Gingrich: Contract with America round 2

Here we go again with the GOP looking backwards.

It's no surprise that the GOPer's want term limits now days.

Only 20% Identify As Republicans, Lowest Since 1983
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/fewer-people-identify-as_n_326971.html
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Why is it that disgraced former Republican leaders like Gingrich never go away? Geese!

Not only is this "Contract On America" crap a Republican retread, it was a widely ignored retread back in the 1990s, as many of the Republicans who first ran in 1994 on term-limit pledges promptly broke them once they got a taste of power and there's little doubt things would be any different this time.

But the bigger issue here is this: If the Republican party wishes to be taken seriously again and not be called a party of No ideas, they not only need ideas, they need NEW ideas. Dusting off discarded and discredited policies from the failed Gingrich era and presenting them as new and spiffy is not a NEW idea.

Back to the drawing board, Repugs. A lot of us have 1990s nostalgia, but we still have to live in the present.
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The Librul media is hiding the FACT that since AT LEAST 1991 the health insurance plan offered to the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE has allowed benefits for ABORTIONS.....ABORTIONS...ABORTIONS.....ABORTIONS...GOP gets benefits for ABORTIONS.....ABOOOOORRRRTIONNNNSSS! Hypocrisy indeed.

When the Dems got the House and Senate majorities in 2006, I began looking for the Republican hypocrites to suddenly rediscover their "value" of term limits. I'm surprised it took them 3 years.

Of course, Americans have short memories, a trait Republicans count on every two years. When it comes to GOP posturing on term limits, as George W. Bush famously put it, "fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."

As a former Democratic voter who realized the error of my ways, I am looking forward to the Contract With America 2!

Yes! HAHAHAHAHAAH...since the first one was so successful i'm sure the American people will get suckered into another snowjob from newt. HAHAHAHAHAHA, yeah, no no....please....continue....ahahaha, you were saying something about assuring Obama's reelection....haahahaaaa

Go home, Newt. Your showed your colors in NY 23

I don't like Newt. He is another McCain, he's a Rino. He has said certain things in the past that just turned me off completely. He has no backbone. He couldn't stand up to Obama. At one time I really liked him, but over the years I've paid close attention. Sarah Palin is my only pick for President. She knows me, and I feel I know her. I know how she grew up, and was raised cause it's just like I was. I trust her to make good decisions. She has more balls than most men.

Works for me! They need to do something to counter the statement (true) that they tried this before. Maybe a self imposed term limit if they fail.

I wouldn't vote for that trick again. I'm voting non-incumbent, non-lawyer. The root of all problems

Newt neutered himself in NY District 23. We need a true conservative leader and hopefully one will emerge. Mr Gingrich is no more a conservative than was McCain and that's why we have the debacle in America today.

The RNC doesn't have any principles, Newt. You should know that, considering that you don't have any principles either, you phony liar.

If people are wondering just how big of hypocrites the RNC and the Republican party are - The public point of view of the Republican party seems to be, no abortions except under the strictest of circumstances. Not being able to cram that approach down the nation's throat, they opt for the fallback position of: Anyone who wants an abortion should pay for it herself. Unless, of course, it comes to insurance that covers our GOPer elephant pals.

"The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls "a fundamental assault on innocent human life." Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion. Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele. "The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to address the issue," Gitcho said. ...
There is no indication that any RNC employee has used the abortion coverage, but Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said it’s "no surprise" that the RNC is offering it."
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29456.html

I'm glad that the RNC supplies this reproductive health care coverage for its employees. Unplanned and health-crippling pregnancies can happen to any woman, and they should not be financially hampered from the full array of choices in dealing with such matters. No woman should. So, for once, hurrah to the hypocrites for not doing as they say the rest of us should do.

Newt is likely to be awful on global warming (aka "energy"), judging from his recent history. He may very well side with Senator Graham, who thinks cap-and-tax is fine just as long as it is cap-and-tax-and-nuclear, or just an additional pork subsidy.

Republicans did not hold their word the first time. I will not believe that they can not be any less corrupt than the Democrats. You had your chance, we need a third party that starts at the grass roots and that party will be started by the members of the 9/12 groups or the tea party groups. NO MORE. You are Not To Be Trusted! SARA PALIN was tossed and she is the only one that shares my values, bring her back and you may have a chance with this ultra Consevative from Colorado, until then. Sorry

I'll believe Newt once he stops supporting anyone with an R infront of their name, just for the sake of the "party". I do not care what party affiliation a candidate has, so long as they stick to their PRINCIPLES AND VALUES, in line with the majority of Americans. Selling your principles out as part of political chess is what is destroying the GOP. It can't be that hard to understand, even for the not ready for drive time players. Say one thing and do another=bad. Say what you mean and mean what you say=good.

Republicans did not hold their word the first time. I will not believe that they can not be any less corrupt than the Democrats. You had your chance, we need a third party that starts at the grass roots and that party will be started by the members of the 9/12 groups or the tea party groups. NO MORE. You are Not To Be Trusted! SARA PALIN was tossed and she is the only one that shares my values, bring her back and you may have a chance with this ultra Consevative from Colorado, until then. Sorry

Dump Newt.....just after th election he said Amicans want to pay more taxes an "maybe" America is shifting. People have that right and perhpas we it is about time........He did not expect this backlash against scum. He backed the Rebublican (RINA) in ny-23.
Newt is scum, keep him away from this movement. We do not need him. He is a sell - out.
Go away old man, let us run the country and get it going again. You are old news. Remember, he is Republican first and does not always believe in conservative ideas. He is almost a RINO himself. I saw he interview - he is a 100% sell out. Do not trust him.

Newt Gingrich needs to run for President, not because he thinks he will win, but because he has alot to say. This man has a powerful intellect and the next election is about solving problems, not devising big spending schemes designed to usurp power, grow power and hold power! He needs to contribute so that others can carry forward great ideas.

Will Newt introduce NAFTA II or maybe GATT II? The first ones were such great successes for the American people. Does anybody remember this clown was full steam behind these things. He is nothing but old baggage and he doesn't even know it yet. Bottom scum from the word go!

Newt, you're not the one to do this. The last time you tried, you got exactly none of it done in the 12 years you held the house. Go home and let a real conservative leader take your place.

Unless the Republicans put forward an agenda for radically shrinking the government, I don't see why anyone should support them. I don't want better managers of the beast; I want someone who will slay the beast. Voting for the slightly lesser of two evils will always get us nowhere.

As a conservative, I am kind of tired of listening to Newt. His commercial with Nancy Pelosi did it for me. So, we saw how the contract worked the first time. When these guys get into power, they lose all sense of reality and only focus on themselves and getting re-elected. We need a new generation of Republicans with Principles - Newt had his day. It may take a few cycles, but we need some principled leaders - either party that will bring this country back from the brink.

@ former republican

LMAO! Huffington post??? Now there's some reliable information. If you want to take a shot at repubs, I'd be talking about how they acted like dems when they had control of both houses of congress and the white house. Screw them all. They're all the same.

Dear Mark. Newt and Dick Armey did not write the contract with America. Fred Everett a member of United We Stand went to Newt and told Newt to adopt United we Stands platform in which Perot ran on in 92. Newt went to Frank Lutz and asked Frank what he should do. Frank told Newt to adopt United We Stands Platform and run under it and they would take back the house in 94. That is the real story behind the contract. That is how the Republicans came up with the Contract.

...just beware the Liberals don't try another "crossover" as they did during McCain's run...

Most of us would settle for Common Sense!!!

Unfortunately Newt revealed his true "just win -- regardless of principle" approach to government with his foolish support of the Republican in NY 23.

We need fresh ideas, not just a strategy to elect an R instead of a D.

