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Why would a neo-nitwit come on here and present fantasy poll numbers which purport to show support for the [R]s, and then pat himself on the back with a job-well-done?!!! Just goes to show how intellectually bankrupt these rightwingers are. These birth-baggers have lost all contact with reality -- we truly do have our own home-grown Taliban here. And these feeble-minded, uber-partisan punks want to run the country yet again, and they think we are stupid enough to vote them in again, even while we are in the middle of the [R] recession that they caused!!!!!!!! Ladies and gentlemen, anyone who votes for a [R] candidate this year needs to check themselves in for some gene therapy.

The 40 years of a democratic ran Congress robbed social security and medicare before 1994, and if it were not for the republican Congress Clinton would not have had a surplus, but since this young generation knows less about history than they know about math and science they would not know the truth. Remember alot of the republicans in their youth were liberal radical democrats until they realized who was going to do all the work and pay their hard earned money in taxes to the government, realized if they wanted a better life for their families and themselves they needed to become republicans, otherwise we would be like Europe where you cannot move up to the upper social classes unless you were born there. Stop the social welfare state or our youth will definitely not have abetter life than we do since the government has proven how inadequate and inefficient they are and will always be!

Welches I wear that as a badge of honor if someone smears me for being Christian. It says more about you than me.

C'mon Newt, show some backbone and take on Limbaigh. Call out Rush for what he is and the damage he is causing your party. After all, you shut down Congress because you didn't like your seat on Air Force One, why are you afraid of Limbaugh and his dittoheads? It's not like your going hunting with Cheney or Palin. Man up, Newt! You can always apologize to Limbaugh afterwards, it works for the other republicans who dare to oppose him.

GO AWAY! Your hatred is showing and we don't want any part of it. Sick of you, Palin and Rush. Go play cards or something.

Republicans must be inclusive but also must stick to their core conservative principals if they expect to maintain integrity. When you pander just to get votes, you lose purpose and direction. The Democrats are in exactly the same position. Americans need a clear choice to fit the times. Both parties will get a chance to govern, depending on the political/economic climate of the day.

Newt is wrong – this Country is turning Center left. The days of "Christian Conservatives" are done. We voted for Change. And whatever Change is, it is not Right Wing.

well in the case of the GOP, you can't have a majority at all. The entire world sees what the true colors are of the "Christian Conservative" and reject them lot, stock and barrel.

When ever someone dosen't like Obama's policies or the way he is handling our economy or the wars the only thing the democrats can come up with is it's Bush's fault.... people should get a clue... If that is the only thing democrats can come back with they are in trouble in 2010........

Obama apparent motto by what he has done so far......give to the lazy and let the working class pay....

I find it humorous all these sheep saying Obama is doing a great Job. He is pathetic and has accomplished nothing but coddling third world dictactors and signing obscenely wasteful spending bills. You know when SNL calls out Obama on accomplishments its bad.

So what ever happened to the Contract For America hype anyway?

he spends too much time with Hannity and O'Riley....ageeing with them so he can help them get more right wingers.
He keeps wagging his outdated old white man tongue.
Sometimes I think he just likes to dress up in a suit and think he still has an office of importance somewhere,

Republicans are NUTS....

I voted mostly Republican before Newt turned it into the party of mean-spirited middle-aged white men.

I hope in the mid-terms you, and your party all take a long walk on a short pier.

I disagree with most things Gingrich says, but in this case, i think he's actually right in his analysis

Gingrich is right – and I hope the GOP splits because of it.

There are far too many nutjobs out there with not an ounce of common sense, in love with the sound of their own voices who think the 8 years of Bush/Cheney were a good thing – all evidence to the contrary.

That whole party – the GOP – deserves to bite the dust!

President Obama is anything BUT a trainwreck! You're confusing him with Bush & Company who left our country with a HUGE mess!

I mean really, who in their right mind cuts taxes during wartime? Bush did it – for the first time in our history! No wonder he left us with massive deficits!

And where did that windfall for the wealthy go? They used it to build factories overseas and lay off people here.

President Obama is doing just fine, given the difficulty of the circumstances he's facing – not the least of which is the GOP and its "Party Before Country" obstructionist stance on everything!

I hate to admit the Newt might be showing a bit of intelligence on this one. Thankfully for the more enlightened Americans, most the the Republican party is standing with a rather bigoted crowd who will find themselves very alone in the next election.

Both parties need to put candidates in office who can negotiate and compromise with the other opposing party. If this does not happen, this country will stagnate and get nothing done.

Gingrich is living in a dream world, as are the rest of the GOP if they think they will regain their crippling and destructive majority any time soon! America is utterly fed up with the GOP and all they stand for...notwithstanding a small minority of malcontents who despise President Obama and any Progressive of any stripe, for whatever reason. We'll still be busy fixing up the incredible and catastrophic MESS left over from the last 8 years of GOP rule. Gimme a break! Win seats again??? You've got to be out of your mind, Gingrich.

Let's be honest, Obama is doing a FANTASTIC job considering the pile of crap that he was handed by RIGHT WING blowhards.

Thank god we have a person with a brain as our president for a change. I have decided I feel safer, more motivated and more optimistic when a democrat is in office versus ANY of the GOP candidates. Republicans REALLY need to find somebody COMPETENT sooner or later. There is not a SINGLE competent republican in office or running for office in this entire nation.

Pick a wing, you are all Kooks! Once anyone tells me they they are left-wing or right–wing they lose credibility in an argument. You are biased... because you believe in what you believe.... Much like me, I am biased towards being middle of the road...

