Gingrich threatens to skip debate if no audience participation

[koshergrl]

Please say this isn't about him and his wife 20 years ago.

 

[California Girl]

Who does he bully?

It's what a whole bunch of his ex-colleagues say about him. He's prone to temper tantrums, and bullies people.

Great character traits for a President, huh?

 

[California Girl]

Please say this isn't about him and his wife 20 years ago.

Nope. I have dismissed the whole 'he said, she said' bullshit as unsubstantiated crap. However, when his own colleagues describe him as a bully with the ability to fly into fits of rage.... well, that - to me - doesn't sound like the kind of man I want in control of the country's nukes.

 

[koshergrl]

If he had good character, there would be lies circulating about him like there were about Sarah Palin, and a concerted attack meant to bankrupt and humiliate him and his family.

I'm grateful they found something real to attach to.

 

[LoneLaugher]

It will be a fun day for some of you when the winner between these two losers begs for the other's endorsement.

 

[Amelia]

He's a coward because he wants the audience to be able to respond? If he was a coward, you'd think he'd be worried about that.

The cowards are the liberal mob, who want to prevent people from participating in the debates by showing their support.

He's a coward because he'd rather win on red meat thrown to the audience, than actually discussing the issues.

^^^^

All Hail Newt!

 

[California Girl]

If he had good character, there would be lies circulating about him like there were about Sarah Palin, and a concerted attack meant to bankrupt and humiliate him and his family.

I'm grateful they found something real to attach to.

That's why the left and the media are so keen to have Gingrich up against Obama. He's easier to take down.

 

[Amelia]

If he had good character, there would be lies circulating about him like there were about Sarah Palin, and a concerted attack meant to bankrupt and humiliate him and his family.

I'm grateful they found something real to attach to.

That's why the left and the media are so keen to have Gingrich up against Obama. He's easier to take down.

^^^^

The drool is dripping down their chins.

 

[jillian]

If he had good character, there would be lies circulating about him like there were about Sarah Palin, and a concerted attack meant to bankrupt and humiliate him and his family.

I'm grateful they found something real to attach to.

That's why the left and the media are so keen to have Gingrich up against Obama. He's easier to take down.

what lies were told about sarah?

and saying she wasn't very smart wasn't a lie.

 

[jillian]

If he had good character, there would be lies circulating about him like there were about Sarah Palin, and a concerted attack meant to bankrupt and humiliate him and his family.

I'm grateful they found something real to attach to.

That's why the left and the media are so keen to have Gingrich up against Obama. He's easier to take down.

^^^^

The drool is dripping down their chins.

funny. i don't see that on the left, though it is funny to watch.

i do see it among the rightwingnuts who only want gingrich to win the nomination because they think he'll be meaner to the president than romney.

now if you want to see drool... that's where you should be looking.

 

[EriktheRed]

He's a coward because he wants the audience to be able to respond? If he was a coward, you'd think he'd be worried about that.

The cowards are the liberal mob, who want to prevent people from participating in the debates by showing their support.

He's a coward because he doesn't want to answer questions. He just wants to attack the press and have a rabid mob cheering him on.

Not only that, but when you get right down to it, without having an audience to cheer his crap on, it also shows what a total crock this idea of him being great debater is. His performance yesterday pretty much proved that.

 

[Mr Natural]

How about a little decorum, Newt.

It's a debate, not a burlesque show.

 

[Iggy]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnuX40ilHY]Newt: I'm Not Racially Insensitive - YouTube[/ame]

 

[MarcATL]

Lol...he's so smart, I think he's a shoo-in...not saying I love him, he's not a good conservative, but I think he's figured out how to manage the people and the press:

"
Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. That was the case on Monday, when Brian Williams of NBC News asked the audience of about 500 people who assembled for a debate in Tampa to hold their applause until the commercial breaks."

Hold their applause...a nice way to effectively *silence* the appearance of support for an un-fave of the lib mob...

Gingrich Threatens to Skip Debates if Audiences Can't Participate - NYTimes.com

You beat me to posting this so you were able to make that sleazy slimeball guttersnipe look half-way decent in this.

He's a coward. What he's showing is that unless he can manipulate the Press and the audience...they are no good to him.

However, unfortunately for Noot, this ain't Football or Wrestling, this is political debate.

I hope the Media tells him to go sit his fat A$$ down somewhere with that B.S!!!

