WASHINGTON (CNN) – Several members of the Republican National Committee are miffed at Newt Gingrich for claiming that they’re a small bunch of egomaniacs who need to be coddled by the party chairman.
“Newt needs to take a breath,” New Jersey committeeman David Norcross told CNN.
Gingrich made the assertion on C-SPAN Thursday when asked about a new resolution put forth by some veteran members - including Norcross and RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen of Arizona - that would limit chairman Michael Steele’s ability to control how the committee spends its money.
That resolution has sparked a fresh round of infighting between Steele loyalists on the committee and entrenched members who backed other candidates for the chairmanship and remain skeptical of his leadership.
Defending Steele’s tumultuous start, Gingrich said the chairman might be under fire from some in the committee because he “probably has not yet learned the art of massaging the egos of RNC members.”
“They all think they’re precious, and they all think they should be taken care of, and they all think the job of the chairman, first of all, is to make the RNC members happy,” Gingrich said of the committee’s 168 members.
Tennessee GOP chairwoman Robin Smith objected to that suggestion, saying that “RNC members, on the whole, are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of our party.”
“Forming circular firing squads only gives aid to the Democrats who are doing quite nicely in undercutting the public trust in our government,” Smith said.
Ada Fisher, committeewoman from North Carolina, said RNC members are not “as ego driven as some professional politicians and pundits would like to believe.”
“Most of us are not receiving large sums from being on television, serving as commentators, giving speeches or writing books, nor do we devote our waking hours to playing politics,” Fisher said in a thinly veiled jab at Gingrich.
Another committee member called the former Speaker’s remarks a “gross generalization.”
But other RNC members sympathetic to Steele sided with Gingrich and defended the chairman’s three-month tenure at the party helm. Steele backers said the new chairman is engaging with state parties and grassroots activists in ways not seen since the GOP was last out of power during the Clinton administration.
California GOP chairman Ron Nehring boasted that the RNC under Steele “is about partnerships with the states, and that’s good news for everyone.”
“Newt is right that RNC members believe they are ‘precious,’” said California committee member Shawn Steel. “However, Michael is more popular than ever. He communicates much more frequently than the prior chair."
North Carolina Republican party chair Linda Daves, who backed South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson during the race for the RNC chairmanship, knocked the members who are now pushing the resolution to regulate Steele’s financial powers.
“I think some of the members should spend more time trying to build the party on the state level and spend less time trying to micromanage the RNC and trying to tear down Michael Steele,” Daves said.
Norcross argued that the good governance resolution is only being proposed to fill the vacuum left by the retirement of veteran RNC comptroller Jay Banning, who was let go by the committee last month after more than 30 years. He said that oversight of the chairman’s purse strings by the committee is nothing new.
“Newt ought to get his facts right,” Norcross said. “My ego does not need to be taken care of, but my Treasurer does.”
A spokesman for the RNC did not respond to a request for comment about Gingrich’s C-SPAN appearance.
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Robin Smith's assertion that it's the Democrats that are undercutting the public trust in our Government, just shows how lost the Republicans are. The low public opinion of Congress due to a virtual complete demonstration of partisanship. President Obama is trying to get some co-operative action, but neither party in Congress is showing any signs of doing that. Those are the sad facts.
....“RNC members, on the whole, are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of our party...” (Robin Smith)
That's an obvious statement since they haven't worked for the American people years.
...welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends!!!!
Clearly, Tennessee GOP Chairwoman, Robin Smith, is not interested in bipartisan resolutions. While she stands on the side-lines cheering in her crisp red uniform, her team is running in the wrong direction...scoring yet another point for the blue team.
WAKE UP
Wow, this is pretty amazing actually. Gingrich, Mr. deep south, arch-conservative himself, backing an RNC chairman who talks in urban slang sometimes and wants Republicans to rethink themselves and be more inclusive. At the same time he bashes the rest of the RNC as being spoiled premadonnas. I wouldn't have seen this coming at all. I doubt Newt's gonna be getting a lot of invites to RNC fundraisers in the near future but good for him, I think.
How long until the Republican party is dissolved? All they really care about is the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
America will be better off if they all sailed to Mexico.
Now who really cares what Gingrich thinks? MCain
The truth hurts, doesn't it boys
And if anyone knows the truth about the RNC, it's Newt
The party of NO have their days numbered ...
Here's the thing. Neither party is perfect. I say this as a loyal Democrat, the difference between the two parties is quite clear. Republicans thinj that the government is the problem and work to make it so. Democrats believe that govenment can help and work to make it so. Now since neither party is right all the time in every situation circumstances will always dictate which argument holds sway. The GOP should be praying that Obama's plans work because they will only succeed when the economy recovers and people have incomes that they think the GOP will protect.
it is a true statement
but Newt should go further
Coulture, Rush, O'Rielly, Hannity have all piled on their specific trash to bring the GOP to its current state, an out of touch, mean spirited, stuffed shirt mess that thinks it is their way or the world is going to hell
I hope the GOP goes down, every time, and I regularly do this, that I have discussions with a Rush listener or other GOP talk show personality listener, I just wonder how this country makes it another day
The RNC and its membership really can't get past the fact that new leadership, a person of color leadership, has become the reality in D.C. What an irrelevant element in politics they have become!!!!
