FreedomWorks President Wants New GOP Candidate: Tea Party Hasn‘t ’Coalesced’ Around Gingrich
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On Tuesday’s episode of “Real News From The Blaze,” special guest Matt Kibbe, president of the conservative organization FreedomWorks, along with the panel, discussed why Newt Gingrich is not the Tea Party candidate for 2012.
Blaze host S.E. Cupp shared her observation that the Tea Party wants a small government outsider and thus could never be satisfied with Gingrich, a “big government Republican.”
“But where are they going to go?” asks Kibbe, suggesting that panel members are holding the Tea Party and its ideal candidate “to standard no one can be held to.”
“I don’t think the Tea Party has coalesced around Newt Gingrich,” Kibbe said, speculating that there could even be a brokered convention with an outside candidate being chosen to run.
“I would love to find someone outside of the current field,” he added.
When asked who might shine as an ideal presidential candidate with core Tea Party values, Kibbe offered Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio and Tim Scott but ceded that they’re all “too green” to run for president. Kibbe did agree that Jeb Bush could also be a good choice, underscoring a National Review post out Tuesday suggesting that the “charismatic governor” could “save the Republican party.”
Watch Kibbe and the panel discuss a Tea Party candidate below:
From Artur Davis at NRO who posits that there is a “feasibility around the idea” of a Jeb Bush run that before “seemed unthinkable.” He writes:
To be sure, the Jeb scenario will need more instability in order to flourish. The likeliest path involves Gingrich’s momentum carrying him through Florida; the February races in Arizona and Michigan dividing between Romney and Gingrich; Romney rebounding in March in moderate-leaning midwestern states such as Illinois and Wisconsin; Gingrich winning easily in the Deep South on Super Tuesday and Texas in early April, with Romney proving equally strong in New York and the rest of the Atlantic coastline, while states like Ohio and Indiana fail to resolve the split.
Imagine that California’s ultimate showdown leaves Gingrich with the slightest of edges, but with Romney remaining viable and in possession of a broader geographic base, far more internal support from GOP leadership, and a substantial chunk of delegates. To stop Gingrich, Romney might have no practical choice but to offer to throw his support to Bush, whose popularity would also implode Gingrich’s slim plurality.
Not one bit of it is implausible.
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Comments (271)
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:40pm.
And we still have a Newt, a Mitt, a Rick and a NutJob………..
SpankDaMonkey 2012
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:45pmOne heck of a field, eh? Flat out depressing. If convention is brokered, let Petreus retire and run. No one is perfect, but I‘d bet he’d nail enough of the junk floating around to get us headed right.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:59pmcurly larry and moe
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:26pm“Jeb Bush?” Is he insane? Any self-respecting conservative could never vote for another progressive Bush.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:30pmMitch Daniels’ solid response tonight sold me. I‘m sure I’m not the only one.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:57pmI saw Rick in person today .. he has a lot of the TEA Party values .. they need to listen to him. I was VERY impressed — he spoke for over an hour from the heart about the greatness of America .. and took Q and A from the audience .. NO prescreening or off limits .. then he came out into the crowd and met with We the People.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:58pmWhere’s your guy? Ron Paul you morons. He is the God Father of the Tea Party. Seriously people, The President doesn’t get everything he wants.Ohhh I really hate the media. These people are by far corrupt.
Report Post »lylee
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:58amJim DeMint
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:20amI’ll take anyone we have, even the “NUTJOB” over the pompous, arrogant twit you have…here’s a great photo of him BTW:
Report Post »http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=258901887513734&set=a.196669050403685.44990.100001817750563&type=3
VicksVaporub
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:22amI have an idea. Let‘s annex Israel as a province like Puerto Rico even though we don’t like Jews that much. Let‘s kill scientists in countries we don’t like. Let’s accuse countries of having invisible weapons and bomb the hell out of them. Let’s take over other countries and run pipelines through them and kill those people too. Let’s overthrow governments all over the place. Let‘s totally ignore any real human rights violations and dictators in countries that don’t have resources we want. Let‘s build a military that’s 100 times more powerful than everyone elses and stomp all over the planet ****** off everyone else. Let’s borrow astronomical sums of money from countries that make crap products and buy all their stuff too and not make anything here except weapons and chopsticks. Then let‘s be so afraid of backlash from doing all that let’s hire people to cavity search old ladies and little girls at the airport and get the govt to watch and listen to everything we say and do so we’ll feel safe from the boogeyman under the bed. Then whenever someone else says this is all stupid we’ll call them crazy.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:23amI don‘t know what people you’re talking to, but every TEA PARTY PATRIOT/VOTER I know is solid now behind NEWT…we KNOW we need a WARRIOR…not a s-eating grinning Romney!! WE also know that the claims against NEWT are so much nothing and will be understood, but you can‘t explain away ROMNEY’S lily-livered responses…his JOHN MCCAIN-ish attitudes. NEWT will be fine.
Report Post »NEWT is our CHURCHILL and boy do we need him!!!
