude, for a man who has spent his
    entire adult life serving his Country in politics there are many things
    he’s been involved in. Care to post a very long list of his
    accomplishments?  Of his bi-partisan dealings?”

    I believe that it is your job to defend Mr. G. Especially if you believe that all the stupid, bad and/or terrible things he did can be undone, balanced out, cancelled out or forgotten about by or because of the good things he has done.

    “p.s.  one of the charges – he knew/worked under Kissinger.  Seriously, that’s a charge?l”

    There are many people who believe that it was a travesty Mr. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Kind of like when the current president did – but that’s for other reasons and for another thread.) Mr. Kissinger may now be a lauded and revered elder statesman, but President Nixon also rehabilitated his image. So you like Mr. K. Fine. Not everyone feels the same as you. So it is still a ‘charge’ – albeit not the worst one on the list.

    “…and he did a commercial with Nancy about global warming – another charge?”

    Which he apparently is either backtracking from (that it actually exists) or is minimizing. In the past he was for combating it – and now? Not so much. Again, not the worst charge in the world but it sure looks like hypocrisy and flip floppery.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah. Research is a bitch. Better to ignore all the facts and history (ironic since Mr. G. is an historian) and let other people tell you what to do and think. Much easier.

  • expatpatriot

    Gingrich is, more than anything else, a crackpot of the smoothie variety. His particular smoothieness relies heavily on his (preposterous) “academic street-fighter” persona.

    None of this is exactly New(t)s.

    Why the media doesn’t call him on his nutty professor act is pretty clear: it’s not their job. Their job is to pretend that both parties have some sort of well-staffed idea factories dedicated to responding to the nation’s challenges. And of course it doesn’t work that way.

    But let’s remember: “Journalism” as it’s practiced today demands an endless supply of bright, shiny, noisy termporary newsmakers, and Newt’s on the conveyor for at least the next several weeks. (If not longer.)

    So, in the lame and arid world the media live in, Gingrich is an “idea man.”

    Lord love a duck.

  • expatpatriot

    and for your next edition of Psychopathic Bible Tales, you’ll cover the oh-so-illuminating story of Lot offering up his daughters to be gang-raped?

  • expatpatriot

    Funny you should say “unfortunately.”

    Do you really think it would be unfortunate if Gingrich lost? Republicans might do well in the House and Senate in 2012, and then you’d have Obama in the White House as a lame duck the day afte he’s inaugurated for the second time.

    Isn’t that a more appealing scenario than truly dangerous Newt in the White House?

    That having been said, I’m pretty sure Newt will spontaneously combust at some point prior to winning the nomination and Republicans will be left with Romney, who really is their best chance to beat Obama anyway.

    Not that I think Romney *can* beat Obama.

  • Nope 2.0

    Hey Ben,
    Have another rack of Moose and a Molson son!

  • Nope 2.0

    Gotta love John Edwards man!! How he cheated on his cancer-stricken wife.
    Or President Clinton who had been cheating on his wife with everything that walked. (Can’t say that I blame him though -Hillary is nasty)

  • Nope 2.0

    Hey queer,
    I’d like to bend you over. -Not!

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Which only proves my point.
    No one should vote for a “Family Values” party or candidate. There is no such thing in politics.

  • expatpatriot

    I interpreted SR’s highlights as a message to conservative posters here that Gingrich wasn’t really a conservative, but instead some kind of wonky spinner of ideas, both good and dreadful.

    One scandal more or less doesn’t really affect the picture that’s been printed about his entire career.

    Did I get that wrong?

  • Nope 2.0

    So, I guess Gomez Addams for President is out of the question.

  • Anonymous

    yuppers.  

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    son?

    …………

    *drink*

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Nope 2.0

    Mol’s son -Molson

  • http://www.barackobama.com/ Nope 2.0

    Woowhee!! I am very presidential today!
    That class warfare shit is sure working out well in da streets of dis big country here.

