for clarifying

Or a perrybot or romney, and should not be take seriously on anything. Go back to kos.

And why don’t you explain how newts balanced budgets, worked out with a democratic president, are less authentication Perrys, which seemed to lead to bigger and bigger deficits. Oh, and Perry was in TEXAS where it should be a lot easier to balance the budget.

“If your Barack Obama, twenty years ago, was connected to Bill Ayers would you count that against him–oh wait, he is, and we conservatives do.”
Should not include the “your.”

Newt’s supporters are quick to point out that Gingrich didn’t go after Clinton because of the cheating aspect of Clinton’s behavior, but rather because he perjured himself. When Newt was charged with 84 ethics violations, most were dropped, but the one that stuck, teaching a politically motivated college course while in the House, included perjury charges. Newt lied to the investigating committee, and that perjury was probably more serious than the charge itself, and added to the $300,000 penalty. Don’t they say that the cover-up is usually worse than the crime? I’m sure that his lying, while holding the position as Speaker of the House, was surely a part of why there was a near mutiny against him from those in his own party.

Another serious charge against Newt, while in the House, was his loud voice against those in Congress who were not paying off their Congressional loans, while he had 22 “kited” checks to pay off his loans, one to the IRS. It appears that Newt likes to point the finger at others for wrongdoing, while participating in the same bad behavior himself. Newt is a “do as I say, not as I do” type of personality. Another example of that was his railing against those that helped Freddie Mac crash, such as Frank and Dodd, while taking $1.6 million in contract payments from the same organization. In one of his books, he promotes increased home ownership for low income borrowers, which was exactly what the Democrats were promoting, and exactly what led to the housing crash in 08. We all know that that was the impetus for TARP, which Newt also supported.

is that the facts are irrelevant and I’m a troll. Yes, Newt has many problems, but that doesn’t give you license to invent new ones. For an example of an informed criticism, see Scope’s post above.

Newt is more conservative than Mitt in any case.

Newt balanced 4 out of 4 federal budgets.
Newt was at the helm of the House during budget surpluses.

It appears to me that Newt’s past experience shows there’s a good chance he’ll fix it. Hit proposed policies show it to me also (more so than Perry).

As for your statement about Ron Paul, you’ll notice I didn’t choose most electable, but rather most conservative that can win. My principles don’t mean anything if I lose. Besides, I don’t see myself compromising my principles by voting for Newt Gingrich. Perhaps you do, but maybe that’s because we see the role of religion and government differently.

You’re saying you’re going to ignore the facts and support a guy that supports two huge liberal policies that Barack Obama supports?

I’d say his Newtmentum will now impact Romney and become more permanent support w/ time getting short. Many people are resolving issues and seeing Gingrich as the best option to beat Obama.

His alinskying of Obama by challenging him to debates and letting him have a teleprompter is HUGE. People want to see obama beat badly and take a good beat down in the debates. they want to see that forked tongue snake oil salesman exposed for the teleprompter fraud he is. Period.

Gingrich’s single best draw right now? If he keeps alinskying obama and ridiculing him in public about debates. Voters NEED that confidence in a candidate and they are willing to overlook much old baggage.

The candi-bots here at RS are taking their eyes off the ultimate goal of beating obama, instead bashing others that aren’t seeing the light about their candidate. The rest of the voters are looking at who can best beat Obama.

Using your logic, we have to consider him once a Democrat, always a Democrat. Using your logic, we have no worth candidates and might as well just give up now.