Whirling Dervish
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:23amLets hear you say it…..RON PAAUUUULLL.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:23am@ SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:40pm
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Report Post »And we still have a Newt, a Mitt, a Rick and a NutJob……….
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Sounds like a new sit-com. LMAO
PATTY HENRY
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:25amPS: THE BILDERBERG BUSHES have been holding JEBBIE BACK for months…they (including Karl Rove) are just chomping at the bit…why do you think RICK PERRY endorsed NEWT? NO, JEBBIE, not this time…pick up your widdle toys and wun a wong now.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:29amGeez people.. Mitt is the only non-Washington insider.
Report Post »State governor for 4 years.
Not a US senator.
Not a US congressman.
Not Speaker of the House.
JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:31amWhy in the world would the Tae Party be behind Newt, Patty?
Report Post »You might be.. but the Tea Party is not.
PATTY HENRY
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 2:00amBecause JJ COOLAY: (and every TEA PARTY person I know IS behind NEWT) 1. He’s Patriot 2. He has great knowledge of History – American History especially 3. He knows how the legislation process works 4. He can defeat the THREAT to our DEMOCRACY in the WH now…that guy doesn‘t stand a snowball’s chance in hell against a real debator…even with his teleprompter 5. He is for AMERICA/our way of life. HE IS NOT: a PROGRESSIVE; he is not a student of FDR or WILSON…you have to hear what he says…not believe what others who have ??? intelligence or motive tell you; HE did balance the budget, he brought the GOP back into the WH first time since the Wilson years; The problems he had in Congress were political for having dared to run the little Dems out; HE is brilliant. HE has amazing solutions and he can lead from the “Bully Pulpit” and is not afraid to make changes. HE is an AMERICAN original…as are most TEA PARTY people.
WHY wouldn’t he be embraced by the PATRIOTS (AKA Tea Partiers?) Why do you think FRED THOMPSON and RICK PERRY among many have endorsed him? Not for his good looks…but we know he’s not going to be bullied (or a sell-out like McCain turned out to be) … Think about it. NEWT has a lot to offer, his way…which is great…We’ve had enough of the insider GOP=ers.
Report Post »sputnik
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 2:10am@Patty Henry
Report Post »Well if the TEA party people you know are all getting behind Newt than I will quickly see myself outside of the TEA party. Newt is a progressive… in many ways more progressive than McCain. If you take 30 seconds to look him up and not just listen to his ‘new found conservatism to get elected’ you would change your mind. Pass that on to your TEA party friends. We need a leader not a “fighter” -Newt would make a great press secretary. If Newt = TEA then TEA now = Big gov solutions.
GETLIFE
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:10amRomney in government was a total progressive.
Gingrich and Romney. Both have been progressive in politics. Plus, the idea that you have to be a Romney-type businessman to understand how a free market economy works is false.
So what is the media going to do with these guys?
If the Undecideds don’t wake up to the media game, we lose.
Corruption and scandal of the worst kind surround the current WH,
yet the msm’s motto is “To Serve snd Protect.”
You really think it matters to the elite media which one of these guys is “cleaner?”
Yesterday on BBC International, in a report about Romney’s tax returns, they reported that the average American pays “up to 35%” in taxes while Romney only pays around 13.something%.
A total and blatent lie which nobody questioned.
You know, it’s the BBC. They speak with a British accent….
Just wait until you see what the msm can do with Romney’s Mormonism….
The mainstream media, or rather elite media (Gingrich’s word is more accurate) is going to crush either one of these guys unless the PUBLIC 1) wakes up to their game,
2) lets them know they are awake.
The whole thing with CNN not allowing public reaction during a debate is proof of their fear of the public “making noise about the media.” It is nothing short of censorship.
Report Post »They must protect the ears of their faithful from the opinions of those who are awake to their bias.
ThankBabyJesus
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:50amSpankdamonkey/Beck 2012
Report Post »Obama Been Lauding
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:31amLet’s get real here!!!
Report Post »Anyone: A dog-catcher, a tree-trimmer, a chicken pecker grinder, etc.!!!!
Any one of the candidates in the field!!!
Anyone but Obama 2012!!!!!!!!!
jjoy
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 5:43amYep… the RINOs are gonna nominate another liberal loser like mcCain…
romney is a staunch gun-control supporter that won’t repeal obamacare… newt is a big-government liberal that believes algore’s global warming fraud… and poor ron’s goofy ideas of who is responsible for 9/11 are frightening…
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:03am@PATTY…
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings Patty…
The Tea Party lasted about as long as a fart in a whirlwind… Sending those “cutsey” little emails and signing “petitions” didn’t accomplish anything…
The RINOs will again nominate a loser and obama will be re-elected…
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:49amJJOY… Romney is not a gun-control supporter. Romney has a lifetime membership with the NRA.
Report Post »He is only opposed to assault weapons, which I can‘t see why anyone wouldn’t be.
The right to bear arms is fine, but why does anyone need a grenade launcher?
JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:53amRomney quote: “Let me speak very directly and candidly about where I stand. I support the Second Amendment as one of the most basic and fundamental rights of every American. It’s essential to our functioning as a free society, as are all the liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights…
“As president, I’ll honor the right of decent law abiding citizens to own and use firearms in defense of their families, their property and for all other lawful purposes, including the common defense.”
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:54amWASHINGTON POST: “Do you think tighter restrictions should be in place for those buying a firearm?”
ROMNEY: “No. I believe we need to focus on enforcing our current laws rather than creating new laws that burden lawful gun owners. I believe in safe and responsible gun ownership and that anyone who exercises the right to keep and bear arms must do so lawfully and properly. I do not believe in a one-size-fits-all federal approach to gun ownership because people keep and use firearms for different reasons. Law-abiding citizens have a right to protect their homes and their families and as President, I will vigorously defend that right.”
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:55amI feel like we are all arguing which 1 of the 4 Stooges (counting Shemp) do we like the best (or dislike the least). All 4 of them are clowns with problems that can be criticized both fairly and unfairly. Shemp doesn’t stand a chance, and probably knows it but hopes that by staying in long enough he’ll get enough delegates that he gets to ramble on at the convention for awhile. Curly is bound to drop out after he realizes that people are getting tired of his antics and have stopped paying attention. Then it comes down to Moe and Larry, both of whom have gone the distance in their careers, but whose acts have holes that can be exploited by each other first – and then Obama bin Lyin later. Where is the gong when you need one?! For that matter, where is a serious anti-Obama candidate when you need one?
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:24amGlenn has been duped by Dick Army and company. Army IS THE ESTABLISHMENT. Freedom Works came into being for the sole purpose of co-opting the Tea Party.
Report Post »This is all about getting somebody like Jeb Bush in there.
STAY OUT DA BUSHES!!!
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:34am@PATTY HENRY
Report Post »Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:23am
“I don‘t know what people you’re talking to, but every TEA PARTY PATRIOT/VOTER I know is solid now behind NEWT…”
SHHHHHHHHH. Don’t tell anybody.
The fact is, ALL the folks who think they know what’s best for us — the ruling elite — HATE Newt!
jjoy
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:36am@JJ COOLAY
“Romney is not a gun-control supporter”
At the present time, romney is pretending to be “Conservatiive”…
If you do a little research, you will find MANY instances of romney’s opposition to 2nd Amendment Rights…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:51am@STUCK_IN_CA
Report Post »TEA in CA is for NEWT? Thank GOD most of the Nuts go to California!
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:08am@lukerw I understand your frustration, as you are a Paulbot, and even with his really good positions on the issues, he’s not going to be the GOP nominee.
Report Post »If you think support for Gingrich is confined to Kalifornia, you are wrong. I‘d like to see all our candidate’s warts exposed. The sooner the better, no matted WHICH candidate.
P C BE DAMNED
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:16amSarah! Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!……………………………………………
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:53amI wonder what Ann Coulter will be talking about today.
Maybe anti Newt subjects.
Glenn was feeling the head from his listeners so he thought !!! Why not bring on someone to spew negative Newt Gingrich stuff and that will take the heat off of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7qcvyL6SFs
Listen to how condescending Glenn is towards his listeners.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:01am[NOTE the Favorable/Unfavorables]
Chamber poll: Newt and Mitt in a dead heat
A poll taken for the Florida Chamber of Commerce on Sunday and Monday shows Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich tied at 33 percent among Florida Republicans, with Rick Santorum at 10 percent and Ron Paul at 6 percent.
After each name, please tell me whether you have heard of that person and if so, whether you have a very favorable, favorable, unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of them.
Newt Gingrich
Very Favorable 17.86%
Favorable 42.26%
Unfavorable 19.64%
Very Unfavorable 7.54%
No Opinion 9.72%
Mitt Romney
Report Post »Very Favorable 15.48%
Favorable 49.60%
Unfavorable 20.04%
Very Unfavorable 2.18%
No Opinion 10.71%
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2012/01/chamber-poll-newt-and-mitt-in-a-dead-heat.html
Vigilante
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:41amI am with you @PATTY HENRY
Report Post »When Fred Thomson got behind Newt, I knew in that moment that he is the one!!!
He has a very strong hand to unbuilt what the progressives have done to our beloved Country for years.
When they claim that he is a “big goverment guy”, how come he balanced the budget 4 years when he was Speaker Of The House?
THIS IS NOT A BIG GOVERMENT GUY.
This label belongs to Mitt
Faith in God
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:36amand if Jeb Bush steps in….I am stepping out of the vote. I won’t vote for anyone unless they are a true TEA!
Report Post »SurfinRallylizard
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:34pmYeah.. Bush Clinton Bush Obama Bush… seriously… Ron Paul people, what the h e double hockey stick… Why would you NOT vote for Ron Paul if you believe in true liberty and belief that the candidate will do what they say? Foreign affairs? Really… leaving people alone, attacking only with a Congressional Declared war, yeah, that’s extreme… you people are beyond stupid if you’re voting for anyone but Ron Paul and you deserve Obama for 4 more years. Pretty soon Mexico is going to have to figure out to keep us out of their country.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:40pmThere is going to be a brokered convention. There is no doubt about it now. Newt could never in a million years get enough delegates to win the nomination at a brokered convention. He has way too much baggage.