    Hail to all my OWS brothers and sistas who are living in poverty because of dat no good white boy George Bush.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    So, I guess Gomez Addams for President is out of the question.

    Not necessarily. What is his position on the economy?

  • Anonymous

    “In other words – it was a democratic witch hunt.”

    Newt was sanctioned by a vote of 395-28.  Seems like more than just democrats that put the smackdown on your ethically challenged candidate.

  • Anonymous

    If Palestine is a made up state then what do you call the U.S. You obviously don’t remember  1948, but you probably weren’t made up by then. If Newt is your hero you sure are deluded.  I personally attend a hippie party with him back in the 1970′s in Carrolton Georgia where he smoked pot and got drunk and it on hippe chicks and got wasted.  He was a blowhard back then and he still is.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps you want to read up on what happened to Gingrich.  He resigned because he lost the confidence of his fellow republicans.
    Cause the election didn’t bode well for them.

    ahhh and then there was Nancy. lol

  • Anonymous

    Newt is a genius campared to the rest of the GOP field, problem is that’s not saying much.

  • Anonymous

    Now that drivel was just plain crazy. What planet are you on dude? You must be living in some liberal bubble.

  • Anonymous

    Look Mom,  It’s another of those liberal deviant intellectuals who one time watched a televangelist at 3AM and subsequently committed himself to satanic rituals such as picking his nose while sitting in a pentagram chanting “Norman, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo,  Norman, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo…..”

  • Anonymous

    your mind works really strange. And your last line made it sound like you were talking from experience. Stay away from this site.

  • Anonymous

    COB, you are right. The term “palestinian” was coined around 1967 to describe arabs living in Israel/Palestine. It was done as propaganda to fool the world into thinking that obviously Palestine belongs to “palestinians”, of course.This would be like arabs coming to say, oh, Dearborn, MI, calling themselves Dearbornastinians, and claiming the land has always belonged to them.

  • Anonymous

    yeah, no truth-telling need be offered here!! We’re happy to keep our head in the sand over here at Mediaite. We are passiveregressive so don’t mess with us. We like it in our cocoon.

  • expatpatriot

    Wow. “Deviant intellectual.” No one’s called me that since the night I beat the decon’s son in Scrabble.

  • Dale Hogue

    I guess I shouldn’t find it amazing that Democrats think that they are the smartest and most informed people in the world and that Republicans are the dumbest and the least informed.

    I’ve been around for almost 82 years and I’ve yet to hear a Democrat admit to making a dumb political move or have any stupid political ideas pass through their magnificently formed brain cells.

    I have, however, heard Democrats call Dwight David Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush the dumbest presidents in the history of the United States while they were calling John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, William Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama the smartest people ever to occupy the White House.  

    Of course, it goes without me saying so, that these same Democrats have always called the Republican presidential candidates dumb and all their presidential candidates brilliant.

    In every election since Franklin D. Roosevelt took office, the Democrats have always made fun of the slate of candidates the Republicans put up for office.  And, of course, these same Republicans always, without fail, nominated some of the stupidest people in the history of the world as their candidates for president of the United States –  that is, if you believe all of the Democrats who post their snarky comments about Republicans regularly on pages like this, so I’m not surprised that these very same Democrats love Obama and what he has done to or for America during his first three years in office.  So, when I read that these Democrat posters plan on voting again for the smartest man ever to hold a political office in the history of our universe, I’m not surprised, not even a tiny little bit.

  • Anonymous

    But he might humiliate that muslin usuper-n-cheif. That’s good enough for the teapublicans.

  • expatpatriot

    I admire the adroitness with which you’ve avoided hearing or reading anything that contradicts your opinions of Democrats — and this for nearly 82 years.

    You’ve raised self imposed deafness and blindness to an art form.

    Meanwhile in the real world, every imaginable insult that can be hurled at a public figure — any and all public figures — has been hurled. Every figure you cited has been called stupid at one time or another.

