Gingrich Answers Tough Questions about Statements on Race and Class at African-American Church in SC
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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was challenged about his past statements on race and class during a forum at a predominately African-American church in South Carolina Saturday.
While taking questions from a crowd of more than 50 people at Jones Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, the Associated Press reports that Gingrich faced tough questions about past statements he made regarding work ethic in poor communities, and his criticism of President Barack Obama as a “food-stamp president.”
Gingrich said his comments were misconstrued.
MSNBC reports on one back-and-fourth that the Georgia Republican faced:
“’You made a statement about kids getting free lunch and about them working as janitors to pay for their free lunch — if you could clarify that,’ a man asked Gingrich right away during the question and answer session.
‘Well I didn’t say anything about free lunch. What I said was in the poorest neighborhoods, if we could find a way to help young people earn some money, we might actually be able to keep the dropout rate down and give people an incentive to come to school,’ Gingrich responded. ‘My goal is to say, young people who start early who get a job, who earn a little bit of money, can help their family, they can help themselves, they learn the work habit.’
‘Good response,’ the man shouted after Gingrich wrapped up the answer.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that the skeptical and “occasionally hostile” crowd was made up largely of African-Americans, many of whom said they were Democrats.
“I’m sitting here listening to you about how you went around the country with Al Sharpton and everything, but, however, does that change your way of thinking about the blacks, the Latinos, the Mexicans, or what you said about the ghetto, people living in the ghetto?” the Journal reports Sharon Johnson asked, sparking a heated exchange. “Has that changed your way of thinking, or are you still as known throughout the state as a racist, as a bigot?”
“First of all,” MSNBC reports that Gingrich fired back, “I don’t quite know why you would say that, I never … what I’ve said is that we want everyone to be able to rise in all of America. We want everyone to be able to use English and be able to rise in the whole country.”
AP notes that the forum was a rare appearance for a presidential primary candidate before an audience unlikely to vote in his party’s primary. Exit polls indicate that blacks made up just 2 percent of those who voted in South Carolina’s 2008 Republican primary.
“If you’re going to lead America, you have to be willing to lead all of America,” explained Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond in regards to his candidate’s decision to host the event.
Following the question and answer session, church members prayed over Gingrich and his wife, Callista. The couple then joined the crowd in the church basement for dinner.
The Los Angeles Times reports that as Gingrich worked his way around the room where church parishioners ate fried chicken, barbecue hash, green beans and rice, he explained his unusual campaign appearance.
“As Americans, we need to talk to each other,” he said.
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no ways tired
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 9:23amLet’s spread this message (twitter, facebook) if you dare. It was the DEMs siccing the dogs and using the fire hoses…
http://www.nbra.info/MLKWasARepublican
…and George Wallace (segregation forever) was a Democrat.
Report Post »sondoggie
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:35pmThe people and the media need a daily reminder that it was the dems who were the racists’, and resisted all attempts to stop segregation. A well-kept secret.
Report Post »Randyco02
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:44pmYou are right and you are wrong. The Northern democrats were the ones working for desegregation with a few brave southern democrats. Some republicans supported desegregation but the majority opposed (Barry Goldwater 64). Lyndon Johnson famously said of the civil rights bill that it would cause the democrats to lose the south. That happened. After northern democrats and some southern democrats supported civil rights bill the south became overwhelmingly republican.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:25pm@Randyco02 … Go even further back in history … Following the Civil War, the majority of blacks supported Republicans (even though they weren’t allowed to vote for many years). When Woodrow Wilson (D) was elected, he instituted segregation as a means to punish blacks for supporting Republicans. Harding and especially Coolidge (R), tried to put an end to racial injustices; Coolidge denounced lynching by making it illegal, but was unsuccessful in getting Congress to end segregation. (The KKK was a very large and powerful organization in both the North and the South during Coolidge’s administration.)
Herbert Hoover (a Northern Republican) and FD Roosevelt (D) turned back the clock to support segregation, and it was another republican, Dwight Eisenhower (R) who wanted to end segregation; but the Democrats in Congress wouldn’t budge.
Ironically, it was Lyndon B Johnson who fought Eisenhower’s agenda to end segregation. The only reason LBJ supported the Civil Rights Act was because he realized the black population was becoming stronger politically. Between the Civil Rights Act and LBJ’s Great Society, LBJ ensured that blacks would continue to be dependent on gov’t support, and therefore more likely to support Democrats in the future. My source — Essays from The Black American Women and the Vote.
The difference between Dems and Reps on this subject — Democrats see blacks as inferior and unable to think or care for themselves, and Republicans see blacks an
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:25pmThe Democratic dominance of the South originated in many white Southerners‘ animosity towards the Republican Party’s stance in favor of political rights for blacks during Reconstruction and Republican economic policies such as the high tariff and the support for continuing the gold standard, both of which were seen as benefiting Northern industrial interests at the expense of the agrarian South in the 19th century. It was maintained by the Democratic Party’s willingness to back Jim Crow laws and racial segregation.
