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Gingrich Sued Over Using ‘Eye of the Tiger’ Song in Campaign

Newt Gingrich Sued for Using Eye of the Tiger Song in Campaign

For those who‘ve followed Newt Gingrich’s campaign appearances, you may or may not recall hearing the “Rocky III” theme song accompany the GOP firebrand along his various stops. But, what was intended to be a rousing battle call for Gingrich supporters, has instead turned into a lawsuit.

Yes, “Rude Music Inc.,“ the company that owns the rights to the 1982 song ”Eye of the Tiger” is claiming Gingrich had no right to use the song as part of his campaign. According to TMZ, the company, owned by a member of the band Survivor, filed the suit today in federal court in Illinois claiming the former House Speaker hijacked the famed song to further his own political agenda.

According to the lawsuit, Gingrich has been using the song at various political events since 2009.

RMI is asking a judge to order Gingrich and his team to stop using the song immediately and is also seeking unspecified damages.

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  • hogtrashhd
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:28am

    man what happened on this board.. a couple weeks ago it was yea Newt… get ‘em Newt.. you people are either surrogates for Romney/white obama, or you’re drinking the kool aid.. or both.. talk about whichever way the wind blows.. you guys ain’t got nothing no kerry/mitt/obama/or any other socialist/marxist/american hating arses..

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  • kaijue
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:09am

    Why don’t Glenn just rename this blog, the blaze and the radio and GBTV programs the Bash Newt Network? Yes, Newt has issues but no more than Romney. When is the endless hours of Romney Bashing going to start. When is the full programs on Mitts Big Government leadership in Massachusetts going to air. If the truth really has no agenda then Beck must be lying because he has one!

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    • BV FROM TX
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:15am

      Glenn supports Romney so much that he has never come on his radio or GBTV shows. You obviously don’t listen to Glenn with your ears open or you would know that Rick Santorum is his choice and he, Pat and Stu just say it over and over. As a matter of fact, he had Rick on today. How people continue to accuse Glenn of supporting Mitt baffles me and I do listen to all of his shows. I haven’t missed one since before GBTV went on line on 9-12. I watch the radio shows and all of the other shows on demand on Roku at my convenience. If it comes down to Mitt and Newt, it will be a toss up for him because both are progressives and he knows what progressives have done to this country. He has stated many times that he doesn’t trust Romney but he thinks the GOP machine will go for him. Newt continues to align his views with the four most progressive Presidents. I haven’t heard Romney say so, but maybe he does the same. Both are big government guys, but any one of the four would not cause the massive harm as has our current POTUS.

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    • BV FROM TX
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:40am

      If you listened to Glenn, you would know he does NOT support Romney. He supports Santorum. He had Rick on his show again today. Romney has never come on any of the shows so how is Glenn supporting him? Yes, both of them are Mormons but so is Huntsman and he didn’t support John, Jr. either. I have watched every single GBTV show, including the radio shows, and I have until yet to hear him support Romney. Glenn, Pat and Stu all support Rick.

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    • JRook
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:14pm

      Newt has issues but no more than Romney……Newt is as bad as Romney….. Brilliant in its brevity.

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    • greensteam
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:23pm

      I am not listening to glenns radio show just because of the newt bashing. I wont be voting for newt when it gets to my state, but i have heard enough about how much glenn dislikes him. Whenever newt is in the running glenns radio show never shuts up about it. A couple hours almost every day they are talking about newt. Look, i dont like the guy, but now i sympathize with him because you guys make me. I think it is like reverse psychology. They really want us all to support him. So they bash him until we are all like “poor guy, i’ll give him my apology vote”. Its crazy. Where i am from, they wont stop talking about joe paterno’s funeral. While i love the guy, i have to turn the local news off because i cant take another word about it. Its already drug into the ground. Same with beck and newt. Okay glenn, you think he is the worst polition ever because of who he was 15 years ago. Last time i checked wasnt glenn an alkie 15 years ago. So if glenn ran for office would he then have to bash himself… See there i go again defending newt. I dont want to, it just happens. Because of all the newt bashing.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:27pm

    He shoulda used Dream On by Aerosmith….