So while Newt may be full of it..... and hypocritical to some, at least what he is saying shows an attempt at looking at a broader sense of US (us or US, however you want to view that) in that people disagree on issues, and we need to find the best SOLUTIONS......not make political plays to suit the ideaology of one side or the other. Seemingly impossible with such divide in this country as it stands....but if you posters and myself and the politicians and mostly the media outlets try to be a bit more open-minded, maybe we can find common ground instead of pointing fingers all the time.

You liberals and Democrats in general are in deeeeep do do in the up coming elections! The History of the Republican party shows that they have done MORE for the middle class AND minorities than most of you are willing to admit. Do the research and find out the truth before you shoot off your uneducated mouths! Don't forget about all the Democratic Segregationist....................Lester Maddox, George Wallace! The 1964 Civil Rights bill was pushed through by Republicans! Even Martin Luther King was a registered Republican for crying out loud!

This guy failed us miserably once before, and it is beyond ironic to hear this man above all others talk about the middle ground.

This is the champion of the famous "take no prisoners" conservative politics. The one who out and out lied about finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the hypocrite who said it's "'not an insult' to compare those who criticize the war in Iraq or even the president to the appeasers who enabled Hitler. The one who said " The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”

Yeah, we need that turkey back.

Gingrich is about the only Repub, besides Meagan McCain, who shows signs of reasonably intelligent thought these days. The religious right-wing whackos should listen to him unless they are irrevocably committed to self destruction

Gingrich is right. It is just a matter of a few elections and the American public, full up with liberals and entitlement programs for the poor people that would rather not work for a living and illegal aliens, will vote out those that need to go and go fast.
Let the house cleaning begin and lets include the Senate as well.

So far, Obama is really doing a great job. Assuming the economy recovers he should coast to re-election-and it will be well deserved. This country is center-left, as Democrats have won the popular vote in 4 of the 5 last presidential elections and have majorities in the House and Senate. Anyone who thinks this country leans right is a fool.

Looking for a Party

Well said!!!!

I've always thought that if someone came along who was fiscally conservative and more socially liberal, I would be on board. But the people who talk about gov. interference are the quickest ones to mandate standards on faith, personal life, marriage, morality, etc.

But as it stands now, the right is made up of people who value money over freedom, and the left is made up of those those who value freedom(and life) over money. Would it be so hard to get a good balance of both?

Guess old Newt himself is off on the wrong foot. The majority of Americans support the Democrats right now, because they are helping to clean up the mess bush made. The MSM gives more fact time to the ones who caused the mess, because THEY think it improves their viewing with all the conterversary....BUT guess what it doesn't it just makes the democrats stay on their steadfast path to continue to clean up...trouble is the republicans, well now they don't know what in Hades a mop is. They are out of touch with REAL AMERICANS.

Newt is apparently losing credibility within his own party by choosing the establishment side of the GOP over the conservative ideal from the base. A Newt vs. Palin per se.

Wow, I never thought I would hear Newt speaking sense. He is absolutely correct. Whether you lean left or right, if you are an extremist, you are by definition in the minority. If the Republicans kick out all the RINO's, they are basically handing elections to the Democrats.

For those who blame everything on the President and the Congress, have you been in a COMA FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS? For God's sake, they inherited this mess from your hero, George W. Hitler and his Gestapo headed by the puppet masters, Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld!

We didn't get here in November folks – this was a runaway train that is taking a long time to stop, much less change course.

Can the right wing haters give the President a chance to get his seat warm in the oval office before they get the rope to lynch him? (Oops – was that a racial reference that perhaps he can do no right because he's not white enough for you? You bet it is!)

Signed

A WHITE AMERICAN!

It's good Newt has finally realized this and is communicating it. However, the fact remains that the American people want reform and need our leaders to take action to improve our economy, health care, and infrastructure, not to mention to forge a real, comprehensive solution in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most people don't care if you are right-wing or left-wing, they just want someone to WORK to better America. I think most people realize when politicians fight and get nothing done —AMERICA LOSES. No more debates. It's time for both parties to shut up and put up. Give us your ideas. Your deliverables. Not your idealogy.

Reid, Dodd and Specter all NEED to lose. Dodd should have been thrown out for his role in the housing crisis, along with Barney Frank. Let's quit blaming Bush for everything and put the blame where it belongs.

Even though I don't like Newt, he is right.
Most of these right wing conservatives like Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity and others must haven't watched last years election results. This country is CENTER-LEFT. The NY-23 district is MODERATE!! Most americans are either Moderate Republicans or Blue Dog Democrats and Independents. The left(liberals) and Right(conservative) FRINGE don't control this country. If they still aren't convinced maybe they need to check out majority of the polls that said the republican party is shrinking and will continue to shrink in the next decades. Democrats make up 35% of the electorate and Independents is 36% and growing and Republicans represent a smalll minority of 20% and half of that has been hijacked by Social Conservative nutcases. Independents will eventually be the MAJORITY of the electorate and will control all elections. NY-23 was won by PRESIDENT OBAMA in 2008, the last republican that resigned was a MODERATE REPUBLICAN, not a CONSERVATIVE WING NUT! Hoffman will get crushed and will be won by either Scozza or Owens and its looking like Owens is going to win since he is a MODERATE/BLUE DOG Democrat which is representive of the district.

Gingrich is right you have to be all inclusive. But he is wrong on NJ – they never seem to learn and will re-elect that ethically challenged fool in there now since that is in their DNA. Gingrich is is always so well spoken and logical that he it is natural for lberals to hate him.

I keep reading about a White House that hates America, and yet the only hate I really see is on the signs of Republicans, tea baggers, and out of the pens of bloggers here and the lips of Republicans. Your outrage at Obama might be credible if you had shown any concern at all over the Bush wiretaps and torture policies, not to mention the total destruction of the Constitution by him and the wasting of our military and treasury. Now you come off as sore losers who are grasping at any terminology to express hatred at Democrats and, yes, America. Obama is trying to correct the things that Bush didn't consider important, like taking care of our children and all our citizens. If that means some short term pain, so be it...we need to put OUR money to work for all of us, as stated in the Constitution, "for the general welfare."

