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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on January 31, 2012 at 8:05am

Ed, I have seen all of the negative stuff, and don't really need a repeat performance on it.  Those who ajudge the conservative credentials of candidates have judged Newt to be almost perfect in so far as his conservative credentials.  Yes, I know Romney ran the robo calls about global warming, but let's all try to remember that the information about bogus stats and facts etc., has only just came to the surface recently and when Gingrich made the commercial with Botox Nancy was long before that when people did believe it was an issue.  Mr. Gingrich has since come out and said standing with Nancy was a mistake, and he wishes he had never done it..............and like us, he knows now that it was all faux.  You guys can't keep going back 20 or 30 years and trying to make something that is irrelevant, relevant.  It just isn't and yes, I also got the robo call as did many others and when you have to go back 20 or 30 years to find something to discredit someone, it says eons about the person you are trying to discredit, doesn't it?

Comment by Ed Oertli on January 30, 2012 at 11:30pm

Patricia, At one time I was a Gingrich supporter and a regular donor to Americans for Prosperity. When he came out for Global Warming and Carbon Taxes ( which is a yet another hoax/scam) I investigated him more closely and learned this one of his many hidden agendas. True he is a great talker, but then again so is Obama. For me and many others, his record doesn't stand-up to our conservative scrutiny. It really doesn't show him to be the kind of person that can change the country for the better and back to the Constitution. He is just the Republican arm of the Big Government Party.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on January 30, 2012 at 12:11pm

Jesse, if Obama gets re-elected, we won't have a country to be so virtuous about.  I have no idea what is wrong with the lion's share of the folks that came in on what amounted to an announcement about an activity.  Are you the only one who has a candidate that is running something you consider worthy of the rest of us going to?  Are you the person who should tell the rest of us who to vote for, because you solely know who the best man is or do the rest of us get to choose for ourselves...........maybe you are getting ahead start on what is to come in the next 4 years of Obama where everyone has all the decisions including what and how to think made for us?

Comment by Jessie B Pittman on January 30, 2012 at 11:36am

Is everyone so afraid of Obama being re-elected that they only care if the candidate  can beat Oboma , How about the best man to be Pres?   I can distinctly remember when i was a young boy,my Grandpa and uncles talking about why they would not consider voting for a person even if they seemed to prefer them.    Character Asassination. Un-Godly,  Un-called for,Un-American(in those days) and not tolerated

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on January 29, 2012 at 3:29pm

PS:  Supporting your own candidate is not cutting someone else's down.  It is finding things to do that are positive and actually help whoever you support.  You don't win by proving you are better than someone you think if awful as that doesn't say much about you.  Understand I do not support Romney, Paul or Santorum but I do have varying degrees of respect for all three of the other candidates.  I personally happen to think Newt is the best person to go up against Obama and since he has fixed the country once already, he is capable and up for the job of doing it again..............

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on January 29, 2012 at 3:26pm

You don't have to support him, but you also don't have to harrass those who do by doing what you have done.  Most of us know what has been done and also know what has not been done.  We also know where he is now, and in case you didn't notice, several people have made changes in their belief systems................so have I over the last 20 or 30 years, so I can understand it.

Comment by Ed Oertli on January 29, 2012 at 3:16pm

A little chronological history about Newt Gingrich, someone I could never support.

04/02/1987 – He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation)
10/22/1991 – He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03/–/1993 – He was “passionately in favor” of sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
11/19/1993 – He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 – He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
04/25/1996 – Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
04/10/1995 – He supported Federal tax dollars being spent on abortions.
09/25/1996 – Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 – He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.”
11/29/2006 – He called for a “Geneva Convention for terrorists” so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.
02/15/2007 – He supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
04/17/2008 – Made a commercial with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change.
09/28/2008 – Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
12/08/2008 – He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
 11/15/2010 – He defended Romneycare; blamed liberals
12/02/2010 – He advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
12/05/2010 – He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
01/30/2011 – He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 – He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/10/2011 – He wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it.
02/13/2011 – He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. tax dollars to Egypt.
02/15/2011 – His book said that he believes man-made Climate-Change and advocated creating “a new endowment for conservation and the environment.”
03/09/2011 – He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
03/15/2011 – Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 – He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
03/23/2011 – He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 – He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
03/27/2011 – He says that America is under attack by atheist Islamists.
04/25/2011 – He’s a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
05/12/2011 – He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
05/15/2011 – He backed Obama’s individual mandate; “All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.”
05/16/2011 – He also endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.
08/11/2011 – His recent criticism of the United Nations is United Nations by a long, long history of supporting it.
09/27/2011 – He says that he “helped develop the model for Homeland Security”

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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on January 29, 2012 at 10:23am

Thanks for posting Billie!