Report Post »Democrats won by large margins in the region in every presidential election from 1876 to 1948 except for 1928, when candidate Al Smith, a Catholic and a New Yorker, ran on the Democratic ticket; even in that election, the divided South provided Smith with nearly three-fourths of his electoral votes. Beginning in about 1948, the national Democratic Party’s support of the civil rights movement significantly reduced Southern support for the Democratic Party and allowed the Republican Party to make gains in the South by way of its “Southern strategy”. Today, the South is considered a Republican stronghold at all levels above the local level, and even there Republicans have made generally increasing inroads. Political experts have often cited a southernization of politics following the fall of the Solid South.
Look4DBigPicture
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:37pm…and Republicans see blacks as equals.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:57pmSenator Davis noted, “Ron Paul’s record matches his rhetoric, his fiscal plan matches the fiscal challenges that our nation is facing, and his movement represents the taxpayers whose interests have been ignored in the political process for far too long.”
“I’m also endorsing him because unlike what the pundits have led you to believe, he is the candidate who gives the Republican Party the best chance to beat Barack Obama in November.”
Report Post »gwssacredcause
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 9:22amThe headline said “at African-Amercan Church in SC“ then changed it to ”predominately African-American Church.“ Why should there still be racially divided churches as ”Americans” shouldn’t at least be able to worship regardless of color in any church building we want?
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 3:05pm“Why should there still be racially divided churches as ”Americans” shouldn’t at least be able to worship regardless of color in any church building we want?”
We CAN worship in any building we want and those worshipers obviously chose that one. We still have the freedom to assemble where, when and WITH WHOM we want.
Why does that bother you? Are you not on board with the Constitution?
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:08pmGood luck with that forced integration. I swear some people will never be happy until every other person in every other organization whether it is schools, church, family, ect. is in a perfect black/white counting order. “Birds of a feather flock together.” Forced diversity doesn’t work, looks pretty and sounds cute to white liberals in 99 percent white enclaves, but unfortunately naturally it doesn’t work that way with everything.
Report Post »yonah
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 12:55amThere are mostly Black churches and mostly white churches and mostly Hispanic churches and mostly Korean churches and many many others of one predominate ethnic group because of history,culture and language.
We are all free to attend whatever church we choose and if most people prefer to be with people who have cultural and linguistic things in common with each other,why would this be of concern to anyone else?
I have seen Black churches invite Hispanic ministers to conduct services in Spanish for Spanish speakers and none of the Black church members cared that those services weren’t for them(unless they understood Spanish).
It’s called being accommodating and being inclusive.What’s wrong with that?
Report Post »notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:03amNewt didn’t balance the budget 4 years in a row. Neither did Clinton. Read “Broke” and you’ll understand that BOTH parties have been fleecing us for years. The TOTAL budget actually went UP under the dynamic duo in the 90′s. Not since ANDREW JACKSON have we had a balanced budget. Not since the 1830′s folks. ZERO debt – 1830′s. Since then the amount has continually gone up and every PROGRESSIVE since has used some crises or program to add to the debt and shackle the poor and working to each other for political gains.
While Newt is a well read man, his ability to be swayed off true conservative principles for populist theories and conjecture scare the hell out of me.
I think he would wax Obama in a debate and be far better than Obama as president, but he cannot attach Capitalism and expect the nomination. The fact that he got to #1 and self-imploded so quickly leads me to believe that he really doesn’t want to be president. He simply wants to be relevant. His obvious hard on for Romney is insuring that he will be back on Fox News by the fall.
Gotta go. I see some grass growing out back, certainly more exciting than watching the candidates. ALL OF THEM.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:38am@notme…..”While Newt is a well read man, his ability to be swayed off true conservative principles for populist theories and conjecture scare the hell out of me.
I think he would wax Obama in a debate and be far better than Obama as president, but he cannot attach Capitalism and expect the nomination.”….
Well put. I couldn’t agree more with your assessment.
That, in a nutshell, is the conundrum we are in with regards to picking a candidate, and also the reason I fear Obama will win re-election.
This one is a family man who has revived companies; that one is articulate and a good debater; another is a strong believer in the family who believes in Americanism; yet another holds our Constitution in high regard, but has not been able, exactly, to articulate foreign policy with regards to how it relates to today’s violent world.
Yet, why should we be so choosey? We have an anti-American in the WH, surrounded by anti-Americans who profess anti-American views.
Look at Obama’s S Court appointees. Sotomayor is despicable with her “wise Latino” racist remark. That alone should have disqualified her. Did the Repub’s scream racism? No!
