Gingrich Expresses Concern With Identifying Beck And Limbaugh As Leaders Of The GOP
Gingrich Expresses Concern With Identifying Beck And Limbaugh As Leaders Of The GOP
Last week, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) — the chairman of the House Republican Conference — defended the influence of right-wing talk shows over the Republican Party. Pence claimed that it’s “hogwash” to suggest that pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck “only speak for a small group of activists.” In a similar vein, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) defended the influence of Limbaugh, Beck, and other commentators because, she claimed, they represent a “critical mass.”
Reflecting the emerging stranglehold over the Republican Party that Limbaugh and Beck now exert, the new cover of The Weekly Standard identifies Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin as the faces of the GOP (see image to the right). Yesterday morning on C-Span, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed concern with the cover:
Well, I just think it’s interesting that two of the three people on the cover are talk radio hosts — Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. And they’re fine people, and they have big audiences, and that’s terrific. But you have a party that has Gov. Haley Barbour, it has Gov. Mitch Daniels, it has Gov. Tim Pawlenty. [...] You know, you can have a very, very intense movement of 20 percent. You can’t govern. To govern, you got to get 50 percent plus one after the recount.
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Gingrich has been taking heat from right-wing activists for endorsing the Republican candidate in New York’s upcoming 23rd congressional district race. The right-wing base — i.e. tea party activists — are rallying behind Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman, who has earned the endorsement of Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, and Michele Bachmann, among others.
Gingrich’s comments reflect an ongoing tension in the Republican Party between their tea party activist base and those who want to embrace more moderate candidates. After Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he didn’t want to belong to shrinking party full of “angry white guys,” Beck shot back that he’s “going to stick with the angry people…because they’re only angry about you.”
On PBS last Friday, conservative commentator David Brooks said “the Republican Party has a terrible problem of who its spokespeople are.” He expressed concern the influence of Beck and Limbaugh is “part of a larger problem” that the GOP has.
If some people in the Republican Party want to go around the country purging everyone they disagree with, they’re going to rapidly make this a minority party for a generation and they’re going to guarantee the re-election of President Obama and they’re going to guarantee Nancy Pelosi stays as Speaker for the rest of her life.Watch it:
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A little to late now, huh Newt? You guys had NO problem letting these guys set the agenda. NOW you think it may be a mistake? Sorry, you broke it, you BUY it!
October 26th, 2009 at 9:58 amToo late, Gingrich. Beck And Limbaugh ARE the leaders Of The GOP.
You GOP morons enjoy the bed you’ve made for yourselves!
October 26th, 2009 at 9:58 amIf some people in the Republican Party want to go around the country purging everyone they disagree with, they’re going to rapidly make this a minority party for a generation and they’re going to guarantee the re-election of President Obama and they’re going to guarantee Nancy Pelosi stays as Speaker for the rest of her life
October 26th, 2009 at 10:00 amFine by me.
Who is Gov. Mitch Daniels?
October 26th, 2009 at 10:02 amIf some people in the Republican Party want to go around the country purging everyone they disagree with, they’re going to rapidly make this a minority party for a generation and they’re going to guarantee the re-election of President Obama and they’re going to guarantee Nancy Pelosi stays as Speaker for the rest of her life.
Some people in your party are just plain dumber than a sack of hair clippings.
Maintaining pride in the face of one’s ignorance is extremely ignoble.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:02 amWell of course you have concern, when the chosen leaders of the GOP exude hate and bigotry.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:04 amAnd when Oxybreath gets pwned!!!
Of COURSE an establishment pol like Gingrich is concerned about the influence of talkshow hosts and crazy bigots. Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin are free to express whatever views they want, whip enough enough hatred, and create enough frenzy to drive their listeners (further) insane with little reprocussion. Gingrich, as someone with an aspiring political career, knows he still has to play by certain rules. And, since he’s supposedly kicking off his presidential campaign after the 112th Congress is sworn in, he has to be very politic about his image.