A New York Times article just came out today indicating that Obama wants to legalize all illegal aliens. If this happens then it is all a moot point.

Newt+Pelosi+Global Warming Couch = GAME OVER!!

How about two of the principles are: no taking any campaign contributions from BANKSTERS and ...
shrink the big banks down to size; no more TBTF.

YES!!!!! DO IT!!!

....and add changing the income tax, no health care bill just fix fraud and waste, and helping small business, etc. etc. You know what is right and needed.

Thanks.

Fool us once... shame on you.
Fool us twice... shame on us!
You already broke the first contract. Do you think we'll fall for another? Don't trust Republicans- third party time!!!

NY 23. Global warming. Please Newt we conservatives are no longer listening to you.

Hmm..only "23%" refer to themselves as Republicans? But more people now consider themselves "Conservative" than "Liberal" according to recent polls. I'm the most staunchly conservative person you're gonna find and I don't consider myself a Republican. So grow a brain and grow up, idiot libs.

SHUT UP AND GO HOME, NEWT!

You're a RINO and have ZERO "street cred" with us TRUE CONSERVATIVES!

You showed your true colors with NY23.

Move aside. ALL RINOS must be stopped before they give us Obama's Second Term.

Only TRUE Conservatives need apply.

Newt lost any support from me the moment he endorsed Scozzafava in NY-23. You've forgotten what conservatism is Newt.

Go away Newt. NO RINO's!

Newt SAVING HIMSELF! Our Founder would be so proud.

Go away Newt, we do not want you speaking for us. Take Micheal Steele and the RNC elite with you. We will write the contract not you or any person like you.

Conservative Republicans will take back Congress in 2010 regardless. Newt knows that, but now he'll claim credit.

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why would any one believe newt who breached the contract he made with america back then and did not follow through..they did not do what they agreed to do..when he had it won then and had slick willy and the out of control congress where he could do something he rolled over and capitulated..

If you're dumb enough to believe anything that Blowhard Newt and Michael "HipHop Makeover" Steele says, then I've got a bridge to no where I'd like to sell you.

Oy vey!!! These Republicans get it just as much as the Democrats. Lemme spell it out for them. WE THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF BUSINESS AS USUAL IN WASHINGTON!!!! You want my vote? Obama recently became head of the UN security council in direct violation of article 1 section 9 of the constitution. Force the issue and either impeach him, force him to drop his position in the UN, or force him to abdicate his position as president. He can't be both.

As a true Nationalist Conservative, I want to say the Republicans are full of it! WE remember amnesty-at-all-costs,Dubai taking over port security, NAFTA,GATT, PNAC, Bush-Kennedy education, Medicare prescription drugs, etc. It would take an entire webpage to list all of the underhanded things these Global Corporatists have tried. What hapened to our factories & plants? They are all in Mexico or China now. Called customer service lately? You get India, Mexico, South America, or the Phillipines. The Phillipines, according to the FBI, has the largest number of identity thefts from any region. These folks wearing the Bin-Laden T-shirts are keeping you on hold for 30 minutes so the Corporations can make even more. That's exactly why the Republicans wanted amnesty for 30 million illegal aliens. Remember John McCain telling that American that he couldn't possiblty pick lettuce, not even for $50 per hour!? The Republicans do not care about America at al,, except as a consumer market. What are we going to consume when we have no jobs or opportunities because the 3rd world has sent its illiterate masses her under the direction of McCain, Bush, and the GOP? We are going to consume each other. This country will tear itself apart.
Hot Damn!
Finally!
Bring it on!
R.I.P America

This is ridiculous. The democrats have run a muck in the congress. They realize that they have a limited amount of time to push through their liberal agenda. Obama new plan is to fake that he wants to cut the budget. Seriously? he could cut the budget by $500B and it would still be higher than any other budget on record.
Newt has ideas and he has a lot of support in the republican party despite his past.

One item the country will certainly support is criminalizing voting yes on a bill that hasn't been read. The more that is uncovered in the cap and trade bill, the more we know that those that voted to pass that bill need severe punishment. Starting point to punish - remove all the special pension benefits from those in Congress that supported it and their special health care too. Let them be placed instead at the lowest level of social security and medicare that the lowest rung of anyone in America can be on! Best way their arrogance can be justly punished.

If this new "contract" included stopping anymore special rights for women legislation, I would not only vote again, it would be for a Republican. For the 90% of US citizens that are too clueless to know what I am talking about, look up Equal Pay Act 2009, VAWA, WIC or for any of the hundreds of special government organizations for women (including the fact that they get a certain percentage of all government contracts). .

"Why is it that disgraced former Republican leaders like Gingrich never go away? Geese!"

Hey Steve, you might want to ask Clinton when he is going away. Sitting President commits perjury, but as long as he is a dummycrat thats ok??? Give me a f'in break

I wonder why the libs are complaining about Newt. Could it be they see him as a real threat to their Bizarro world and have Newtophobia? Personally - I hope Newt has learned a lesson from New York 23 - that just because someone has an R after her name doesn't make her worth supporting. We need conservatives to take things back to a sane direction so that when liberals howl all they do is make noise and not tear down actual bulwarks of the American system. Boycott the Messiah, relegate all things "liberal" to a museum or circus. And if the Rs have NOT learned their lesson, then it's time to start a real Conservative party. I personally am angrier at the Rs than the Ds for betraying us during Bush's second term and giving the Independents a reason to vote with the Ds. What is really Bush's fault is that he set things in motion so that the ObamaNutJob is now the guy facing Bozomadinijad in Iran. Thanks, Bush. Newt - I hope you have learned something worthwhile from these things.

Get Lost Newt. I had my fill of you RINO's (the Republicans must be compromisers and a big tent party.) Why don't you dry up and blow away and take Linsey Gramesty, Colon Powell, and John McCains with you. You showed your true colors on NY 23.

Ron Paul and Sarah Palin is the only ticket for America.

No, Newt Gingrich is the same old thing in a new wrapper. Throw out the Republicans and Democrats. We need the Independent party (hopefully led by Ron Paul) to clean things up. Don't be fooled, the government/banker elites don't care whether it is democrat or republican, they will still put their man/woman in there on both parties to make sure their agendas keep on the new world order track.

For those of you ripping on the Contract With America, I think you may all be ignorant to what that contract brought America. It lowered taxes and strengthened our economy more than at any time in history. Unfortunately Bill Clinton gets credit for these strong years along with the dot com surge, but it was this contract that defined who and what we were as a country economically. Before complaining about this contract, maybe you folks need to read up on what it actually was and the success it brought us as a nation. I get very tired of ignorant talk.

Newt is not a RINO. Only liberals and RINOs themselves think that. He's the smartest man in politics and conservatives would do well to listen to him. No one really cares about what liberals think about him anyway.

I agree that Newt blew his credibility with the NY District 23 stance he took. Might just as well have Colin Powell, David Brooks or Lindsey Graham do Contract with America Round 2 as Newt. He seems to fit their mold now days.

Sorry Newt, You will need to do a little soul searching before you can be trusted again. I saw your folly on NY-23. I want a Conservative, Democrat-Independent-Republican. No more hands across the isle cr ap, all I see across the isle is a swamp full of slime.

A contract with America would be a great idea for both Democrats and Republicans. Too bad we didn't know that Obama was planning to turn America into a socialist paradise.

Terms limits would be great, too. But this time, lets do it the Honduras way. Once term limits are enacted, any House or Senate member could vote to end term limits. But in doing so, he would forfeit his right to ever run again for the House or Senate.

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Sorry Newt, You will need to do a little soul searching before you can be trusted again. I saw your folly on NY-23. I want a Conservative, Democrat-Independent-Republican. No more hands across the isle cr ap, all I see across the isle is a swamp full of slime.

