In 1997 US House Democrat Whip David Bonior (D-MI-12) brought 75 ethics charges against Newt Gingrich; 74 which were found to have no merit. The last charge, whether Newt funded his college class “Renewing American Civilization” properly, was too complicated a tax issue for the committee to investigate on its own, so they brought in an outside tax expert to investigate. Two charges arose out of this investigation.

Mitt Romney, on these falsified erroneous charges against Newt Gingrich, you will find it easier to get a bucket of water from a dried-up well as Newt’s record has been cleared. Do not continue your immortal and unethical activity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMpBBRUCMd8

Admittedly this is somewhat off-topic, but the Fed has just announced that they expect to keep interest at near zero through 2014. This is effectively waging war on savers (if you want to keep your money safe in the bank or in government bonds, you will not earn any interest). The goal is to force savers to gamble their money in the stock market since that is the only way they can earn the money they need to live on (the Fed beleives that a rising stock market will help the economy). They have been grossly irresponsible, and If Newt points this out in a state like Florida, he will knock the ball out of the park.

B/C if it true that Romney ppl talking of fixing Obama care instead of full on repeal is a deal breaker for me. That is #1 issue for me. It will be the final nail in the coffin for our country.

isn’t with the definition. It’s that it doesn’t fit Newt Gingrich or the attitude of the Republican base – at all.

The republican base seems, to me, to be in a confrontational and self-righteous mood. We want someone who will set ‘stark contrasts’ (EWE’s words). We want someone who will not back down or apologize.

Redemption implies a preceding humility and apology or request for forgiveness. I don’t see any conservatives apologizing, nor do I see why they should.

Maybe your watching different debates – but it sure doesn’t seem like Newt is apologizing for anyone or anything. He has assured us that he’s changed (‘redeemed’) on one narrow aspect of his personal life. That’s it – but it’s not nearly enough to be the ‘theme’ or the party or the candidate.

If anyone needs to be redeemed its the faction of the party as represented by Mitt Romney. The establishment/Rockafeller/moderate wing that lead us to disaster during the 2004-2008 period needs to apologize and be ‘redeemed.’ I don’t see Romney, or anyone else, requesting it, though.

No politician is.
I do not look to people in the media or politics as my examples as to who I admire. Those sorts of people have always been much closer to me in my daily life and they are neither glamorous or famous.

In other words what I’m saying is that I do not delve into Newt’s personal issues as we have all had our failings from time to time and I am no exception.
There are those who would say that if Newt can cheat on his wife then how can he be trusted…?
To that I would say…life happens and things change.At least he married them and has tried to make it work. If that is not good enough for some …well...do what you gotta’ do.

I’m not interested in Newt’s marriage as much as I am interested in the $16 trillion dollars in debt this country has and the other problems as well.
I’ll let the couch thing slide.
I can forgive the Scozzafava thing.
I never ever cared about him resigning from the House because that matter was chump change to the real corruption has occurred by current members since.
I don’t need perfect and by the way it does not exist.

Can he beat Obama and will he be a good president….?

We have to go into this with eyes wide open.

I am 100% in the tank for Newt, but in order for that to be any kind of informed I have accept, and be willing to tolerate, areas where Newt strays from conservative orthodoxy:

1) He is squishier than I am on illegal immigration, and WAY squishier than your average Republican. And he’s bombastic about it.

2) He is (or was in the past) very obviously a total lech.

3) He is (or was in the past) a proponent of big-government solutions to AGW.

These are three issues a Newt voter has to look at and be able to say, “Ok, I am willing to accept that my choice of president holds these odious characteristics/views.”

For my part, I am. I wish none of the above was true, but it is what it is. I have to make a cost/benefit analysis on each candidate, and weight them according to my primary concerns. Consequently, I must vote for Newt.

I believe that, at the expense of the things listed above, I can purchase something greater and more important than I lose. But make no mistake, a payment is being made with Newt. You take the bad with the good, and do everything possible to mitigate the negatives with a house and senate stacked with rabid right-wingers of your favorite variety.

Let the only real candidate win the race. The only one who is a real conserviative with a great contrast to Obama. Let the real Reagan lead our country and our party.

VOTE for RICK SANTORUM

We’ve got to so something. Why sit around? Newt isn’t good, but I don’t know of anyone in the race that is. He has claimed ‘redemption’ and at least we may be able to control him. It’s worth a try even if he’s not perfect.

We’ve got to so something. Why sit around? Newt isn’t good, but I don’t know of anyone in the race that is. He has claimed ‘redemption’ and at least we may be able to control him. It’s worth a try, even if he’s not perfect.

and that in the end, that is exactly what his candidacy represents; and turnaround from the past. When I read Politico’s piece yesterday about Newt’s time at Freddie Mac it made me think this is going to be over soon, but the Romney camp is no friend to conservatives, and I do not feel like having a candidate that is so blatantly pandering to the center left of this country. That simple is not going to cut it.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/newt-gingrich-saul-alinsky-republican/338701

I don’t buy Newt’s “redemption”. He’s the same old Newt, just playing people off against other people, as he has always done. Too many of us Christians are gullible on the whole “conversion” theme. As for these Alinsky tactics: look for Obama’s surrogates to use them against Gingrich if given the chance. The country needs a leader who is less angry, less combative, but is a true Conservative and lives it, not just presses hot buttons. I wish I knew who that was.

