His supporters have the attention span of a gnat and the critical thinking skills of a small soapdish, so I doubt this will affect his run to the nomination whatsoever.

Gingrich: Lie. lie. lie. lie. lie.
John King: Isn't that a lie?
Gingrich: How dare you and the media elite accuse me of lying?!?!?
Audience: (standing ovation)
Gingrich: Lie. lie. lie. lie. lie.

jayhawk88: I met with Ronald Reagan for the first time in 1974. I worked with Jack Kemp, and Art Laffer and others to develop supply side economics in the late '70s. I helped Governor Reagan become President Reagan. I helped pass the Reagan economic program and worked with the National Security Council on issues including the collapse of the Soviet Empire," Newt Gingrich said at tonight's debate.

I like how he lists all of these things as if they are some sort of accomplishment, rather than a liability

Goldwater didn't support you.

proteus_b: i clicked, hoping to find some hypocrisy in the newt.

first link "i was a rockefeller state chairman in the south"

second link "i went to a goldwater organizing committee"

the quotes are out of context and separated by 25 years. i think this may be the most misleading pair of headlines i've ever seen on fark, and i support romney over gingrich...

So, he was campaign chairman for a moderate, but toyed around with idea of supporting a conservative?

Nope - there's nothing to that at all, coming from the guy that is supposedly the "conservative alternative" to the moderate Romney.

To be fair, Gingrich couldn't fit into Goldwater's jockstrap, let alone support him...

proteus_b: cmunic8r99: So, he was campaign chairman for a moderate, but toyed around with idea of supporting a conservative?

Nope - there's nothing to that at all, coming from the guy that is supposedly the "conservative alternative" to the moderate Romney.

considering that at the age that gingrich was "toying around" with different candidates, the current president (as well as the past two) were sitting around with a head full of coke....

i hope to god that none of the lib-tards on fark ever make the mistake of supporting more than one different liberal politician in their early twenties, as this apparently is proof of their unsuitability for office.

/unless they start out as marxists and then later revise to "pragmatic democrat", that's apparently acceptable and commendable...

It's not about him supporting more than one politician in his life (for me, anyway). It's that he says he's the true conservative, but campaigned for a moderate.

In other words, either he is a reformed a RINO or he still is one (and his support of healthcare reform and Medicare Part Day point to the latter).

Trust me - in 40 years, if a candidate was the campaign chair of someone like Ben Nelson, but runs for president as the Dennis Kucinich (sp?) of Democrats, I'm gonna have the same reaction.

Jake Havechek: Newt is more Nixonian, I think. He's more a Chuck Colsen type.


Richard Nixon is the only U.S. president who resigned from office.

It's a fact!

Don't tell Gary.

Next, Newt will be telling us he has a black friend...

someonelse: Great_Milenko: I like how he can turn around and state that he's not a Washington Insider and the rubes believe it.

When I stop and think about the fact that Newt is now successfully running as a "Washington outsider," I am gobsmacked. It's just unbelievable, but that's the state of the Republican Party now.

"Washington Outsider" is the new Washington Insider.

I loved how Newt managed to invoke Reagan within the first 10 words he spoke last night.

Aside from the lobbying bit, I could have scripted the entire debate last night.

I wish. Goldwater hated what the Religious right did to the Republican Party. He was pro-equal rights for LGBT citizens and thought government had no right restricting a woman's right to choose.

shiat if Goldwater was running today I might vote for him.

Gwendolyn: I wish. Goldwater hated what the Religious right did to the Republican Party. He was pro-equal rights for LGBT citizens and thought government had no right restricting a woman's right to choose.

shiat if Goldwater was running today I might vote for him.

Zombie Goldwater/Ike 2012!

Gwendolyn: I wish. Goldwater hated what the Religious right did to the Republican Party. He was pro-equal rights for LGBT citizens and thought government had no right restricting a woman's right to choose.

shiat if Goldwater was running today I might vote for him.