Look at the AG. Not proscecuting the NBP in Philly should have had him removed from his job.
Look at green jobs ‘Czar’ V Jones, another racist/Communist appointment.
Remember these things, whoever the Repub candidate is next Nov. Obama must go!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:42am13th – you are either one of the most sarcastic or one of the sickest SOBs ever. I paid into SS for 48 years, congress looted the fund, to pay for their pork barrel projects. I also receive a Military retirement check and a VA disability check – you want to take those to?
I respectfully request that you plant your lips to my rosy red rectum.
OMG
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:51amBill……
Wow!…13th has a global view, doesn’t he? Instead of forcing the 3rd-worlders to elevate to our standards, we play down to their level. Unbelieveable!
I grew up on a farm and worked hard all my life. Retired twice. The first time too young (my fault), so I went back to work for 7+ yrs till I had legitimate health issues which resulted from an operation. I went on SS Disability at 59 after fighting those problems till it was too dangerous to drive or perform my duties. I worked for 2y7mo after suffering a seizure, and only medication prevented me from having more.
No, I will not apologize for receiving SS disability, I paid in to that fund all my life, and the raiders of that fund should be doing the apologizing, not me.
Report Post »zaverett
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:57amWe all know Newt is a bad person…enough said
Report Post »Dosrios
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:00amThank you for your well-thought-out. in-depth analysis. I learned a lot.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:36pmWho’s The “We?” Speak For Yourself, Zaverett!
Newt’s made his mistakes and everyone knows about them. Haven’t we all made our mistakes and learned from them?
The candidates we need to focus on are the ones we don’t know anything about. They all need to be vetted now instead of later.
BHO Was Not Vetted. Everytime questions were asked they were swept under the rug and NO ONE followed thru. BHO Still Isn’t Vetted!
BHO needs to be fired in November and replaced with a “Don’t Tread On Me” American Patriot! America won‘t know who that Patriot is until his feet are held to the fire and he’s still is able to land and stand on them.
Report Post »disgustedAmerican
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 4:27amThe race card is old news… The KKK was a democratic institution but yet most minorities have been brainwashed into voting for the Dems. Why? Because they are for more money for social programs that demotivate the masses to better themselves through hard work. They “Y” generation has been conditioned into a “everyone gets a trophy for just being there” mentality; so there has been an elimination of competition. When a society becomes complacent, then there is no need to excel and try to make a better life, which, in turn, kills any and all hard work. Then, the society collapses in its own non-production and giving attitude. Socialism and communism only works until the other person’s money is expended. Without competition you create a false accomplishment attitude, and then that society doesn’t produce even the essentials that are needed. What happens then is famine, lawlessness, and death. I hate to quote a movie character; but Gordon Gecko said it best. “Greed is good.” There is a backlash of that greed though. “Snake oil salesman” will come out of the crevices. We as more informed people should be able to spot them and shut them down. Get your heads out of E! tv and actually pay attention to who is lying to you, and maybe we won’t have to deal with this downfall…
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:53amas long as people understand things are not always as they appear.
several rabidly anti-Ron Paul political activists have been caught planning another vicious “false flag”-style dirty trick against the presidential candidate and his supporters, this time in South Carolina, where the next GOP primary will take place.
The plot, which was being hatched over Facebook, involved dressing up in hooded Ku Klux Klan (KKK) robes, posing as Ron Paul supporters (complete with Ron Paul signs), and “follow[ing] Paul around South Carolina”, making “sure to get photographed by the media.” http://www.theendrun.com/paul-haters-caught-planning-to-dress-up-as-kkk-pose-as-paul-supporters
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:54amof course not too many Blacks will see this link
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 4:22amAfter seeing all the racist comments on the BLAZE I can blodly say that the owner of the BLAZE is a racist…Isn’t that the new standard they put on Ron Paul? Deal with it Glenn…You are now branded a racist by your own standards.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:54amKarma
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:28pmNaaa, just by you pal, and you don’t count.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:47pmYou obviously read The Blaze with a different color of glasses than me. The only racist remarks I see are liberal trolls trying to make it appear that Blaze readers are racists. Usually those people are reported or confronted by other posters.
Report Post »marion
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:51am13th generation whatever….. Why don’t you actually check out the facts on that cancer-ridden ex-wife on her deathbed…..she’s still alive, and she said it was not Newt asking her for a divorce, it was the other way around, but it was Newt, with the NADS, that took the heat so his wife would be left alone and in peace. Yeah, find another Saul Alynski talking point, this one has been shot down, sunk, and properly restored, but if you actually read the news you would know that, right?
Yes, the Democrats/Progressives/Liberals are all afraid of Newt, and they all should be……their gravy train will have the tracks licked clean and they won’t be able to slide any more.
