Kill Newt's Chances of Winning the Republican Nomination for President of the US

[byu71]

I can sense the anger in this thread. Lots of sore losers here today.

Are you just trolling or serious.

[Omaha 680]

I'm going to say it. There's a reason Newt and Mitt are the leaders. They are the two best available candidates and always have been. (Damning with faint praise, I know.)

Flame away.

Who's going to argue with this? Chris Christie could join the race tomorrow and he'd have a good shot at winning the nomination still. It is a lackluster field, and the best ones IMO (Romney, Pawlenty) came across as awkward and less than genuine.

[wuapinmon]

That’s the last time, YOhio. That the last time you ever make me look bad in front of those posters, you hear me? I post about 1500 times a year and I have a reputation and a fan club and I get recommended for CUFFIES and I’m not about to throw it all away on some punk like you. But someday when you’re outta here and you’ve forgotten all about this place and they’ve forgotten all about you, and you’re wrapped up in your own pathetic life, I’m gonna be there. That’s right. And I’m gonna kick the living shit out of you. I’m gonna knock your dick in the dirt.

One of you has two Greatest Hits threads. The other one sells phones at an Idaho mall kiosk.

[oxcoug]

Simplify it: "Newt made millions from mortgage companies while Americans lost their homes."

Good work.

I agree on the shorter version but I do think that specifying that it's not just homes but jobs and wealth and economic security makes it a harder hit.

[NorthwestUteFan]

When Newt says "Washington Elite" I would respond: "Mr. Speaker, you went to Washington on a $10,000 salary. You came out a multi-millionaire. You're the poster-boy of the Washington Elite."

He has been in DC for over 3-1/2 decades.

He lives in McLean, VA - the hoity toity-est of the hoity toity suburbs of DC.

He has a K Street office.

He banged a staffer at his DC apartment for 6 years while his wife was at home in Georgia. Said staffer later became Wife #3, and now bleaches her hair and wears her makeup in a manner to make her look 'older', though she is younger than both of his children.

He is the epitome of a Washington Insider. Barack Obama is an absolute outsider by comparison, appears to be more honest, and would be the 'family values' candidate.

[Pelado]

Simplify it: "Newt made millions from taxpayer-funded mortgage companies while Americans lost their homes."

FIFY

[Jacob]

Mitt going with the old "Newt oughtta give the money back to Freddie line." I don't like that line. It's small. It doesn't work coming from a guy with as much money as Romney.

[Surfah]

Decent read of Newt's involvement in Freddie Mac and his conflicting statements about it:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...E901-LY9OZ.DTL

[Pelado]

Mitt going with the old "Newt oughtta give the money back to Freddie line." I don't like that line. It's small. It doesn't work coming from a guy with as much money as Romney.

Agree. I much prefer the "show us your contracts and work product" line of attack.

[Moliere]

Mitt going with the old "Newt oughtta give the money back to Freddie line." I don't like that line. It's small. It doesn't work coming from a guy with as much money as Romney.

I agree that line isn't very good. What Mitt oughta go with is "Newt, don't give the $1.6 million back to Freddie. Give it back to the American people! They are the ones you took it from!"

[Jacob]

Agree. I much prefer the "show us your contracts and work product" line of attack.

Along with attacking him on the merits, I agree. But in isolation, there may not be much to the contracts as Gingrich has allegedly asked for them to be released. The work product may be more revealing.

[Surfah]

Newt is saying he urged the house to vote yes on the ethics charges against him so that they could get to what was most important, balancing the budget. That is a silver tongue if any.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...says-gingrich/

[Jacob]

On the work product, this seems damning from Surfah's link above:

Former and current Freddie Mac executives told Bloomberg News that Gingrich was hired to develop an argument on behalf of the company's public-private structure that would resonate with conservatives seeking to dismantle it. He wasn't asked to personally deliver that message on Capitol Hill, they said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...#ixzz1kJnQn4bT

So he may not have been lobbying, but he was hired for the explicit purpose to keep the death spiral going rather than dismantle it as (lets call them) "true conservatives" were trying to do. This goes directly at the line of attack that I think woudl be most beneficial. Conservatives wanted to take it down while Newt was hired to prop it up, which led to the financial disaster.

[DU Ute]

It there anyone on the board other than DDD who prefers Newt over Romney?

[TripletDaddy]

It there anyone on the board other than DDD who prefers Newt over Romney?

I don't prefer Newt over Romney. I have zero plans to vote for Newt and think Romney would be a more qualified POTUS if elected.