Good ideas to get rid of the radicals we are now stuck with would be a land slide winning proposition. We can do better than Nancy, Harry and Obama.

Newt, Please come to Connecticut and endorse Rob Simmons for U.S. Senate. He is just the type of RINO you like - Pro-Amnesty,Abortion,Gay Marriage, Cap&Trade,etc.

Even if I lose, the LEFT wins! But please don't http://www.DumpChrisDodd.com

Sounds like good times, but I have serious questions regarding Newt's faux pas in NY-23. Will this contract actually make inroads toward smaller, more accountable government or is this just another "vote GOP even if they have no relevance to the party platform" drive?

The country is currently suffering due to electing a guy who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk, so I'm really gonna need more than some flowery speeches to have any confidence in Mr. Gingrich.

I guess ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is not an issue to Newt and the boys... neither is the endless attacks on heterosexual White Christians, aka affirmative action.

I love how the personal attacks start when people don't have the wits to battle someone's ideology.

The CWA was a success because it nationalized the elections. If you can't even admit that, I can't help you.

CWA2 would do two things: First, it would once again focus American voters on a short list of ideas to support. Second, and most importantly, it would bring forth the appearance of leadership in the Republican party.

As Frank Luntz always says, it is perception that matters. Right now, it is apparent that people perceive, regardless of your or my point of view, that the country is headed in the wrong direction under Democrat control, for a host of reasons. That will be a problem for dems in 2010 and a boon for repubs, and all the mudslinging in the world won't do a darned thing to change that.

The only way forward is no further bailouts & massive reduction in fed/state spending. Stop printing money....the HC bill is terrible. Big O, Pelo and HR must go!

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice... don't fool with me.

I would hope that the good voters of America aren't stupid enough to get fooled twice by that nonsense. The GOP only cares about term limits when they're out of power.

Unfortunately, Newt feels that there must always be a "Newt." Don't go away mad, Newt, just GO AWAY!!

Ron Paul and Sarah Palin is the only ticket for America.

One thing the wave in 94 DID do was guarantee that employees of Congressmen and Senators were afforded the same protections as all other workers in the U.S. i.e. the new Republican Congress killed it's exemption from the EEOC rules. Also, for the first time since being proposed in the 18th century, laws were passed to keep sitting lawmakers from voting themselves instant pay raises. Say what you want about Republicans, I'll probably agree with most of it. But 40 years of Democrat control (including the Congress that originally passed it) couldn't seem to figure out that THEIR employees shouldn't be discriminated against on the basis of race, creed or color either.

Few people identify as Republicans because Republicans sold out the rest of the original Contract. That doesn't mean we who don't call ourselves Republicans don't still favor the Contract. Quite the opposite. Liberals who look to low numbers of self-identifying Republicans as an indication that there are low numbers of true Conservatives and Libertarians (who are also against Big Govt Tyranny) do so at their own peril. Maybe the contract would be unlikely to stick, but at least it gives us something to hold them to. Both parties lie to us. I like Republicans' lies better. ;)

Noot was a big, fat liar in 1994 who hoodwinked self-professed conservatives then and is hell-bent on hoodwinking them again. Can Noot out lie Obamalama? How many times do stupid 'merkins need to get bit by these slimy snakes before they learn that they are all poisonous? Politics as a life-long career for these boneheads who can't lead me across the one-way street needs to end now!

Newt doesn't understand that he is one of the type of politicians that we are looking to get rid of.

He is far from a true conservative.

Gingrich served his dying wife divorce papers in the hospital. I don't care what his political views are or aren't. Like I said in my last post, the Contract may be something. That doesn't make pieces of cr*p like Gingrich any better suited to lead this country. Republicans lost because they stopped being Republicans. They offered us Liberal-Lite in folks like McCain (Pro illegal immigration) and Romney (Started only forced health care program in the U.S. in his state) and Giuliani (Darling of the police/nanny state). In our disgust, we abstained, or trusted that B.O. might have been telling the truth. When Republicans grow a spine, maybe more people will get behind them. Until then, our options will continue to be Really Bad or Really Really Bad.

Go away newt. Why don't you shill for man made global warming with pelosi. Oh wait, you already did. You are not a conservative and we are sick of people like you representing the republicans. Your days of democrat lite are over.

Get Lost Newt. I had my fill of you RINO's (the Republicans must be compromisers and a big tent party.) Why don't you dry up and blow away and take Linsey Gramesty, Colon Powell, and John McCains with you. You showed your true colors on NY 23.

contract with america promised a vote on term limits, not it's passage!

promise kept.

not hypocrisy even by it's own standard. but i suspect most of the criticism is.

end of story.

HAHAHA u far lefties: Repubs 20% where did ariana get that?

Republicans have edged ahead of Democrats by a margin of 48-44 percent in the latest measure of how registered voters say they are inclined to vote in the midterm 2010 House races.

In the so-called generic ballot test that the Gallup Poll runs, Democrats held the advantage, 50-44, in early July polling.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/11/republicans_pass_democrats_swi.html
not only that u far lefties are only 9%:

The Battleground Poll, the most respected and thorough of all public opinion polls:

In August 2008, Americans answered that question this way:

(1) 20% of Americans considered themselves to be very conservative;

(2) 40% of Americans considered themselves to be somewhat conservative;
(3) 2% of Americans considered themselves to be moderate;

(4) 27% of Americans considered themselves to be somewhat liberal;

(5) 9% of Americans considered themselves to be very liberal; and

(6) 3% of Americans did not know or refused to answer.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ad_1219759494

jus keep believeing it far lefties....and keep spouting it ..it only hurts u to be in denial not us...lol repubs only 20% u guys use whatever polls u want to make u feel fgood!

Gingrich seems to be suffering from a mass ailment among Repubicans, Tea-baggers, and Conservatives. It is called Mass Selective Amnesia, or MSA. Yes, with all their bluster and BS they have concurred a very bad case of MSA. It is usually caused by talking about the problems that have beset our country, including the economy and the huge unemployment numbers, but also occurs when talking about debt and deficits.

America - if Repukelican party nuts like Newt Gingrich don't really suffer from Mass Selective Amnesia, then they are bold-faced liars. They are either idiots themselves, but more likely they believe that the American people as a whole are idiots. The truth of the matter is that our economy was crashed by folks like Gingrich rubber-stamping every failed policy of a failed President, George W. Bush who let his greedy handlers pick our economy clean crashing it.

The hell with a new contract. We conservatives saw what you did with the first one. You got power hungry and grew government and in the end gave us Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc. America has a contract; it's called the Constitution, a document that Newt and now Michael Steele have torn to shreads. I'm tired of the same old promises from people using scare tactics to return to office to screw the public again. Ron Paul is the only candidate worth a damn and YOU Newt, and YOU Steele, label him a kook. I am fed up with "republican" promises. We expect the democrats to lie; we didn't expect the alleged conservatives to lie too. No more Newt, you're time has long gone, and as long as a RINO like Steele is "running" the GOP, no way in hell do I vote republican. Reagan once said he didn't leave the democratic party, the party left him; well that's how I feel about the republican party. I for one have had it. You know what you can do with your 'new contract'?

Sarah P is just too weird for any real political career path outside of Alaska...except writing books, doing Okra Wenfreak and Dr. Phil shows to make money. Where's RPerot when we need him..?

Newt is one of the brightest people in public life today. He's 100% right that the GOP needs to stand for something. Some people in the GOP actually do stand for something. What is needed is some type of new document, contract, etc. that articulates what the GOP would do if they were in charge again.

Newt has lost his credibility with any serious conservative.
Joining with McCain and remembering many of his mutterings I wouldn't go with him to a snowball fight.
Speaking of snow. This rhino is what was said earlier. A snowjob.
Been a Republican for 41 years and the last President and this current one have discouraged me on the whole system.
Go home Newt and play with your toy soldiers.