Which really can’t get much more tained. I mean, c’mon, this is the same guy who divorced his wife while she was recovering from cancer surgery, all the while claiming to be a family values politician who believes the country should be ruled by “judeo”-Christian values. Limbaugh and Beck frighten Gingrich, because they are free in ways he is not.
And it wouldn’t surprise at all if Beck decided to run as an “Independent” in 2012. Oh, man. An Obama-Gingrich-Beck Presidential debate. Gingrich and Beck start screaming at each other about FEMA concentration camps and ACORN while Obama actually answers the question about job creation.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:04 amNewt’s real problem is that people focus on the Terrible Trio instead of on him.
Tough noogies, Newt. You reap what you sow.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:04 amPersonally, I’d rather see Speaker Kucinich. But that’s kind of a long shot, yah?
October 26th, 2009 at 10:06 amWell, Newt, when you decided to get in bed with the rabid right wing to ’solidify’ the Republican base, this was the ultimate outcome that everyone in the Republican Party feared, that the rabid right wing would become THE defacto leadership of the Republican Party.
You reap what you sow…
October 26th, 2009 at 10:08 amHe won’t run, he can go on Fox and shoot his mouth off, but that is all he is going to do, and suck up a lot of GOP cash with his PAC.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:13 amEnnuiDivine says: And it wouldn’t surprise at all if Beck decided to run as an “Independent” in 2012.
Hmmm.
Beck might tease his audience about running, but he’d never actually do it because even running for office let alone holding office demands taking responsibility and a degree of coherence. Besides, why would he take such a massive pay cut?
October 26th, 2009 at 10:15 amNever forget that hypocritical, anti-American, scumbag Gingrich’s witch hunt against Clinton is the single most important reason why we were attacked on 9/11. Gingrich’s witch hunt forced the President to take take his eye off the ball to defend himself regarding a BJ. Gingrich = Terrorist Supporter. Fact.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:16 amThia ia classic example of the criminal blaming the victim.
Newtie is concerned that Limpballs and BeckyBoy are “speaking for the GnOPe party. The seeds for this sad state of affairs was largely sown by Newtie himself and his “Contract on America”. It was then that these rant-radio snake-oil salesmen first realized how gullible and foolish the right-wing base is.
Over the years, Limpballs, BeckyBoy, Little Seanie Vanity and the rest have morphed into charicatures of themselves . . . comic, short-hand versions of themselves packaged for easy consumption by the least-intelligent, most biased, most easily persuadable, frightened lemmings in the country.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:16 am@9.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:17 amHonestly, I want to see someone like Grayson as speaker. Sadly, I don’t know enough about Kucinich to make a call on him. Although, feel free to enlighten me. :)
Well, well, well! Not that Newtie is one of my favorites, but he’s more out there than Lindy. Seems to have taken quite a while for folks like them to realize their party of NO is dissolving into a gang of wannabe thugs.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:20 amHeheheh – and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch!!!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:22 amI doubt he’d want the paycut, but he IS demented enough to think he could run the country. Hey..maybe Colbert will run again! It would make for an interesting campaign season.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:23 amKucinich is one of my favorites, but seems to be hard to sell in the south and midwest.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:24 amIt sure is fun watching the republic clusterfcuk devolve.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:24 amRemember how important the religious moralists were to Gingrich’s GOP? Where the hell are they now? WHen was the last time you saw the AFA or any of that ilk getting face-time in print and on TV?
Not that I’m complaining….
October 26th, 2009 at 10:26 amLimpo has REPEATEDLY denied time and time again he is NOT the leader of the gNOpigs YET the little piggies always come to kiss his rear.
The sht flinging Baboon has no ideology whatsoever, NONE but demented rants due to alcohol brain damage.
KKKlownity has nothing but his old shtik “What would Raygun do?”
Two of the SORE LOSERS are hoping for the failure of America, and the Baboon is inciting to violence.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have them:
October 26th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Republicans should remember that they brought Sarah Palin to the party, so they can’t complain that she wants to dance with them.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:27 amThe fact that the big three spokesmen for the repiggies (Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck) are all college dropouts speaks volumes to the intelligent, well-educated voter.
The repiggies are a party which celebrates crass monetary achievement at the expense of anything else.
