Debate Exposes Newt Gingrich's Strengths and Weaknesses

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Newt Gingrich is the only candidate that can gather the Republicans to do right for the American people. He has done it before and can do it again. There is no one else that can whip the congress into shape and force them together.. Only Newt Gingrich. Some of the Republicans are drifting to compromise with the Dems. Ron Paul cannot force them back in line.
My fear is a Mit, Huntsman Ticket. Brought to us via the Convention floor.
I believe Huntsman is running for the Vice President slot. His Foreign Policy is the same old set of principles that have squandered our money and killed our Kids in the military for the last 50 years. Appeasement and bribary from the safety of their political beds.
We had the ability to win a war quickly but, our leaders thought more of the enemy than our people.(now our enemys are to strong)
We must have a President who will not deal with the Dems when they undermine our constitution, continue to spend and borrow. A president who will force the Republicans to stick together when so much is at stake. When talking about actvist Judges Newt is right .The media has spun his opinions out of content and its wrong. A great example has been Eminent domain. governmental power to appropriate private property.
Do you remember when One Person would not sell his shop in New York City and the developers had to build around it(. As an after thought do you remember the pictures of one elderly couple with their small vegetable garden even in the middle of Tokyo.) No U.S Government back then could force an American to give up their property either except I believe for Hyways.
I hope I am wrong about Romney. I know Huntsmans bread and butter is with the Liberals. And Ron Paul will give the election to the Socialists.

jj campbell of FL 6:22PM December 26, 2011

As the great Lord Acton famously observed: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Newton Leroy Gingrich is self-absorbed, hubristic and arrogant. He is the aging poster boy for crony corporatism, as his corrosive "relationship" with FreddieMac demonstrated.
Gingrich callously ignored his oath of office to support the Constitution and his marriage vows.
Eighty-four ethics charges were filed against Speaker Gingrich during his term. After extensive investigation and negotiation by the House Ethics Committee, Gingrich was sanctioned US$300,000 by a 395-28 House vote. It was the first time in history a speaker was disciplined for ethical wrongdoing.
This neocon chicken hawk is a serial hypocrite, serial adulterer, and serial warmonger. Insatiable lust for power and women have brought down such men. Remember Napoleon? And Callista sure ain't no Josephine!

Charles of OK 8:53PM December 16, 2011

Newt,
If it looks like lobbying, and smells like lobbying, it's lobbying. History is something else, something that won't remember you kindly.

William Doonan of CA 1:51PM December 16, 2011

"I was a private citizen engaged in a business like any other business."
Only in Newt's world could a paid "historian" working for a GSE to effectively outreach to fellow Republicans to teach them "history" could that look like "Any other business."

T Ganski of FL 11:19AM December 16, 2011