Look, it makes no difference if Newt blew it in the NY23rd. He isn't running the GOP or will ever be elected again. But, many conservs, Sean, Rush, many other pols have asked that the 2010 election be nationalized. That is why the GOP won in'94 and that Contract did pretty good. It is a good idea whether Newt put it up again. If, if the GOP can come up with real conserv ideals that can be easily understood and carried out, it will be a great plan to implement . So, he is a hypocrite. My guess is every Newt hater here (some conservs and some libs who do not want anything good for conservGOPers) are all hypocrites in some area of their oh so holy lives too. The idea is good and if carried out if and when the GOP ever gets power again, could help restore the nation from its destructive course after Obama and his socialist pacifist Dem minions have made us like the Chad.

Ron Paul and Sarah Palin is the only ticket for America.

Posted by: realoldpatriot | November 13, 2009 7:02 PM
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AMEN!!!
What do Ron Paul and Sarah Palin have in common? They were both thrown under the bus by RINOS.like Newt, McCain, and Steele. Why? because Paul and Palin speak the TRUTH about the RINOS.

Anyone have time to compile a list of Repub members of Congress who ignored the last "Contract On America"?

Except that I'm sure this time around there would be a grandfathering clause for the current Republican office holders, so, really, it's just more rank hypocrisy from the Party of Know Nothing.

The reason the Republican Party has no credibility with voters is because they have no excuse for not delivering populist laws when they had all the power.

Newt I hardly know thee, these days. Ya made a big, bad mistake in NY23. The stuff with Pelosi, Sharpton... Time to retire. Write some more history books... whatever, but get out of politics. You are done.

Paul and Palin - I too have lost my taste for the "Republican" and look forward to conservative change. Newt's dead. NY23 killed him - not that he wasn't gasping.

Paul and Palin is a great pair - I too have lost my taste for the "Republican" and look forward to conservative change. Newt's dead. NY23 killed him - not that he wasn't gasping.

Say good bye to your communist majority in the house and senate......they won't be around much longer.

By the time the Obamatons are done, America will be ready for just about any kind of...are you ready for irony...CHANGE. I guess the question will be if there's an America left to change after these leftist idiots get done with it...

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Go away, Newt.

I say this with all due respect. Go. You aren't going to be able to make political hay with the current situation. You're not the solution; you're the problem.

No Gingrich. No Romney. No McCain. No Huckabee--none of you clowns. Your ineptitude sold us down the river to the Marxists.

I am a Republican and I'll be damned if I'm voting for you--especially after the recent Scozzafava embarrassment. Your time has passed. You have reached your expiration date.You're through.

It's Mrs. Palin's party now. And the Tea-Party-ers. The clueless incumbents on both sides of the aisle are going to have to go. Multiply me by 1000 citizens who are too busy to write in this evening. Then multiple that by another 1000.Then triple it.

After the global warming sit-in with Pelosi, and then the Scozzafava blunder. Newt can go sit next to Steele,Snowe, and Graham in the corner.
We the People, do not need these type of Republicans anymore. THANKS , BUT NO THANKS!

Ah ... the melancholy of liberal loony and radical right jabber! Come on folks, pull in close for a big group hug. Join me at this political campfire and sing ...

Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, the Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.

There's only one thing more annoying than the left assuming that everyone is a Republican because they disagree with their dismantling of the Constitution and turning this great country into a wimpy, European "nanny" state. That's the right assuming that they have our vote and endorsement when we denounce the left.

Neither party gets it. Hey, I admit it ... we were caught sleeping during 2008 when an adolescent slithered into the playground formerly call the White House. But I assure you we are now awake. We will use common sense when we look at the issues and positions. We will remember who voted to mortgage our children's future. We will remember that both parties lied and deceived us. We won't fall for those bumper stickers, those slogans or those Pre-K chants that sound so cool when a "celebrity" speaks them on a podcast. We don't need a stinking contract from Newt, because we already know who has to be voted out. Why is it that conservative American found its voice before the Republicans did???

Come on ... sing some more lyrics with me ... the silent giant is awake and wants to serenade the Democrats and Republicans with its voice ...

Someone's laughing, Lord, kum bay ya;
Someone's laughing, Lord, kum bay ya;
Someone's laughing, Lord, kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.

We are taking back this country one district at a time. There will also be some house cleaning on the "R" side of the aisle. This conservation brush has a very sturdy handle.

Some real mental geniuses at work here ... Bush brought us increased deficits - but Obama has written a new book on large government morass and socialism. WHile some of those elected in 94 didnt honor the term limits pledge - many did . Guess hypocrisy doesnt exist with "tax man " Rangel, hide the money Jefferson, Chuckie Scumbag Schumer, or Barney "fife" Frank. Lest we forget about the nobel Elliot Spitzer, Van Jones or those other bastions of freedom from the left like Sharpton, Jackson et al... the hypocrites and pompous ass politicians go both ways .

No thanks Newt. You guys had your chance and you blew it. Conservatives want people with principles. If we wanted more power-whoring hypocrites, we'd vote for Democrats. Shove over and let more people like Tom Coburn step up.

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We are taking back this country one district at a time. There will also be some house cleaning on the "R" side of the aisle. This conservation brush has a very sturdy handle.

Posted by: Paul Revere | November 13, 2009 8:03 PM
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Really?

You're Teabagger morons think you're taking back the country? Is that what you called NY 23?

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Hey Teabagger goons, you might have more credibility if you would have actually started whining about spending when your GOPer presidents were doing it the last 30 years.

You didn't, and thus you are not taken seriously, you're laughed at.
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This is why the Republican party can't win elections anymore - the entire party has been taken over by an echo chamber of low IQ toothless redneck Teabaggers who still haven't figured out that outside of their little cult people view them as being repulsive.

And I love how they're all claiming that they're going to win in 2012.....win with who exactly? Moose Huntress Palin? Mittens Romney? Goober Huckleberry? Racist Joe "You Lie" Wilson? ha ha ha! The Teabaggers are just as delusional as their hero Bozo Beck is.
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No to Newt. He supported the liberal Republican Dede NY23, in turn she supported the Democrat runner, when she dropped out. This tells me Newt does not do his homework, nor did Mr Steele as the NRP spent 800,000 on Dede. Newt also supported a bill that restricted speech, and Newt told us TeaParty members we had no voice in the NY23 race, altho' he voiced his opinion and threw his support for the running Liberal. Newt is good at some things, but on Newt's site there were about 600 posts against Newt, about 3 for Newt. No to Newt. No to Newt!

Newt, Save yourself some stress and don't try to lead the Republican Party anywhere. You blew it big time when we depended on you and the rest of the majority. We need strong character in our leaders even more than academic intelligence.

This guy was named after Isaac Newton?

The greatest intellect of Western Civilization? (Newton, that is.)

Is that all ya got, Replicans?

Then concede the 2012 election now and save a lot of $$$ and hot air.

The moral vacuity of this generation is scary.
The school systems brainwashing of students is scary.

"Women shouldn't be 'Hampered' by pregnancies"

And you have the gall to point fingers at Republicans?

You have no soul.

I have never met a woman who had an abortion who didn't regret it and that it left a scar on her sould forever.

It is possible that the policy included the procedure without them knowing it. I get a booklet from my insurance company every year and I don't have a clue what's in it until I need the coverage, then it's either denied or supplied. If i DON'T use a certain coverage I would never know if it was in there or not.

Obviously this tid-bit of information must have come from those folks at Media Matters, stiffling free-speech everywhere they can.

PS - THe GOP has canceled it's coverage, like all sinners who repent, God is pleased.