Revisionist history is always pervasive on these blogs. "Clinton got a balanced budget with no help from Republicans" REALLY? Rep. held congress the balance budget was probably the last bipartisan thing that our government has done that was actually good for this country.

The far right, and far left are unhealthy models for Americans, both sides of the extremes have done nothing but harm the nation, and those of us who live in it. The true "Moderates" are the winners because they have a mind of their own, I'll vote for a Rep. or Dem. who is a true moderate depending on my state or nations need during that cycle every time I vote. I agree with some of Gingrich but I don't believe there is a liberal ideology being presented by Democrats. If Gingrich is dubious of the bailouts, and the lender, who is the US tax payers who laid out the rules of "salary & bonus" until the loans are paid back, he's part of the problem, not the fix aka responsibility. Sorry Gingrich your wrong.

Conservatives certainly are frightened creatures. They see the world collapsing. I hope their worls does collapse so the rest of us may move forward.

Go Phils

Sorry Newt, you're a little late with this. The GOP is tearing itself apart with its own intolerance. Limbaugh, Palin and the Tea Baggers want no part of Republican candidates who do not share their far right ideology. No room for moderates in the Party of No.

I think Newt and the members of the Old, Fat, Rich White Boy Club (GOP) should stop living in the past. Stop being the party of fear and No, and offer something! I haven't heard one counter offer to what the Democratic Party is discussing! All I've heard from the GOP is that we should maintain the status quo.

A secular model? Oh no, we wouldn't want to hold the principles of separation of church and state would we? Typical Republicans...they think we are out to kill their God. Just keep God in your heart, and let me worry about myself...thanks

Reaganomics in the 80's didn't work Newt!!! And that so called "Contract with America" thingy turned out to be nothing but sheep food and an empty campaign slogan to help you crook, Republicans win the majority in both houses of Congress and look where we are today because of it! Nice try, but I haven't forgotten those day's and won't anytime soon! Like they say "Been there, Done that!"

Wow, I'd like to say that since Republicans are attacking Gingrich perhaps they are losing their crazy...But then I realized Gingrich made a responsible endorsement for once, NOT endorsing the candidate to probably believes Obama was born in Kenya..

This is the most sensible thing I've heard Gingrich say in years.

Gingrich was the beginning of the end of the Reagan Republican Party. after Gingrich came the Neo-Cons. why would anyone listen to this guy?

All Republicans can just go away.

Ol' Newt still windbagging eh? Well, sounds alot like Joe the Schmoe Scarbourough of "Morning Joe" fame. "When I was in congress in '94...blah, blah, blah". Don't these jerks realize nothing is like '94 or '80 or "68. The damage and destruction W & Company did to this great nation is nothing like anyone has ever seen....EVER. And the republicans/conservatives (whatever they want to call themselves) know it. AND, they also know if President Obama succeeds in any of his visions and policies they are done. Where's my fork!

This party is finished. Unless all the old people in this country start having birthdays in reverse, this party is done.

All their actions have been turn-offs, the hypocrites who hate the gays...and...they're busted with Mikey in the bed, the husbands of this family values party who cheat on their wives, or get caught on tape braggin' up about the spankings they handed out to their mistresses.

TheTea-baggers, the Birthers, the brown-people haters who are more likely than not on the side of Republicans.

The claim to fame to keep this party alive? The Red-necks, they are the only ones left who will buy all your crap.
So, good luck with that, the younger generation of voters will clearly be on the side the better party.

So, please, by all means KEEP TALKING! We don't want to forget HOW you floks really are.

Republicans continue putting front not only their past scandalist leaders like Gingrich while dealing with their current scandalist leaders, which means they are the same old GOP and will never change. Repubicans need to stop reviving the same old dead and angry talking heads. If I were a young Republican in leadership I would let all these old angry GOP members have it and become a democrat or independent. The GOP is lost.

If you're GOP forget about majorities of any type; you had better get used to the idea of being a minority party (moderate or conservative). Face it, we're just not that in to you.

God, Guts and Guns made this country. So if this is felt from his heart, so let it be.

Obama is NOT a trainwreck. The only thing bad for this country right now is the hate coming from the right. Obama is a refreshing change and the right can't stand it.

Well, it seems that Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck wants a pure right wing party of the GOP... The Republican Titanic is sinking with the pure right wingers....

Hey, Gingrich helped make this bed, now he has to lie in it. Too bad he didn't consider the long term consequences of his actions – he, in part, destroyed the republican party.

This "Pillsbury Dough Boy" needs to go write some more books - nothing he says is the truth nor worthy of listening to.

newt is right. can't stand the man and the hipocracy he bathes in but the hardcore conservatives are fools thinking that america will embrace their far-right politics.
the same could be said for the far-left wing of the democratic party. america, as a whole, clearly dwells in the middle.
but by all means, keep having the crazy wing of the republican party dominate.

"Center-right" majority? Is he kidding? Gingrich was one of the architect's of the Bible bashing bigot republican party.

I wish all of the idiots who keep yapping about how this admistration is "leftist-liberal" or "extreme left" or "socialist-leftist-liberal" would take Political Science 101 so they MIGHT learn something! Obama is not, I repeat IS NOT a liberal or leftist! He is a MODERATE DEMOCRAT! He ran as a moderate Democrat and that is what his ideology is. Just because THE righter-than-right-neo-cons think that ANY ideology even close to being in the center is left or socialist, DOES NOT MAKE IT TRUE!