I don't think I would've.
I might consider zombie Eisenhower, though.

Rev. Skarekroe: Gwendolyn: I wish. Goldwater hated what the Religious right did to the Republican Party. He was pro-equal rights for LGBT citizens and thought government had no right restricting a woman's right to choose.

shiat if Goldwater was running today I might vote for him.

I don't think I would've.
I might consider zombie Eisenhower, though.

I learned alot about his uneasy relationship with religious conservatives when reading The Family. He tried as best he could to maintain an arms length. And this was when Coe and the other founders were just getting started. Also around the time they started the National Prayer Breakfast.

proteus_b: i clicked, hoping to find some hypocrisy in the newt.

first link "i was a rockefeller state chairman in the south"

second link "i went to a goldwater organizing committee"

the quotes are out of context and separated by 25 years. i think this may be the most misleading pair of headlines i've ever seen on fark, and i support romney over gingrich...

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich flip flops then says that anyone that uses direct quotes from him is lying.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-any-ad-which-quote s -what-i-said-sun

jayhawk88: I met with Ronald Reagan for the first time in 1974. I worked with Jack Kemp, and Art Laffer and others to develop supply side economics in the late '70s. I helped Governor Reagan become President Reagan. I helped pass the Reagan economic program and worked with the National Security Council on issues including the collapse of the Soviet Empire," Newt Gingrich said at tonight's debate.

I once helped Reagan move a couch up two flights of stairs! I got Reagan a beer once when he didn't even ask for one! Nancy and I engaged in some casual flirting! Before he died, I had Reagan's blood transfused with my own at great personal health risk! HIS POWER FLOWS THROUGH MY DEEDS!

While Newt Gingrich has many opinions on many things, a running theme of his record of provocative public has been his opinion of himself and how he stacks up against other great -- and not so great -- minds. He is as unconventional as Margaret Thatcher, as great a compromiser as Henry Clay, as tough as Ho Chi Minh and definitely smarter than Michele Bachmann and the entire on-air staff of Fox News. On Wednesday, we learned that as his campaign was barely surviving this summer, Gingrich never doubted himself, according to Politico's new e-book, The Right Fights Back. 'I told somebody at one point, "This is like watching [Sam] Walton or [Ray] Kroc develop Walmart and McDonald's,'" he said. The history-loving Gingrich has a long history of making such comparisons.

Great_Milenko: Jackson Herring: jayhawk88: I met with Ronald Reagan for the first time in 1974. I worked with Jack Kemp, and Art Laffer and others to develop supply side economics in the late '70s. I helped Governor Reagan become President Reagan. I helped pass the Reagan economic program and worked with the National Security Council on issues including the collapse of the Soviet Empire," Newt Gingrich said at tonight's debate.

I like how he lists all of these things as if they are some sort of accomplishment, rather than a liability

I like how he can turn around and state that he's not a Washington Insider and the rubes believe it.

Of course he's not a Warshington insider.

Newt Gingrich made more appearances on Meet the Press than any other individual in 2009. The actual speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, did not appear once on the show in 2009.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/alterman

Diogenes: I loved how Newt managed to invoke Reagan within the first 10 words he spoke last night.

Aside from the lobbying bit, I could have scripted the entire debate last night.

"The 68-year-old has compared himself to Charles de Gaulle. He has noted nonchalantly: "People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz." As speaker, he liked to tell reporters he was a World Historical Transformational Figure."

Bucky Katt: Diogenes: I loved how Newt managed to invoke Reagan within the first 10 words he spoke last night.

Aside from the lobbying bit, I could have scripted the entire debate last night.

"The 68-year-old has compared himself to Charles de Gaulle. He has noted nonchalantly: "People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz." As speaker, he liked to tell reporters he was a World Historical Transformational Figure."

Well, could you pick a better person to preserve the whole of Western civilization and culture?

I think the scab I picked off my toe this morning would be better than Gingrich.