Newt
Time to go back to the Nursing home. Maybe there the Nurses will still listen to "I did.... in 1994". Nah, probably not.
Newt, you ignorant S**t, this ain't 1994. We didn't have a Socialist Pres and his Comrades in power in 1994. So take your moderate buttocks to a museum where you belong, buffoon.

I saw Newt at the NY Tea Party and I felt that he detracted from the event. Now this blow hard is trying to use the movement for his own political gain and not for the reform that is needed to save our Democratic Republic. I really feel now after falling for the Republican "choice" and getting betrayed, I will vote Libertarian. Ron Paul looks like a genius compared to these bafoons.

I see the swamp fever has hit the Democrats like a dropped piano. If the Republicans would only commit to libertarian values, the Democrat party would never rise again ---- the perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and pursuit of personal happiness. The first article of private property is "the self" ---- and you won't catch any Democrats swearing allegiance to the four cardinal rights, above ---- from which all other human rights are logically derived. If you have these rights, then the bloodsucking predatory humanitarians of the Democrat party don't have your wallet and your other property.

I always referred to it as the "Contract ON America". Because that's what Gingrich, with is organized crime style conservative cronies tried to do. Take away all the freedoms that true Americans hold precious.

So many angry libtards. Why does a 'losing strategy' piss off so many libs? Probably because Newty is right, there is an alternative to the goofy, alien ideology of Obama/Pelosi/Reid that will appeal to 80% of the country and the DIMocrats can hear that train a-comin'. Rant all you like, you guys. The days of a splintered conservative base ending up positioning a lily-livered McCain candidacy is done. I enjoy reading all the vitriol from the Secular-Humanist Socialists. It just confirms what the real polls show, the reason Fox News runs away with the audience and 'Air America' can't even get an audience is because there is an 'American Way' and the neo-progs will never tap into the deep seated desire for what this country once was and still has the ability to be.

As someone who had wished that Newt would run against McCain in the R party, I began rethinking my position when I heard with dismay his response to New York 23. The thing that the Republican Party leaders DO NOT GET is that we are not interested in "Democrat light". We have that with McCain, Graham, and many others who want to sacrifice principles to enlarge their political "tent". What true conservatives do not want is the 3-ring circus tent that results from this compromise. Certain values are not bartering items to be used as compromises for gaining a seat. Until leaders in the party get this, Independents such as myself will be looking elsewhere. I'd rather throw my vote away than bend my backbone to whatever suits the freaks in the circus tent.

As a conservative, I say no, people aren't going to buy it. You don't try to recycle something you didn't honor the first time around. It is not a smart PR move to even attempt this under the "Contract With America" banner.

The very first commenter states the GOP is looking backwards to 1994. At least they're being more contemporary. The Obomoron Democrats are looking further back, to 1917. Nationalizing private industry, GM, Chrysler, banks, Freddie Fail and Fannie Fail, a trillion dollar stimulus that saved phantom jobs that can't be quantified, jail terms for those who don't buy health insurance. I always wondered why Lenin's corpse was still smiling.

Newt: The revolution started WITHOUT you! Stop playing catch-up, by retreading your old ideas. Give someone NEW a chance. Someone who supported, for instance, Doug Hoffman, and not Dede Scozzafava (as you supported the latter).

You are an opportunist with a capital "O," Newt.

Go away, little man! The Republicans need to deliver their divorce papers to you on the deathbed of your political career, as it's dying away of cancer.

Now THAT'S poetic justice!!!

I honestly doubt that anyone in either of our two party system understands the groundswell under their feet. But I bet they will after 2010. If you haven't BEEN demonstrating a stand for and BEEN voting for the solid principles 60-70% of Americans stand for it is far too late for you. Have you not seen the Tea Party, Town Hall and 9/12 movements? These movements and the people within them represent .0001% of the American Constituional Patriots who are behind them. That is, only 1 of each million of us has shown up at the Tea Parties, townhall meetings etc. You have no idea what is coming down these tracks. And you won't either until Nov.3 2010. I have never voted for a 3rd party candidate before. But I have had all I can stand of the Republicrat Party and it's leadership. Contract with America 2? Are you kidding me/ This bunch we have in Congress today, with a very few exceptions, would not know the Constitution they are sworn to uphold if it snuck up and bit them on the nose. No, it's really over now.

Newt isn't the answer in 2012, but Paul/Palin aren't either. Ron Paul is a crank and couldn't win over more than about 6% even if he said all the right things. I think the best 2012 candidate isn't even on the radar yet. I think a random person from my town's phone book would be a good start.

this message is directed towards the poster Teabagger FAIL,

Your cartoon makes no sense.. This commie muslim... hes no Bill Clinton... There is no surplus... and by all mathematical calculations it is impossible to pay off trillions of dollars in debt within this socialists presidency's first term.. The idiot just spent more money than George Bush did in 4 years, in no shorter than 8 months into his first year... And now THEY being these commie retard masses.. that make consist of college kids, the Lexus Liberal Elite, and illegal immigrants, and the hate America crowd want to finally kill America with this crap... Its got to end.. we have to protect our borders and language and country and our wealth.. or this house isnt going to stand folks....

Newt is talking to GOP chairman Michael Steele?
How does anybody talk to Michael Steele? He's a moron.
Newt, you're not a representative anymore than Sarah Palin is.
Go home and enjoy your 12 years of House control and 8 years of Bush Jr. tax breaks and leave the rest of us alone with your insane phony policy propaganda ideas.

Not buying it Mr. Newt. You showed your true colors by choosing party over principle in the NY 23. You've lost your credibility.

99% of those ridiculing the Contract with America are pitifully ignorant. As I recall, the Republicans followed through on all of their promises, including putting term limits up for a vote (which failed). And exactly WHAT was Newt's so-called disgrace? -a joke compared to the 30 Democrats currently under ethics investigation.

I'm certainly not fan of the Democrats and Obama, but why would the Republicans think anyone would fall for "Contract with America II: The Revenge" when they didn't honor the first contract? I said in 2006 and 2008, the Republicans are going to lose, the only shame is that it means that the Democrats are going to win. Now the situation is reversed, and the shame is that the Republicans are going to capitolize on the Democrats well deserved loss. When are people going to wake up and realize that neither party is any good?

LEAVE US ALONE, MR. GETRICH!

DEAR TEABAGGERS,
(btw, I just love the name you gave yourselves).

Nobody is trying to stop you from holding your "teabaggy parties." Please stop saying you're oppressed when you're clearly not oppressed. You want to have a tea party? Go ahead! Get to it! Take to the streets, pleasantly aromatic baggies in hand!

We've had a president (Bush/Cheney) who decided that he could revoke the citizenship of Americans based on his own say-so -- and no conservatives were worried about their loss of rights. We've had a government assert that it could spy on any communications, without warrant or cause -- and no conservatives took to the streets, alarmed at the threat to their Constitutional protections. We found out we went to war over a weapons program that didn't exist -- oops. We found out that we subjected innocent, though brown, people to imprisonment without recourse, and others to torture so cruel that it rendered them mentally incompetent. We buried the nation in a mountain of debt -- well, them's the breaks. We forked over billions of dollars in giveaways to oil companies that were already making larger profits than any other companies in the history of the world -- hell, gotta keep John Galt in caviar. None of it raised a peep from any of you, you were all fine with it. The government could do no wrong -- except not going far enough.

But if returning to the tax policies that existed before Bush is the thing that's got a bee in your bonnet, claiming the end of the republic is at hand -- go for it. If you've suddenly decided that preventing government efforts to stave off a second Great Depression is the thing you're going to hang your collective hats on, or that saving one of the prime manufacturing sectors still left in the country is a bridge too far, by all means protest. Who's stopping you? Who's intimidating you?