If you think your next talking point will be his stepping down as House Speaker and Nutty Palooza and her 623 charges of ethics violations, and only one was prosecuted (but others do it without question), think about how they got rid of Sarah Palin, or why she stepped down to save the cost to the state. I want a bulldog with nads, and Newt has them, and as a matter of fact he probably has Mitt’s, too. :)
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:39amIf you would take the time to read my post, I am backing Newt. I think children should be put to work as janitors to save the tax payers money and I also like his position on abolishing communist social security and medicare. I also agree with him on taxes. People like Newt are job creators and deserve to get huge tax breaks. I also agree with him on minimum wage. If people in China and India are willing to work for 2 dollars a day then so should people here. People should be thanking God they even have a job and it’d people like Newt and Romney who are the job creators.
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:30amIt’s not helping that democrats are teaching racial minorities to be victims.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:14amThat’s been in their play book since FDR,they have to keep minorities especially blacks down to justify all their unconstitutional social programs.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 1:22amHere’s something I never understood .. RACE there is only ONE race .. the HUMAN one.. there are various shades from almost black to almost translucent.. HOWEVER we are ALL the same RACE.. we differ ONLY by heritage of where our ancestors are born.. which is called NATIONALITY and NOT Race.. Is the Black man any less HUMAN than the Latino one or the WHITE one.. NO.. therefore unless there is a race that is OTHER than human the politicians and dividers have better think up another term other than RACE.. BTW on all forms when they ask RACE my answer is ALWAYS put down HUMAN.. and I also REFUSE to answer IF I am Mexican.. LATINO.. or anything else.. IF more people would do that they would QUIT putting us in BOXES.. and pitting us against each other..
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 1:59amIt is all about race now. Sorry to inform you of that. It really should just be American.
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:04amYou live in a very sequestered world if you really believe what you’re saying here.
There is ABSOLUTELY a difference between the races, and until the Politically Correct machine(IE: Cultural Marxists) badgered the scientific community, science openly recognized this FACT. Pretending there is no difference in races is obtuse and ignorant in the extreme, and shows an astounding ability to look reality in the face and pretend it is something else.
Genetics define every aspect of your natural abilities, forms many of your predilections, absolutely dictates your intelligence and physical aptitude. Race is the qualification of different genetic groups.
Please, carry the mindless, babbling political correctness back to fairyland, those of us living in reality prefer the truth.
Political Correctness = Cultural Marxism.
Report Post »ledaruth
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:26am@independentvitrl….AMEN……….AMEN………….AMEN
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:24pmWhen asked about our race on the 2010 census, we put the same thing down……human.
As for genetics (mentioned in an above reply), if the discussion is to be about that, then I guess the Progressives/eugenisits had it right. Perhaps “classes” should be arranged based on genetically superior traits such as height, weight, eyesight, health, intelligence, physical symettry, pleasing appearences and only those who are at the top of the genetic lottery should be allowed to have children, recieve expensive life sustaining medical treatments as they get older or hold “important” positions such as CEO or President? Doing it that way would ensure that we have only the best genetically predisposed in leadership positions.
Report Post »Once you do down that road you are no longer an America based on what you can elect to do with what the Lord has given you, it is all about what you started out with rather than free-will and choices. Who cares if you are lazy, corrupt, entitled, you were born with the scientifically accedited “right stuff”! Not a direction we need to go in.
macpappy
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:35pmRace is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by heritable phenotypic characteristics, geographic ancestry
Report Post »There is no scientific consensus of a list of the human races, and few anthropologists endorse the notion of human “race”
Really, you did not learn this in school?
AxelPhantom
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:54pmActually pappy, as a cognitive psycology major, I did a lot of biology including genetics. We all have the same organs, never did a necropsy where the insides of one human varied significantly than another, they all looked the same. Never looked at a brain biopsy where I could tell the race of the person under the microscope, so yes, I learned a lot in school.
In science, there is no “race” classification : Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Race is a social designation.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:59pmThumbs up to your “Human” response to the race question. I’ve started leaving it blank, because it’s a ridiculous question with no valuable purpose — except to provide government statisticians job security.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 4:34pmUrban Combat Survivor,
In all case of genetics you are looking at predispositions rather than certainties. Meaning the actual presentation of a certain physical anomaly, such as cancer or mental illness is environmentally determined. There are different degrees of participation between nature (genetics) and nurture (environment) in all anomalies whether behavioral or physical. I assume you are focused on the former.
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What racists focus on are aspects of behavior which are social in nature and not genetic (theft, violence, infidelity). There has never been any scientifically conducted study that has proven, absent significant social variables, that genetics are causational in socially unacceptable behavior AND isolated in any particular race. Twin/adoption studies with significant samplings actually prove the opposite.
