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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 11:49 AM
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Gingrich warns Republicans Americans want change
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party is in serious danger of losing political ground in November elections if it does not enact reforms that eliminate waste and hold the federal bureaucracy to higher standards, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Sunday.
"I think they're in very serious danger of having a very bad election this fall," Gingrich said on Fox News Sunday.
>>> "newty" should know, he authored the infamous "contract with America" that empowered these pricks to take over the congress

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-16T153557Z_01_N16212029_RTRUKOC_0_US-GINGRICH.xml
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 11:52 AM
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1. Democrats are going to win both houses of congress...
this fall!
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 11:54 AM
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3. The House looks ripe for the picking
as to the Senate, Lugar in Indiana is running unopposed and he is nothing but a rubber stamp for Bush.
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 02:40 PM
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25. I so hope you're right
I want the Congress more than I want the White House in 2008.
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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 06:53 PM
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37. It is too late for the Repubs
they had 6 years with Bush as president. 4 as a majority?? They had their chance and they wasted their time on tax cuts for the rich, trying to get rid of Social Security, making abortion illegal, and other things most Americans do not benefit from, or agree with.

Bye, bye.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 11:53 AM
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2. "hold the federal bureaucracy to higher standards"?
How about holding the President and Vice President to the Constitution?
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 11:55 AM
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4. obeying the Constitution would be REAL reform - Newt wants window dressing
Just enough whitewash to mollify the masses.... Not any REAL changes....
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 11:58 AM
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5. Turns out it was a "Contract on America"....nt
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:06 PM
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9. You are so cleaverly correct.
It has been a contract on our lives, jobs, money etc.....
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:00 PM
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6. Pretty soon Fox will start calling him 'presidential' newt gingrich
The GOP is setting him up to beat the pants off
Hillary in '08.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:02 PM
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7. Oh man, that's way far out!
BTW don't hog the bong! <teasing>

It's painful to admit that I agree with that scum Gingrich on anything. No, IMO, he's on his way out ... the big fade.
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:13 PM
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11. All this face time for newt makes me think he's on his way back
They 'beat us' twice with bush who had the worst possible
record as the Governor of Texas. A newt/Hillary matchup
would mean: Let us all salute, President Newt
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:27 PM
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17. Ain't gonna happen ... I can feel it in my gut ... all the underhanded
schemes from Watergate to Present ... they've played their cards TO THE MAX and it's time to finish this game of "Whack a Mole."

They're all going down this time ...

Hope is eternal!
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:54 PM
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18. Yes, hope IS eternal. And dear darling newtie has too many negatives
to get anywhere realistically in a national election. Yeah, maybe the republi-CONS will prop him up and send him out there, but once voters are reminded of the way he jilted his wife in her cancer ward, so she'd be conveniently out of the way when he brought the next mrs. gangrene in (who, on his arm, would make him look more presidential than would a shriveled up, cancer-ridden old broad), he won't get out of the starting gate. And they think they have a snowball's chance in Hell overcoming the gender gap with THAT kind of baggage?

Let's just put it this way: if they seriously think he's viable with all that negative baggage that's absolutely epoxied to himself, they're smokin' something REALLY primo, and aren't giving me any!

I'm really not all that worried about newtie. In fact, it might be fun to have him as the candidate to run against. Certainly would get out the women's vote - for OUR side.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:48 PM
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31. Not in you're wildest dreams!
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 06:02 PM
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35. I'd love to see Newt as the Repub candidate
we could hang him on all the phony "family values" schtick....HE started years ago. The man is toxic. He served his wife (that's wife #1), with divorce papers while she was in the hospital..receiving chemotherapy! He's admitted to cheating on two of his wives. (with wife #3 during his marriage to wife #2). Plus, he failed to pay child support and had to be taken to court. And that's just the start.
So. If the Repubs are staying with these ridiculous "values" talking points, then Newt should be our choice for their candidate. Even the fundies would have to see how hypocritical this "family values" stuff is.
Make him the candidate. He'd bring millions of people into the Democratic Party.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:09 PM
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10. Never mind his shenanigans on his conference table, the Speaker's
copying machine, the Speaker's office couch, or on, around, and under the Speaker's desk!!!

Well, if he is installed as His Majesty, Calista will be the first First Lady to be wife number THREE, and to have taken the stand in a divorce trial and stipulated to "sexual contact" in order to avoid having to describe all the screwing and BJs that went on in Speaker's chambers!!!!!

Yeah...he's one helluva candidate for the GOP!!!!

He's angling for a cabinet post...there's no way he could stand the heat on the campaign trail. He'd have to kill wife #2 first.
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:22 PM
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15. The GOP can do amazing things with all that money and media control
Bush 'beat us' twice and he is a fuckin' idiot
who had a horrible record as Gov. of Texas.

Try this all over the media:
"Those allegations about King Newt are pure hate speech!
Dirty politics has no place in this country!"

"Newt is a born again saved man who will be
gosh darn good for this country."

"We are a country at war, Newt is a proven leader of men!"

I still believe he is being considered as the boy to go with.
He would beat Hillary ten times out of ten,
and he fits the neocon agenda oh so well.


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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:16 PM
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26. You can cover up boozing and coking, or claim that you are 'saved'
by Jeeebus or whomever...but it's a totally different thing when staffers have walked in on Mistah Speakah and Calista banging away on the conference room table, or observing her feet sticking out from under Mistah Speakah's desk, while he, in flushed delight, sits in his fine leather chair. And careful people remove ALL the copies from the tray when they are getting kinky on the xerox machine.

Sex sells. Way more than substance abuse!!