 

[koshergrl]

If he had good character, there would be lies circulating about him like there were about Sarah Palin, and a concerted attack meant to bankrupt and humiliate him and his family.

I'm grateful they found something real to attach to.

That's why the left and the media are so keen to have Gingrich up against Obama. He's easier to take down.

what lies were told about sarah?

and saying she wasn't very smart wasn't a lie.

The lies about her children, her marriage, her family... the lies about her ethics, the lies that resulted in an army of attorneys flocking to Alaska to file frivolous complaints against her...which she and the state of Alaska were then forced to defend (and which she prevailed in, in every single case).

Those lies.

 

[koshergrl]

Calling Sarah Palin "not very smart" is too funny.

 

[Iggy]

Only the elites despise earning money...

Go Newt!

First of all Juan, more people have been put on food stamps with President Obama than any President in US history.

 

[EriktheRed]

If he had good character, there would be lies circulating about him like there were about Sarah Palin, and a concerted attack meant to bankrupt and humiliate him and his family.

I'm grateful they found something real to attach to.

That's why the left and the media are so keen to have Gingrich up against Obama. He's easier to take down.

^^^^

The drool is dripping down their chins.

Oh, but haven't you two listened to your fellow Cons on here? We're "terrified" of the Newtster, I tell ya!

 

[g5000]

The NBC moderators asked questions about putting a man on MARS--then they went to sugar--it was absolutely RIDICULOUS.

How Newt answered last night:

Speaker Gingrich, would you put more tax dollars into the space race and commit to putting an American on Mars, instead of relying on the private sector?

Newt Gingrich
Well, the two are not incompatible. For example, most of the great breakthroughs in aviation in the '20s and '30s were as a result of prizes. Lindbergh flew to Paris for a $25,000 prize. I would like to see vastly more of the money spent encouraging the private sector into very aggressive experimentation. And I'd like a leaner NASA.
I don't think building a bigger bureaucracy and having a greater number of people sit in rooms and talk gets you there. But if we had a series of goals that we were prepared to offer prizes for, there's every reason to believe you have a lot of folks in this country and around the world who would put up an amazing amount of money and would make the space coast literally hum with activity because they'd be drawn to achieve these prizes.
Going back to the moon permanently, getting to Mars as rapidly as possible, building a series of space stations and developing commercial space, there are a whole series of things you can do that could be dynamic that are more than just better government bureaucracy. They're fundamentally leapfrogging into a world where you're incentivizing people who are visionaries and people in the private sector to invest very large amounts of money in finding very romantic and exciting futures.

How Newt answered the question in 2007:

I think a GSE for space exploration ought to be seriously considered – I'm convinced that if NASA were a GSE, we probably would be on Mars today.

Certainly there is a lot of debate today about the housing GSEs, but I think it is telling that there is strong bipartisan support for maintaining the GSE model in housing. There is not much support for the idea of removing the GSE charters from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. And I think it's clear why. The housing GSEs have made an important contribution to homeownership and the housing finance system. We have a much more liquid and stable housing finance system than we would have without the GSEs. And making homeownership more accessible and affordable is a policy goal I believe conservatives should embrace. Millions of people have entered the middle class through building wealth in their homes, and there is a lot of evidence that homeownership contributes to stable families and communities. These are results I think conservatives should embrace and want to extend as widely as possible. So while we need to improve the regulation of the GSEs, I would be very cautious about fundamentally changing their role or the model itself.

 

[Amelia]

America voting for Obama because he gives good speeches was shallow and infuriating.

Republicans voting for Newt because he puts on a good show at debates is not going to have a better result.

I understand why he wants to make sure audiences are allowed to supply him with sound effects.

I would have taken his debate showmanship as a good thing if he had spent the last two months showing us that he was qualified for the presidency. But he hasn't. He still looks like the out-of-control man he was in the 1990's. I am scared and depressed, and if Newt is the nominee, then when Obama wins again I might breathe a sigh of relief.

Even if that means Obama gets to give us two more liberal Supreme Court justices.

That's how depressed I am.


For Newt to get my vote, he's going to have to show me at a minimum that he is not dangerous. His need for cheering crowds to buffer him from intelligent questions from the moderators is not showing me that. Yes, it makes him look cowardly. We already have a narcissist in the White House. But we have an even-tempered, stable narcissist. Newt ?










I am so bummed.