Please show me a study that proves your point so that I can see it; do not give me a newspaper article or some write up, I want the actual scientific study complete with the statistical weights, measures and sampling structure, blinds, methods of measurement, accountability and means of compensation for sociological variables, as well as the methods used to weight the data so that I can peer review it.
Otherwise all you have is pop-science circulated in circles of unscientific ignorance amongst the non-scientific masses who simply accept the validity of someone elses conclusions, much as has been done with global warming.
I’ll check ba
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 7:46pm@Axelphantom:
In essence, you are setting up a straw man, with the parameters you choose, then demanding I play within your game. Nothing in your post does a single thing to disprove the absolute facts of what I states.
Genetics, without a single doubt, 100% dictate your intelligence, and your other physical aptitudes, absent damages done by trauma or disease. Genetics also inform a large percentage of your predilections. Race is simply the grouping of different genetic similarities and shared traits. It does not matter how much you personally don’t LIKE the facts that those of any given race share thousands of genetic traits that are unique to their group. All that matters is that it is true.
Are you really disputing the science of genetics in some odd, misguided attempt to cling to a Politically Correct mantra? Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism.
The fact that you went to such lengths as pretending my post mentioned anything at all relating to the silly demands you made in your “response” tell me that you KNOW your post was dishonest in the extreme, and an attempt to reframe the debate into feel good emotionalisms.
Intellectual Honesty.
Moral Integrity.
Personal Responsibility.
Individual Determination.
Four things I would ask that you consider embracing. What is, IS. Your personal feelings about it mean nothing to reality itself.
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:58amGingrich will not be the Republican candidate. Move along nothing to see here. Oh yeah, about the “race issue”, American balcks somehow think they are the “only” other race in America besides whites.
Report Post »floridacockleburr
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:09amFried chicken! The LA Times is obviously racist to print that.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:00amResearch the Mark of Cain and the Mormon church, why is RP and Newt
Report Post »being called out but no mention of the Mark Of Cain ?
What was the belief 20 years ago ? Just like RPs 20 yr old news letter ?
rdjones
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:09amWow, some nice post for NEWT here. There is a god.
I am shocked.
@MOTHERsomething, how many hours did it take you to come up with this trash to show off your POS personality.
I mean every blog on NEWT someone uneashes on him on his affairs.
And can you get your facts straight instead of making up a bunch of hooie?
Skip the GB school of journalism, read the truth somewhere or contact NEWT and his web site.
At least give them a chance so you can clear your little mind of MSM abd GB squibble I hear and read every day on NEWT.
NEWT is the new Spooky dude to GLENN, so he has lost any connection to reality and integrity to me. I asked him to back off a month ago, and he still re-amps it up every day, and now conflates it all to make NEWT out to be the coming …….D-I-C-K-tator.
Poor Newt, all the polls had him closinging and Romnsy dropping, and then REUTERS decided to come out with a poll with whopping results that contradics everything else.
IS this a conspirocy, because that thing went VIRAL, FOX, BLAZE, all to make us HATE NEWT, all over again.
Are we all being duped by media powers to force us to TAKE MITT????
With Bain news exploding and polls changing, poll comes out to convince us MITT is going to win
in a landslide in a week?
Posted 3 times in the “Booed” article at FOX forum.. Then Magicly vanishes.
GB, is that you?
Americans, vote for who you think can take on OBAME, and it ain’t Romney
Report Post »OBUMMER already has his number.
le misanthrope
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:38amYour d illusions of grandeur are scary. I am pretty sure GB as you call him has never read any of your “requests” to back off, and if he had he would have ignored them. You like newt, fine, most people aren’t going to agree with you, if you can’t handle that you should probably back away from the computer before you have an aneurism, or a restraining order slapped on you.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:55amNewt has said he thinks FDR may be the greatest president in “Amuurican” history. Just sayin’
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 1:41amRDJONES, AWESOME……..I agree.
Report Post »marion
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:37amBetween you and me, sounds like it is a start. I like Glenn Beck, he did teach me a lot of directions to find information about our miscontrued history and how the slant is more liberal than I even thought, but Newt has my support and it is nice to see that a comment was put out falsely, someone asked him about it, and he then corrected the mis-quote, and a person agreed with what he said (and it was in print!).
Mitt is too moderate to fix anything
Santorum would get walked all over, he is as they say, just too nice
Ron Paul is too Isolationist but he should be put in charge of the Federal Reserve so he can shut if down.
Rick Perry is too rough around the edges, but he is presidential material with some major tutoring
Huntsman, well, we don’t need a counselor as president
Newt has fixed things, has the memory, has the speeches, has the history, done the research, proven Capitalism, free enterprise, lower taxes, welfare reform, balanced budget, strong military all work.
Funny how a racist/bigot, and all that stuff can go to a black church and answer questions and walk away with a full belly and live to talk about it. Amazing what the liberal twist on a person’s comments can do to a conservative candidate, isn’t it?