How do you think Mrs. Number Two got all that dirt, that resulted in a HUGE payday for her, and an admission in open court by Calista, a LAWYER, to "sexual contact" with the aggrieved woman's husband? She got it from EYEWITNESSES. She was VERY nice to Newt's staff, a bunch of "believers" in the "Contract With (more properly, Soprano-like, ON) America," baking them cookies, remembering birthdays, helping with sick children, and the like. THEY ratted the guy out when they felt he was losing sight of their grand purpose.

Depositions exist. People who may need a little extra cash would sell a story, or write a book. People who feel betrayed by Newt will talk just out of a sense of self-righteousness and a determination to "set the record straight." A lot of true believers in the CWA think that Newt's banging the help made him lose focus, and led to their downfall. They are angry with him. Still, to this day...!

Quite frankly, I think Newt is the only one Hillary could beat in a landslide without breaking a sweat. He looks good on the surface, but scratch it and there's rot beneath--lotsa rot. She looks like a choirgirl angel next to him.
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:55 PM
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32. Newt is back in the public eye, no doubt about that
And he is being trotted out as a credible
and reasonable authority on matters of the day.
Newt's past will not matter if everyone is afraid to
talk about it. I have the feeling most people do not recall
much about him (remember, americans tend to be dumber than shit).


More importantly, if the GOP keeps stealing elections, ala
Mark Crispin Miller, his scoundrel past will not matter at all.
They could simply install Newt. He definitely
understands, and embraces, the neocon agenda.
Bush's evil work would continue without so much as a stutter
step. We live in post 911 america where neocons appoint
Presidents, break laws, and start wars unabated.






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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 06:05 PM
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36. That's why I think he is angling for a cabinet post in the next (he hopes)
GOP administration. His relationship with his current spouse back when he was Speaker still, even with the passage of time, will not past the smell test in a national contest. Remember, he was the guy EXCORIATING Clinton over Monica, when he was getting WAY more play than Clinton's rather pathetic, by comparison, dalliances. There's tape of him, getting all high handed and self-righteous. And there's court testimony re: his last divorce. It's too juicy to ignore.

As a cabinet official, though, it's less problematic.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:16 PM
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12. Bush Sr. bailed this man out-financially.
I don't remember what his leagal troubles were, but they were expensive.
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:23 PM
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16. I'm sure they are thick as thieves
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:24 PM
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28. Newt will beat nothing in '08. He's in the trash heap of history.
He hasn't a prayer, given his sordid, sleazy past.

I hope they do run him - it'll be great to see him get whipped
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:04 PM
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8. They wanted change when Clinton was outgoing
and brother did they get it! OK, so now they've seen the light and want to change back.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:18 PM
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13. Americans are tired of seeing themselves raped of their
future by these criminals!!!
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 12:20 PM
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14. Oh, shutup Newt. You had your chance, and what did you do?
Nothing, that's what. Contract with America my ass.
Where are all the term limit aficianados resigning
when their time is up? Now just shutup.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 01:00 PM
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19. Newt the Loser??? Them Pubs gonna listen to HIM? Yeah, rrright
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 01:23 PM
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20. He's secular and is saying what moderates want to hear from a Republican
He's still a highly partisan and divisive animal though.
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 01:31 PM
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21. Nah Gingrich, Americans have finally seen what hopeless incompetents
the Republicans really are.
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 01:36 PM
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22. Living in Georgia, I can tell you NOT to listen to our politicians EVER
The best politicians we ever had were the civil rights heros. Since then we've been downhill. Newt is ignoring all the real problems and talking about "government beauracracy" and "waste"? Is he back on the "remove all government protections for the working class" bandwagon? Is that ALL he cares about? All the other major problems in America and the world are just in the background?
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 02:11 PM
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23. The scary thing about Newtie is that he always starts out sounding
so reasonable-- just long enough to fill a soundbite-- but let him go on a bit and it becomes obvious to almost anyone what a crackpot he is.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 02:22 PM
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24. You can start .
Edited on Sun Apr-16-06 02:24 PM by sendero
... with the "war" in Iraq, the single hugest waste of money, that will both cost us billions and create more troubles for us than any Federal "program" in recent memory.

And BTW, isn't this the Newt who got a free pass from the press when he resigned from the house because he was diddling yet another staffer all while ranting about Clinton's horrible immorality?

Isn't this THAT Newt? I sure hope his political opponents have enough sense to bring this into the open, the media let him walk away scot free, the sorry piece of shit.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:32 PM
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29. Newt sure gets enough air time!
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:42 PM
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30. He fits the Faux News mold to a "T" - sleazy and arrogant
Just like when he was "Mr. Speaker", before his diddlin' caught up with him.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:19 PM
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27. Gee. I wonder why. Is it the GOP incompetence?
Just one of many reasons the bums need to get kicked out.
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Kenergy Donating Member (834 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 03:58 PM
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33. Duh! n/t
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 05:54 PM
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34. Newt is so out of the loop.
His party is going to concentrate on "values" before September. That's right..."values." Nevermind the disaster of Iraq. The catastrophic deficit. The environment. Gas prices. The illegal immigration issue. No. The Repubs are gonna, once again, talk about "values." And I'm sure their block of fundamentalists who foam at the mouth will appreciate all the gay bashing and anti-abortion rhetoric. But if there are still Republicans with IQs above 100, I think they're a little jaded on the "values" talk by now.
Newt's party has left him behind. They took his playbook for hate talk and ran away. He created this monster and now that monster won't even return his calls.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-16-06 07:53 PM
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38. The Media Will Make Sure NO CHANGES WILL
take place in America - the country will vote republican again.

The badmouthing of democrats will be 24/7 as we get closer to November.
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