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    • TeaPartyForRomney
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:51pm

      I want to set something straight, Gingrich has been whining about the attacks by Romney, whining that he is spending millions, whining that they are false and negative. It was Gingrich that threw the first stone. Gingrich said Romney was no conservative and blasted him as a moderate at Nov 28, 2011. Romney was asked if he was going to respond and an aide said, wait for the debate. They were criticized for not responding. So the next day Romney spoke back questioning Gingrich and then released his first ad, Gingrich returned an ad right after the first debate with Gingrich as front runner. From that point they have continually gotten worse and Gingrich have been found to be filled with the most false information and the most negative. Voters in Florida were polled about who was the most negative and Gingrich took a large lead releasing the most negative ads.

      GINGRICH LIKES TO WHINE ABOUT NEGATIVE ATTACK ADS BUT HE HAS NEVER BEEN COMPLETELY POSITIVE ALWAYS DISCOUNTING ROMNEY AS A CONSERVATIVE. That is an attack. It has been proven that Romney is a Conservative (www.TeaPartyForRomney.com) there is no question, how much is another concern, but way more than Gingrich. I would even say, just as much as Santorum though.

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  • ebill
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:12pm

    Give them a dollar for each time played. It’s what you put in the Juke Box! If they are liberals they will sue for trillions! It’s the only numbers they can relate to…

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  • concealled9mms
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:48pm

    hey symphonic did your face get all blue by being being on your knees servicing barney frank.

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  • aconstitutionalistlivesinbrooklyn
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:42pm

    As I understand it, you can use any song you want, as long as you pay the royalties to the owner of the copyright. So what are the grounds for the suit?

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    • gemmeri
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:51pm

      Too good to pay the royalties, too stupid to write his own, too elite to care either way.
      I gotta be me
      Self-centered & free
      Diseased I will be
      Sorry… I really get carried away…

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    • Hank919
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:46am

      You have to get permission…surprised none of his people knew that since it has happened to other candidates, and with all the pirating litigation going on currently. Makes you wonder.

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  • gemmeri
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:41pm

    This guy doesn’t understand basic copyright laws, too??? Unscrupulous & incompetent… what a combo.

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    • gemmeri
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:47pm

      Santorum 2012 – Last Real Man Standing

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:37pm

    Newt energy “solution”: Replace the Environmental Protection Agency, which has become a job-killing regulatory engine of higher energy prices, with an “Environmental Solutions Agency” Huh? Getting rid of one bureaucracy for another? How progressive…

    Glenn Beck: “It’s not just Obama….Mitt is a socialist too!” April 6 2010

    Santorum 2012!

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:27pm

    Newt and his Obama/Soros complex:

    “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.”
    ~Newt Gingrich, admitting that he’s an intellectual elite incapable of leading.

    “I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I’m doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.”
    ~Newt Gingrich, blowing his own horn.

    Glenn Beck: “It’s not just Obama…Mitt Romney’s a socialist too!” Apr 6, 2010

    Santorum 2012!

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  • AngryOldFart
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:23pm

    I don‘t know why Gingrich doesn’t use his rap song. Check it out: http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/235311/250/Gingrich-rap-song-Hoot-for-Newt

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:21pm

    God, what an awful song anyway. That song is almost as cheesy as Newt’s campaign. I think Callista, with the sacred golden helmet of hair, is choosing the songs. They can replace it with the equally cheesy “Coming to America” by Neil Diamond.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:34pm

      @jeanr
      All Liberals do is suck from the labor of others…. Period, thats why they love socialist systems, its hard to hide your lazy worthlessness in a capitalist system….in a socialist system you can hide with the other slugs….

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  • jeanr
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:16pm

    Ah yes, this reminds me of why I visit this site. I enjoy seeing conservatives extoll their values like free use of others’ property, taking what you want without permission, and taking from those who have to those who need.
    Take to the streets, Blazers, and protest that evil greedy rock band who is trying to hoard their wealth of music. You are the 99%!

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    • bikerr
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:34pm

      @jeanr–Looked at the comments here and saw non e of what you speak.Liar,typical liberal.Liar means you are not to be believed and less listened to.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:35pm

      I really don’t see anyone here condoning the use of the song, outside of one or two trolls. But, hey, when did a lib need evidence to condemn anyway?

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    • etoddt
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:11pm

      Actually… I think all honest conservatives agree that you can’t take something without paying for it.

