Comments on: Newt: Sorry about the “racist” allegation

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:14:46 +0000

Newt was trained at The International House of Pancakes Republican Spokesman School; He’s got more flops than a Chinese shoe manufacturer!

By: workingforpigs

workingforpigs — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:14:54 +0000

Come on Newt, stick to your guns, tell it like it is. She is a racist pig and should be called out for it. If the shoe was on the other foot and a white dude said the same thing he would have been hung on the whitehouse steps for all to see.

Solution: Get some Kerosene dip some rags in them and tie them to your ankles to keep the ants from carrying off your …. candy A$$

By: MichiganMatt

MichiganMatt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:03:39 +0000

I hope there are some Republicans that will stand up against Sotomayor’s nomination. If anything good comes from this, it will be that Newt has shown his true colors. He’s a populist and deeply concerned about what others think of him. He will try to walk the middle on everything when push comes to shove. He is worthless!
Those of you thinking he a true conservative and potential nominee for our party, please look closer at this man. Newt is one of the biggest, so called “conservative”, frauds of our time.

By: platypus

platypus — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:44:44 +0000

How about we do a donation drive and buy this has-been wuss a rocking chair? As long as this DC insider is the face of the GOP, losing elections will feel like instinct.

Sarah! in 2012.

By: johnnyU

johnnyU — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:24:33 +0000

Smart man. He’s got to be good for someones cabinet some day. eh maybe when we take our country back in 2010 and 2012.

By: katiejane

katiejane — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:15:19 +0000

IMO Newt tends to do this type of thing – throw something out to light a fire and then once the blaze gets – going put on his fireman helmet and try to look like the solution. He wants to appeal to the base AND stilll be thought of as a statesman. JMO.

By: bill30097

bill30097 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:42:51 +0000

but Sotomayor is historic?
Never before has a person born in Kenya ever appointed a Latina to the SCOTUS while Oprah cried. It is historic.

Geochelone on June 4, 2009 at 4:02 AM

By: It Just Keeps Coming; More on Sotomayor, and it isn’t good « Northern Thoughts And Reflections

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:04:06 +0000

[...] Newt Gingrich has lost his stomach for this fight, backing away from statements he made about Sonia … Pathetic if you ask me, especially since we now have more proof that she is. Greg Sargent did a [...]

By: Bleed_thelizard

Bleed_thelizard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:24:44 +0000

Newt has much to learn. Having been in Washington DC all that time, he should have learned long ago that White men can’t claim racism, and it is BECAUSE of White men that others experience it.

I guess it is time for another couch/coach session with Pelosi so she can school him on what is proper to say or not to say.

By: echosyst

echosyst — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:48:24 +0000

Newt is a joke to me now. He was right the first time. He pusses out constantly these days. Of course anyone who buys into the climate change crap is be definition and idiot or a liar. Not sure which Newt is in this case.

By: Alden Pyle

Alden Pyle — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:39:27 +0000

**cough, cough**…words have meaning.

By: Geochelone

Geochelone — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:02:03 +0000

but Sotomayor is historic?

Never before has a person born in Kenya ever appointed a Latina to the SCOTUS while Oprah cried. It is historic.

By: FontanaConservative

FontanaConservative — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:35:03 +0000

Newt unfortunately is like every other white person who has sinned against the mighty race hustlers of the day. He had the unfortunate reality of being a white man and saying something offensive to the non whites and the guilt ridden white leftists. Shelby Steele calls this unforgivable sin white people commit on a daily basis White Guilt. The only way to stop it is to stand up to it period no backtracking no walking back no crawling back stand up and stand strong: Read Steele’s Definition:
What is white guilt? It is not a personal sense of remorse over past wrongs. White guilt is literally a vacuum of moral authority in matters of race, equality, and opportunity that comes from the association of mere white skin with America’s historical racism. It is the stigmatization of whites and, more importantly, American institutions with the sin of racism. Under this stigma white individuals and American institutions must perpetually prove a negative–that they are not racist–to gain enough authority to function in matters of race, equality, and opportunity. If they fail to prove the negative, they will be seen as racists. Political correctness, diversity policies, and multiculturalism are forms of deference that give whites and institutions a way to prove the negative and win reprieve from the racist stigma.