This is not a party of reflective, thinking people.
Its base consists of the rabidly stupid and racist morons who celebrate the idiotic behavior prevalent in the repiggie party and the greater culture today.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:28 am.
May I express my concern about Newt’s ideas about keeping America safe with…
… ANTOTHER ATTACK!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5lmje_newt-gingrich-bush-should-allow-rem_news
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October 26th, 2009 at 10:28 amLet the infighting begin!!
Please pass the popcorn.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:29 amUSNclerk
Kucinich is a hard left liberal with real integrity. He is smart and principled. When he was mayor of Cleveland he stopped the privitization of the municipal power company and enraged the business community like he knew it would. They sent Cleveland into bankrupcy and their constant attacks denied him re-election but after a decade or so even THEY admitted it was the right move and the people of his district LOVE him to death so he doesnt HAVE to play any games he is just unbeatable there. Dennis main problem is he looks like one of the seven dwarfs and frankly in the age of television I cant see him getting elected to the White House.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:30 amEnnui Divine: “he IS demented enough to think he could run the country..”
Are you calling Obama demented? :D
October 26th, 2009 at 10:30 amNewt, if you’re just now becoming concerned about Beck and Limbaugh leading your repub party, then you’re just as bad as they are.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:31 amThe GOP has split itself into as many wings
as there are talking heads on Fauxnews.
The only commonalities are national elitism, prejudice and greed.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:33 amTwo drug addicts and a quitter. You betcha!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:34 amDennis Kucinich, 10th district of Ohio, first elected in 1996:
Pro-Choice
Vegan
Voted Against Iraq War
Proposed closing down Guantanamo
Abolish death penalty
Lower drinking age to 18/voting age to 16
Instant runoff voting for all elections
Decriminalize cannabis
Ban handguns
Extremely envrionmentally friendly
Single payer healthcare
And introduced the bill to impeach Bush and Cheney
So, yeah. Little too progressive for the plains states and the deep south.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:34 amRight will eat itself.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:34 amThe GOP is lucky they have been able to dance on this razors edge for so long. It was always risky and tricky to throw red meat to the troglydites and get them all lathered up while denying them the power in the party. At some point they HAD to get tired of being USED and nothing else. For a couple of decades they have done the wink and nod thing with people like Coulter and Limbaugh. They express a bit of condescending criticism of their divisive hateful rhetoric while taking FULL advantage of it. The fragility of that tactic was always apparant. NOW Limbaugh at least wont put up with it anymore. The GOP now has to decide are they the party of hatefulness, denial of reality, racism and lies or are they going to come up with some ideas and principles. Either they cut the Limbaughs, Coulters and Becks off at the knees and show they are reasoned adults or they embrace the horror. At this point I think they dont believe they can win WITHOUT turning out the neandrathals
October 26th, 2009 at 10:35 amWell, if Obama went around calling people racists while claiming healthcare reform is a secret plot to give reparations to black people and that Rockafeller Center is secretly a Communist headquarters and that FEMA will imprison you in concentration camps if you fill out the census…and still thought he could be President…
then, yes. Quite demented. :-D
October 26th, 2009 at 10:36 amThat’s what happens when you mess with the Ouija board…. you call spirits that won’t leave you alone. Tough sheet, Newtie: you wanted them in the Nineties, you got them during the Bush Revolution, you’ll have them now until the last believing idiot turns the light out on the GOP.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:40 amDennis Kucinich, 10th district of Ohio, first elected in 1996:
Pro-Choice
October 26th, 2009 at 10:41 amVegan
Voted Against Iraq War
Proposed closing down Guantanamo
Abolish death penalty
Lower drinking age to 18/voting age to 16
Instant runoff voting for all elections
Decriminalize cannabis
Ban handguns
Extremely envrionmentally friendly
Single payer healthcare
And introduced the bill to impeach Bush and Cheney
I don’t agree with all of it, but hey, there’s enough in there that I DO agree with to say “sure” I’d say he’s fit to be Speaker.