    The fact that “Democrats always trash Republicans’ intellects” is an entirely made up fact. By you. One hopes it gives you comfort, because it’s pretty useless if what you’re trying to do is figure out what’s going on and what you ought to do about it.

    Are there some pretty dumb Republicans on your list? You bet. Smart ones too. Not all those Dems were geniuses, either.

    So what?

  • Anonymous

    You might want to read up on what happened to Gingrich and this time don’t skip over the parts that explain why… “he lost the confidence of his fellow republicans”…and why…”the election didn’t bode well for them.”…

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who describes George Will and Joe Scarborough as ‘conservatives’ should not be taken seriously.

  • expatpatriot

    What you call ‘em? Raging Troskyites?

  • expatpatriot

    Except that, prior to their eviction at the point of Israeli guns, the land did belong to them. The Israelis stole it straight up, in front of the eyes of the world.

    And they have been reaping a poisoned whirlwind ever since.

  • BooBoo Bear

    Since the Internet wasn’t highly used until the mid 80′s and expanded greatly in the 90′s. I don’t see how that the Conservative could have bad mouth Eisenhower. If you weren’t aware of the fact. Both the Democrats & Republicans wanted to have him run for President. He chose the GOP.

    Actually we “Liberals” liked Reagan. While he did cut the tax rates, he then rasised the taxes 16 times to try and cover the growing deficit that his administration caused.

    We Libs didn’t like Reagan & Bush Sr along with Clinton shutting down Military bases all over the US.. Actually we libs were OK with that..It’s just when Conservatives blame the closings on Democrats when the bases were selected by the Presidential DOD. For some reason all the base closures were pinned on Clinton. When in fact it started under Reagan and the “Peace Dividend”.

    You left out Trickie Dick from your list of GOP President that the Liberals make fun of. But we Liberals do know a few things Bush Jr, violator of the Geneva Convention.
    That should be tried at The Hague for Crimes Against Humanity for use Kerosene Napalm/White Phosphorus on 200,000 women & children burning the skins off them while the were still alive. The use of Depleted Uranium Shell will cause birth defects for the next 2.5 billion years at least, that the half life. The nice thing (not) is that when our servicemen & women return and start families they too will have birth defects too. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

    Carter did do one thing the others did not..Was able to broker a peace between Israel & Egypt. Wish we still had him around. We might actually have Peace In The Middle East during our lifetime.

    IQ’s
    FDR      142                     Eisenhower 122
    Truman  132                     Nixon         155
    JFK       174                     Ford           121
    LBJ       126                     Reagan       105
    Carter    175                     Bush Sr       98
    Clinton   182                     Bush Jr        91
    Average 155                     Average      115
                  Average for GOP w/o Nixon  107
    Obama  166-172

  • BooBoo Bear

    I always like the Sodom & Gomorrah story. I do realize that in our culture today we think of them as being places full of homosexuals. But even the Bible tells us why..
    They were inhospitable to Lot & His Family. I’m sure that almost all of them were straights…If Lot knew they were homosexuals wouldn’t you think that he would have offered up his future son’s-in-laws instead of his daughters?

    Sins of Sodom, Ezekiel 16:49 This was the iniquity of Sodom, Pride, Fullness of Bread, and Abundance Of Idleness neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor or needy.

    From what I read there….Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed because they didn’t give a damn about others..Sounds like the TP/GOP of today. not because they were full of gays.

  • Anonymous

    This article is a laugh riot.  Written by an Obama suck-up and extreme lefty liberal.

    This is why mediate doesn’t really have any clout with its articles and/or columns.  Written by lefties, for lefties only doesn’t make this site a serious one.

    So funny, I love a good hearty laugh on a Sunday morning.

  • Anonymous

    Newt’s downfall came when he started taking money from Reverend Moon.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Newt’s intelligence is a Republican myth, just like saying Ronald Reagan was a great President!!