On the contrary, the rest of us find your "tea bagging" to be superbly instructive. It's increasing taxes that gets your goat, and absolutely nothing else. The only Constitutional crisis possible is one that might possibly affect your wallet; offenses to other people's freedoms don't rouse a tenth of the same emotion.

And it stands as a dramatic act of solidarity with conservative leaders in government. Bloviate at every opportunity; remain steadfastly in opposition to everything; suggest nothing; claim that it is not even your responsibility to suggest anything. Like House and Senate Republicans, who have declared sitting on their hands to be an act of supreme virtue and who, when pressed, can only come up with a few terse pages of declarations that the only path forward is to give big businesses more tax breaks, and rich Americans more tax breaks, and eliminate even more regulations on financial behavior -- and that will work this time for sure, in spite of those same exact things bringing the country debt and corruption every other time they have been tried, finally leading to this current brink of economic ruin. No, it seems hard to compete with any acts of leadership as impressive as that.

So teabag your little hearts out, my noble friends! Take to the streets, and demand the conservative dream -- absolute inaction on every front! Turn the economic crisis into an opportunity to finally, at long last, give a damn about the actions of your leaders, who we have just now noticed might be of an opposing political party! Yes, take to the streets on behalf of the John Galts of the world: that's what Fox News Corporation has told you to do, and what the stock traders of CNBC demand of you! Take a day off work and wave those little white bags so that an executive responsible for financial crisis will not find their yearly bonus jeopardized by scandalous government intervention, or people making one hundred times your annual income will not be taxed a Stalinesque three percent more (marginal rate) than they presently are! Throw your little pouches of aromatic leaves high into the air, shout your grievances, demand the factories close and the government remain unresponsive, because that's what conservatives everywhere want to see!

By all means. party on Teabaggers.
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When I look out at the Teabagger crowds I see a bunch of astroturfed doughy white, low IQ, toothless redneck haters.
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Such a disparate group of misfits, malcontents, and anti-social loners (Teabaggers) coupled with corporate astro-turfing lobbyists will collapse under its own excesses, you watch.

Pass the Popcorn!!!

It's really good to see all the Dem-witted fanboy's trashing Newt. He was the ONLY reason BJ Clinton, couldn't spend the US into oblivion, as Carter 2, aka Obama, is doing.

Fanboys - PLEASE keep up the trashing. First, it's amusing to see you re-write history trying to blame all the magic "O's" faults on some one else. And second, all you accomplish with your misstatement of facts and attitude is stir up more Anti-Dem's to get involved.

2010 CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH.

If the Republican party wishes to be taken seriously again and not be called a party of No ideas, they not only need ideas, they need NEW ideas. Dusting off discarded and discredited policies from the failed Gingrich era and presenting them as new and spiffy is not a NEW idea. ----------- I guess the Liberals doing the same with even older, more disastrous ideas from Karl Marx's day is better.

This is great. You got to love what is happening now. Americans are finally waking up. Newt may not be perfect, but at least everyone now agrees -- anything but this charlatan we now have in the White House. He is an absolute joke and an embarrassment. 2012 can't come soon enough. And to think I voted for this buffoon.

Tell that bloated fraud to go away, and never show his face again.

Newt blew it when he said some unkind things about Rush Limbaugh a few months back. Then, the NY 23 thing happened. Newt needs to drop back are regroup, knowing that the majority of Americans consider themselves to be conservative. Liberals are evil and need to be defeated at every turn. They are intellectually vacuous, and most didn't pass their high school American government class.

"The Audacity of Hope" has been betrayed by the "Tyranny of Arrogance". Mendacity, stupidity and greed have replaced "honest weights" and a man's word as the foundation on which our country's greatness developed.

Our forefathers, were guided by Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus, his apostles and Paul in developing a Constitution which reslted in "liberty and Justice for all".

Now that is floundering on cynicism and lack of faith. We can do it all, feed the hungry, clothe the naked and defeat evil. But Government need only "provide for the national defence" and effective oversight. Otherwise it needs to get out of the way and let Democratic Capitalism work its magic. It did before, it can again.

Oversight yes, defense yes, control no. I believe Newt understands this well.

Posted by: Alvin Samuels | November 13, 2009 11:08 PM

Newt messed himself up when he said some unkind things about Rush Limbaugh a few months back. And then the New York 23 thing was bad news. He needs to drop back and regroup, knowing that the majority of Americans are CONSERVATIVE. Liberals are evil, and besides, most of them flunked their American government classes in high school.

Republicans don't let Newt be the leader of the republican party. Another Bush! . He needs to go. He backed the republican that endorsed ACORN. Our country needs citizens that care about america's future not those who want power! We are taking back our country. Bye bye progrssives, politically correct fanatics, communist!

PLEASE NO MORE Rs OR Ds.

We need Americans first, not party members. Both are a waste. Always party never right or wrong, what is or is not good for the nation. Always the party. So I say down with both.

All we need is a real Republican. Sarah Palin is my pick. No confusion on where she was actually born. No confusion on what her religious beliefs are. No confusion on whether or not she supports the military. No confusion on determining who our enemies are. Easy choice. So easy, the Dems are terrified of her. GO SARAH!

A good set of clear principles with an agreement to follow it is a winning strategy. If I'm not mistaken 9 out of the 10 promised in the original contract passed. The one that failed was term limits. 1994 was a good year by the republicans to keep the budget in check, but after that the wheels started to fall off. Obama is a disaster which leaves to door open to a moderate.

Newt - you messed up on NY 23... on the wrong side. I also saw you debating Kerry on CSPAN over the made up global warming (or is it cooling now?)... anyway, I saw you agreeing with Kerry.. what the heck was that all about. Newt, I know you are a very smart guy and I do respect you, but don't trade you principles for votes.

I'm wondering how hold the folks are on this thread, because they don't seem to have a clue what happened in the 1990's.

Right after Clinton was elected, he went far Left with trying universal healthcare (which the public rejected) and he implemented gays in the military through Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He gave us the biggest tax increase in U.S. history.

All of this was too far Left for the country and the entire country rejected the Democrats and put the Republicans in control for the first time in over 40 years.

So what happened with the 10 items on the Contract With America?

Bill Clinton signed 7 of them, including Welfare Reform, which was a huge success.

Clinton vetoed tort reform.

Term limits requires a 2/3rds majority, not a simple majority, and was voted down by the Democrats.

Obama is Jimmy Carter all over again. He's raising the price of energy. He's lowering the value of the dollar. He's raising the unemployment rate. He's raising the cost of doing business. He's perceived as a weak leader by our enemies and they are pushing him around. He doesn't like the Jews in Israel, just like Carter. Inflation is going to go through the roof very soon. Interest rates will necessarily go up past 10%, just like Jimmy Carter.

So we know how this plays out. In the end, Liberal policies fail. They are ill-conceived, not logical, and don't work.

7 years after 9/11, not a single terrorist attack on U.S. soil under Bush. Obama is in office for 10 months and we have had two - one in Arkansas and one in Texas.

Jimmy Carter!

Newt is toast. I would never trust him again.
Basically, who cares?
Ron Reale
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This is what I have to say about Newt's Contract with America 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A

there is already an excellent contract with America- it starts "We the people..."

Newt is last week's newspaper that has been left on the porch in the rain and the family is gone on vacation.

Talk about political retardation. I can't believe people would even joke about someone of his ilk as a possible candidate.

Actually the first Contract With America had great potential to fix the country. I'm not sure what went wrong. We had a Republican President and Republican Congress for the first time in decades and they screwed up! Bush blew it big time. What a shame.

To your content, I am sure, Gingrich prostituted himself in NY-23.