The Ron Paul dlegates will NEVER change their votes after they are released…They love Dr Paul and will not change their votes,,,until a true Conservatibe would come to the forefront. It would have to be someone from the outside like Mitch Daniels…Or maybe,,,Drum roll please…RAND PAUL!
So I say…Brokered Convention…Rand Paul 2012
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:46pm.
Because soon as he starts talking foreign policy, he’s sounds nuttier than squirrel poo…..
Barry_Soetoro_2012
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:50pmThe American people no longer care about liberty. Just like a domesticated hose dog.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:57pm@SpankDaMonkey We armed Saddam Hussein in Iraq to fight Iran, then we fought Iraq. We armed and gave billions to Qaddafi, then we spent millions on drones to bomb his country, and then aided the radical Muslims to oust him. We helped Lebanon have elections, and then they elected Hezbollah, who is now bombing Israel. We give billions of dollars to Pakistan, who has a nuke, and then we find out they’re hiding Osama bin Laden. We sold a bunch of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, though women can’t even drive there, and fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi Arabian, and yet they have as by the neck with their oil (we should drill here!).
We then build a 4 billion dollar embassy in the middle of a desolate wasteland?
“The 104-acre compound, bigger than the Vatican and about the size of 80 football fields, boasts 21 buildings, a commissary, cinema, retail and shopping areas, restaurants, schools, a fire station, power and water treatment plants, as well as telecommunications and wastewater treatment facilities. The compound is six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York, and two-thirds the size of the National Mall in Washington. It has space for 1,000 employees with six apartment blocks and is 10 times larger than any other U.S. embassy.” Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476464,00.html#ixzz1jBfHQ7Jm
Exactly WHAT THE HECK ARE WE ACCOMPLISHING with our current foreign policy? It’s insanity, appeasement, corruption, and lunacy.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:01pmBADDOGGY Baggage? No room to talk: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/angry-white-man?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:20pmLIZARD and COLT – you both keep blowing the Ron Paul skin flute steadfastly refusing to recognize and admit that he is a FRAUD because (among many other things) he is all talk, never having accomplished anything in his thirty-year career span toward improving our liberties, our corrupt government, or our financial condition. He would be a possibility in my mind if he had a few accomplishments to back up all his talk. Until he demonstrates the ability to get things accomplished, he is just an all-talk FRAUD and your assessment of him is shallow, at best. What a guy.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:42pm@ Baddoggy
Report Post »I disagree with you often and I often express it. But I agree with your wish for a brokered convention. As it is, we (by “we”, I mean Tea Party types and I mean Republicans) are going to lose in 2012. Let’s at leat have some fireworks — a brokered convention. Let’s not have one vote and a couple of sparsely attended speaches and well-attended drunken parties. Instead, let there be speaches that matter. Let there be votes that matter. Let the national stage be filled with talk of limited government. Let Dr. Paul instruct on Austrian economics. And please, please, please, let’s not have another Bush. I am soooo tired of dynasties in America.
bikerr
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:02am@Baddoggy—Rand Paul won‘t make the convention he probably won’t make it thru tsa security.
Report Post »NoNannyState4me
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:13am@ theDonk Ah heck, you‘re just afraid of trying something new when the thing you keep trying over and over again doesn’t work.
Report Post »GeorgieBaby
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:47amRon Paul is not presidential, and is more of an ideologue. He is a horrible public speaker. I heard his speech after New Hampshire, and he did an almost Howard Dean cry from the pulpit. His speaking style of vomiting information onto his audience, his gestures and tone of voice, and his seemingly inablity to control his crazy hand gestures while he is speaking speak to a cult leader.
Sarah Palin is awful to listen to as well. She need to go to a speech therapist to learn how to control her pitch and cadence. She gets shrill and whiney when she’s on Fox News bashing Romney.
Report Post »njoelhickson
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 2:56amThomas Jefferson was not a great public speaker as well but most of us revere him as the most Liberty minded of our founding fathers.
Report Post »louise
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:50amColt,
Great post. You wrote:
We then build a 4 billion dollar embassy in the middle of a desolate wasteland?
“The 104-acre compound, bigger than the Vatican and about the size of 80 football fields, boasts 21 buildings, a commissary, cinema, retail and shopping areas, restaurants, schools, a fire station, power and water treatment plants, as well as telecommunications and wastewater treatment facilities. The compound is six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York, and two-thirds the size of the National Mall in Washington. It has space for 1,000 employees with six apartment blocks and is 10 times larger than any other U.S. embassy.”
_____________________________________
It IS insanity.
