Debates Hold Key to Newt Gingrich Success

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Susie from Old Florida
"His debate performance was filled with racist comments and code words..."Food stamp president?""
I can't stand Newt, but how come everytime someone doesn't believe something that someone said about Obama they throw the race card out there!? This shows us that what you have to say has no relevance and means nothing because the best thing you have is the race card. Look at the facts! Obama has given more handouts out to more people, regardless of race or color, than any other president. So yes, he is the "food stamp president!" The fact that you think that statement has to do with only black people and not white or brown or orange or purple is ridiculous. Actually...wouldn't that make you a racist??? Something to chew on.

Colt from Big Florida too of FL 9:50AM January 23, 2012

Do you have to be someone who grew up in the South to recognize a major reason Newt won in SC? His debate performance was filled with racist comments and code words. South Carolina is the one of the most racist states in the union, even today. That is one thing the evangelicals, tea partiers and conservatives have in common, although they all would deny it. "Food stamp president?" hello? From Georgia, Mitt is a good ol boy, who knows how to wink and nod with the best of them

Susie from Old Florida of FL 8:52AM January 23, 2012

Regardless of how Newt Gingrich's red-meat loving supporters feel about his debating skills, the truth is that Newt is an empty vessel whose best attribute is deflecting criticism away from himself. Besides spouting useless trivia to impress his audience, Newt relies on attacking the media anytime a legitimate question is raised concerning his character, or some unethical thing from his past. As a television commentator said so well recently, "Newt has so much baggage that his baggage has its own baggage!" But you can't ask Newt a question about how he cheated on his wife while she was battling cancer, or how he profitted from Freddie MAC to the tune of $1.6 million, or why he was thrown out of congress and fined $300,000 without seeing Newt pivot to turn the person asking the question into someone with a personal vendetta against him. This arrogant flip-flopping hypocrite is exposing a segment of the population for which character, moral values, and ethical behavior mean nothing. The thought of someone as disgusting as Newt actually being the leader of the free world does not matter to his establishment supporters, who only seem to hear the words "beat Obama" when Newt opens his mouth to speak. They never consider the fact that Newt has missed the filing deadlines for his candidacy now in multiple states (including his home state of Virginia). He now has no mathetical chance to get enough delegates to win the nomination. Do you think that the people who blindly support Newt ever think about this? Do you think that these people believe that Newt has the best economic plan? What plan? Newt likes to talk about how different he is from Obama, yet he offers little to no detail on how the two differ, and his proposals are weak at best. Newt is a neocon scumbag. Our country deserves better!
Ron Paul 2012!!

Bob Vondruska of CA 2:58AM January 23, 2012

"It allows him to demonstrate his intelligence in a way a canned 30 second ad can't." THAT is RICH. It allows him to lie at great length, that 's for sure. It allows him to puff his gargantuan ego without worry that a he'll get anything lobbed anything but a soft ball from these so called journalist moderators. If John King had had the intelligence and courage to ask his question without a yes/no answer, and hit him with his hypocrisy over Clinton or "family values", it's unlikely he'd have surged in SC. What a joke.
But hey, I'll be pleased as punch if he's their nominee. It will be quite amusing to watch him squirm when he has to debate someone with an actual brain.

Nina of CA 1:20AM January 23, 2012