Report Post »LeeroyJenkins
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:55am@mairon Newt also sat ona couch with Pelosi for cap and trade. He promotes liberal policy with conservative speak. All the while pushing more government intrusion whats his position on UN NAFTA and the FED and you know he is a council of foreign relations pawn. BTW the CFR is the NWO. All globalists all POWER HUNGRY. Show me your friends I’ll tell you your future.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 9:19am@RDJONES
You seem troubled. When you get that feeling, just ask yourself, “What would Callista do?”
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 3:09pmmarion
Please take a look at Dr. Paul’s
PRO-AMERICA FOREIGN POLICY
* Make securing our borders the top national security priority.
* Avoid long and expensive land wars that bankrupt our country by using constitutional means to capture or kill terrorist leaders who helped attack the U.S. and continue to plot further attacks.
* Guarantee our intelligence community’s efforts are directed toward legitimate threats and not spying on innocent Americans through unconstitutional power grabs like the Patriot Act.
* End the nation-building that is draining troop morale, increasing our debt, and sacrificing lives with no end in sight.
* Follow the Constitution by asking Congress to declare war before one is waged.
* Only send our military into conflict with a clear mission and all the tools they need to complete the job – and then bring them home.
* Ensure our veterans receive the care, benefits, and honors they have earned when they return.
* Revitalize the military for the 21st century by eliminating waste in a trillion-dollar military budget.
* Prevent the TSA from forcing Americans to either be groped or ogled just to travel on an airplane and ultimately abolish the unconstitutional agency.
* Stop taking money from the middle class and the poor to give to rich dictators through foreign aid.
As President, Ron Paul’s national defense policy will ensure that the greatest nation in human history is strong, secure, and respected.
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 3:23pmJudson Phillips of Tea Party Nation just released the news that when he and others were laying plans for the Tea Party, Newt Gingrich came to them and offered his assistance and support. Read it here: http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/which-presidential-candidate-actually-supported-the-tea-party-mov?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A1778399&page=1#comments
It was decided it would be best if no prominent names were associated with the fledgling effort so Newt has veered away from even mentioning much about the Tea Party.
The point is that Newt was and is in complete agreement with the Tea Party. Please share this with all who will listen, especially your friends in SC.
Report Post »Geopatriot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:12pmOmce again, Newt has shown that he can lead the entire nation. He can and will answer the tough questions. He will be the President that will reach across the aisle and make things happen once again in Washington. It took confidence and the desire to reach out to that congregation. It would be interesting to know how many people of that congregation will pull the lever for Newt!
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:37pmWhite/non-Hispanics represent 42.5% of the total population of people considered “poor” in America. So how in the H*!! can these people continue to pull the race card whenever the word “poverty” is used? Someone says “poor” and that automatically means “Minorities”? This is BS.
I am getting so tired of liberals and their ilk being allowed to lie to further their cause! It is about time these losers have their feet held to the fire. If we do not stand up to this crap we will forever be enslaved by it!
WAKE UP! STAND UP! They have waged a war, it is time to defend ourselves.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:07amM1A2_Tanker, dang right. It’s bs that Newt and Santorum are singling out blacks as the only people who are poor and getting food stamps. That’s nonsense. 50% of Americans getting food stamps are white. I don’t know why Newt and Santorum think that only blacks get government help, unless that’s just a bias they are appealing to. There are poor white people too! There are white people in this country living in poverty, living without health insurance, living but unable to feed their children enough to not stunt their growth. Newt and Santorum are all about cutting food stamps for the blacks so they won’t become dependent on the government and to make them take advantage of the opportunities in the United States. But what about the white people? That‘s what I’d like to ask Newt and Santorum.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:21amI agree with Newt, we should make children work for low wages while they are going to school. The children are right there anyway. And after we abolish Social Security and Medicare old people better wake up and start paying their fair share. Why should they take money away from me because they were to lazy or stupid to plan for their retirement. It’s not my fault they want entitlements because they think SS is owed to them. That’s my money not theirs. They can get a job at Walmart and pay into Walmart’s healthcare insurance. Free Markets! will solve this.
Report Post »le misanthrope
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:40amnone, he is the wrong color. O got 98% of the black vote and he will get it again this time.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:31pm@JZS … where do you get your facts? It stands to reason that if the unemployment and poverty rates are higher for blacks, then a higher percentage of food stamps are likely being distributed blacks.
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:48pmJZS, Your a moron, Plain and simple you are the “Liberal Ilk” I was referring to. You and the liberals are trying to play both sides of the number’s. Whites have the lowest poverty rate but we make up the highest percentage of the poor. You cannot sit there and say that conservatives are racist because they want to make large cuts to welfare programs. Both the numbers and the truth do not support your lies. Ive seen it first hand, Folks with food stamps are eating steak and shrimp and crab while those of us at the lower end without food stamps are eating hamburger helper and spam. These programs were meant as a stepping stone to help in a hard time, they were never meant to be a lifelong path. The only way to end this is to cut the programs all together. But next time you want to say its racist you’ll remember that Whites will be affected at a larger rate. So stuff it up your rear end!
