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Romney’s ‘Perfect’ President for the 19th Century?

28 Nov

New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, the Union Leader, has announced Sunday it’s endorsing Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich in the 2012 Republican Tea Party (GOTP) primary race. This of course comes as a near devastating blow to fellow GOTP presidential candidate Mittens Romney.

Union Leader editorial page editor Andrew Cline said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Romney’s a “very play-it-safe candidate” which is not what America needs right now. “Perhaps in the late 19th century, perfect.”

“He doesn’t want to offend anybody, he wants to be liked, he wants to try to reach out and be very safe,” said Cline. “And that’s not very realistic, but imagine what that would be like as president.”

The paper had narrowed down its choices to Gingrich and Reverend Rick Perry, eventually going with Gingrich because of his political experience, Cline said.

“I’m really not sure precisely what we get out of a President Romney — who might very well be a good president — but we don’t really know,” he said. “Given the choice between the candidate who wants to be liked and the candidate who wants to be respected, we would rather have the guy who wants to be respected.”

Publisher Joseph W. McQuaide wrote in the endorsement that Gingrich is “by no means the perfect candidate,” but is the best one in the running.

“We don’t have to agree with them on every issue. We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear,” he wrote.

So, Mittens has been passed over by the largest newspaper in the state of New Hampshire for Newton; wow, no matter how you try to spin it, that’s got to sting quite a bit. But the editor’s right, Mittens wants to be liked and he’s been selling his soul to every new audience, flip flopping back and forth on every issue saying whatever he thinks the current crowd wants to hear; and well frankly, eventually that kind of political foosball catches up with you. Gingrich’s the first viable challenger to King Mittens and he could pull it off, the rest of the Crazy Eights are simply courtesans at this point.

 
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Posted by on November 28, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Poor Newton …

22 Nov

 
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Posted by on November 22, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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I am William Wallace!

22 Nov

Newton Leroy Gingrich’s poll numbers are on the rise, so, what does he decide to do? He compares himself to William Wallace.

In a USA Today profile, the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) candidate referenced a Robert Reich Christian Science Monitor op-ed, commenting on how a Mitt Romney/Barack Obama election would be “passionless.” Gingrich stepped in on that claim, likening himself to the famed Scottish hero portrayed by Mel Gibson:

“If you go out and see what’s happening in the Tea Party, the last thing you want is a passionless election,” Gingrich told USA Today. “Remember Braveheart? These people want somebody who plants a flag in the ground, gives a speech and yells ‘Charge!'”

Has Newton – who’s a self-proclaimed historian extraordinaire – ever seen the movie? In the end of the film William Wallace is captured by the British, tried for treason, found guilty and brutally executed – being hanged, drawn and quartered. Is this a foreshadowing of Newton’s campaign? Will it also end up – figuratively – hanged, drawn and quartered?

While Newton is trying to cast himself in the hero mold of Wallace, he no doubt also sees himself as a Gibson type persona wooing the women, but marrying them later; which begs the question, if Newton was to somehow be elected president would his current wife be called the First Lady or the First Mistress? Clearly she’s proven herself not to be a lady having had an affair with the former Speaker – while he was married to his second wife, who he also had an affair with, while being married to his first wife, who he dumped while she was fighting cancer; the current strumpet would be the first wife of a president since Andrew Jackson’s to be called a ho, but this time it’d be an accurate description. I’m sorry but let’s not be fidgety here, if you sleep with a married man you’re a ho, and that’s exactly what she did.

Normally I’d avoid this kind of thing, but Newton’s an adulterer – many times over – and his current wife was his former mistress; clearly the new conservative “family values” model leaves a great deal to be desired. But alas, this is just another example of the hypocrisy of today’s GOTP; don’t do as I do, do as I say! Of course, let’s not forget why Newton had his affairs, it was because he loved America so darned much.

On Newton thinking he’s William Wallace; who does he see as being cast in the role of King Edward I of England, President Obama, or Mittens Romney, or both? And one last thought, Newt in a kilt is not something anyone should ever have to see.

 
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Posted by on November 22, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Newt was paid how much by Freddie Mac?

16 Nov

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidate Newton Leroy Gingrich has been extremely critical of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, as well as the Democrats in Congress he claims played a key role in the collapse of the housing market, but what he hasn’t said is that he – apparently as a lobbyist – made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from the mortgage company, a figure substantially larger than the $300,000 payment he was asked about during a recent Republican presidential debate.

Freddie Mac officials have also reportedly told Bloomberg that Gingrich was asked to build bridges with Capitol Hill Republicans and help sell the mortgage company’s public-private structure to conservatives, aka lobbying.

Of course Newton is denying the charges, “I do no lobbying of any kind, and I offered strategic advice and that’s all I do,” Gingrich said. “I don’t go to the Hill. I don’t lobby in any way. I haven’t for the years I’ve left the speakership, period.”

“I was quite happy to talk about the GSEs, which was the question,” Newton continued. “But once you got into a cycle where people were literally giving mortgages to people with no credit at all, you don’t have to be much of a historian to know that’s not sustainable.”

And not being much of a historian is a good thing since Newton isn’t much of a historian; case in point being during the 9 Nov 11, he claimed he warned Freddie Mac about its lending practices: “I offered advice. My advice as an historian when they walked in and said we are now making loans to people that have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything but that’s what the government wants us to do. I said at the time, this is a bubble. This is insane. This is impossible.”

But Newton’s version of “history” doesn’t match Freddie Mac’s, at least one source reportedly told Bloomberg Gingrich gave positive feedback on Freddie Mac’s plans to publicly pledge to issue subordinated debt, manage liquidity, undergo capital stress tests and expand various types of risk disclosures. Gingrich also said these moves would enable Freddie Mac to demonstrate benefits to the taxpayer, the source claimed.

Newton claims he offered the company “advice on precisely what they didn’t do;” once again however, the history is fairly muddied and no one at Freddie Mac remembers Gingrich raising the issue of the housing bubble or of being critical of Freddie Mac’s business model.

Once again Newton’s been caught with his hand in the cookie jar; first, as Speaker, he persecuted then President Clinton for indiscretions in the White House, all the while having his own sexual liaisons; second, now, as a presidential wannabe, he’s critical of Freddie Mac while having received more than a million dollars in “consulting” fees from the company? Newton is nothing more than the poster boy for today’s hypocritical conservative movement, whose mantra is “Do as I say, not as I do,” secondary only to its motto, “We belief in the Golden Rule; he who has the gold makes the rules.”

 
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Posted by on November 16, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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