More RNC "infighting" which is caused by someone who isn't even a current politician, much less a member of the RNC. Gingrich, just like Cheney and Rush, do not vote or have any sort of say in the RNC, so why do the actual RNC members even reply to them?
Careful there, Newt. In the GOP, independent thinkers and mavericks will be targeted by the "Purge and Purify" twig (not large enough to be a branch or a shrub) of the Republican Party. They always panic when the truth surfaces.
LMAO!!! the Republicans are cluless. You cant have the same ideology from the same old cast of characters like Gingrich, Boehner, McConnell et al, and expect a different result.
They are doomed to failure because all they know is hate, division and fear mongering.
There we go with the GOP in house fghts. somehow we expected these guys to provide direction to our country.
Newt and his party is way out of touch. Get out of the 80's and 90's.
omg...could anyone who's not a memeber of the k l an look at that mug shot and wish him to be the president? yikes.....he looks better in his she et.
For once, the "Gingrich who stole Christmas" is right!!
The man hit the problems of the Republican Party right on the head. The far right is purely and simply out of touch with reality and needs to be relegated to the most rear back seat of the bus if the bus is ever going to arrive at its' destination. Extremists suck not only in society but in politics as well.
This is likely because Steele pushed Specter out by refusing to finance him against Toomey.
"if your enemy is united divide him" Sun Tzu
Why is this washed up has-been getting all this press..don't you have anything else to cover?
The behind the scenes GOP committee has lost control. Their decisions are suspect with the appointment of Steele, who is not polished, not informed, not a strategist, and has done more harm than good. Newt would be better running the party, or maybe Mitt Romney. These guys are savvy, polished, and smart.
The likes of Robin Smith , Ron Nehring , and Ada Fisher have not done their job – plain and simple. They may be good people but they are ineffective and non existent as spokespeople. Newt is right and the entire GOP needs to be remade. When Rush Limbaugh can openly criticize the GOP standard bearer in John McCain, and Robin Smith , Ron Nehring , and Ada Fisher do not stand up and distance the GOP from Rush, they do a disservice to the millions of GOP moderates who, like myself, are defecting to the middle every day. Newt is right about another thing – a third independent party will emerge and the GOP will become a distant memory in national politics.
Keep this up please . You have to have a certain mentality to be a republican and that is of a 4 year old.
Newt is Newt! Mr. Steel, tick...tick...tick, you job clock is running down.
Newt makes some good points.
However, Binden should KEEP HIS FOOL MOUTH shut.. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb are running the country...into the ground! Mass layoffs, tumbling economic data, giving away state secrets, prosecuting brave men and women who protected us, this is the first 100 days. God help us.
Ms. Smith from TN. needs to get a grip on reality. The party lost direction and she as well as Norcross is part of the reason. The Republicans have been out of touch for a long time. Since 1960 they have only been able to get 3 presidents elected while the Democrats have been able to get 5 elected. The Republicans need new approaches and new outlooks on all matters. It's time that the Republicans take back the party from the right wingers that control it now. Democrats need to take back their party from the left wingers. The extremists in both parties should not be the ones who decide the direction of either party.
This proves once again that the republicans are on the verge of destroying themselves. Their only hope of survival lies in breaking up the party. This party has moved so far to the right that it no longer recognises a center. They must lose the far right- maybe they can join the Klan or something – or go down.
It's refreshing to watch Republicans implode. I'm sure Rush is going to give him a whoopin in the right wing neocon nutjob woodshed very soon.
I guess the truth hurts.
The republicans have become so mundane & out of touch with reality that they are hardly newsworthy anymore.
Gingrich needs to just SHUT UP, he's making himself look stupid.
This is a case of the occupants fussing about the decorations of the house while termites are destroying the foundation. It will not be long before the complete crash. When that happens, it will not matter where in the house one sits or stands, everyone will be hurting.
It is time to call in the terminator.
Yawn, Newt the RNC has had plenty of chances to restore freedom and liberty to our great nation and blew it! After thirty years of flat out lies this party is just not trust worthy in the mission of restoring the Republic.
I used to think I was alone in my desire for Freedom, but as it turns out what you once observed as the silent majority is still out there looking for some true leadership for the entire nation.
The time for the end of progressive ideals and big government is at hand. Our freedom and liberty is our right set forth by the US Constitution and we will see it restored to all.
Am a registered Repub & a conservative on issuess, yet I think it is way passed the time for Gingrich to go home and shut the hell up.
"Tennessee GOP chairwoman Robin Smith: 'RNC members...are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of our party.' "
That's the problem; the RNC certainly doesn't work for the good of the American people.
'...the Democrats...are...undercutting the public trust in our government' "
By the Democrats' criminal decision to invade Iraq for the benefit of Halliburton, the Democrats' mismanagement of the war in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2009 as well as by the Democrats' handling of the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005? I don't think so. Smith needs to do a little research.