Report Post »Americans, look at this compound and ask yourselves “why”. Here is my opinion. The American embassy in Iraq is like a self contained city. And you must remember that Iraq is sitting on top of vast vast oil reserves. Our government has no intention of ‘leaving’ Iraq. We have fought a war sold to us in the name of liberation of the Iraqi people. We have tried to rebuild this country. Why? So we can have a seat at their table, that’s why. We want their resources. And our unconstitutional foreign policy suggests since we are their liberators, we get something in return. So we built a city to serve American companies there and “our interests”. Put the pieces of the puzzle together. cont’d part 2 below..
louise
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:13amto Colt cont’d….
Put the puzzle pieces together.
Why have we not built a city the size of the Vatican in….say….Sudan or Somalia, or anywhere on the African Continent…?
I know most people do not want to even try to honestly look at motives. We want America to be a place of good, and of peace, and of goodwill to our neighbors. Americans do not want to face what is in front of them.
There is no denying the truth any longer. You ALL know in the core of your being that something is very wrong and yet people still hang on every word that comes from the mouths of liars.
Report Post »When man has made Good to be perceived as evil and evil to be perceived as Good….and a lie sounds so close to the truth that it is taken for Truth, then all of you know just how far we have fallen.
Look at motives and ask, “why”. Scripture tells us that the heart of man is evil above all else. Guard your hearts. Fill your hearts with the things of God. And this is how you know what the hearts of others are filled with: “From the heart the mouth speaks” So listen carefully and you will know exactly where our current president and future president, the media, your friends and neighbors, your families, and YOURSELF Stand.
People talk about what their hearts are filled with.
God is going to fulfill His word as He promised. After all of prophecy has already been fulfilled except for the end of the last days, how can anyone not see and know this and still not beli
louise
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:23amTo Colt, cont’d,
Report Post »Put it all together and you will see from the beginning that there has been a plan in place and it is not the plan of man.
Everything from the beginning has a scarlet thread all the way through connecting it all together. We have a purpose. The Prophet Isaiah tells us that God created all things. Do people really believe this profound truth of God?
Governments come and go. Presidents come and go. There is a time for war and a time for peace.
Where do I want to be? where ever God sends me to do whatever He want me to do. But if I could be in the one place that I want to be in, it would be sitting at the feet of Jesus…….like Mary did. And Jesus told Mary that she had chosen the best thing….
Gonzo
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:50amMonkey: “Because soon as he starts talking foreign policy, he’s sounds nuttier than squirrel poo…..”
Report Post »Don’t listen to what the media reports that he says, read what he says. It’s not all that nutty. Even the Iran nuclear thing. To stop Iran from getting a nuke we would need another long, expensive ground war. We don’t have the money for it.
57mike
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 8:38amWell said. I have a hard time believing they call someone that wants to restore our liberty, end the Fed and abolish the IRS a nutjob! Seriously I think the nutjob is the one posting these comments.
Report Post »Voice_ofFreedom
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:08am@Spankdamonkey I don’t know your views but you nearly made me shoot something out my nose with your comment thanks for the laugh :).
Report Post »onetruepatriot
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:31pmJeb Bush?!? LMAO
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:36pmIf you like more of the same Jeb the Progressive from hell would fit your stocks and bonds but not the CONTITUTION
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:50pmJeb Bush? You’d throw out the only Reagan Conservative in the field (Gingrich) for a third term of George Bush?????? ARE YOU NUTS???????
Report Post »Thankfully, FreedomWorks isn’t the Tea Party…just a support organization that tries to enlist the Tea Party for the establishment GOP….
GeorgieBaby
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:50amI don’t know who that guy was, but I thought he got too much camera time. He’s delusional. A candidate that has not already declared and filed the proper paper work with the states has no chance.
I no longer have much respect for political pundits anymore. A bunch of hot air. People who listen to them and make voting decisions based upon the opinions of pundits just should not vote.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:06amNo doubt. I refuse to listen to anyone who thinks porkchops are still fashionable.
Report Post »Joey8
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:29amso by Newt saying hes a Reagan conservative every other sentence, that makes him one?
Report Post »mr molotov cocktail
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:31pmfreedom works comes out of the council of foreign relations..
the liberty works does too… all libertarian nonesense..
libertarianism= further left then communism-
people are such idiots
support to crapitalist communists.!~
this is getting old!
Report Post »Barry_Soetoro_2012
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:52pmSo you support China.
Report Post »I‘m guessing you don’t really understand how they treat their people.
progressiveslayer
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:00pmI know all that freedom from government and liberty,I’d much rather be a slave to government makes much more sense.You equate libertarians with communism? That’s too funny.
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:31pmAt this point, where this country has gone and where it is going, probably not a bad idea to let the libs and D’s 100% rule. Let them sink the ship and make tons of enemies. Then, when in shambles, we can rebuild and incorporate the lessons of the past into the new future.
Report Post »GeorgieBaby
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:53amNo thanks. If that happened, we probably would never get another chance to have a presidential election. Think your idea through just a little more.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:31pmGlenn Beck and his puppets would love for the GOP to throw another candidate into the race who would take some votes away from Newt so Romney could win. Romney is not going to quit. He is going to get beat Romney and Beck knows that. Such an underhanded plan and a lowlife move in order to appoint the LDS candidate Romney and bypass “we the people”!