Here is the “official” poverty rate for:
non-Hispanic Whites – 9.4 percent
Report Post »Blacks – 25.8 percent
Hispanics – 25.3 percent
Asians – 12.5 percent
All people – 14.3 percent
barackem
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:54pmThe best thing that Gingrich could do for his candidacy and for this country is to finally be the first GOP candidate to make the so called ‘black community’ a major part of his campaign. He is probably the biggest lightning rod who can do the best job of explaining that the Democratic Party and diversity, in general, has done more to hold blacks back than anything that the KKK could have done in the last half century since the civil rights movement supposedly taught us to look at content of character rather than color of skin. The race hustlers on the left have had free reign to demonize the GOP since that time. It is long past time for someone to address this issue if this nation of immigrants is to survive intact in the future rather than devolve to the old human instinct of looking out for ‘our own kind’.
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:47pmThis is what black people should to learn, because they are used for the ones they wrongly believe in as their benefactors. They must be part of America as we are.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:51pmAnd, Caucasians came down from the Northern regions during the last Ice-age, and they built the pyramids. Then they gave the pyramids over to the Nubian s, just as Americans are giving over America to the Mexicans even now. So don’t give me your bull-crap Glenn Beck take on history.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:46pmIt’s interesting to me how it is now that Mormons think they know all the truth about history.
Report Post »oldwhiteguy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:36pmNewt has what is known as NADS. It is scarcely found among politicians these days. I applaud him for taking the unnecessary risk of meeting with a majority hostile group to support the minority among them.
Report Post »Tired of Code Names
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:45pm@oldwhiteguy Those gnads are why the Republican establishment does not want him anywhere close to the whitehouse. And why Obamma is pushing so hard for Romney to win the republican nomination. The progressives on both sides are scared to death a man of principal with his knowledge and research over the last 20 years can doom both of their agendas.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:34pmI hear ya, Newt is not afraid of anything. he even had the nads to cheat on his wife while she was bedridden with Cancer. And then he cheated on that wife with his current one. We need a guy who isn;t afraid to do the things he does for his country. He said that’s why he cheated on both of them. He is a true American!
Report Post »Tired of Code Names
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:45pm@13th Generation American. You can TROLL around all you care to. I believe in the first amendment. Seems ashame you are either so uninformed or either a complete liar or that you don’t know that Newt did not serve divorce papers to his wife on her death bed. He actually brought his daughters to see her in the hospital. She lived long after that. Newts daughters from that marriage support him, tell the true story, and debunk anything you espew. Perhaps you should consider the cast the first stone if you are without sin concept. Perhaps you should go back over to PMSNBC and get a thrill up your leg. Actually, it seems you dribbled your past post down your leg.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:57pmYou want Newt, expect more of Obama!!
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:06am@TIRED OF CODE NAMES
I’m standing by Newt 100 percent and I believe him when he said he cheated on his first two wifes because he loves his country. He even proved it by converting to Catholicism and said that God forgave him. I think you are the one who trolls here, God told Newt that cheating on both of his wifes was good for America. Are you some sort of atheist communist or Marxist, well are you!
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 11:32amabbygirl1994
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:57pm
You want Newt, expect more of Obama!!
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I would actually prefer obama over romney. How’s that from a Conservative. I’m sick and tire of the deceptions of the rinos.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 2:36pm@13th Generation American…better be careful about throwing stones at others, cause I‘m willing to bet you’re not perfect either.
Report Post »audiemurphy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:25pmhey fatjack
Report Post »u probably think the moon landing is a hoax and Bush ordered the twin towers blown up.
barber2
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:56pmThink he is a simple Troll. Perhaps, Fathead would have been a better nom de plume for a Lefty ? !
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:20amDid you two waffle heads read the headlines in the blaze before the debate was televised, I did? The debate didn’t match the sensational headlines. As a matter of fact I felt like newt won via giving the best answers.
Today I would vote for Santorum and don’t plan on changing my mind, but I could change if I see enough press against any candidate.
FYI I don’t plan to vote for Newt in the primary, but would in the general election if force too. Had you two wiffleballs read the blaze before you would have seen many times where I have stated my choice.
It called journalist integrity. Now go and brush your teeth.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:25pm.
Report Post »Black America is so RACIST they are Blind to the Truth………
barber2
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:54pmThey are blindly loyal to Obama which is why the Far Left chose him.