Saved by cheap grace and born againism has been Satan most effective tool in America. Newt Gingrich is the classic example. The message to evangelical youth is that you can be a serious sinner and serial adulturer your entire life until you are about 70. You can repent quickly and easilty and you can be adored and defended by your very own pastor. In fact you can be elected President of the United States. No wonder that Evangelical youth commit crimes and sin at the same levels as the rest of Americans

At age 68 and with a wife young enough to be his daughter, does Newt really have the physical energy to pursue another affair? Has he really repented in his mind? No matter, Newt is saved and that terrible Mormon who has been faithful to one woman is entire life–even when he found out she had Multiple Scelorsis–is going straight to hell and is not fit to be president.

You can repent quickly and easily and you can be adored and defended by your very own Savior, on the next cross over.”

There, fixed that for you.

~God Will Forgive~

Be aware of God’s compassion, for it heals with oil and wine. Do not lose hope of salvation! Remember what is written -

the one who falls shall rise again,
and the one who turns away shall turn again;
the wounded is healed;
the one caught by wild beasts escapes;
the one who confesses is not rejected.

For the Lord does not want the sinner to die, but to return and live. There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand amongst sinners, but step aside. For when you turn back and weep, then you will be saved.’

St Basil the Great, in a letter to a young monk who had sinned.

(and I, one of many conservatives, believe that Clinton ought not to have been impeached for a spiritual lapse, as he was not, but for committing perjury and suborning perjury. I have no idea, nor has any other person, the ability to judge another and determine whether he or she has ‘turned back and wept’. )

has always been symptomatic of a serious personality disorder, and it still is. Simply put, Newt is a monster of egotism, always has been, always will be. Maybe he’s a retired lecher, but he’s still the same self-absorbed jerk who cheated on, then ditched two wives. Grace is indeed amazing. It can transform people, but it hasn’t transformed Newt. He oozes arrogance and self-satisfaction from every pore. Few among us are foolish ennough to confuse the effects of an enlarged prostate with repentance, which is one of the many reasons Newt won’t be the Republican nominee.

I did in the beginning of the campaign season. He had converted to Catholicism and was a new person. But then, beginning when he actually thought he could win and not just sell books, the old Newt that I followed for 3 decades resurfaced. His nasty, egotistical, scorned-earth comments seem like the “same ole, same ole” Newt that he has always been. Plus, a guy that cheats on his wife for 6 years, and the wife before that, and lies so often about his past requires more than telling me he is new to believe him.

If Gingrich is the standard-bearer, the GOP is in huge trouble. Even the very conservative women in my family — my wife and two voting aged daughters — said they could never vote for him because of what he did to his wife. They would be shocked about my morals if I outwardly supported him, and so would those in my community. So if he is the GOP nominee, I will hold my nose and vote for him, but my policy of putting out yard signs and bumper stickers and manning phone banks would have to end, or my friends and family would assume all my talking about moral values is a joke.

If Gingrich is the standard bearer, it will be an Obama landslide. Santorum first choice and then Romney. And actually, Romney has never looked so good and so conservative when put up against the progressive Gingrich, whose underhanded comments feed right into class warfare. And I pray that the GOP comes to his senses. I remember Gingrich too well. He doesn’t seem like a changed man to me.

You folks drinking the Kool-Aid for Gingrich must not have been around for his festivities in the past. He has even derided Reagan. Where are you getting this information on him that you think he can win? He has higher negatives than Obama. He cannot win with just the Republican right. He must have some independents and a few Dems. He will never get it.

Forgiving Newt as a person is one thing. Gambling on him as being leader of the free world is another. I am OK with the former, not the latter. He is too undisciplined.

As this goes on, he is coming up with so many cockamamie schemes it is getting hard to take. His policy on immigration is a mess. He mocks Romney for saying illegals will self-deport but we already know that the states who have cracked down ARE seeing illegals leave and unemployment among citizens go down.

Newt’s “community boards” idea for determining which illegals could stay is absurd. Why would anyone show up for a hearing knowing they might be deported? Now he wants to make the moon the 51st state. Why not just do the basics correctly? Reduce spending, regulations and promote growth in the economy. Everything with Newt is some strange, “outside the box” idea, the purpose to make him sound smart. After 5 minutes of thinking about them however, his solutions all come up wanting.

I really hope he is sincere in his attempt to redeem himself, personally, politically, and spiritually. While it is hard to take any politician at his word, Newt’s recent championing of American exceptionalism and conservative principles, as well as his willingness to fight mean I support him over Romney.