With the constant villification of Democratic ideas by Republican Party personnel Newt's concept of a politically centrist legislature seems somewhat out-of-reach. Compromise should be the way we accomplish passing legislation that is supportive of a majority but that just isn't happening and each subsequent legislature seems to be more interested in undoing what was done.

We allowed this man, his ideas and his party to get control from the mid 90's thru the last election and look at the mess they made. The must incredible thing is that they expect the new administration to have cleaned up their mess by now.

Newt is a traitor to "right" thinking Americans.
If true conservatives splinter the g.o.p., I say good ridance.

Palin/Bachman 2012

"I want my country back"

The fall of the Roman empire is near. I can sense out the split of GOP is on the way coming!

I cant believe I am saying this but Newt is right (for once) you can not have a pure right or left wing majority.

Obama is leading (if you can call it that) from the center which is also disasterous, especially when the entirety of one party's only agenda is to make him fail at every move. The party of "no" is moving toward the party of "nobody" in a hurry. People are finally paying attention to what is going on in our government.

If you listen to the Republicans or Fox News, you will certainly think that the country is becoming either a communist (far Left) state or a Fascist (Far Right) state at the same time.

If the Republicans were true to their roots and fought for smaller government (including wars and military) and fought for small businesses and farmers (instead of corporations and large banks),

and the Democrats were true to their roots and fought for blue collar workers (including unions and work safety standards) and fought for humanitarian justice (ending poverty and health care for ALL)

Then our debates would be much better for the country.

Both parties are alligning themselves with where the money comes from instead of their true ideologies.

Truth?
Deficit inaguration day 2009 $1.2 trillion – today $1.4 trillion.
So who is responsible for all of our current problems?
If you believe the facts – you can figure it out for yourself.
If you follow Fox, Rush, and hate radio – your fantasy is that it all started Jan 20, 2009.

Work towards the CENTER, where most of America is, what a concept....

Republicans will never get it !

Gingrich is just making a political maneuver. He hopes to run in 2012 and hopes no one remembers his tenure in Congress. No one formed tighter controls on Congress than Gingrich. He doesn't care if its people on the right, left, or center as long everyone is under his control. Gingrich makes Pelosi look meek compared to his actions in congress!

Republicans are doing more for Democrats by pushing right wing extremists and allowing Cheney to be spokesman.

Newt is correct, under the prevailing conditions a right wing majority is an oxymoron. If republicans want a right wing majority, they need to do two things: adopt rational ideas and spread the wealth. They graner a lot of support from people with no clue to their enlighte self intrest but not enough to win.

RIP GOP! you sacrificed the party at the altar when you let limbaugh, hannity and becks take over!! the more noise they make the more they divide the GOP. The wingnuts have taken over!!

Question to Newt and his fellow Republicans: Some of you complain Obama's 'more of the same' and no change from Bush (ie, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.) and then you say he's 'too liberal' or 'too left'. Which one is it?

Strange a man with a PHD is calling and intellectual administracion a liberal again strange. Boy ! what is happen to us in education.

See where your thuggery of the early 90's got you Newt.
I stopped voting Republican because of your "Contract on America" followed up by the selfrighteous witch hunt against our President Clinton by the Rethugs, including hypocite adulterists like you and Mr. Hyde.
Repubs are the party of "NO" future.

As a Christian, I would choose "social-secular" over "fascist-religious" in a hot second. Since when has government EVER been qualified to arbitrate on spiritual, moral or religious matters? Not their job. Stick to cutting crime & taxes and preserving our freedom, and stop meddling in everyone's personal lives. Right-wing Republicans are the enemy of religious freedom.

Obama is a Socialist Marxist and if you listen to what he actually says in his speeches and talking engagements from before he was the president to current he clearly admits it... and I have only judged him on the people he surrounds himself with as that is what he said to do if we want to know his politics......

All Obama wants to do is create bigger government and control your lives as he thinks he knows what is best for you and your family and that you are too stupid to know the difference......He is enabling people to do nothing and making the working people pay for them.......How Un-American is that

"the socialist demon cronies in the White House", "their hate-filled Alinsky ideology". Wow, spoken like a true raving neo-nazi lunatic. Sniffing that north Jersey air has done some damage.

Wake up a smell the roses, and remove your head from where it doesn't smell as good. Indeed, I am one of those 40% who identify as being conservative. But being conservative is certainly NOT being a dupe for the rightwing underbelly of this nation....being conservative is NOT embracing he path of self-delusion and willful ignorance. Indeed, we true conservatives voted for Obama, and rejected the [R]ightwing candidates, by the droves for the very reasons that we "believe in fairness, doing the right thing, being honest, personal responsibility, treating people who deserve it with respect, and a belief in rights, freedom, and the fruits of ones labor for all Americans". And, yes, that is working out just fine for us, by the way.

This guy (and Tom Delay) did more damage to America than any other living person (excepting Dick Cheney and G. W. Bush, of course). Forty thousand people per year died because they have no health insurance. By blocking the Clinton health care initiative, Conservatives under Gingrich were responsible in 1 year alone for ten times the number of deaths that Al Quaeda caused at 9/11.

He blocked, stalled, defamed, impeached, insulted, maligned, prevented, disabled, refused, and denied for all the years he was in office, preventing the nation from solving its problems.

Do not believe him, do not listen to him, do not imagine for a moment that he has the best interests of our nation at heart.

I would suspect Anything that Mr. "Contract ON America" (1994) has to SAY ABOUT ANYTHING! This guyt is not a pure analyst! He is just another person whose opinion is Bad for America! Peace

Is Newt getting more wise with age? God I hope so! This is just the kind of dialog we need on both sides. Obama has been trying, but maybe now Republicans will listen to one of their own.

It's funny how Gingrich tries to trick people with his wording. He's saying the President is pursing a "liberal agenda" even though the majority of Americans approve of President Obama's handling of the major issues.