Ennui he is also a deeply religious man who GETS the idea of a seperation of Church and State. I actually think a hardcore liberal CAN be sold to the plains states with a populist message IF the Democratic party finds a spine and SUPPORTS them fully. Dennis however isnt TV friendly. The guy may have to be a Fiengold. I think the idea America wont elect someone who is truly liberal is that kind of conventional wisdom that everyone hears but really isnt based on anything OTHER than everyone hears it. America doesnt mind electing REALLY far RIGHT candidates. I think they are tired of THAT and want a change. I always thought Americans want politicians to be the guy who takes care of things the way a mechanic takes care of their car. They dont want to GET deeply into the nuts and bolts of the policy issues. They want to know you CARE about your issues and are willing to fight. Then its well we tried THOSE guys, it didnt work, lets try THESE guys. The BIGGEST hurdle electing a TRUE liberal isnt convincing the people. Look at how well the message of a change worked. The biggest hurdle is beating that conventional wisdom which will be ridden HARD by the MEDIA
October 26th, 2009 at 10:43 amLimbaugh is a conservative only in the sense that he doesnt share his drugs.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:45 amGINGRICH: “You know, you can have a very, very intense movement of 20 percent. You can’t govern. To govern, you got to get 50 percent plus one after the recount.”
Whilst actually explaining the problem correctly,I note Gingrich studiously avoids mentioning his part in causing the problem in the first place.
I also note that he says of Beck and Rush “they’re fine people“, so he’s covering his ass by kissing theirs.
Ergo he tacitly concedes that they are the closest thing to leaders that the GOP has.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:51 amXisithrus says:
Limbaugh is a conservative only in the sense that he doesnt share his drugs.
Well said.
If you have a chance, watch ‘Oxycontin Express’ on Current TV.
It shows ‘pillbillies’ from Tenn. going to Broward Co. in Fla. to score Oxy. Streets in Fla. are lined with ‘Pain Shops’ where you can go in, complain of pain and get Oxycontin or a host of other pain meds and go on your merry way.
Florida has no Pharmacy regulatory board and every demented doctor & shyster in the area is now selling ‘The Drugsters’ favorite pharmaceutical.
Rush is a drug addict. Rush should be in jail.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:52 amThe Press Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government.
But but but the goverment is controlling the press!! Actually the press pool was started because of rumours congress, in 1924, would select who got to cover the president.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:52 amDuh, we all know how serial marrier, bottomfeeder Newt feels about Rush, neocons, all faux GOP watercarriers, etc., let’s not kid ourselves, but . .
Dontcha think it was a little disengenuous for The Newt to have omitted his involvement in faux’s Declaration of War on Those Who Quote MAOGATE . “Oh, BTW, faux fans, I too have quoted Mao . . ”
“War is politics with blood; politics is war without blood,” ~~~Newt Gingrich
[citing Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung.]
Everytime I see THIS man, reminds me: who serves his wife divorce papers while she is receiving chemotherapy, what kind of a person does this? A real PIG, l-o-s-e-r- . .
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October 26th, 2009 at 10:54 amPillbillies. Heh.
Rush seems to have switched to Fasten
October 26th, 2009 at 10:56 amHa ha ha. May Newt become the republican “cassandra.” How fitting a fate would that be?
October 26th, 2009 at 10:59 amI knew this would happen eventually, and I also know that none of the republicans/conservatives have the cojones to call them out and put a stop to it. They are all afraid to do what is necessary to reclaim the party for fear of alienating potential voters.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:04 amThey have my full support in continuing on the path to destruction.
Newt is unelectable
October 26th, 2009 at 11:04 amAnybody remembers Mc5th Choice, Ghouliani, Fred Thompson, Piyush Jindal, Mittens, Squirrel eater?
ANY ONE, PLEEEEEASE!