The Republican philosophy from 2001 to 2009 was to deliberately make sure the government failed miserably at everything it did...so that the American people would beg for a Republican-guided corporate dictatorship to replace our democratic traditions of more than 200 years.
For once, I actually agree with Gingrich. They are a bunch of egomaniacs who know less about running a country than half of the teenagers in America.
Republican will attack any thing that moves. They are vicious even to there own kin.
Tennessee GOP chairwoman Robin Smith objected to that suggestion, saying that “RNC members, on the whole, are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of our party.”
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And thereabouts is the problem GOP! You said you are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of your PARTY, not the best interests of our COUNTRY. You and the rest of the GOP just do NOT get it and will not get for the next 16 or more years until you change your attitudes toward US.
I wish the RNC members would work for the best for our country rather than the best for their party as Robin Smith indicated. We would probably not be in the mess we are in now were that so.
Luvin' it. Watching the GOP eat itself is better than a night at the movies. Pass the popcorn....
Thanks to Obama, our country is going down the toilet.
Everyone has to remember the GOP has to keep their party pure and not allow any diversity into their ranks. Since they are all in favor of torture perhaps a rite of admission would be a good sound water boarding to make a person cough up any dirty little secrets they might have.
So far, no one is acting in the best interests of the party, and it seems likely that they never will.
Wow, Newt speaks the truth.
If Gingrich is thinking about running for office, don't bother. He's the same as all the other Republicans who have held office for so long. Vote them all out!
Okay there is the problem right here the woman from Tennesse just said they work for the good of their party, they are suppose to be working for the good of the people. When are they going to realize they were not hired to represent a party but a people.
Actually the Democrats are restoring America's faith in the system; it was a fairly close race but obviously a huge number of Republicans voted Democrat and their votes were counted honestly. No GOP/Diebold cabal was able to keep the Rove Government in office, and now some Chicago lawyer nobody heard of five years ago is making a bunch of openly desperate moves to get the economy redirected from supporting Halliburton in Afghanistan back to supporting American businesses and farms. It's not the kind of OH MY GOD!!! dramatics Newt would like, and no one is selling their soul to Satan except Cheney(to keep his lizard heart beating in his chest), but it's normal American politics again! Bush did NOT wreck our system; there IS hope that we can one day be Americans together again.
I log on to CNN political ticker every morning just to keep up with my RNC soaps. It doesn't get any better than this. I can't wait to find out what happens with these idiots tomorrow.
I haven't seen much from Palin lately. Isn't she overdue for some inane drama?
Gingrich, while he may be sometimes obnoxious, usually says what he thinks. And probably isn't too far off the mark on this one.
Anything to be relevant again huh Newt?
What is wrong with these people? In my 52 years I can't remember the RNC so out of control. These old guys who keep trying the same ole same ole and expect different results could take a few lessons from Meagan McCain. She seems to be the smartest one the bunch, and I'm a democrat. I have watched her many times, and admire her. She has a powerful message, realizes they need to change, get with the program.
It's no wonder they can't direct their energies in a positive way. They won't even show support for those within their own party! The RNC needs to wake up and figure out what values are really important to their party and the American people, instead of spending all their time criticizing each other, as well as others.
Just now these people are realizing that Newt Gingrich is something of a jerkstore? How many wives with cancer does a man have to dump before people get the picture?
Does Micheal Steele now see that his is just another black man? The old guard doesnt want him having control of "their" money. That is why there is such a problem. This party is all about exclusion. That is the problem. I wonder if Sean Hannity still supports him. It doesn't really matter since Limbaugh controls the party. Right? Riiiigghhttt!!!!
the GOP infighting soap opera continues.....Gingrich is the real egomaniac
Simple case of the blind leading the stupid.
My prediction-the GOP will cease to exist in a few years.
Same old faces, same old words, same old prejudices and fear.
The new OLD RNC
Tennessee GOP chairwoman Robin Smith objected
why would anyone with a brain believe anything the Tn Gop says. They are the saddest bunch of backwards intolerances that this country has seen.
They just voted to allow citizens to carry guns to campus, nightclubs and public events. Please don't take the word of hillbillies people.
That's one of the most intelligent comments I've ever heard Newt say.
Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.......................well at least the republicans are good for a laugh!
infighting between Steele loyalists
Steele HAS loyalists. How many? from where? surely not in the South. He was only elected so the repugs could say that are inclusive. Of course they are not, because they are liars.
Could they not be bowled over with Steele because they are racists? Just a thought. We have seen the republicans throw the race card around more than at any time in our history. It has always been in such a manner that they think it is not visible. Americans who care have seen it, heard it, and denounced it. Those who live the philosophy of racism have a very difficult time with Mr. Steele. They just can't come out and say it is because he is black, they just cover their real thoughts with quips and quirks. Mr. Steel is the republican token and everyone who can think a coherent thought knows it.
