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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/28/gingrich-fears-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists/
"I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9," Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. "I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American."
Yes, a secular atheist country dominated by radical Islamists :insane::rotflmao:
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Predicto

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There are multiple levels of stupid, and I think Newt has most of them covered in that one last sentence. Besides the obvious wtf absence of intelligence, it's nice of him to imply that athiests are not Americans.

Newt isn't stupid.

He's utterly dishonest and unprincipled, but he isn't stupid.

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He said it because he knows there's millions of idiots in this country that eat that sort of stupidity up. It's an utterly depressing thought really, to know people that read that and take it seriously and those people actually help decide the future of the country. I'm not lumping all conservatives into that mind you, I'm sure the majority of them read that and think "riiiiight.....", but there are also so many that goes "that's so true!".

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Newt isn't stupid.

He's utterly dishonest and unprincipled, but he isn't stupid.

I agree he is not stupid, and while he is dishonest I don't think he is much less honest than any average pol.

The sad part is that he is just being very calculating. He knows he has to pull at raw and uninformed emotions to truly motivate a voting block, not give them a bunch of facts. facts just bore people and make them feel stupid.

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Dan T.

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Love me some Newt. Mix in some Bachman and Palin with a dash of Barbour and you have a super fun primary season.

Throw in some Trump and you have a Lalapalooza of a race. The only thing better would be if The Rent is Too High guy switched parties to run.

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My problem with Newt is that I don't believe that he believes a word of what comes out of his mouth. I think what he says, what he really thinks, and what he does are entirely separate realities to him that he uses to get what he wants.

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Newt is a smart guy. He's an outside the box thinker and a brilliant ideas man who just needs staff with organizational skills to keep him on track.

I've been disappointed how much he's assumed the role of shrill attack dog as a talking head TV commentator. He had a chance to rise above all that and chose not to. As a result he's got a long way to go to seem presidential to all but the die hards he courted as a right wing bomb thrower on TV.

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I think Gingrich is the most disgusting politician of my lifetime, because he is simply capable of so much more. He is - without question - one of the smartest and most innovative thinkers to ever be in the House. And he decided to use that intelligence to be a sanitized Bob Dornan.

Michelle Bachman says stuff like this because she really is an idiot. Newt says stuff like this because he has calculated the political wind down to the third decimal place.

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My problem with Newt is that I don't believe that he believes a word of what comes out of his mouth. I think what he says, what he really thinks, and what he does are entirely separate realities to him that he uses to get what he wants.

Wait, are we talking about Mitt Romney or Newt?

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I think it's pretty interesting when "big names" earn street cred with the GOP base when they: (1) question the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate; (2) drum up the threat of Sharia law and the Mooslem boogeymen; and (3) drum up the threat of the gheys. The center-right is now the far right and the far right have fallen off the political spectrum.

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http://www.esquire.com/print-this/newt-gingrich-0910?page=all

"There's somebody else, isn't there?"

She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed?

She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. " 'I can't handle a Jaguar right now.' He said that many times. 'All I want is a Chevrolet.' "

He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.

He'd just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he'd given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.

The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, "How do you give that speech and do what you're doing?"

"It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."

When they got to court, Gingrich refused to cooperate with basic discovery. Marianne and her lawyer knew from a Washington Post gossip column that Gingrich had bought Bisek a $450 bottle of wine, for example, but he refused to provide receipts or answer any other questions about their relationship.

Then Gingrich made a baffling move. Because Bisek had refused to be deposed by Marianne's attorney, Newt had his own attorney depose her, after which the attorney held a press conference and announced that she had confessed to a six-year affair with Gingrich. He had also told the press that he and Marianne had an understanding.

"Right," Marianne says now.

That was not true?

"Of course not. It's silly."

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JMS

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Yes. Newt is the cream of the Republican crop when it comes to ethics and intelligence and by a good margin.

I like Newt. He's a great leader and he's one of the best out of the box thinkers in either party. Not all that great at the tactical political side of things, One of his gifts is on the strategic side of politics. The contract on America was brilliant and lead to the GOP taking the house and holding it for a decade. Got owned by Bill Clinton in the 90's. Seems like he's trying to catch a little of that Rush Limbaugh Glenn Beck wind and is kind of messing up on it... But I still like Newt...

His biggest problem is he's another one of those guys who doesn't like to tell you what he's doing until it's done and in the box. That drives me crazy, but I still like Newt.

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