      But what you‘re seeing here isn’t any serious flip-flopping in ideology, so much as it is a bunch of angry team Gingrich fans, whose team being hit with a technical foul is now rushing the floor in fit of passionate rage to defend their “guy”. Once the adrenaline wears off and they come to their senses, they’d all agree that (and especially against another candidate) they’d completely support a lawsuit for unpaid royalties.

      Goes to show just how alike politics and competitive sports are — teams (and candidates) are out to beat each other, not to defend the game itself; fouls are really only good strategies that the ref happened to catch you at; and fans don’t really care how dirty the game gets as you keep winning…

      And honestly, it’s difficult to say which (competitive sports or politics) has polluted the other worse… :P

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:53am

      Yeah Jean….that pretty much sounds like the government taking the other people’s money without their permission to pay for your food stamps.

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  • Geopatriot
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:13pm

    In response to restorehope and how Obama just sat there and smiled. All you have to do is look at Obama’s friends and associates, Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernadeen Dorn, The AFLCIO, SEIU, ACORN, Jeffery Immelt, I could keep going, but it all comes down to who you have as friends. Newt has been using that theme song even before he decided to run. I find it amazing RMI has decided to file the suit now! Maybe Romney has money invested there too!

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    • symphonic
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:18pm

      It has caught up to him and his repeated PIRATING of other people’s property. Newt is a law breaker even in the copyright realm. He is a serial adulterer. He is a cheat. A major CHEAT. And the tea party supports him for some reason. Oh yeah, that’s because the can “forgive” Newts indiscretions. Well, it all points to the fact that Newt is a DISHONEST person calling other people dishonest to deflect attention to the obvious.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:12pm

    Why do republicans always pick theme songs sung by far lefters when there are so many great songs from our side to choose from?

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    • symphonic
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:16pm

      Like what??? John Denver Rocky Mountain High?

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    • jeanr
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:22pm

      Wait, you only listen to music whose political views you argree with? I bet your parties are a real hoot. Although when I think of it, the Blues Brothers did do a great rendition of the theme from “Rawhide.”..but I am guessing you wouldn’t enjoy anything that John Belushi was in, either due to his ungodly ways.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:37pm

      @jeanr—You aren’t very good at reading posts. He never said he only listened to certain music,but you go ahead a throw flames and see what burns. Fool.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:37pm

      That JEANR, she’s a sophisticated one. Completely unoriginal and boring, but her kitty loves her.

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:45am

      @ Bikerr…..Thanks for setting Jean Straight….I grew up in the 80′s so most of my favorite singers unfortunately turned out to be nutjobs but thats ok…..That guy who calls himself Monk,called me out the other day for me saying Jackie Evancho is an amazing singer because he is afraid in a few years she might turn out to be a leftist…..talk about paranoia….My point was the republican base is mostly into country music and I’m sure most country superstars wouldnt mind their songs being used…Why not use them?

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:43pm

      He should have used the song, “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I’ve Got Love in My Tummy”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • symphonic
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:11pm

    We have LAWS in this country. If these campaigns want great music they need to get a LICENSE to use it. That’s how it works. If the owner does not want to license their music, that’s their American RIGHT. If Newt can‘t get a license because artists don’t want to help a LOSER into the White House, then that’s their right. Newt needs to have his people WRITE THEIR OWN MUSIC and OBEY the law. Newt is a crook that always seeks for forgiveness. I tire of his repeated CHEATING.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:19pm

      I was under the impression that “rights to songs” is a finite “right.” After 25 years it becomes public domain.

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    • concealled9mms
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:44pm

      you are right virgina thats how i understand it also. so the song from the wizard of oz sung by the munchkins can be used by ron paul safely( we represent the loli pop kids)

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:49am

      If Democrats can steal Republicans money surely Republicans should be allowed to steal democrats stupid songs huh?

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  • BODYBAG
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:10pm

    Who’s in charge of theme music? The best they could do was an obscure 80s hair band?

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:08pm

    In every lawsuit, the attorneys ALWAYS win

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  • jzs
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:00pm

    Gingrich will win this lawsuit! The ******** are doing everything they can to stop Gingrich from winning the nomination and then the Presidency, including trying to sue him for using public domain music. Will the treachery never end? This is worse than the libtardoes bribing Gingriches three ex-wives from saying bad things about him. This is what liberals do, nothing is so unethical that they won’t stoop to it.