October 26th, 2009 at 11:06 amBut Newt what are votes compared to ratings?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:12 amNewt says of Beck and Limbaugh, “And they’re fine people…” Are you kidding me? What makes these two “fine people?” They are about as fine as Newt is. Adulterers, drug addicts, alcoholics, takers, liars, and the list goes on and on.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:13 amThe Republicans did this to themselves when they expanded the party to the worst possible elements, the Dixiecrats, Conservative Christian coalition and the teabaggers. These groups took over the party and now Gingrich is lamenting the fact that they are in control. The Republicans shot themselves in the foot. What did Gingrich expect was going to happen?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:14 amBTW, Newt, how’s the ex-wife’s cancer going>?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:15 amNewt sez: You know, you can have a very, very intense movement of 20 percent. You can’t govern. To govern, you got to get 50 percent plus one after the recount.
Funny how the Republicans embrace the concept of a recount when it delivers them the presidency, but not so much when it denies them a senator’s seat from Minnesota.
Ah, well, I guess they’re forced to depend on it for a national electoral victory, being a shrinking minority party and all. After all, recounts can be stopped by SCOTUS if they look like they may not go your way, right?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:21 amIn a similar vein, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) defended the influence of Limbaugh, Beck, and other commentators because, she claimed, they represent a “critical mass.”
Well yes … if by “critical mass” you mean a bunch of overweight. screaming harpies (which is not a bad summation of their groupies as well).
Cheers,
October 26th, 2009 at 11:22 amYou know it’s bad for the GOP when Newt Gingrich is considered a moderate.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:23 am#52: RUCerious says:
BTW, Newt, how’s the ex-wife’s cancer going?
Very serious but stable, I hear.
Cheers,
October 26th, 2009 at 11:23 am#6 DRxJ says:
And when Oxybreath gets pwned!!!
From the link:
“[U]nknown blogger”. ROFLMAO…. Hey Ledeen, that’s gotta sting, you unreconstructed RW neocon hack….
Cheers,
October 26th, 2009 at 11:32 amDumb Question:
Did Newt express any concerns over people seeing him as the head of the GOP ?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:32 amThe Weekly Standard puts the words “Fighting Trim” next to a picture of Limbaugh?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:32 amDRxJ, I checked out that Limpballs gets pwned link and it is AWESOME!
Limpballs actually says “I don’t care if the quotes are made up; I know he thinks it,” and then goes on to justify that position!
Hehehe… ya can’t make this stuff up.
Or, rather, you can make it up and Limpballs will swallow it like it was a fistful of Oxycontin.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:43 amMaybe they were referring to his preference for young Dominican boys in his sexual tastes?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:44 amThe right-wing base — i.e. tea party activists — are rallying behind Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman, who has earned the endorsement of Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, and Michele Bachmann, among others.
I wondered what would take the place of the GOP after it goes the way of the Federalists.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:44 amThey had no choice. There aren’t enough psychotic neocons and corrupt corporatists to get Republicans elected.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:48 amYou reap what you sow, Newt, and you more than many are responsible for the current state of your pathetic party.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:49 amA conservative should believe that the least government is the best government, that whenever possible necessary governmental functions should be provided by the states, that the national government has only the enumerated powers of the constitution and that the President and Congress must abide by the limitations contained in the bill of rights. A conservative would not allow the government to police the private practices of consenting adults. A conservative would respect the sanctity of marriage. A conservative would never have supported a federal law overturning a state court that decided to uphold the considered decision made by the husband of a brain dead wife to allow her to die in private with dignity. The Republican Congressmen and the Republican President denied Terri Schiavo the basic human rights a true conservative would have fought to protect. How can true conservatives support spending taxpayer dollars to enforce the puritanical laws the Republican Party seeks to enact?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:58 amMy question for Newt Gingrich: what do you think about Republicans in Florida proposing to move into Alan Grayson’s Congressional district just to run against him? Would Gingrich condemn that as well?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pmfrom TPM:
Speaking of Doug Hoffman.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:23 pmYou need accompaniment for a congressional campaign swing? Was Armey’s hand up Hoffman’s back?
And yes, regional issues are indeed issues that should be addressed in a congressional campaign, you ideologist nit-wit..
Oh, how I’m gonna love the bloodbath between the wingnut factoions when Owens wins that seat with 35% of the vote.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:30 pmConcerning the cover of the Weakly Standard, I’ll bet Shelly Bachmann is outraged that she isn’t included on it. She’s been working triple overtime to show that she’s just as insane as the other three.