Typical Republican logic...the party is going down in flames but lets worry about who's in charge of the money. Still I suppose when your entire world is dominated by a single philosophy i.e. "Greed is GOOD!!" then picking one of the myriad of the most accomplished thieves and cheats to "guard the hoard" might be challenging for any level of intellect.
Hell hath no fury like a Gingrich scorned. Since he can't be in control he throws stones at the glass house that is now the Republican party.
Gingrich this is the beagining of your end in poltics ,dont rufflwe the wrong feathers you are a bigger dumbo than them and tal kstupid .Nobody listens but you and some of your wife,s ex,s hahah,love ot hear yourself talk ,jerk>If you cheat on you wifes you will cheat inUSA government you did it in 1990 nad lost your job and al respect,never to rreturn to office ,brainless Newt
I believe the RNC only chose Steele to "head" their party because he is African American. They never had any intentions of letting him "lead"-he was chosen to be their African American puppet, to do what they say, when they say it. First they make him eat his own words. Now they try to limit his control of the purse strings.
Why didn't they learn their lesson after the Palin fiasco? You can't pick someone because they are a woman or a minority just for show.
This is why the RNC is a miserable, failing party. The only people who really matter to them are rich, old, white men.
The GOP is chasing its own tail. Hearing Rep. Michelle Bachmann and Rep. Fox unreal. I think they need someone to make people go ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The GOP does not quite listen to the American People, they think that we all think like them, not all Americans are Conservatives, some are actual Liberals. I am a Liberal, but I can see both sides, not tp far left or not to far right.
I guess they need to climb out of the Wilderness....
And the GOP continues to implode.
They are no different than the coddled Democrats who are even more sanctimonius and full of it.
Newt is right, these fools want all Republicans to think like all other Republicans where EVERYONE agrees exactly and that is what is killing the party.
Let Steele do his job and DON'T ever apologize to that fat blowhard Rush Limberger again, WE WELCOME MODERATE views as well.
The only person I agree with a 100 percent is ME and the Republican party needs to welcome people that they agree with on most things.
Spend less and protect us more than the Democrats should be the two main points.
Good Gosh is there NO ONE in politics these days that is an adult???? I mean on both sides of the isle!!! The Dems FINALLY get control and Evan BYBY steps up to damage his OWN PARTY and now we have the Republicans splitting in 2 over control of a smidgen of money!!
I can't believe I read this... “Forming circular firing squads only gives aid to the Democrats who are doing quite nicely in undercutting the public trust in our government,” Smith said.
What undercut trust in government was the 8 years Bush and his puppeteers completely dismantled the Constitution piece by piece. The RNC needs to take the blinders off and realize this is not 1985, nor is it 2001.
Party Party Party that is all the GOP talks about. Never about the people.
Wonder if Newt likes ketchup with foot in mouth dishes. The GOP will eat him up now or tell Senator Specter to take Newt with him.
Keystone Cops!
They;re melting! They can change their names. They can move. They can do whatever they want, they're still America haters.
The GOP are the mean people, I swear they were bullied in scholl, and now they're taking it out on all of us!
Doesn't matter for 2012, with the exception of 20% of this country, 80% are happy with Obama.
He is a kind, considerate person is will act in MY BEST INTEREST!
After 8 miserable years of Bush, robbing the treasury for his friends and family, we finally have a human being as President.
Why you troll hated Clinton, I don't know. He was the perfect Rethugnican!
80% of the wealth of this country, is now in the possession of 10% of the population.
And you right winged Christians fronted for them, happy now?
You were used.
Keep fightin' boys, as you cans ee, they're all old, white men, including Steele. He's just a wanna be, poor Steele.
Newt wants to rpetend he's normal and concerned, he's not. Just remember, these are all the family values guys who have been married and divorced 2-3 times, family values my foot!
HYPOCRITES!
You'll read comments here, 1 out of 10 will like these guys, that's about it.
Newt, if you think this is 1993, and you guys will come waltzing in, wrong.
We just lived through the darkest days in this country and we're reeling from it. You're gonna lose your shirts in 2010 again! Just watch,
WE WILL NOT FORGET WHAT YOU'VE DONE!
Newt flip-flop Gangrene
Yeppers, the more they infight, the better for the country. But it is nice to know that even while at odds, they can still throw a jab at the Democrats.
He was right, the RNC is out of touch with most Americans. The GOP is now the Christian Republican Party and is NOT inclusive of others.
This gray-haired blowhard needs to be forgotten. He can go plant his gray haired head in the sand...see if it grows! End of story.
Newt spoke the truth for once in his miserable life. The GOP are a bunch of spoiled, self-righteous people who feel they are entitled to any and everything they want.
It must be a bitter pill for them to swallow to be at the very bottom of the totem pole as it relates to credibility and relevance.
GOP and RNC . . . . I throw both my shoes at you.
Democrats will not be distracted by the Republicans in house fighting, we have a higher agenda to fulfill, the economy, jobs, etc.
“Forming circular firing squads only gives aid to the Democrats who are doing quite nicely in undercutting the public trust in our government,” Smith said.