Report Post »ITSCOMING
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:43pmOh spare me with your discriminating comments! Romney is the candidate that can beat Obama. I am African-American and I find it amusing how many of you despise Mormons but you were okay with a sue-do Muslim in the white house, hmmmm… I was raised in an area with many Mormons and I was raised Evangelical and they are some of the nicest people I know! Keep in mind; they are NOT declaring Jihad on AMERICA, no, THEY actually love this country and want to see it be more powerful than EVER!!! Please give me a break on you high and mighty anti-Mormonism!!!
Report Post »GeorgieBaby
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:56amAnti-Mormonism is equivalent to Anti-Semitism. I find it hypocritical that many evanelical Christians will support and defend Israel and decry Anti-Semitism, yet spew hatred and lies concerning Mormonism with the same vehemence that Muslim extremists have toward Jews.
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:08amSeeing that Romney gave 15% of his income to his church and charity, while Obummer gave less than 1% – tells me all I need to know about these men. I am not an LDS biggot – I do not believe the POTUS must worship exactly as I do. Go to Real Clear Politics and see how the candidates are trending nationwide. Romney is the ONLY candidate that meets or beats Obummer. Remember that we need the middle to win!
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:30pmLike Matt said, our guy isn’t ready yet. We are stuck ordering from the GOP menu.
Report Post »Trading_barracuda
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 11:30amHey,
I have an idea.
Why don’t we elect a pro-America president?
Obama the Goldman Sachs candidate #1 contributor Goldman Sachs aka Federal Reserve
Romney the other Goldman Sachs candidate #1 contributor Goldman Sachs aka Federal Reserve
Gingrich the AIPAC candidate # 1 contributor Israeli lobby.
Santorum the lobbyists’ favorite #1 contributors Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Universal Health Services
Ron Paul the pro America candidate. #1,#2,& #3 contributors Army , Air Force, & Navy personnel.
Nevermind.
Ya’ll are too stupid to get it.
Just elect one of the top 4 up there.
Screw America… again.
Report Post »ForceOfOne
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:29pmlook, guys….obama could EASILY be defeated in november but it’s not really gonna change anything for the immediate future. obama’s destructive policies have dug us into a DEEP hole and it will take Almighty God to get us out. the main issue is this: SUPPORT. it didn’t really matter who won in 08 because mccain and obama were basically of the same mind. regardless of my intense dislike for obama, he and his cronies are excellent political strategists. look at it this way: they have bailed out and bought off the banking and wall street big-wigs and they’re backed by the unions. they’ve preyed upon the entitlement minded and welfare addicted minority communities and won over the illegal community as well. obama has one great instrument at his disposal: the media-and he plays it like a harp. we need to stop bickering about who is the “perfect conservative, tea party candidate” and choose a candidate and GET BEHIND THEM. it cant be any worse than obama and besides, the media will actually hold the republican nominee accountable because of their hate for conservatives…make a choice and VOTE OBAMA OUT
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:43pmWe should fight for who we think is right until we have to settle for another GOP progressive.
Makes us feel good for a while anyway.
TEA is anti Progressive and that is all there is on the preprogramed voting machines and illegal votes
Report Post »Linna
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:54pmWhat is wrong with the discontent Tea Party and Matte Kibbe? Our world is sinking to socialism, debt rising, image in the world declining — the so-called Tea Party which was to support three very simple fiscal conservative ideas: small constitutional government, free enterprise system and lower taxes.
Report Post »Instead we have internal fighting — basically a power trip where individual leaders are vying for power. Palin comes out and recommends “keeping the election going by voting for Newt.” Now, Kibby says he is no longer Tea Party candidate. I‘m sure it’s because they finally got around to reading about Newt and realize that his baggage is REAL baggage: Pro Obamacare as of May 16, 2011, disorganized, dirty laundry in the hands of Nancy Pelosi. Forget the Obama Newt debate, they both think alike! Romney continues to be minimized when he’s the upstanding, intelligent, clear leader who knows how to create jobs. It’s the economy stupid, we need jobs! Let’s move forward – how many years do we saw we could get someone else maybe Jindal, Daniels, Christy — when they say NO! Palin is unpopular and not a great leading spirit for our success. Wake up GOP, stop eating your own. John Bolton, who commands great respect, says Romney is the ONLY conservative running! He’s right!
SurfinRallylizard
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:28pmI don’t know… that Ron Paul guy sounds pretty interesting… Instead of Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush… Yeah, three bush President’s in three decades… sorry, that is reptile people conspiracy level stupidity.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:28pmUnless Palin, forget about it; no one else would succeed. Deal with reality. Newt is the guy at this point.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:37pmhey TRON, how is newty going to do in VA? big government prog no thanks, besides her lovines pelosi says he is dead in the water. maybe they did more then just sit on that couch
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:37pmThere is going to be a brokered convention. There is no doubt about it now. Newt could never in a million years get enough delegates to win the nomination at a brokered convention. He has way too much baggage.