Hey Teabaggers FAIL, do you mean goons like the union thugs that beat up 130lb diabetics at health care protests? Those kind of goons? Or maybe the kind of men that punch women in the face for disagreeing with their black supremacist views? Or maybe the kind that lock opposition party members out of secret meetings where they sneak dictatorial legislation into 2000 page documents that seize choice and liberty. Are we talking those kind of goons?

Why is it that libs always get the numbers wrong when they don't go their way?

RIght now, 40% of Americans identify themselves as Conservatives.

Also, 20% identify themselves as liberals.

Of course, you've got those wonderful Progressives that try to characterize it differently.

You're Teabagger morons think you're taking back the country? Is that what you called NY 23?

Posted by: Teabagger F A I L | November 13, 2009 8:22 PM
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I see we caught another live one in the gill net. You socialists assume everyone who disagrees with you is a Republican. When we point out the inaccuracy you assume we are part of the Tea Party Movement.

That's your problem ... you're never armed with valid facts and resort to insults when making your point. What a pathetic POS .... I am pretty sure you are a teabagger receptacle, hence your user name!!

So let's go back to the liberal spin comment regarding NY 23 ... I far as I can tell, the election has yet to be certified ....

Recanvassing shows NY-23 race tightens even as Rep. Bill Owens is sworn into House seat

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/its_not_over_recanvassing_shows_ny23_race.html

It was clear that when the Republican Congress passed most of the Contract With America, then Bill Clinton took credit for all of it in his '96 acceptance speech. Guess what one of those items were? The balanced budget amendment! Clinton and the Democrats love to take credit for that, but it was Newt's ideas and leadership that got it done! Clinton gets the credit for signing it, but just remember that almost all of the Democrats in Congress voted against it. WE NEED NEWT!!

The only thing sorrier than the thought of Newt influencing our future Conservative candidate is you pathetic liberals coming over from Mama Huffington, MoveOn and The Daily Kooks and attempting to post your socialist crap here as if anyone gave a damn any longer. You guys are going down faster than your president. So save us all your attempts at trying to appear thoughtful, you lose that battle every time your lemming congress passes another one of Obama’s childish ideas.

Lets see now, we have Party #1 Far Left Progressives (Democrats) and we have Party #2 Liberal Progressives (Republicans)...

Time for a TRULY CONSERVATIVE PARTY for a change, throw both parties out! Vote:
CONSTITUTION PARTY

I love the responses they are dead on. The GOP NEEDS to RIP OFF From the DEMS Playbook and play HARD BALL!

When it comes to someone who is intelligent and has ideas that would benefit america, Newt is a great choice. The liberals hate him because he make sense and can communicate it. In the same vein as Ronald Reagan. Put Newt up against Obama in a, one on one, debate Newt would make Obama look foolish and naive.

You can see all the love Newt is getting from liberals here.

Did sitting on the couch with Nancy Pelosi and believing in mythical anthropogenic global warming help him out with the crazy lefties?

He has alienated conservatives and libs still hate him. Go away Newt!

You goofy Global Warming nut case..GO AWAY!

I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A LIBERAL OR A GLOBAL CARBON TAX PUSHER LIKE YOURSELF...GET THE F'K OFF MY SLIDE!!!

HELTER SKELTER

Decepticrats and Republicons..
The only thing right and left about them is which hand strokes the corporate globalist oligarchy...

it is mind-boggling to read some of these comments that show grown adults speaking as if there is some kind of meaningful difference between the 2 parties.

grow up, people. BOTH PARTIES SUCK. until viable third parties emerge, the best thing to do is vote against whoever is in power. and the next time around, vote them out.

how many decent people have been elected to national office in the last 40 years? what is the percentage? .05%? maybe .5%? since virtually every democrat and republican is a lying fraud who assrapes the constitution on an hourly basis, the only way to go is to vote against whoever the incumbent is.

the only difference between the parties is the lies the tell on TV. stop being a willing victim of these bastards. worse yet, some are cheerleaders for one side of the other. it's a pathetic sheep mentality. the GOP is not conservative, as evidenced by their incessant moralizing and overspending. the DNC is not liberal because no liberal would ever agree with speech codes, or the insulting lies of political correctness. plus, they are every bit a gang of corporate whore teat-suckers as the GOP is. neither side gives a rat's ass to anyone who isn't making 5-figure campaign donations, and that means most of the idiots who are so rah-rah for one side or the other.

vote whoever is in, out.

Please Newt is so 1990. The republican party better grow a conservative backbone. Here's proof. Get a bed pan before viewing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154

From a guy who endorsed Scuzzy? Sit on the sidelines with Powell, Rice, and Lott. Conservatives want a turn at bat. You want us to bow at the letter (R) as if that has principle and dignity? No, Newt. Now please go sit down somewhere else and don't make any noise...Scuzzy. We see your true colors.

The liberal posts at 5:42pm, 7:23 and 8:31 cannot be reconciled. Wilson called Obama out on his lie. One month later Congress did exactly what Obama said they wouldn't. The liberal media and populace is oblivious to the fact. Furthermore, they forget it not just Greenspan but also liberals like Summers and Geitner who blocked regulation of Derivatives in the 1990s. Who spearheaded low income mortgage policies, etc.

Whose collective memory, then, is faulty?

Newt doesn't have the personal family history to run for POTUS. He also generates too much animus. Sarah Palin is twit, even if her heart in the right place. She hasn't the sophistication required for office. I sympathize with the hard core conservatives, and hated McCain as a Presidential candidate, but we Repubs just don't have a hope 1, without appealing to Republican moderates like myself and Independents and 2, without a return to our party roots. No, 1 and 2 are not contradictory. For example, NY23 would have given us a de facto Democrat vote, not a moderate Republican. People here are confusing the fact that Republican party MEMBERSHIP is around 20%, while support for conservative policies is much, much higher.

Furthermore, simplistic slogans and abstract expression of principles won't suffice. CwA in 1994 on paper was great. Repub control of Congress from 1994 to 2006 was a failure: our Congressmen did not even begin their proposed mandate. I don't know what was more unforgivable: not scaling back government projects or completely turning a blind eye to illegal immigration. And while the other side literally now has clowns in their ranks (out of Minn), we too seem to be attracting the wrong sort of political "leaders". As should be evident from Repub membership numbers, there is a disconnect between the party and what their supporters actually want.

I guess old Newt is gearing up for a run for president. And you can see the one main requirement for being a republican is an ego as big as the moon. All those republicans out there have one.

Newt, give it up. I think the staed priorities are wrong. Government does not create jobs. How about this Mr. Progressive Republican...!) Reduce Government size by 30%. 2) Balance the budget and work for a contstitutional balanced buget ammendment 3). Reduce or eliminate income taxes for 6 months.
This from a man who endorsed a RepubliDemocrat in NY-23. Poor judgement. Your day has passed sir

How many here who criticize the Republicans for looking back are seniors? Being one myself, I'm mad at the GOP for not looking back far enough!!! Those of you who are younger have been brainwashed to think that it's all right to make a fellow citizen pay $75 for a carton of cigarettes. You might think it's cool that your government is going to imprison those of you who refuse to buy healthcare. Or that the government is going to control the temperatures in our homes. Those of you who just had a baby might not care that the newborn is already $110,000 in debt, and has a liability of $345,000. Oh yeah, you do too, and if you don't pay that, guess what happens to your newborn's debt? It becomes higher. Praise the Dems if you like. I'll criticize both. I liked it when NOBODY had healthcare. We the people were responsible, not Big Brother. And we all loved each other. Read your fellow citizen's comments here. They are filled with hate. The politicians love that. Take a deep breath and reflect. If I'm not your enemy (and I'm not) why are you not better off now than in the past?

WOW!!!
Are the wingnuts going to fall for this again???