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Mr. Smith,
Trust me when I say you are your own worst enemies....Dems need only be still and watch you bite off your noses to spite your faces.... The above phrase illustrates the misinformation that your party continues to exude....Try being genuine for a day and see what happens....
"Several members of the Republican National Committee are miffed at Newt Gingrich for claiming that they’re a small bunch of egomaniacs who need to be coddled by the party chairman."
Look who's talking, LOL!!
Yeah, I would slow down if I was Newt, plus, it ain't like is the first time he called out his party. They sure are weird, they call each other out, then all, call call each other out, I don't know, they make no sense...
They are both right. gingrich needs to take a breath and the RNC is a bunch of white, rich, male, racist egomanics.
Is it possible to insult the Brown Shirts in the RNC?
Great picture. Seriously...put it next to 99% of the pictures of Obama and you'll have yourself a perfectly symbolic representation of the differences between the parties. Obama is almost always smiling, but look at this goof. Frowny McFrownyface needs to cheer up before he's lying on his death bed regretting how he wasted his life being angry about everything.
That being said...Frowny had it all wrong. It's not their egos the RNC has been demanding everyone massage, it's their tea bags and I dunno about you, but there aren't enough surgical gloves on the planet to convince me to go there.
It stikes me that the members of the Republican party are more interested in themselves than the people they were put in office to serve. All you hear about are the interests of the politician, party, chairman and would be leaders, and nothing about ideas for the country or how they would improve things for their employers, the American people.
Steele is just the latest Sarah Palin. He was selected to be the answer to Obama the first black president. Not much thought was given as to what other qualifications he might have or the approaches he might want to take to further the parties interest. Sarah had obvious appeal to a segment of the Republican party, but it was also apparent that she needed prep-time before hitting the campaign trail. Now you have Steele selected to show the GOP has diversity as well. The fact that major parts of the party are completely ignoring him and attempting to remove his access to the purse strings, demonstrates that he was hired to sit in the front window to show how diverse the GOP is and nothing more.
From the "Just not getting it" files: House minority whip Eric Cantor told Fox News that the Republican Party's efforts to reinvent itself will include the leadership of Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin. Aaaaaaahahahhahahahahahaaaa.......haha.
[[“Forming circular firing squads only gives aid to the Democrats who are doing quite nicely in undercutting the public trust in our government,” Smith said.]]
Really? What planet is this person living on? At last check, which was at Pres. Obama's 100 days, the 3/4 of the American public approved of the job that the President is doing. The number of people who say the country is going is the right direction has spiked significantly. The only people who don't trust the Democratically led government is far-right Repbulicans who if Pres. Obama stamped out world hunger, found a cure for cancer and reversed global warming all in the same day, would still find something negative to say.
The republicans are a joke... they just don't get it....and Newt will never be president.
All Newt is guilty of is telling the truth, ie, all politicians are the same. They are just so much smarter than those of us who put them in office and PAY their salaries and obscene pensions. Look at Barney Rubble Frank and crew, they just do what they want, they don't care if over 60 % of their employers agree or not, they're above scrutiny.
Let the in-fighting and the self-destruction begin – I'm loving it!!!
These RNC dead-beat whiners will tear each other and their Grand "0" Party down before the democrats and the american people stick a fork in them!!!
Animal in trap
Wounded angry and vicious
Turns upon itself
Newt Gingrich calling another person an "egomaniac" is the pot calling the kettle black. If the Republican party ever hopes to get back on track they need to start looking to people like Representative Mike Pence of Indiana and run the other way from Newt Gingrich.
Robin Smith – “RNC members, on the whole, are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of our party.” That is the problem right there. If you started working for what is best for the American PEOPLE you might start getting party members elected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think both sides have the other pretty much pegged. Newt is a political blow hard and the RNC is certainly out to put the screws to Steele. The committee's attempt to making any wanted purchase above $100, 000 by Steele subject to their approval makes that grossly apparent.
Though Newt's comments were scathing the committee members were the one tightening the screws. Did they really Steele and his supporters not to push back?
Tennessee GOP chairwoman Robin Smith objected to that suggestion, saying that “RNC members, on the whole, are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of our party.”
“Forming circular firing squads only gives aid to the Democrats who are doing quite nicely in undercutting the public trust in our government,” Smith said
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I would guess that she is reaching out to all the people who have very recently fallen off the turnip truck and are totally unaware of what went on in Government in the past 8 years. Unless she is just assuming that all Americans are morons...................................
Wow! I never thought Neo-Newt and I would share any opinion. Will miracles never cease? Next thing you know, we'll elect a black President.
Newt calling other GOP out for being "egomaniacs?" I guess there must not be any mirrors in the Gingrich home.
How long can he hold this smile. Newt needs to take a breath.
Everything seems to "rankle" RNC members!! Circular firing squads??
Sweet. They're finally tearing each other's throats out.
Does any of the GOP smile ? if that ain't that saddest looking face on Gingrich i have ever seen, you just can't teach an old dog new tricks..