The Ron Paul dlegates will NEVER change their votes after they are released…They love Dr Paul and will not change their votes,,,until a true Conservatibe would come to the forefront. It would have to be someone from the outside like Mitch Daniels…Or maybe,,,Drum roll please…RAND PAUL!
So I say…Brokered Convention…Rand Paul 2012
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:40pmTotally agree….Palin is the ONE…Our Country need her more than ever!!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:01am@TRON … I was at the Santorum rally today .. I think I know why he isn’t getting the press and the Republicans … he had good solid ideas about getting the government out of the WAY and letting the American people rebuild America to greatness. I was VERY impressed .. please see my post above … I am voting for Santorum in Florida .
Report Post »GeorgieBaby
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:02amSarah Palin is a sellout and has her own political interests in mind. I don’t believe for one minute that she is looking out for Tea Party interests. She and the Tea Party supporters who back Gingrich are whoring themselves out because of bigotry and jealousy. Approximately 80% of the Tea Party is evangelical. Evangelical voters have a history of voting against Mormon candidates.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:28pm.
Report Post »I tell ya’ll I could do a better job. SpankDaMonkey 2012…………..
RepubliCorp
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:11pmThe SpankDaMonkey Revolution ……
Report Post »six6six
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:26pmJust what we need, another Bush. God help us.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:30pm@SIX6SIX
Report Post »Thats how is see it too
Joe Herring
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:30pmMr. Kibbe would do well to recall that the “Tea Party” is not a monolithic entity of which he is in charge. The reason he believes the Tea Party hasn’t “coalesced” around Gingrich is because *he* doesn’t want to “coalesce” around Gingrich. Project much Matt?
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:26pmMitt Romney has always been the Republican leadership’s chosen candidate.
Report Post »Mr Beck is just following orders.
justangry
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:33pmI thought they backed Santorum.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:44pmHe does back Santorum, and in fact, Beck said if it came down to Romney vs. Obummer, he would hold his nose and vote for Romney. People like @mary say when Beck said go Sandorum, that is code for go Romney. Shesh.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:47pmJUSTANGRY
Report Post »with that comment, your moniker is hilarious. yes the rnc wants Romney…fyi
justangry
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 3:01amGB, Pat and Stu seem to want Santorum. My point was they were not following the establishment orders.
Report Post »Babeuf
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:26pmWow another Newt bashing thread – However, the point he made is interesting….
Report Post »In the NBC post debate analysis, Andrea Mitchell brought up an interesting point, one which, if true, will mean the end of the modern Republican Party as it is known – an aid close to the Romney campaign indicated that the elite who control the party will not allow Gingrich to be the nominee. (he was credited with the failed bid for a second term by George H. Bush, hated by the moderate Bob Dole, who felt Gingrich was a competitor, and feel on the proverbial Republican Sword (he was not “ousted from the Speakership as implied), for not producing Congressional wins large enough to please those who would see an “insider” not Gingrich as Speaker.)
Apparently, the Republican elite plan to go to a brokered election should Romney fail in Florida and put up, of all people, Jeb Bush or a “Mitch Daniels”, going the route of the Democrats Super Delegate Convention that led to the election of Barack Obama. Therefore, those who run Washington and the GOP will throw a hissy fit if their chosen candidate “Mitt Romney” does not perform and will simply negate the votes of the people, and put in whomever they chose – a losing proposition no matter which way the wind blows and they know it. With no love lost on Republicans, Andrea Mitchell appears to know it as well, almost gleefully quoting the source.
Yup, just what we need another Bush!
C. Schwehr
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:56pmA brokered convention? If Gingrich is thrown out because he’s politically incorrect, the GOP will NOT get my vote…I’d vote Libertarian before voting for another Bush Clone!
Report Post »Rockyspoon
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:11amFine with me if somebody blocks Newt.
Look, I lived through that debacle (I remember Ike well, so that might give you some perspective).
And Newt was effective at first as Speaker, but for a variety of reasons, it went to his head and he imploded. It’s that simple. And he wan’t even the PRESIDENT!
Now should Newt ever become President, he’d have an even BIGGER ego with the same potential disaster looming, which would easily give the president back to the Dems to continue destroying our country. And from what I’ve seen of his snarky remards on the campaign trail, I see disaster on the horizon.
And while people don’t like Romney, it is ROMNEY that’s the WASHINGTON OUTSIDER, not Newt. Newt failed in his position as an “executive” of the House, while Romney has succeeded in several such enterprises. Newt is the Washington Insider (and really a Progressive if you look at his list of favorite presidents and his favored positions on a lot of issues).
And Romney has a far better attitude toward vicious questions than Newt ever will–I cringe at the insidious attitude Newt takes whenever anybody asks him an embarassing question, and face it–Newt has so much baggage it looks like he’s trailing the Hindenburg. He’s a prime “target-rich environment” so the opposition will have a field day with him.