I love Republican math. Even when the majority is against you in record numbers, still claim that you are actually the majority.

contract with corperate america= free trade , ship job,s oversea, trickle down new,t

Republicans tried a moderate (McCain) just what the Democrats said the Republicans should do...Bi-Partisan?? There is no argument on the Republicans being a big party of various people..what is at stake is the the general direction of the Republican party!

Is it me or do the republican party seem to live in yesterday years 80's or 90's. If my memory serves me correctly I did not do well under Pres. Regan or the contract with America. This is excatly why I can not vote for that party. I press toward the future and forgetting the past

Newt the party you speak of already exists, were called Libertarians. Not a party of left or right, but a party that asks the question is this policy based on the rights described in the U.S Constitution? This nation is a Republic not a majority rules democracy. Minority opinions are protected by our Constitution, or at least it used to be this way.

I'm a Democrat and agree with the main point of Gingrich's statement – you can't win a majority with only the far right (or the far left). His analysis falls short for me beyond that because his bias is obvious – apparently, only the 1980 and 1994 elections represent successful moves toward the center. He fails to acknowledge that the 2008 election also represented a shift to the center, except it was more of a shift to left of center rather than right of center.

Also, his labeling of the current Democratic majority as "secular-Socialist" also belies an inconvenient truth – while the majority of Americans may consider themselves people of faith, that doesn't automatically translate into them wanting a theocracy for their government.

Newt is correct! If everyone thought the same:
1. Somebody is not thinking
2. Somebody is not necessary!

Disagreements make us stronger and not weaker! I am a conseravtive and I understand when you listen, you learn! That doesn't mean I am accepting of everything! I cannot sell out my core beliefs!

Somebody wrote the Republicans demand comformity. BOTH PARTIES DO! That's why Obama pressured former Gov Wilder in Va to support Deeds, REMEMBER? If you are going to attempt to tell the truth, tell the WHOLE truth!

Unlike Obama who believes you can have only a far left extremist party in the Democratic(SIC) Party.

Doesn't matter if moderates voted in blue dog sensible not totally evil and corrupt blue dogs. These moderates/blue dogs gave the Democrats a majority in Congress. Instead of respecting and honoring that gift, the Democrats put a far left extremist Pelosi as Speaker. Pelosi would not be electable in 95% of our nation, yet she is running the house. The dems will use the moderates for power, then shut them out and make them powerless when they get to Washington. Then extremists like Obama and Pelosi force an extremist left wing agenda on a country filled with decent, honest, hard working, fair Americans who are the direct opposite of this extremist ideology that is ruining our nation.

Keep dreaming, Newt. Inclusion has never applied to the party of rich, white, old dudes who have no idea what WE want–only what THEY want for themselves. Congress gets awesome insurance paid for by the public and WE don't to get that option too? Get outta here!

The GOP is toast. Good riddance.

Now i disagree with some of what Gingrich said, however he is right about his party. Too bad the teabaggers, birthers, death panel pushers and other buffoonerific conservatives won't hear him out.

I am a independent , I will guarantee that President Obama will be re-elected. I left the republicans when they threw us in the center under to bus.In order for most of us, independents , to support Republicans they have to learn not to say "No" to everything. Let's be real , they have no plans on health care, they have told so many lies about what Obama would do with issues like gun control, health care, abortion among others. Oh yeah remember , lets see the Birthers , Tea Partiers and those that said President Obama is a Muslim. Ronald Reagan would never had said these things. He was what the Republican Party should be.Now that's not say that the Democrats are being 100% truthful. I do not belive they are either.Republicans need to move to the center again. Then they will have my support. If Republicans want to win they have to get rid of the racist ajnd crackpots from the far right. They are just as bad as those on the left. Actually I think they may be worse at the present time. If not, Republicans cannot win. Period. The way it is right now President Obama will with out a doubt be re-elected. Don't fool yourself.

I just want to add,thats what I was told about him serving his dieing wife divorce papers.So it may not be true.However he should of taken his own advice and stayed out of this one.Go Newt Go!!!! Gingrich/Spector 2012.

Who do you trust more?

Surveys of 1,000 Likely Voters
October 14-15 & 18-19, 2009

Issue Democrats Republicans
Health Care 40% 46%
Education 38% 43%
Social Security 37% 45%
Taxes 35% 50%
Economy 35% 49%
Abortion 35% 47%
Immigration 33% 40%
Nat'l Security 31% 54%
Iraq 31% 50%
Gov't Ethics 29% 33%

Read it and weep, dems.

Newt, go away; you're irrelevant!!!!

The republicans might have a chance if the democrats continue to show us that they are to weak as a party to stick together and do right by Americans.

They have a majority yet because the lobbyist have corrupted them with reelection money they can't get any thing done. All they care about is themselves and not much for the people who put them there.

Rush Limbaugh and Newt Ginrich MUST be twins.

AHHHHH !!! We now have a lock-step Republican Party because all dissenters have been silenced. What few remain in Congress are the Ultra -Right wingers, the party of NO with no ideas what-so-ever except NO.

I think it is fantastic that the wackos in the GOP won't be happy until the party only represents 5% of the country, because they will not be able to win a national election and perhaps not a statewide election in all but the most backwards states.

The last three Republican Presidents ran up $9T of our entire $11T national debt – fiscally conservative in rhetoric only. We never need their leadership again.

Prediction: Obama will not run up as much debt in his 8 years as Bush did in his – not even close.

I can think of somebody worse than Obama to be president.

You.

nothing here, move on

Both the far left and the far right forget the 80% both Dems and Repubs are circling the middle. The problem is the two opposite ends are loudly extolling thier positions. Try moderation.

By the way Arlen Spector as Anonymous said is a Democrat..Please return the money given by Republican campaign doners.

