en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/639591 Comments by LaurieP http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment279017644 For those not paying particular attention to Newt Gingrich during the 20 years he served in Congress, let me tell you a little something about Newt. Newt is a guy who is desperate for acceptance and to be liked. This is at the heart of the reason why he ditched Jackie for Marianne, ditched Marianne for Callista and why he ditched Lutheranism for Southern Baptist and ditched Southern Baptist for Catholicism. It is why he insists on audiences being allowed to cheer, applaud and adulate him during the debates. If Gingrich is elected President and loses the love and support of Republicans (as he did when he served as Speaker of the House), he will turn to liberals for acceptance (just as he did when he made joined with Nancy Pelosi on the issue of global warming). Gingrich is a reactionary and an opportunists and the catalyst for both of those things is his deep desire for acceptance and to be liked. Which makes him a man without a core. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:00:34 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment279017644 http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment278966178 In a politically polarized country, where elections can not be mathematically won without carrying independent and swing voters, Romney is the only Republican candidate who can beat Obama. He may not be the most conservative running for the nomination. There are those who may argue he's not conservative at all. No matter how you classify Romney, he's still 1000% more conservative than Barack Obama. Romney may not be the ideal destination, but he's definitely a step in the right direction. Grab a running mate like Marco Rubio and you've got yourself a pretty attractive ticket for a lot of people. Dennis Prager was right. Ideological Republicans would rather win the battle, cede the war and consign the nation to 4 more years of Obama than make a strategic and pragmatic choice. If they are that willing to risk 4 more years of Obama, then their fears and criticisms of him are not to be believed. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:54:07 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment278966178 http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment278961716 You do realize, of course, that Newt is a career politician? I assume you aware that he was a permanent fixture in congress from 1979 until he was drummed out by his own party in 1999 after his petulent, cry-baby, hypocritical, ethics-challenged persona made him such a liability as to cause the Republicans in 1998 to experience a minority party's worst mid-term election results in nearly 65 years. We are talking about the same guy, aren't we? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:48:05 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment278961716 http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment278881562 I can only imagine that you Newt supporters are either too young to remember Gingrich's stint in congress in the 70's, 80's and 90's or you're simply unaware of it. I remember it well and it wasn't all smiles, conservatism and contracts with America. It's also amazing how Sarah Palin, who champions the "outsider" and conservative family values is supporting a 20 year Washington insider with a serious fidelity problem who has changed religions as often as he has changed wives. Nothing like a guy who stands by his commitments! Sarah Palin lost ALL credibility with this endorsement. As a Floridian, I'll be heading to the polls tomorrow to vote for Romney. Gingrich is, and has always been, an opportunist - both publicly and privately - and political opportunists never do well in the state of Florida. Just ask Charlie Crist. Or wait until Wednesday morning and ask Newt Gingrich. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:03:57 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/sarah-annoy-a-liberal-vote-newt/#IDComment278881562 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DOREHG0&show_article=1#IDComment56058051 I just want to make sure I understand this. Sarah Palin jots down a few keywords on her palm before giving a speech and she's mocked by classless twits like Robert Gibbs and Andrea Mitchell. Obama - supposedly the smartest person in the universe (according to Robert Gibbs and Andrea Mitchell) - can't even give a speech to a classroom of 6th graders without reading his entire speech from a teleprompter. And even with his teleprompter, Mr. Smarter Than Thou doesn't even know how to pronounce the word "corpsman". Corpse-man? Really? And he has his degree from where? Harvard, you say? Interesting. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:58:13 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DOREHG0&show_article=1#IDComment56058051 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31881205 Watch the news coverage over the next few weeks while Obama and the Congress is on vacation. I predict you are going to start seeing far more stories about swine flu and those stories will become increasingly dire. You're going to start hearing stories about how uninsured people can't get the vaccine and will be dying. You're going to start hearing how insurance companies won't pay for the vaccine and accusations that they are killing their customers. All of this is very deliberate and made to scare the public so that after Labor Day, Obama and the Democrats can ride back into Washington with promises that none of this would happen if we had Obama "health care reform". Get ready for the brainwashing and bamboozling. And don't think for a minute that the sudden surge in swine flu stories is in any way a coincidence. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:55:43 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31881205 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31880823 bibibib202020 - I seriously suggest you spend at least a year living in a country that has socialized medicine, like I have. Then come back and sing to me the virtues of this health care plan. If you think for a MINUTE that your use of the "public option" is going to deliver you the level of care that people are able to obtain with private insurance.... GROW UP. While living in England, I had to wait 5 weeks for an appointment with a dentist for an absessed tooth - and the nearest dentist that was accepting new NHS patients was 125 miles away. That's in a country of 60 million people. Try seeing what it'll be like in a country of 305 million. Have a nice day. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:48:09 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31880823 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31868365 It occurs to me that the harder Obama and Democrats push for Orwell's 1984, the more likely they are going to end up with Gingrich's 1994. Just a (pleasant) thought. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:04:39 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31868365 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31868222 Not to date myself, but I graduated public school (high school) in 1982. And while it sucks getting old, not a day passes where I'm not grateful to have gone through school when I did. Back then, we were educated. Not indoctrinated. I learned trigonometry, not how to put a condom on a banana. I learned geography, not political correctness. And I learned about American history as it actually happened - warts and all - and not this revisionist Oliver Stone crap they are teaching these days. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:01:56 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31868222 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31863764 ssintense - the single biggest factor in both the dwindling supply of health care professionals/facilities and the increased costs of health care are the ceilingless malpractice lawsuits that plague the industry on a daily basis. The single biggest "reform" to ease supply and decrease health care costs would be tort reform. Not only are Obama and the Democrats NOT suggesting (much less legislating) any type of tort reform, but Obama - at a meeting with the AMA - flatly said that tort reform was off the table. Why, you may ask? Why - if Obama and the Democrats' true goal is to lower health care costs as they often say - would they not propose to reform the one thing that drives up the costs the most? Oh...I dunno. Could be because the trial lawyers associations are amongst their biggest campaign donors? Yeah. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:53:07 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31863764 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31862538 Let me get this straight. When conservatives disagree with liberals (oh, I'm sorry...progressives), and we assemble together to protest - as is our constitutionally protected right - we are a "mob" akin to lynch mobs and nazis? And because we disagree with a "different or a new idea or progressive idea" we are ignorant and filled with hate? But when liberals protested the very existence of George Bush (plus everything he ever did and didn't do), you were just being patriotic? You were just speaking truth to power? You were just doing your civic duty? Interesting. Closed-minded, grievously hypocritical and clinically myopic, but interesting. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:29:58 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31862538 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31861451 For 2 years - 2006 and 2007 - I lived in Great Britain. You have no idea how horrible a single-payor health care system is until you live in one. Yes, they do ration care. They have no choice - they would go broke if they didn't. For Obama and the Democrats to say they won't ration health care is a bald-faced lie. They will have no choice - the numbers just will not and can not work otherwise. What treatments you get and when you get them in the UK is calculated with a cost-effectiveness formula. The younger you are, the better your chances of treatment because the more natural life expectency you have. Or, to put it more honestly - the more tax-paying years you have left. Both Canada and the UK have a single-payor system that rations care and employs waiting list and "band-aid" treatments. The UK has a population of approx 60 million. Canada has a population of approx 33 million. The US has a population of 305 million. Considering that the US has a lower percentage of the population paying income tax than does the UK and Canada, and you can see the problems we are going to have. I could tell you stories of the nightmares I saw whilst living there. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:09:37 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31861451 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31860896 There's nothing wrong with being young - I rather enjoyed it myself. The old saying goes that if you're young and not a liberal, you have no heart. And if you're old and not a conservative, you have no mind. It is true. When you are young, the world is your oyster and you have the luxury of idealism. Many young people, particular those in university, live in a vacuum where the realities of the real world don't exist. That is why, as we grow older and develop a keener sense of both reality and practicality, we grow more conservative. Not necessarily far-right conservative, but certainly more conservative than we were in our youth when the messy little details of reality played no part in our invincible lives. Older people who still cling to their liberal ideology are either 1) desperately trying to cling to their youth (think aged Woodstock hippies) or 2) have lived out their adult lives inside a vacuum (think Teddy Kennedy). Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:59:22 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31860896 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31852625 The problem with choosing young people as your main demographic is that they have the attention span of a gnat. I know - I was young once. They got caught up in the excitement and the passion of it all... but the party ended on January 20th. They were never in it for the "change" or because they are interested in policy, civics, etc... They were in it to "win". Once their American Idol....err, I mean Presidential candidate... won, that was all. The season ended. They changed the channel. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:13:18 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31852625 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31851704 The AP reports that the death panels and pulling the plug on grandma have been "discredited". How could those two things have been verifiably discredited if a health care reform bill doesn't yet exist? The House of Representatives has one - and that most certainly included death panels and pulling the plug on grandma - even if they didn't word it in such pedestrian terms. After all, house Democrats have recently assured the public that the "end of life counseling" nonsense was pulled out of the bill. How could it be pulled out if - as the AP and Obama insist - it was discredited from ever being there? There are dozens of bills floating around multiple committees in both houses of Congress. Obama talks about his "plan", but he has no plan. Nothing is written down. It's all fluid. He's just throwing words at the wall to see what will stick with the voters. This is such a joke. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:09:46 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A9DN400#IDComment31851704