Glenda won’t run for President. He couldn’t take the chance on the background checks, what with the (possibly unfounded) rumor that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990. But, wouldn’t that be some kind of entertaining campaign when the Dems started showing clips of the cra-a-a-zy rants and antics from his TV show. Those commercials would get better ratings than NCIS.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pm@ 66. evenso says: My question for Newt Gingrich: what do you think about Republicans in Florida proposing to move into Alan Grayson’s Congressional district just to run against him? Would Gingrich condemn that as well? October 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Condemn it? Certainly not. The Newtster wants Republipimps to run in every district. But especially in that upstate NY district that is about to have a blowout between a Republipimp and a Conservaturd which will probably fracture the right and put a Democrat in office in that district for the first time since the Civil War.
Of course, Newt is just getting ahead of himself. He’s trying to pick up the pieces of the Republipimp before he even knows how much worse the fracturing is going to be. He sees it falling to pieces before his eyes and can’t do squat, because Pudge Blimpo and Glenda Blech have more control of the party base than any of the pols do.
And he’s up against Rupert “Murder” Murdoch and Roger Ailes who are determined to use Fux Noise to ramrod the nomination of Sarahcuda for President and all the other Republipimp and right wing politics be damned. They want the top office as prize and screw the rest of it.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:42 pmDave N, Dick Armey’s presence was a big surprise to me too. Endorsement? Sure, but literally walking the guy through the campaign and acting as a spokesman? Crazy.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pmRun Newt Run!!!!!
October 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pmHarold, Hoffman is a prop. The guy knows nothing about local issues in a congressional race? Come on now, at least act like you know what you’re talking about.
The Lunatic Fringe wants him in there, and they’ll be using him as their puppet and poster child if he’s lucky enough to make it through.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:27 pmThey’re all yours slimmy Newt, you own them, you suffer for them.
And hey, don’t you have a wife to cheat on or something?
October 26th, 2009 at 2:03 pmPoor Newt. He’s jealous, that’s all. Not getting the kind of attention that Beck gets.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:09 pmI don’t know why the Republicans are so concerned about the NY-23 race…It seems that Republicans in states like New York and California always tout their independence (like Steve Poizner’s ad for example) and then vote the party line…Much ado about nothing, but hey, who am I to complain about this party infighting?
October 26th, 2009 at 2:09 pmNewt,
You’re reaping what you sowed.
Politics has become the game of simplistic, narrow-minded, loudmouth ideologs.
Enjoy!
October 26th, 2009 at 2:24 pmIF ANYONE should be the leader of the GOP, it should be Gingrich himself. Sure, I may disagree with him on 99% of things, but I respect him for being a civil politician and not crazy. I look forward to seeing a debate between him and Obama in 2012.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:00 pmDavid Volsky
A CIVIL politician??? I assume you were asleep during the 90’s.
It was NEWT who sent out the memo saying Republicans should criticize Dems using words like sick, decay, traitor, pathetic, corrupt and more. He recently called the Obama administration the most socialist in history. No ‘civil’ is a word that in NO WAY describes the reptile Newt
October 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pmDavid Volsky, by 2012 the debate will be between President Obama, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin. The Republican extremists and moderates are not going to compromise. You’re either in or you’re out.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pmNewt, you had a major hand in casting this party in your own image.
October 26th, 2009 at 4:13 pmDoesn’t speak well for you or the Republican Party.
You have no where to turn now.
How pathedic, your monster is out of control!
Gingrich just want’s to be leader but he hasn’t got it any more, so he goes after the other leaders.
October 26th, 2009 at 5:18 pmOMG, I AGREE with Newt Gingrich???
These short sighted people who were cheering the tea parties and the hate-fest’s are now concerned? About what? The country? NO, they worry about themselves. Newt’s upset because what spawned from the hatred now has a mind and agenda of it’s own. Well, he created a Franken-publican monster, and now its loose………
October 26th, 2009 at 6:05 pm