It's about time you admit that the right wing wacko's are the minority.
They are so bazzarre that normal people are afraid of them. They are almost communist.

Newt,

Do you really think that pretending to be a reasonable person is fooling anyone?

We all know what an unprincipled, radical right, partisan hack you are.

Gingrich/Spector 2012. 2 Defectors on a GOP ticket sounds good to me.Newt the scandelous GOPer who served his cancer dieing wife divorce papers as she lay dieing in a hospital,just shot himself in the foot backing the acorn lady.She supported the failed stimulus,supports card check,is accused by the dem as being a tax hiker,shes the furthest thing from being conservative you can nominate.Yet theres ol Newtie boy saying shes the best thing since sliced bread.No wonder people are abandoning the GOP these days they are further left than most democrats.He says crying like a baby to fox outsiders should stay out of this one,gee does he live there?I used to somewhat like him,but since he did this my mind has changed.

Gingrich is right. The right wingers club can't logically be a majority because they are so exclusive. When you exlcude middle and lower income families, blacks, latinos, jobless, homeless, those that can't afford health insurance, non-christians, non-whites, non-english speaking americans. etc. Put simpler, the rich, white, christian club will never hold a majority in the US. Of course there are a few "outsiders" that claim membership because of their position on abortion or some other single issue and some others bought with government rebate checks who are not smart enought to realize they are being used. The republican right wingers biggest challenge is to fool as many lemmings as possible into thinking they are supported when they really aren't.

The right are the ones that got us into this mess. Only a fool would want a right-wing anything. Its better to have a center majority, if you can't have anything toward the left. Its a balance between the right and the left thats needed.

Everytime this loud mouth NOTHING comes out in the news, that song THE FREAKS COME OUT AT NIGHT, pops in my head. What is it about the right that they are stuck with polarizing, OLD school, washed up, and washed out people? I mean come on, huckabee, gingrich, romney??? really??? Hello, 1990 called and it wants its washed up politicians back!

And antoher thing rethugs can't have are the religious right whackos running around screaming "Ala Acbar". OOPS! I mean "God Bless".

Got the militant evangelicals mixed up with the Taliban there for a minute. It's eazy to do since both want to dominate their citizens with religious mumbo jumbo instead of real laws....

I believe that the right wing conservative-extremists (just like the Taliban and AlQueda) are going to tear this country to pieces. Honestly I see another civil war in our future due to the hateful, and very unchristian I might add, speech I see and hear from them. It is truly frightening and unbelieveable. I believe they would rather mow you down with bullets than finding ways to make this country work better for a lot of people. They appear to be so self centered and focused on 'me me me' and don't care a whit about anyone else. That's why I'm a democrat - just the shear meaness I hear from them.

let's just be honest. Obama is a trainwreck. He is awful for this country. I would say, I couldn't think of anyone worse right now as president.

The Republican party is stuck in the past and fear-mongering, devoid of any solutions. Big government is not "bad". Small government and lack of regulation is what caused the financial meltdown the Obama inherited. Yet all the neo-Confederates have amnesia and forget it was 8 years of Bush/Cheney that saw the largest increase in spending ever and an un-funded war in Iraq that was put on the national credit card.

We spend too much time in this Nation telling others what we are 'against'. Few are willing to help others – there were numerous posts on an article about Bush Sr. and Obama urging folks to volunteer that were slamming volunteering as socialism. We are too focused on what we don't want other people to do, instead of looking at anything positive. If you go through life looking for doom behind every door, that's exactly what you will find.

Newt forged this group of far right ideological conservatives and turned republicans into the party of fear, hate, greet and ignorance. Now he is accusing liberals of following his lead. I've never heard anything more insulting in my life.

Just FYI Arlen Specter is not a republican he is a democrat

Republicans only have a chance to take Wisconsin because to date, there are no viable Democratic candidates for governor. Don't think the possibility of a Republican governor in Wisconsin is an endorsement of Republican ideology.

Newt is a moron, but he's right about the Republican party. The country's leaving the idiot hardliners behind.

FINALLY!!!!!

If more conservatives would understand this, then many of us moderates who have no party would return.

The right wing lunatic fringe will have no chance in 2012 unless they come to their senses and become more moderate and less paranoid.

I would pay money to see a LIVE debate with Palin getting torn up by Romney and Pawlenty. They will eat each other up to see who is more conservative and in the end will flame out.

Obama 2012. Count on it.

Come on now right wingers .... don't let Newt tell you that you MUST keep the status quo. Take back your party and then you can take back your country.

Gingrich does have a point... You can't have a party of just Hannity, Limbaugh and Beck; you need to have other perspectives. Look at the Democrats, they advance things and they have many different ideas in their party. To have only one set of ideas is like limiting your population; enventually, you have only one kind of thing that leads to stangation and death.

If a republican is fiscally conservative, they are still a republican. I do not vote on social issues only. The trouble the republican party and President Bush got into was they were spending like moderate democrats and now the democrats are spending and taxing like Socialist Europe. That is their downfall! The trouble shown in interviews and questions with Dede Scozzafava is she is as left socialing and fiscally as the liberal democrat she is running against which is left of any moderate republican out there including Arlen Spector, Olympia Snowe, or Susan Collins.

Well, this LEFT-WING admin, congress, and house sure are doing a bang-up job of destroying the country. That's for sure.

This is the absolute worse President, White House, Senate and House of Reps EVER.

2010 cannot come soon enough. The Republicans will be the majority for the next 20 years after this.

The best way to create a "center-right" majority is to appeal to the fear and ignorance in voters. Unfortunately the Republican Party has perfected this art.

The GOP motto: be afraid of those different from you, be constantly paranoid of those in authority, trust your animal/primal gut instinct and ignore your uniquely human abilities, use violence first and reason second whenever you're in a situation where you're scared or confused.