Report Post »M1A2_Tanker
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:41pmYou are 100% Correct. I believe given the opportunity Blacks will put Whites into chains.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:32amSharpton and Jackson stir the pot all the time,gotta keep those tensions up all the time,they’re both poverty pimps.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:07pmAmerica was built on the labor of children and poor people. We should abolish child labor laws and the minimum wage and let free market principals be our guide. Most people in China make less than 2 dollars a day, how can we compete. If we used more children in manufacturing and paid a dollar a day, we could get our jobs back and make america strong again. We should also abolish communist Social Security and make those people compete for jobs in manufacturing as well. There are 80 million people over the age of 65 and if we got rid of these safety nets for them, they could work and. we could compete with China and India again and restore america to our past when we were strong.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:03pmAre You Serious?
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:23pmYes I’m serious, just because you‘re a older person doesn’t give you the right to make a good living. Old people and social security are bankrupting america. People should thank God to have a job no matter what they are paid. I’m sick of all these communists thinking children and old people should not work I also like the fact that the Tea Party wants to abolish SS and Medicare. Those taxes are killing the job creators in this country. Rich people should pay the least taxes of anyone so they can have more money to create jobs here in the US. This country is broke!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:03amYep, 13th Gen, I think I’ve heard similar statements from Newt, is this Ron Paul philosophy as well?
Report Post »I think in a nutshell you’ve explained the declining popularity of the teaparty. People found out that this is the agenda their votes were being co-opted for.
kyuss
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 3:07amYou are such a child.
Report Post »Arizona Don
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:48amWhich insane asylum did you escape from?
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 3:12pmtifosa
Paul’s view on Entitlements
Paul Honors our promise to our seniors and veterans, while allowing young workers to opt out. Block grants Medicaid and other welfare programs to allow States the flexibility and ingenuity they need to solve their own unique problems without harming those currently relying on the programs.
Report Post »MOTHERLAND
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:05pmGingrich was a serial adulterer (married to his last bimbo mistress, 23 years his junior), the ONLY Speaker of the House to be sanctioned for ETHICS VIOLATIONS (kicked out by his own Party), and a lobbyist who’s K-street firms have billed over $60 MILLION in the last 9 years. (not to mention his support for “global warming”, NAFTA, GATT treaty (giving more power to the UN), Superhighway, and the “DREAM act” giving ILLEGAL aliens amnesty)……..
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:17pmDont get me started on those dam illegal mexicans
Report Post »Tired of Code Names
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:42pm@MOTHERLAND
Report Post »Yep….Newt has been divorced twice and remarried. And hopefully this one will be correct for him. Please, if your without sin, go ahead and cast the first stone. With respect to the rest of what your espoused….Newt drug Clinton AND the republican establishment to balancing the budget four years in a row AND pulled off a bit of welfare reform. That does not make one popular in the Progressive government we have…on BOTH sides. Newt was brough up on some 300+ ethics violations by none other than that shining example of Nancy Pelosi. Sheesh….and as a matter of legal and political expediency, Newt agreed to pay them off on one issue….$300,000….for which if he fought it and had to pay his one lawyer opposed to the establishement paid by our taxpayer dozens of lawyers. He would have prevailed. But, at a much greater cost. I am in business. I see frivolous lawsuits all the time. Cheaper to settle than to fight. PERIOD. Newt voted for bills that sometimes compromised a bit with NAFTA legislation, but, won a lot more for the conservative cause than he gave up. And with respect to Newt being for AMNESTY, you are either outright a liar or uninformed. Newt has an IDEA to be DEBATED in public about leaving some illeagles in our country….BUT THEY WOULD NOT BE CITIZENS NOR WOULD THEY HAVE VOTING RIGHTS. That scares the Progressive Democrats to death. Not to mention Newts ideas for our country to consider reigning back the progressive judges.
paperpushermj
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:21pmWhat Position Is Gingrich running for? If it’s for the Paster of your Church your points are valid.
Report Post »Dosrios
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:11am” (married to his last bimbo mistress, 23 years his junior),”
Getting old and dried up really bothers you, doesn’t it !
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:54pmThis is why you do not vote for Newt!
Report Post »Do you think, for one second, that B Hussein Obama would go to a White church to answer tough questions about race?
Do not placate the Blacks! They have enough tough questions about race to answer.
CatB
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:41pmA white church would lose their tax exempt status if they tried any of the stuff that the dems do in the black churches.
Report Post »flagringo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:54pmwhy is the Blaze referring to Associated Press reports? Why doesn’t the conservative media spend a few bucks hiring a College stringer to accurately report what occurred with audio/video instead of trusting a openly hostile, anti-American news agency???
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:52pmI not sure I can believe this story at this point in time. If it’s like your last story about Newt getting booed.
Glenn it’s called journalist integrity.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:52pmDecember Troll.
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 3:03pmBar, bite me!
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