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Gingrich Rips CNN a New Hole

dalamon said:
Honestly, even when I disregard the fact that Gingrich has had two failed marriages or whatever, there is just something about him that I don't trust. You look at past great presidents, and then you compare your guys's batch of nominees, Paul seems like the only trustworthy one out of the bunch. And its funny, because Im wayyy on the left wing in terms of political orientation, yet I would definitely vote for Paul given the opportunity. He just seems like the candidate I would trust the most.
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I agree that Paul is a candidate I can trust. I don't agree with some things he says but I feel like he is shooting straight with me. Possibly the only one I feel that way about in all of politics. The rest would sell me their mother if they thought it would help them.
 
I just watched a news show and hear an interesting take.

Obama won 2008 based on emotion. Hope, Change! emotion He had people charged up.

Gingrich will win the 2012 GOP nomination based on emotion. Anger at the media and left, aggression. I wont take it anymore! emotion.

Thoughts?
 
Gojazz79 said:
I just watched a news show and hear an interesting take.

Obama won 2008 based on emotion. Hope, Change! emotion He had people charged up.

Gingrich will win the 2012 GOP nomination based on emotion. Anger at the media and left, aggression. I wont take it anymore! emotion.

Thoughts?
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I don't think most Americans are angry with the media or with the left.

I think they're angry at politicians in general.
 
The Thriller said:
I don't think most Americans are angry with the media or with the left.

I think they're angry at politicians in general.
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You are right in that they are angry at politicians in general. However this is the GOP primary. Generally the primaries run to the hard right and hard left. I think the hard right is angry at the "left stream" media.

Regardless, if Gingrich becomes the figurehead of that anger he has a real chance to win this.
 
Gojazz79 said:
You are right in that they are angry at politicians in general. However this is the GOP primary. Generally the primaries run to the hard right and hard left. I think the hard right is angry at the "left stream" media.

Regardless, if Gingrich becomes the figurehead of that anger he has a real chance to win this.
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I misread. I thought you meant the general election.

I think Gingrich's rant against the "liberal media" scored him points with some people.

However, I still think Romney will end up being their ticket when everything is said and done. He's the one that gives them the best chance at knocking off Obama. However, if Newt wins, I think it will be attributed to Mitt's religion more than anything. Mormons are looked at weird by most people. They're looked not only as weird, but non-Christian by most from the right. At the very best, his religion is unknown.

At least with Newt, GOP folks know his religion (even if Newt doesn't live it).
 
Sirkickyass said:
The open marriage is a dumb story. It doesn't really matter except to maybe some moral majority conservatives who were going to vote for Santorum anyway. Even if true it has basically no bearing on him as a presidential candidate.
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Have to agree. So basically, if Newt wins, the White House will be back to what happened during the Kennedy administration. The return of Camelot, with the King having his separate quarters and entertaining numerous ladies. I wonder who would play the part of Lady Marilyn. Any beautiful young, busty blondes out there?
 
GlassEater said:
So basically, if Newt wins, the White House will be back to what happened during the Kennedy administration.
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That's completely unfair. Callista doesn't have a fatal/disfiguring disease, so there's no reason to think Newt will cheat on her.
 
GlassEater said:
Have to agree. So basically, if Newt wins, the White House will be back to what happened during the Kennedy administration. The return of Camelot, with the King having his separate quarters and entertaining numerous ladies. I wonder who would play the part of Lady Marilyn. Any beautiful young, busty blondes out there?
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SOmething about Jessica Simpson calls to me. I bet shes a dirty girl in private.
 
The Thriller said:
I just have no clue what the right wing stands for anymore...

[video]https://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/indecision-2012-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-wealthy/17wlkys8w

When campaigning against Obama, they preach free market, lower taxes, less regulation, allowing companies to fail, capitalism, etc.Yet, when campaigning against Romney, all of a sudden they sound like Democrats, and preach the exact opposite. My favorite part of this video is Stewart says, "It's like Romney responded to the republican eharmony ad and now they're angry!"

LOL. Romney is the very essence of what the repubs are trying to portray (or at least, I thought). Good looking, successful capitalist, etc. Now, they're attacking him for being successful? For eating up other companies? For taking advantage of lower taxes and deregulation? Now all of a sudden the repubs feel like it's unfair to compete against someone so powerful and unrestricted like Romney? Newt, meet the 99%....

Do they even know what they stand for? Other than just saying anything to become elected? I think this further emphasizes the desperation and confusion in the GOP that we talked about months/years ago. So many of them are indistinguishable from Demos. Yet, you do have a small faction (tea party) who claim to be for small government (yet, I haven't seen anything to show that they really are).

Once again, the whole credibility issue comes into play.

Sometimes this batch of GOP candidates is liberal. Other times conservative. And most of the time they just appear to be sleazy car salesmen.

Really, the only GOP candidate I see as not BSing everyone and sticking to his guns, is Ron Paul. Dude might be old, snippy, and senile, but at least he speaks what he says and doesn't change his tune depending on the flavor of the week (which is something I wish I could say about the other losers).
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Great post. Completely true. The tea party is a joke. Republican are quickly running after those wacko's and catching up fast.
 
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