By: dan@onlyaliberal.com

dan@onlyaliberal.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:20:09 +0000

Im a libertarian, but a strong Republican party is the only thing to prevent the Dems from going wild. Barack Obama is already so easy to beat in 2012 IF, and only IF, there is one set of kevlar testicles in the entire Republican party (its a metaphor ladies, no disrespect). I identified 3 men who had them: Cheney, Newt, and Mitt. Now obviously Newt has shown himself to not have what it takes to stand up against what will be a brutal onslaught. I doubt Cheney will run, or could win, based on the general mythical opinion of him.

Newt, you’re a friggin invertebrate.

By: AZfederalist

AZfederalist — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:43:11 +0000

Come on Newt, man up.

By: realitycheck

realitycheck — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:43:01 +0000

Newt,

First you and Peloser on a bench, talking smack about climate change. Now this.

I used to belive you.

No longer.

Wuss.

By: America hater Michelle Obama now campaigning for racist Sotomayor | Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:40:41 +0000

[...] has decided to defend racist, sexist and “wise Latina”, Sonia Sotomayor. Of course, Newt Gingrich backpeddled on this “racist” comment about Sotomayor, but I haven’t. No TweetBacks yet. (Be the first to Tweet this [...]

By: jimw

jimw — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:25:31 +0000

The need to treat a Democrat nominee like the Dems treated Pickering and Bork is a silly reason to attack this Wise Latino Lady. She will be confirmed for sure. So why smear her with nonsense just to be like the Dems?

By: RuffledRaven

RuffledRaven — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:39:33 +0000

I have grown increasing tired of people saying things and then deciding there needs to be some backtracking or spin involved if their words either offended or upset some people. Especially so when it is not even the person who uttered the words who is giving the ‘clarification’. How someone can explain what was going on in someone else’s head simply amazes me. Case in point just about anytime Biden opens his mouth.

It is one thing to say something in the heat of the moment that you regret later. We have all done that. It is quite another to actually think about expressing something, such as a statement or a speech, and then come back to apply the necessary spin. The common thread between these two examples is at the time the words were uttered or thought there was some truth to them. As far as I know a person’s brain does not set out to mislead itself. So unless a person is pathologically unable to even think the truth let alone speak it people mean what they say at the time they say them.

Only point of credit I give Newt, and its a small one, is that he did it himself and didn’t need an Administration or Press Secretary to say it.

It is quite simple, if you are going to use the brainpower to formulate a coherent thought and express it, be willing to admit there was some validity to it, stand behind it and move on. If you feel the need to have to continually revise what you said and what you meant then it is quite apparent that the ability to think and speak is a little too much for you to handle at the same time and you need to leave the speaking to us sentient ones.

I have more respect for those who say things they actually believe and will stand behind their words even if I do not agree with them than I do with people who speak the words I may agree with but may not actually believe what they are saying or are unwilling to stand behind their words if they do believe them.

So in the case of Mr Gingrich, I have given you your small point sir, but in the larger picture you are simply one more whose ability to stand behind what they stand is as solid as a picture written on an Etch-a-Sketch. Good day sir.

By: fossten

fossten — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:34:28 +0000

Coward.

By: omnipotent

omnipotent — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:33:18 +0000

Dumb meet A$$.

I think you two would make a nice couple.

No ~~soup~~ future public office for you!!

By: Merovign

Merovign — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:33:08 +0000

Dear Republicans:

When the opposition has the advantage, it’s time to stop shooting yourself in the foot.

PS Don’t preen for the MSM, they only like you when you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

By: BrideOfRove

BrideOfRove — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:02:03 +0000

She is – if Levin is correct – an Independista. The Green Party in Puerto Rico – which is about ten percent of the population and prone to violence. They want freedom from the US and anarchy. Quite possibly the most racist Latin American group in this Hemisphere. Do.Not.Back.Off.On.This Wench. Unless she is pro-life in which case she’s a-ok in my book and Puerto Rico can cut loose as soon as they pay back the 11 billion a year in Situado we’ve been sending them.

By: BrideOfRove

BrideOfRove — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:58:15 +0000

Good god, man. Why are you backing off on this? The only reason to back down is because she is pro-life and we want her confirmed. If you are doing it for any other reason then I lose all respect.

By: ladyingray

ladyingray — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:26:45 +0000

I won’t I promise.
:D

blatantblue on June 3, 2009 at 8:21 PM

Good. Good for you and her…IF there is a her in your future.