Real change comes from real people making real changes not just bids for reelection.......

Right now real politech is a word coined for people writing foreign policy not domestic policy makers............

Then again real change does not mean the gun-boat diplomacy that got another round in the fall of 2008...........

The great game concludes the effect that most people are willing to risk their dollars against.........

The Russian empire builders now realise the glastnost and prehistorica fortunes that they missed out before the october revolution went down..........

Decimating the surface of the planet would not be the right thing to do , though it could have crossed the mind of many adopters.....

Space warfare may be the next thing on the minds of the predator,
though conventional weapons remain in the hands of the enemy...

Space age type of ordernances are delivery systems that are a requirement for keeping the peace.........

salil.

If he's trying to run for the presidency, it's too late. The rabid right wing tin-foiled teabaggers have taken over. He can find his party at the bottom of a garbage can. They've trashed it.

While what he says is true, it won't happen. As long as the zealots and their mouthpieces (fat boy/Coulter/Beck/Shammity) control the dialogue anyone who even remotely is viewed as not a "party member" (zeig heil), they are not a republican and therefore not welcome

Fiscal conservative, social moderate...where are you?

A little late to be telling your people this important piece of information. Just as when McCain/Palin fired up their ignorant base with hateful rhetoric and then tried to tamp it down but couldn't and looked like fools. A. Little. Too. Late. FAIL.

Can't trust Newt Gingrich anymore he's become to much of a flake. Still playing Left and Right politics as the ship sinks into socialism. What the Fig Newt won't tell you is the true difference between the candidates and he's using the same old distraction tricks such as gay rights and abortion. The difference between Hoffman and Scozzafava is that Hoffman believes in limited government. Scozzafava does not. We just finished eight years with an administration that promoted open borders and globalism and now we have a socialist in the White House and now people are calling Sarah Palin an extremist for wanting limited government and personal liberty.

don't vote democrat or republican. compromise!
don't do what's legal. compromise!
don't do what's right. compromise!

let's all go broke COMPROMISING!!!

The reason Republicans will be back in force is because the 'big tent' Democrats can't even agree that the sun rises in the east. The party has been in power 9 months and is already coming apart at the seems. 2010 will be 1994 all over again. Say adios to the leftist agenda when one or both houses of Congress change.

Newt is a scholar of History. I would love to see Newt school the fraud Obama in a debate.
Newt saved the economy in 1994, can he do it again in 2012?

You can after 2010.

No, but you did and look where we are now! After listening to your band of town hall meeting thugs and watching a fox news producer egging a crowd to a frenze at the march on washington, you have no credibility.

The GOP will split into the religous right, thug right and the Rockafeller Republicans. The latter will emerge as the party because they are more to the middle and noncombative. They like to talk to solve problems rather than demonize, yell and scream or lie and fabricate.

The GOP can have all the governorships it wants.... Who cares about them?

But as long as loonies like Palin, Beck, and Limbaugh represent the GOP on a national level, and as long as war criminals like Bush and Cheney are loose in the streets and shooting off their lying mouths, the GOP will not be winning any congressional majorities in the near future.

Now he wants to have two strong parties in Washington, but when the republicans were in power, he talked a different story. This guy is a contradiction. When he criticized Clinton for his affair Newt was having an affair. When he was in power, he thought it was good to have only one party in power, but now, when the tables are turned, he's worried that it isn't good for the country. The big difference is when the Democrats are in power, they allow disagreements, but when the republicans are in power, they ostracized any republican that even thought about crossing the line ONCE.

Hey newt you lost. Reah! we really had it great with reagans trickle down economy. the rich got richer and the poor and working class got screwed. then came bush sr. the republicans robbed the same people again with the bush clan stealing from the tax payers by way of the savings and loan scandal. then we had Clinton who balanced the budget with no help from the republicans. he left a surplus then we got george w. and he gave that to his richest 1 percent buddies. plus robbing social securty. starting two wars then bailing out wall street. reah we really have it good when republicans are in control.

Hopefully the country is educated enough to not allow something like a pure Right -wing majority to happen.

There is an amazing correlation between higher eduction and progressive thinking.

"Why not? We have a far left administration that is bankrupting this country with the help of Nancy Pelosi. Don't think this is the change America voted for.............but we got it anyway." Idiot.

What Newt doesnt get is Limbaugh,Cheney, Fox News, will not allow MODERATES Into the party. Limbaugh goes nuts on them he will be calling you out Newt lets see what you say about it!

Newt, you are part of what is wrong with politics. You are putting aside important principles and your loyalty is simply to the party, even if it picks a candidate that is Dede Scozzafava who is pro cap and trade and voted for Obama's stimulus bill. We are tired of big spending liberals...Hoffman is the only choice...props to Palin for speaking up.

Why would ANYONE want the Republican Party to have ANY say? All they do is pander to the extremes of their base, namely, Christian fundamentalists and heavily-funded and resourced corporations. The Right Wing commenters on this site and others - talking about socialism and death panels, ripping on Pelosi and Obama based on lies and propaganda - have truly lost their minds. We live in the United States of America. All this talk of socialism and how Obama is bankrupting the country - is TOTAL BUNK. ENOUGH!!!!! We were almost in a Depression in January 2009. We ARE coming out of it. We had to spend money to prevent a further Depression. We HAVE to reform health care or it will totally destroy doing business in America. These are IMPORTANT ISSUES that needed to be addressed. Period. We can work on paying down the debt once we have moved out of CRISIS mode!!!!!!

Keep the discussion going on THE ISSUES, or just get the heck out of the way.

