Newt on "Occupy Wall Street"...

[jms62]

Originally Posted by joeydb

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...ke_a_bath.html

Newt Gingrich offers his advice to the "Occupy" protesters.

"Go get a job after you take a bath," he said to raucous applause at the Thanksgiving Family Forum in Des Moines, Iowa.

Smart guy this serial adulterer running for president and all and assuming ALL supporters of Occupy Wallstreet are Dems and insulting them.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by jms62

Smart guy this serial adulterer running for president and all and assuming ALL supporters of Occupy Wallstreet are Dems and insulting them.

He's made comments linking the protestors to a "breakdown of the country's moral values"...pot, meet kettle! Newt my man, you've been gaining in the polls thanks largely to keeping your mouth shut....weird time to abandon that practice.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

He's made comments linking the protestors to a "breakdown of the country's moral values"...pot, meet kettle! Newt my man, you've been gaining in the polls thanks largely to keeping your mouth shut....weird time to abandon that practice.

I hope he was just being an a$$ because he was talking infront of a large number of assholes (Thanksgiving Family Forum).. just being a typical politician.

Newt is probably the most brilliant choice we have for 2012... and he needs to stay far far away from being a typical religious hypocrite.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

I hope he was just being an a$$ because he was talking infront of a large number of assholes (Thanksgiving Family Forum).. just being a typical politician.

Newt is probably the most brilliant choice we have for 2012... and he needs to stay far far away from being a typical religious hypocrite.

Brilliant? How in the world so?

Newt is a wholly-owned lobbyist. He's a serial liar, wholly untrustworthy. He was never "brilliant" in a smart way, especially when he was in office - he was literally kicked out by his party just after he was just re-elected.

[Antitrust32]

Brilliant in that he's probably forgot more about good policy and politics than Obama has ever learned.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Brilliant in that he's probably forgot more about good policy and politics than Obama has ever learned.

Well, good policy and good politics are two entirely different things

The only credit I'll give Newt (having lived through his first political incarnation) is that he rightly would cross party lines to make deals, as they all should. However, he woefully exaggerates his place in history throughout his term as Speaker.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Brilliant in that he's probably forgot more about good policy and politics than Obama has ever learned.

Winner

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

Brilliant? How in the world so?

Newt is a wholly-owned lobbyist. He's a serial liar, wholly untrustworthy. He was never "brilliant" in a smart way, especially when he was in office - he was literally kicked out by his party just after he was just re-elected.

well, i guess with newt you know what you're getting, unlike other pols. well, you know what you're getting with all them too, but they act like they're not your typical politician.

[BigBlue]

If you woke up tomorrow and needed somebody to take the reigns, you'd have to go with Newt, as imperfect as that might be. I think he's the only one with a fighting chance against President Obama - and I don't believe that will be (or should be) enough.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by BigBlue

If you woke up tomorrow and needed somebody to take the reigns, you'd have to go with Newt, as imperfect as that might be. I think he's the only one with a fighting chance against President Obama - and I don't believe that will be (or should be) enough.

I agree - just one correction: I think you meant "take the reins". Sounds the same but big difference - after all, we are a constitutionally federated republic and we do not have a king - no matter what the current occupant of the White House thinks.