  • Dale Hogue

    I got a kick out of your post.  You’ve done a marvelous job of proving my point and I’m sure that was not your intent when you wrote it.

    The IQ thingee was a brilliant move on your part, though a bit over done. 

    By the way, where did you get this information? I’m sure that all of these IQ facts are just as you report them, so I won’t make a big deal out of the fact the such information is hard to come by. To my knowledge, there is no valid storage area where Democrats can pilfer such gigantic amounts of honest intellectual evaluations of Republican Presidents without the entire horde of critical minded Democrats herding into this seemingly secret location where a mother lode of Liberal and Progressive cynicism is stored.  

    Google: Hogue/Johnny Lee Clary

  • Dale Hogue

    Apparently you have a problem recognizing sarcastic remarks when you read them.  And I’m not going to waste any more of my time pointing them out to you.  Quite frankly, I thought you Democrats were smart enough to figure this out for yourself, but I guess I was wrong about that, too.

    Google:  Hogue/Johnny Lee Clary

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MPPK2CTPRQYEYSXVOFVUJRX3SQ ken

    You don’t dispute any of the facts, so we’ll asume you admint they’re true.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MPPK2CTPRQYEYSXVOFVUJRX3SQ ken

    Newt wouldn’t advocate that  unless he got paid to do so.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KAAFDTOHXSLP37GIICVMRKAITI Elinore

    Are you serious?!  Newt says that about himself all the time!  After all, he is his favorite topic!

  • http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs322.snc3/28695_104339339610961_100001046869519_36793_4471129_n.jpg COB™

    You want to draw an analogy between the United States of America and Palestine, and then pepper it with your dope smoking days in which you claim to have hung with Newt??

    Well then, party-on dude!! :OP

  • expatpatriot

    Actually, I’m pretty good at picking up on sarcasm. I’m also able to detect a true believer when I read a long piece (in your case, several long pieces) by such a person.

    I also spent quite a few years as an aspiring and (after a bit of an ephiphany) amateur actor, so I recognise it when some guy places himself down center and begins to rant.

    I believe they call it “bad theatre.”

    My comments stand, and I see no reason to modify even one snarky remark.

  • Dale Hogue

    I’m not surprised that the point of your posting is nothing more than the putting down the opinions of other posters who don’t think as you think.

    I went back and reread my posts.  I know that my intentions were to give my opinion in matters related to your post in as   

    I certainly don’t agree with your assessment that I was in any way shape or form ranting.  Apparently you think otherwise, so its a standoff. 

    If course you feel very comfortable, or at least, somewhat comfortable in making you assessment as nasty as you can because you are there and I am here, so you have no reason to believe that I would take exception to your remarks and retaliate in a manner you would not enjoy as you do when you are insulting the person with whom you are discussing a very mild political issue by making snarking remarks about the intelligence of the other person.  

    I see quite a bit of that kind of stuff on these posting pages and that does surprise me. 

  • Anonymous

    please a source…….all the time must be many examples…thank’s

  • Anonymous

    bingo ….to the lefty’s … that means BINGO ..that will confuse the hell
    out of them..

  • Anonymous

    BET YOU $ 10,000.00 YOU ARE WRONG

  • expatpatriot

    That’s just you being out of touch with the “little guy” again, making bets that only the rich could possibly ante up for.

  • expatpatriot

    The short answer to your question below is that you invited me to Google Hogue/Johnny Lee Clary, and I did so.

    Religious self-promoters give me (and millions of others) the pip, and so my response was inevitable.

    What did you think you were going to achieve by pointing readers to such content?

  • expatpatriot

    There’re any number of things it’s OK to shove up your butt, but I’d definitely recommend drawing the line at anything requiring an external power supply.

  • Anonymous

     The stats Boo Boo quoted are of course false.
    http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/gary/iq.html

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