    Gingrich for President. Gingrich for America!

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    • symphonic
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:13pm

      He will lose. Don’t be a moron about our laws of the land. They matter. I know Newt and yourself don’t think they do, but the law is the law and a judge will see it that way. Newt won’t pay, he never does, just ask his ex wives, but his BILLIONAIRE friend will pick up the tab because that is how Newt rolls.

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    • concealled9mms
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:45pm

      hey syphonic do you feel as strongly about the laws your black master obamma breaks

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:10pm

      @JZS…so now one of our liberal troll loves New. (:

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  • ElPzee
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:58pm

    ROMNEY WINS NOMINATION, OBAMA WINS RE-ELECTION, simple as that, SIMPLY A FACT!!!

    Oust the resident, Newt for president.

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:57pm

    Gingrich is no tiger. He’s a snake. :)

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    • SheriS
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:06pm

      Was watching WGN out of Chicago and this is a serious charge for using music Newtie never sought permission to use as his theme song! Lawsuit filed today and Newtie is going to be in trouble! How dumb Newtie has become! Love that payback sounds like it will be big! Too bad Newtie! You are getting what you deserve!

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    • symphonic
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:08pm

      He’s not only a snake, he is a CROOK for illegally using other people’s music for public venues. We have laws! Copyright laws matter in this country. Newt is just a PIRATE. He wants good music? LICENSE IT, and if they won’t, WRITE YOUR OWN you crook!

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:44pm

      Or the rat that the snake ate http://ezkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/newt-gingrich-grin.jpg

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:52pm

    Can’t he use an good old american song, how about 99 Luftballons? Lola by the Kinks? My Dingaling by Chuck Berry? Those would fit.

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  • ronaldreaganthegreat
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:49pm

    Mr. Speaker: you are our next President and keep using whatever song you want!

    Tea:-)

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:48pm

    Copyright? Respect of others rights? Some one on his team should have checked, aye?

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  • rflaaskog
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Adrain, adrain A drain A DRain a did it rain

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  • Impenitent
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:46pm

    They’ll probably have as much luck in court as the Pretenders did against Limbaugh…

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    • ronaldreaganthegreat
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:47pm

      Good:-)

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    • restorehope
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:54pm

      Well, it‘s a good thing Newt didn’t use a Beatles tune. Super Progressive Paul McCartney would probably be having a fit by now. I no longer will listen to any song by him because of the way he dissed President Bush while performing in the White House for his bud Obama. You would think that Obama would have been uncomfortable hearing a former President insulted, but he just sat there grinning while Paul made fun of Pres. Bush. Shame on Obama and McCartney.

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    • Tired of Code Names
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:05pm

      I am so tired of the Romney attacks. He drew first blood. It’s the only thing he has. He can’t debate with facts or an idea that is not similar to Obama. His only chance is to destroy via anti ads that have no basis in the truth. Crap, that leaves us with as things look now…Obama or an establishment preferred candidate. You guy’s can vote for one of them. Occupy can take over this summer and fall and everything will come to pass…just not exactly as Glenn Beck has projected…but, close….I find it ironic that nothing on any Glenn Beck site say’s even one thing about Romney and his positions. Perhaps Glenn has bowed to Bishop Romney?

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    • symphonic
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:15pm

      I’m so tired of the Romney attacks too, its time that they stopped attacking Romney and fought a fair fight. Newt needs to come clean and start telling the truth, something that he has NOT done since his first adulterous affair, and since he was cast out of congress for gross ethics violations and paying a hefty 300,000 dollar fine. But he could afford it because he scrapes millions off the taxpayers backs. Newt is a weasel? Yes.

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    • Tired of Code Names
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:30pm

      @symphonic..I like Glenn Beck for many reasons. I do not agree with him on many things. His one mauntra is do your own homework. Perhaps if you would do that, you would find out the truth. Newt was not “thrown out of office disgraced” as Mitt Romney is so eager to state. Newt perhaps has his issues with respect to wives. I know from personal experience it takes two to tango. Please…explain to the rest of us how different Romneys policies are from Obamma’s. Newt’s are quite distincly different. Funny, how so many can’t separate facts from fiction. Romney won on fiction in the last debate. If we get Romney, we get Obamma light……I see a need for a third party. Period.

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