That's just it read the statement by Tennesse GOP chairwoman , Robin Smith , " we are committed to working for the best interest of our party " , you see this is why the GOP can't get ahead , how about working for the interest of the American people, and that means inclusion for all , not just a few token blacks ( Steele ) but for everyone , and until they realize that this is about everyone not just their conservative values, the will continue to be stuck in 2008 .....it's a new day and a new time new ,and new ideas not just tax cuts ,tax cuts and more tax cuts................
Wow! talk about infighting, the Rightwing Puppy Kickers can't seem to get their collective arse's together.
But there again they can't seem to get past the fear and scare tactics that they have used since the dawn of time.
They are whining about to much spending, where were these people for the past eight years, 12 billion plus being spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past eight years. If you add it up that is a lot of money!
Now it is a problem, hmm...interesting!
Should'nt the RNC be working for the best of their constituency?
> Tennessee GOP chairwoman Robin Smith objected to that suggestion, saying that “RNC members, on the whole, are committed individuals who sincerely work for the best of our party.” <
Maybe one day these people will grow up and work for the best of our country. Until then, its party first!
Newt – 2012!
I love it when the GOP turns on its own people. Most amusing to watch them eat their own.
This comment is coming from a guy who doesn't have an ego problem. Yeah right.
What a thrill it is to see the GOP unraveling! Just what they deserve considering their right wing agenda of hate, intolerance and bigotry!
the so called republican party has a big problem. THEY CAN'T STAND THE TRUTH. hire Jack to be the spokesman not russ limpballs and the other drug addicts/nuts that speak for them. i am a republicancrat who loves his country and served her well as did my dad in WWII. this joke of a party IS the problem and it will take 20 years to undo what they have done the last 8. i hope the voters get all of them out of office and my whole family are and were republicans.
CNN, how many pics of Newt did you have to go through to find one with such a scowl. You are sooooooooo desperate to make the G.O.P. look as bad as possible. I notice you never ever do any stories on the in-fighting in the DNC.....AND, YES, THERE IS PLENTY!
Are you competing with MSNBC to be the broadcast wing of the democratic party? Do you ever wonder why your ratings are in the toilet? How about some objectivity and fairness?
This is just great! Just when I thought it couldn't get any better...it DOES! The GOP is doing the democrats' job themselves. They just have to watch the the GOP self implodes.
Takes one to know one, Mr. Gingrich and you're as egocentric as they come.
Gingrich might have a point. Look at all the things that have been said over the time since the election by those in the party heirarchy and those that are not like Limbaugh. I think that there are some who want to be in charge and can't stand that they aren't; there are others that don't like that they aren't being paid attention to on a daily basis.
I can't believe that I am agreeing with Newt Gingrich on something.
bye-bye Rethugs. your day in the sun is over. newt and rush and steele are now your leaders. DOOMED!
"Gingrich insult rankles RNC members"
That's okay–the RNC has been insulting real Republicans for years.
Maybe, with any luck, the neo-con nuts will be so insulted they'll pack up and leave.
"Circular firing squad" – that about sums up the current structure of the republican party.
Newt attacks the RNC, Specter leaves, members of the RNC are undermining Steele, Steele throws Specter under the bus, Snowe mounts a flank attack with critical remarks, Boehner stars in a weak "back to the future" parody of old republican fear monger ads in spite of their stated desire to "move forward".
This is like watching a train wreck.
I agree with Newt on something after all. The Republican Party, top to bottom, are the egomaniacs of our society. In the article above Robin Smith said that the rank and file members were sincerly working for the best of our party. Therein lies the problem, they should be working for the betterment of all the people in this country not just themselves. And, believe me guys, your wellbeing doesn't trickle down.
Wait Wait Wait. Ask Limbaugh what he thinks before any of you speak. He is your defacto leader. At least that's what the rest of the world thinks. No ideas, no answers, no sense.
Who cares about Gingrich? You haven't posted anything about Sarah Palin for two whole days!
maybe these gun lovers should start a war and kill eachother? Must be a fun party if they can't even get along with eachother... sigh....
I would love to see Mr. Gingrich in a presidential debate against President Teleprompter. In a battle of wits, Barry would be unarmed.
This is like watching a train wreck – in slow motion.
You want to turn away but can't avert your eyes from the carnage!
Eating their own...
Love it
Pass the Popcorn Folks we are About to See the Gop Put the Nail In the Coffin RIP GOP! God the Democrats have been blessed they dont Need to spend anymore Money Fighting the GOP The Gop are doing it for them hahaha lol
Ahh, now the monkeys are throwing their bananas at each other.
And from what planet does Smith come from?.... "only gives aid to the Democrats who are doing quite nicely in undercutting the public trust in our government”. WHAT?! The level of delusion it takes for a [R] operative to claim the [D]s are currently undermining public trust, after he himself supported 8 years of the [R]-led Bush debacle in undermining ALL areas of gov't effectiveness, speaks of a not-so-mild form of socio-political retardation.
Thank you, Newt.
Attention, GOP: Please eject your party's religious zealots into outer space. You must agree that there is nothing more offensive than to have something unwanted imposed into your private life. The religious zealots are committed to these insults. They've imposed their disgusting religion, through law, via proposition 8, into my private life, and have voted away my right to get married.
