I support the Constitution too much to do so.

If that means I have to vote for a Democrat to be sure that the man who has assaulted the First Amendment for 7 years loses, so be it.

Go McCain’s opponent (whichever one that is).

Where was Newt when the pack of candidates was being defined?

He was supporting the policies of John McCain.

I think its time for ALL the demigods to decide whether they want to help unify and get behind the republican candidate or fragment and hand political power, and the Supreme Court, to the (progressives, liberals, socialists, marxists,…choose any one you want) for at least the next twenty(20) years.

If the progressives/liberals/socialists/marxists gain control of the Presiency, the Senate and Congress, you can bet they will expand the public trough to the point that there will be more taking from the public trough than putting into the public trough. Do you think those that are taking out are going to vote their benefactors out of office?

funky chicken on February 10, 2008 at 12:34 PM

Just a caution, quoting big chunks of other peoples work in here may flirt with fair use/copyright violations. It’s better form to quote a paragraph or two then link to the source.

A lot of people don’t deserve the honor of voting for John McCain.

CK MacLeod on February 9, 2008 at 11:57 AM

Howler of the day!! BWAHAHAHAHA!

s a high school student — precocious, lonely, overweight — Newt secretly romanced his geometry teacher, a buxom, matronly woman named Jackie Battley. The furtive romance with his 24-year-old teacher included nighttime sessions in the back of a car in remote areas of Fort Benning, Ga.

Once, Newt and Jackie were so worked up, they got their car caught in a tank trap on the military base and had to call his best friend to rescue them before a daylight exposé, according to the friend’s widow, Linda Tilton. Defying his stepfather, a stern Army colonel, Newt pursued Jackie, married her and promptly had two children.

Jackie Gingrich raised the daughters, worked to put Newt through graduate school and was a loyal political wife during his two unsuccessful campaigns for Congress in 1974 and 1976. In his make-or-break 1978 race, Gingrich enlisted Jackie to attack his female opponent, who had announced that if elected she would commute to Washington and allow her family to remain in Georgia. At Gingrich’s instigation, Jackie wrote a campaign letter declaring that Newt was a fine husband and would take his family with him, although his top aides already knew Gingrich was having affairs and the marriage was falling apart.

The most notorious incident in Gingrich’s marriage — first reported by David Osborne in Mother Jones magazine in 1984 — was when he cornered Jackie in her hospital room where she was recovering from uterine cancer surgery and insisted on discussing the terms of the divorce he was seeking.

Shortly after that infamous encounter, Gingrich refused to pay his alimony and child-support payments. The First Baptist Church in his hometown had to take up a collection to support the family Gingrich had deserted.

Six months after divorcing Jackie, Gingrich married a younger woman, Marianne, with whom he had been having an affair. They are still married, despite persistent (though unproven) rumors that Gingrich has had other dalliances.

Gingrich pioneered a denial of adultery that some observers would later christen “the Newt Defense”: Oral sex doesn’t count. In a revealing psychological portrait of the “inner” Gingrich that appeared in Vanity Fair (September 1995), Gail Sheehy uncovered a woman, Anne Manning, who had an affair in Washington in 1977 with a married Gingrich.

“We had oral sex,” Manning revealed. “He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, ‘I never slept with her.’” She added that Gingrich threatened her: “If you ever tell anybody about this, I’ll say you’re lying.”

Manning was then married to a professor at West Georgia, the backwater college where Gingrich taught. “I don’t claim to be an angel,” she told Sheehy, but “he’s morally dishonest.”

Gingrich refused to comment on Manning’s charges, though he has admitted sexual indiscretions during his first marriage — hey, it was the ’70s, man! But Newt’s oral sex denial proved embarrassing at a time when he was the secular leader of the “family values” crowd, appearing frequently at Christian Coalition gatherings.

During Gingrich’s 1995 summer book tour, when he was testing the waters for a presidential bid, demonstrators hounded him about his oral sex hypocrisy. I was covering Gingrich for a PBS documentary when the speaker appeared at a book signing in Los Angeles and was confronted by a man waving a Bible and shouting, “I want to know here where it says that oral sex doesn’t count as adultery.” The gentleman was hustled out of the bookstore by the Secret Service before Gingrich could answer his theological question.

Uh, not exactly GOP presidential candidate material.

sounds alot like “I support the troops… but oppose the war.”

BadBrad on February 10, 2008 at 10:53 AM

Newt’s position is the only reasonable one for conservatives. By November only one of two people will become president, either the Dem or Republican. In the Super Bowl you don’t get to cheer for your favorite team if they aren’t in the game.

The war is similar. If every opinion about the war has to utlitmately be resolved into “Yes vs. No”, then there are a lot of people on both sides of that question who support the troops.

“I think it’s a totally honorable thing to say ‘I support the candidate but I oppose the policy,’” he told activists gathered for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

sounds alot like “I support the troops… but oppose the war.”

too bad he can’t stop putting his foot in his mouth…

I love the moth joke, who says McCain does not have a sense of humor. There is hope for the GOP after all.
myamphibian on February 9, 2008 at 7:18 PM

Yeah, there is hope for the GOP to survive. But only as a liberal organization with McShamnesty at the helm. And at that point, there are no conservatives left in the GOP and you guys might as well go be democrats.

“If he was with you on the Monday, you would find him the same on the Wednesday; and on the Friday, when things looked really blue, he would still be marching forwards with fresh battalions.”
Pax americana on February 9, 2008 at 3:04 PM

So were some of the most vile despots in history. You McLiar shills think that tenacity is a virtue. It’s only a virtue for those on the right path. McShamnesty is on the wrong path.

Newt Gingrich immigration grades while in office.
Doesn’t look like he has a leg to stand on.
Last grade F-!

Speakup on February 10, 2008 at 1:22 AM

Oh dear.

Gingrich also make pitch perfect points about how a conservative ought to build bipartisanship…
If Gingrich is right, it explains a lot.

Grade HISTORY
OVERALL ACTIONS
Session Year Grade
105 ’97-’98 D-
104 ’95-’96 D+
103 ’93-’94 No Votes
102 ’91-’92 No Votes
101 ’89-’90 F-

http://grades.betterimmigration.com/view_history.php3?District=GA&VIPID=217

I’m with Mitt!

madmonkphotog on February 9, 2008 at 8:04 PM

where is that exactly? LOL

Ok, just had to get it out of my system.

Gingrich gives approval to McCain presidential run…Chakra Hammer on February 9, 2008 at 6:07 PM

see also,
McCain open to advice, cash from Karl Rove

I love the moth joke, who says McCain does not have a sense of humor. There is hope for the GOP after all.

Get your guns

Build a bunker

Store two years of food

and wait til some nut launches the first nuke

The great experiment of liberty is dead