While you Republicans think that this administration is running this country into debt (remember a large part of this debt came from Bush) I would rather my children and grandchildren be left with a debt to pay off than to be killed in your sinceless WARS that you support , I woulod rather them live with a debt than die because you republicans aren't for Health Care so that all people of this country may be able to get Medical coverage.......you say you are Pro-life.......but as long as you promote these Wars and No Health Care then you are killing people right and left........these right wing conservatives are the Death Panel for your own Party.........

Republicans are not going to win the Senate seat in Illinois.

40% of Americans identify themselves as Conservatives, we can only hope that this is real and that 40% of Americans are great people who believe in fairness, doing the right thing, being honest, personal responsibility, treating people who deserve it with respect, and a belief in rights, freedom, and the fruits of ones labor for all Americans.

If this truly is the case, then Americans will join together to defeat the socialist demon cronies in the White House today that are focused on double standards based on ideology, and taking away the rights, freedoms, and wealh of all Americans who don't march lock step to their hate-filled Alinsky ideology.

Finally something intelligently said by a Republican, that you can't have a right wing majority. You're so right Mr Gingrich. Those lunatics will always be the minority. Their ranks will become smaller and smaller as minority populations become larger.

Gotta love Newt! It sounds reasonable. I'm not a Republican though!

If Gingrich thinks the Republican controlled congress of 1994 was center-right then he obviously doesn't know where the center is. They were the start of the hard right shift of the GOP. Now each Republican tries to be more right wing than the others. I've seen races here in Florida where GOP candidates campaigned against each other as to who is more conservative than the other.

It would be nice to get back to parties that contain conservatives, moderates and liberals.... both parties have been hijacked by the liberals and conservatives....

I agree with Newt. The GOP will be crushed if it doesn't change direction. Some Republicans think the base has been vitalized by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and the other idiot on FOX News Glenn Beck. WRONG! They are hurting the party (mainly Beck with his buffonery)!

"and we are not saved..."

I hate the man so much, but in this case, he is right on the money.

Hello Newt....... You had your time and did not do anything that American People remember. You are all nothing but currept politician who are in the pockets of the corporation and your own iterest. You have no intention to help American people......... you need some one who has vision of 21st century, your old thoughts won't work this time.

GOP lost the credibility when they broke this nation financially into pieces....world is looking down...because of GOP....and their 8 years of administration...ok....pres. obama, go for health care reform with public option...writer is a very highly educated...wishes for the best of the American people....

I am former republicans

2000 Republicans didn’t help McCain

2008 they put Mc Cain down and praise Pailn

Now they are dreaming 2010

2010 republicans will loss more seats because they are Ignoring the middleclass and minorities

Go away Newt. Nobody is interested any more.

Too late... the GOP has already been successfully hijacked by the extreme right wing, moderates and independents are jumping ship. Corzine now leads Christie by 9 points, just 2 months ago Christie was up by double digits. The GOP is in BIG trouble.

"You can't have a purely right-wing majority." For once in my life, I actually AGREE with something Newt Gingrich has said.

I just hope Mr. Gingrich will have the cajones to stand up to Rush Limbaugh, when Limbaugh starts ranting and raving, denouncing Mr. Gringrich for "compromising" with "liberals."

Yeah, that Contract with America...YOU DID NONE OF IT!!! Crazy Newt, thinks our memory lasts only a couple of years. Go off with Rush and sleep with as many campaign workers...you know business as usual.

Bullseye's Newt.

Excuse me Newt you had a Contract On America not with America.

Newt Gingrich is totally clueless.

Today's Republican Party demands conformity and total adherence to right wing beliefs and dogma. Any Republican that does not follow this strict interpretation is not a real Republican.

You are either with them or against them. There is no middle ground to modern Republicans

The Newts "Contract With America" turned out to be the biggest scam ever pulled on the American people.We cant wait to see how that "trickledown theory" works on his grave.

Gingrich Quote of the Day -- "You can't have a purely right-wing majority; you can't have a purely left-wing majority."

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Newt, you should be smart enough to know that 'preachin to the choir' is a fruitless endeavor. And preachin’ to the Republican base about inclusion is a waste of breath. But hey; this is a bed that you helped to make……so go take a nap in it like a big boy !

...and then Republican Carly Fiorina will take Barbara Boxer's Senate seat. We welcome intelligent, responsible representation in California. Go Carly.

Wait... Newt - are you NOW saying that everything you've fought for has been WRONG?

We've been saying that for YEARS!

Hey, Newt. Shut up. We are love watching the GOP stab each other in the back. It helps keep the knife out of our backs.

Well, the governorship of Kansas, I would say you should pick that up since there is no real Democratic canidate running. But when Brownback wins it, it is not because of anything competent the Republican party has done in Kansas.

Well, if it "ain't" Newt still trying to sell his story of years gone by. He really thinks he is still important in the grand scheme of things. He fancies himself as leading the GOP, well probably better him than Limbaugh, but not much credibility from either. He along with Cheney, Limbaugh, etc. should realize they had their chance. It is over. They will be too old to care when republicanism becomes fashionable again.

Once a Republican, always a scumbag. I don't care what flavors they come in. They're all loco.

The Republican party needs to wake up. As long as the right wing of the party don't change their views, the only thing they will win is principle.
Unless they change their views on such subjects as abortion and others, to name a few, they will never come into power again.
While I don't consider myself a RINO, I am a fiscal conservative and a social moderate. On abortion, I strongly believe that this is a woman's right, and while I am not pro-gay, I believe in the Army's don't ask, don't tell policy.

i feel that the GOP runs the risk of truly becoming a minority party unless they decide to have a broad coalition. I am not endorsing the RINO approach of people like Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe, but it is perfectly fine to have moderate Republicans in our big tent.

Why not? We have a far left administration that is bankrupting this country with the help of Nancy Pelosi. Don't think this is the change America voted for.............but we got it anyway.