I absolutely hate them for it. Until I get the same rights back that everyone else has, I will continue to hate them. This rage is unnecessary stress, but it is very real and justified. Would you espouse some leaders that would put religious lunatics in their place, please?
Newt's always been so full of himself. An ego as big as a mountain.
But after the impeachment of Bill Clinton, it was Newt who ended up unemployed.
The only thing that Newt is more divorced from than his first two wives if reality
Keep telling it like it is Newt!!! They're all a bunch of prima donnas!!!
The RNC gets more entertaining as the days go by.
The GOP 's messages not always revalence to every day life of American people because it is out of touch and too extreme. The Democrats are smart because they are constantly adapt and listen to the "People".
are you(GOP) listening to the"PEOPLE"?
Its about time someone exposed these prima donnas. The RNC must rid itself of these entrenched egomaniacs before they can get back into the game.
Fair is Fair,
Your remark that Barry (I guess that's the annointed one, right?) would easily defeat Gingrich in a debate is fatuous. Gingrich has challenged Obama to debates several times. And, no, in debates, teleprompters are now allowed, so we will have to see the incadescent brilliance of O emitting from his brain, not 10 speechwriters.
The pot calling the kettle black, if you ask me. Talk about an egomaniac! And this from a man who dumps his wife when she's fighting cancer. Now, he's a Catholic? Sheesh! Why on earth is this man even IN the news? Well, I guess this is the best the Repubs have to offer. What a bunch of idiots! and to the guy who thinks Obama needs a teleprompter – did you even watch his news conference the other night? Double Sheesh!!
OMG! I just fell off my chair! Did Newt just say something truthful??
Keep talkin', Newt! You're dragging the GOP right to the bottom, where it belongs.
The Democrats are "...undercutting the public trust in our government..."? LOL!! Thank you GOP! The party of irresponsibility, cowardice, fear-mongering, incompetence, burned-out, tired and failed "ideas"? So much for conservatives. Just a bunch of whining losers. The "core" 21% of the nation. Good-bye and good riddance to the idiocy of its supporters and the criminality of its leaders...
Truly one hell of a side show. As long as they need to stroke each other, then they will continue to forget the who purpose of a political party – TO SERVE IT MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC! This is just another reason why i left, wait let me rephrase this, my party left me. Get it together you morons.
All Republicans would be smart to just keep their mouths shut...the people assigned to their new group to solve their problems is very interesting ...when you keep talking about the same stuff you will get the same stuff...they stand for 3 things...tax cuts, anti-abortion, ...maybe only 2 things...!
Where's the popcorn?
Wow, they are fighting amongst themselves. Remember, a house divided cannot stand.
Before they speak ill of anyone, any party, they need to take a look at themselves and clean up their own backyard. Better yet, before you trash anyone, make sure your house is clean. And even if it is clean, be careful, cause your house just may get trashed next.
Think Newt will be voted off the island?
right wingers going down the tubes? what's the problem??
Old Newt Ginrich is at it again: Saying anything just to be in print. Just
take his words with a dose of salt and TRY to gorget him. Hes a has been....
Finally! Mr. Ego himself speaks of that which he knows plenty: massaging egos. It takes me back to when Gringrich was railing on Clinton during the Lewisnski affair. What was Newt on then, his 3rd mistress? This is more than just comical, it absolutely hilarious! If I were Steele, I'd stay clear of good ole Newt and any advice he offers.
"Commited individuals who want to do the best for our party".
That is the whole problem. The republicans have put party and
winning at any cost over the survival of our country.
A political party whose obsession is to make our president fail, consequently our country, is not the caliber of politicians we
want running our country.
why do i hate this man so much? i look at him and i see nothing than vacuousness, culture wars. i just can't get beyond the fact that he fuc king positioned himself to exploit the somali pirate issue for political gain AS it was happening and everyone accepts that as normal. i guess i'll never GET politics.
The GOP national organization appears to be "moderates," not in tune with the core consevatives...gave us McCain and lost. They hated Reagan...who gave us big victories as he stood by principles.
Ten guesses why we are losing!
This bickering bunch should not be allowed near any decision-making position.
Old Newt Ginrich is at it again: Saying anything just to be in print. Just
take his words with a dose of salt and TRY to forget him. Hes a has been....
Wow this is just terrible, what is wrong with the republican party? The United States Voters elected an African American to lead them into the 21st century and the republicans have gone insane.
Is Rush Limbaugh Stll Breathing? hahah lolol hahahah lolol
Fair Is Fair: First of all, President Obama has more important issues to deal with than debating ol' Newt – mostly, cleaning up after the HUGE mess Cheney/Bush left our country in after 8 years of naive, reckless, un-Constitutional rule.
Second of all, Obama would wipe the floor with Newt. Obama uses a teleprompter when delivering a long speech that he wrote himself – so what? Can you memorize a 30-minute speech?