Report Post »CulpepperJosh1638
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:25pmJEB BUSH???? REALLY???? Didn’t we get all up in arms over a Clinton/Bush Dynasty???? UGHHHH people with too much time to think, don’t think at all.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:29pmCulpepperJosh1638
Report Post »Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:25pm
I agree
freedom_gurl35
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:25pmGingrich is a Progressive running in Conservative clothing. He’s a big government guy. He believes government is the solution to societal woes. He supports government healthcare programs. He believes in climate change.
Newt is not the TEA party’s candidate. If anyone fits the bill, it’s Santorum.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:34pmThe Constitutional TEA, Patriotic TEA and conservative TEA lost our leader when Bachmann left.
Report Post »We are the grass roots and have no part of DICK Armainian Progressive-RINO-GOP today or ever again.
He is Bush boy since the 80s
onetruepatriot
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:40pmSantorum couldn’t win a game of checkers let alone the presidency.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:51pmSantorum is not TEA party material. Santorum is a social progressive, not to be confused with social liberal.
Santorum on August 2005: “They (Libertarian Conservatives) have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do. Government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulation low and that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues, you know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world, and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone, that there is no such society that I‘m aware of where we’ve had radical individualism and and that it succeeds as a culture.”
Santorum doesn’t understand what a limited Government is, what enumerated Powers are, and to whom natural Rights belong to. He has never proposed any legislation to make our current Government significantly smaller, and less intrusive.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:59pmof the four left Ron Paul fits the TEA party bill the most. He is borderline Isolationist; he!! at this point in time, me personally I feel like telling the world to self fornicate themselves. Take All our money, military,and anything else that is America; bring it all home. Then WATCH and carry a very big stick. Mess with the USA and we will send you to pre-stone age technology with no hope of “nation building” afterwards.
Report Post »VicksVaporub
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:23pmYou got your Tea guy it’s Ron Paul. Except you crybabies want all your freedoms and to rule the world too. Sucks to be you.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:24pmso true!
Report Post »War = Debt
Baddoggy
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:24pmYep…the Republican Party is not going to like the brokered convention because they will have to loisten to Dr Pauls influence. He could possibly have the most delegates in the end….Man that would be egg on the face of the so called Conservatines…
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:46pmRon Paul = Crazy
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:53pmPaul is a true patriot and his wacky idea of putting Americas interests ahead of all other countries is as conservative as it gets,Paul rocks.
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:16amRon Paul has almost as much chance to be POTUS as Ross Perot. Go ahead, split the vote, and re-elect Obama 2012. Yeah, that’s smart…..
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 7:55am@TODD P
“Ron Paul has almost as much chance to be POTUS as Ross Perot. Go ahead, split the vote, and re-elect Obama 2012.”
It won’t be the PaulBots that “split the vote”… The RINOs will do it by nominating a loser like romney…
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:19pmThis was a great interview. I’m glad Matt Kibbe realizes what a fraud Gingrich is. The bigger question is who will be the nominee if we get a brokered convention? I like the idea of Rubio or Jindal but they are relatively new. Not sure about Mitch Daniels. The down side of the brokered convention is that it will fracture the GOP base going directly into the election. Not good.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:26pmWe will have a brokered convention. They had better be really really nice to Ron Paul. He is going to be saying…come to PaPa…LOL
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:42pmdamn doggy, i not only owe you a nice prime steak but the beer to wash it down
Report Post »Max Power 1
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 3:22pmNeither Rubio nor Jindal meet the Constitutional eligibility requirements to run for POTUS or V-POTUS.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:19pmreally? just say Ron Paul
Report Post »garyM
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:17pmBull_shet….tell South Carolina that! Go Newt!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:17pmI have to agree, if Gingrich gets in or Obama its the same:
Communism now or later.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:54pmThey are two sides of the same progressive coin.
Report Post »Vigilante
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 10:50am@Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Report Post »I had almost agreed with you on all your comments, but this time, I think you have to get better informed.
Fred Thomson & Rick Perry have endorsed him… Why? because he is the only one that could change Washington for the better.
Do not look at his past, I know he has a lot of baggage, but look at what he has changed to.
We need him
marybethelizabeth
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:17pmDick Armey is a corporate lobbyist who is only interested in rallying support for his clients.
Report Post »AngryOldFart
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:16pmIt’s really getting sick how your website promotes Mitt Romney. Mormons Unite!!
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:16pmIs there a 2 party system? Yes, the progressive right and the progressive left.
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:14pmIs there a Two party system? Yes, the Progressive Right, and the Progressive Left parties.
Report Post »MSGT
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:05pmWow, I have to update my numbers again………
The BLAZE front page right now…….
Newt hit pieces = 13
Romney puff pieces = 8
Santorum yawns = 2
Beck sure is pushing Santorum pretty hard. HAHA
Wake up bots. You’re being lied to.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 12:01am@MSGT Wake up? I been awaken. Beck is bought. So is the media too. I even talked with people at Romneys camp. They get paid to just put a shirt on and stand there, No jokes. Mexicans too.
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