Obama is intelligent, thoughtful and well-spoken. And unlike Newt, who shut down the Federal Government because he didn't get to sit where he wanted on a plane, he's a mature adult who's putting his country first and working hard for all of us. Newt is just pouting because he knows his party is in the toilet.
Not the truth comes out, the demise of the republican party was never about conservative values. It's about the "age old" issue of people who love power more than a commitment to serve people.
BTW, to set the record straight - conservative values have been about people have the right and freedom to "function privately" as they choose. Sometimes we confuse that with public acceptance.
Something funny about a RNC state chair (or an political party official) claiming they don't "play politics".
GOP, please rise up against the fascist religious zealots. You'll win me over. The democrats haven't stood up for us. You could be the first too!
NEWS FLASH: This just in Fox News reports all is well with RNC! All the internal fighting is coming from the "left"?
Kama is a funny thing this are the people who want Obama to fail which means they wanted this country to fail. Well sometimes be careful what you asking for
BECAUSE the entire World could care less about republicans and their DENIAL problem, let them "tear-each-other-a-new-one". SO WHAT, they have no policies to make life better for American's why not dessolve the GOP (just like the WHIG party) before them. They suck blackeyed-peas!
the republicans had better start listening to newt – at this point he is the only clear headed thinker in the party! he has the ideas, the history to back them up and knows where the skeletons are hidden in both parties – it is way past time to put egos aside and work for the common good or we will be wandering the wilderness for years to come! give steele the support he needs and we will be victorious in 2010!!!!!!!
Newt is probably right, but who cares what he thinks. He is an old, fat, miserable has-been with nothing left to do with his life except criticize everything and everybody.
Isn't it clear? This man has no loyalities. No credibility. Look at how he did his wife.
Another elderly Republican failure, sorry, I mean new face of GOP leadership, re-branding his party!
Am I the only one who finds it to be ironic when Newt Gingrich criticizes others for having a big ego?
And the infighting of the GOP egos continues. Robin Smith, exactly why should "public trust" be given to your party now in such a mess? Boy, isn't that karma after the last decade of Republican nonsense?
Hey Fair is Fair, Newt couldn't handle an intelligent debate with someone like "Barry" without showing the nation what a big head he has with so much space for rent. Newt is old news, and he's only helping the party of NO implode. President teleprompter? Of course he reads from it for speeches and addresses. GW and Palin read from teleprompters and still say "nucular". Don't get beside yourself.
His character all shows in his face, just look at his picture, what a mean sullen man Newt is. He has made himself look so bad, it's not even any funny any longer. This is what is becoming if the Grand Old Party, not so grand, but pretty old.
"THE GREATEST HOAX' ..... In American History, is how the Republican Party , schemed to elect George Bush. And the role that Rove the Puppet Master "Rasputin" managed to create . They took an imbecile from Texas ,used him as the Puppet, wrapped the American Flag around him, and the Neo-Cons and promoted them as Patriots, and the Deciples of Christ, as Pat Robertson and Falwell sprayed Holy Water with Garden Hoses as they all sat in the front row of the Churches in Wash. in D.C. The Photo-ops of Condi, Cheney, Rove, Bush, Rumsfeld ,John Yoo,John As@croft, Bill Kristol in his Temple, sitting in the front row of St, Johns was truly terrifying as you realize that they had already planned on the War for Oil and the Torturing was getting ready to proceed. Some great Movies will eventually be made of these Deferment, Orientated Cowards, the True Patriots of the Republican Party. And now the biggest COWARD of all, Dick Cheney has come crawling out of his Mental Black Hole to justify TORTURE. Just great isn't it!!! No wonder the Republican Party is despised around the World and here, with a 21% approval
Fair is Fair,
Please spare me your drama - They said that about SOS Clinton and McCain (Townhall Mtgs. were his strong suit). President Obama defeated both......Whatever you have in that juice you're drinking is causing delusions.....No amount of hate and or dissent will deter my president from victory.....Love more, hate less....Peace....
Finally, the truth is out. The only one's they care about are themselves. In fact it is so evident that they don't even care that much about each other. It really is the party of one. They are pointing to the undercutting of public trust in the government!! What planet are they on? If they pulled their head out of their arses long enough they would see how great a contrast there is between the deteriorating public view of the Republican party and the immense popularity of the President. They are precious alright, a precious waste of time
As a republican I welcome newts comments. The republican party has not represented republicans for years. I think the dem party has done the same thing. I think that in the next 20-30 years we will see this be made much more clear.
The majority in this country do not walk a party line. Most Americans hold views from both sides. If you voted for Obama chances are some of the things he has done don't make you happy other things he has done you may think are great. I didn't vote for Obama but I have been happy with some of the choices he has made.
Just look at the cr ap on this blog. If this country can't stop this bickering we will never have a government for the people again. They will just use the divide to get elected. We need to take back our govt. reduce its size and its reach. The sad part is that the constitution states what the government can govern the rest is left to the people, but today everyone wants to control the population. We are in for a overbearing government If we don't act soon.
WOW, he's starting to look like Dick Cheney ! These two guys must be related some how ! ?????????????????????????????