Let me refresh you're collective memories... Newt and Co. were wiping thier arses with the first "Contract with America" before the dust even settled in the 94 elections...

Term limits was one of the FIRST things that got chucked...

Go away Newt...NY 23.

I have read "Contract with America" and it makes a lot of sense! However, the guiding principles must be followed. This is where the GOP went wrong.
Secondly, history must be studied and known before a future can be planned or even thought of. I am not sure Steele has the leadership skills to pull it all together.

Newt is a Republican? Last time I saw the sell out he was sitting with socialists in a commercial hoping we could all just go red..um...green!

Go to hell, you sellout. You focus only on you. And take McCain, Grahmnesty, and Olympia Snowe with you. You are NOT going to swipe the momentum we built at tea parties while you had tea with the RINO in NY23. Go to hell.

Wow, here we go with the contract foolishness again.
Uh...folks, go back and read the last "contract" and then look up what was honored and what was completely forgotten!
Here we go again. Also, while you are googling, go ahead and google all of the ex Mrs. Newt Gingrichs', especially interesting are the writings of his second wife Marianne(sp?)
who was denied a position as the "libraian of congress" or something along those lines, until her past writing caught up with her. Also, will infidelity be in the contract? I don't think so, as Newt seems to enjoy that. How can a man who doesn't have the discipline to honor a marriage contract, treat his body like a temple, and break the "first contract with America" how can chubby lead? He can't. Go away chubby man.

it sure would be nice if that ineffective, lying maxist obama would just go away and let the real men govern our once great country.

Newt, the smartest guy in the room.

As Republicans continue to indicate and amplify the truth there is no doubt that wholesale "change" will come about in both 2010 and 2012.

Innovative thinking, a renewed sense of reality, and true leadership will once again return the democratically controlled travesty that is our current congress, senate, and Presidency into a Republican led transitional government.

Hold on, "real" change is on the way.

Can't wait till the 2012 debate!
it will be so sweet when the republican candidate looks into the camera just as Regan did when he was debating another anti American president (Carter) and asks "Are you any better off now then you were 4 years ago"??...

I can't help but laugh when I hear libs telling us we are the party of "no" and that we need new ideas.

We are hardly the party of "no". Unfortunately elections only have consequences when Democrats win them. GWB made a comment about winning reelection and that he was going to spend some of the political capital that came with that reelection. He was excoriated in the press and by Democrats who reminded him daily that he still had to give equal consideration to the minority party which he did. Fast forward to the Democrat's sweep to power in Congress and we see exactly how important they view listening to the minority party. We have ideas, the Democrats simply won't listen and the media is deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to supporting the Republican party. That said, we need to do a better job of communicating our message.

As for new ideas, we don't need them. Fundamentals are what they are. Strict interpretation of the Constitution, limited government, low taxes, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility and accountability and strong national defense are tried and true answers. Let's try them again even if they aren't "new".

Newt - the RINO of NY 23, the Pal of AL. I am not interested in what Newt has to say. He's over. F Newt.

I must agree with some points regarding Newt and his capitulation to the left in an attempt become "accepted and liked" by the mainstream media; a bone headed mistake. However, he is right that the Republican Party needs to be marching to the same tune, and FORGET ever being accepted by the mainstream media, they're losing viewers/followers by the millions; so no consequence.
Look, this Country is center/right, but the worse off we get, the more RIGHT we lean. This younger generation that helped elect this Muslim to the office of Preseident were educated & indoctrinated in Marxist philosophy and others fell for the "hope and change" marketing campaign (yes, this was a masterful Marketing campaign in the same spirit as Coke, McDonalds, Apple, etc. - Big Brand Obama).
It is quite obvious that he is incapble of leading, and Axelrod & Emanuel are running the show and now that they're governing they are showing their lack of experience. The idiots that fell for the Brand Obama are in deep regret now and are awakening to the fact that they were duped, and won't be in the next election. We are all ready to get back to an era where we have ADULTS in office.
Forget the platitudes and slogans, we need a new REAGAN, and we need to institute a litmus test in order to be allowed to vote...just like a driver license; pass the test, or you get no vote.Secondly, term limits, thirdly, kill ALL lobbying!
There's your 3 tenets to get our Republic form of governement back!

We already have a "Contract With America" ... it's called the Constitution. That;s the only contract We The People need or want.

F, I guess I'd have to give you an F for ignorance if you think there is no difference between the parties.

The right wing sure thinks there's a difference: Look at all their hysterical rhetoric, e.g. "Nazi Pelosi" etc.

Harry & Nancy are "communists" etc. etc.

So, judging from the rhetoric of retarded rightists, there must be some difference between the parties, dontcha think, F?

Anyhoo, Newt is enough of a functional politician to relize that he can again seize a leadership position in what is left of his party,

and do it by DEFAULT....

because there is no body else to seize a leadership position in that party.

Is there?

Sarah Palin? A punch line in every other Late Show monolog.

Cross dressing Judi Ruliani?

A retired investment banker who looks like the guy who laid you off and spends most of his time clipping coupons?

Compared to the other Replican "leaders" Newt knows he compares well.

And that's the saddest commentary of all on his party.

Intellectually and morally bankrupt.

No to any Rinos. We want a Ron Paul type of person!

Mr. Gingrich is a RINO. Therefore, a sober Republican Party should not be in need of his services...

How come they passed all the facets of the last Contract with America except the most important one TERM LIMITS for all elected polititians????

A contract requires two parties in agreement. When did the American people ever enter into any of these "contracts" with Newt?

Without Newt there would have been no welfare reform. We need a second conservative revolution to rid ourselves of all the garbage that Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and that ilk is spewing on America. What kills Libs is that Newt is far more intelligent than anyone they have. Go Newt !!

Republican candidates have stretched their lead over Democrats to six points in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Republicans have held the lead for over four months now
We don't need any contract, Rep. will sweep into office, thank to the idiot in the Whitehouse!

Contract with America 2? Who is helping write this, Newt's new friends Nancy Pelosi and Al Sharpton? At one time, 25 years ago, Newt truly was a conservative. I lived in his Cobb County district and voted for him. Not again. I have discovered that while I had thought myself to be a Republican, I was really a Conservative. The two are not actually the same anymore. Hopefully the days of our being sheep for the government to fleece is coming to an end.

Newt, The RNC may want you and your big ideas but the conservative base has had enough of you and all the other moderate republicans who have insured defeat for the party. And trust me, we are busy getting rid of all of you and taking back our party.

Lots of looney lefties posting here compared to other sites where they have realized that they cannot defend the racist Marxist regime of Obama.. Newt was good at his time. His CwA WAS partially successful and Clinton signed some of the provisions that were passed by Congress.
"The contract met with mixed results in 1995. The House Republican leadership did indeed put each item to a vote within the first one hundred days. It divided each item into one or more bills, and thirty-one of the resulting thirty-two measures passed— only one, for congressional term limits, failed. The Senate moved much more slowly. In part, this was because the Senate, as a debating body, customarily proceeds more cautiously. Another reason was that the senators, unlike their first-year counterparts in the House, were far less eager to pass sweeping reforms: the Senate killed the proposal for a constitutional amendment on the budget, for example, and simply delayed action on several other bills. President Clinton's promise to veto any far-ranging welfare and budgetary proposals also crimped Republican plans, and by November 1995 this threat had produced a bitter standoff that resulted in the temporary closing of the federal government."
But Newt has lost his way and possibly his mind. Endorsing a far left liberal in NY-23 even though she was a Rep candidate, was stupid. He has some good ideas and should remain in the background as a a consultant.
Meanwhile, Americans are waking up all over the country and fighting the Marxsim and tyranny that is the bloodless Democrat coup. We will take back our country and stop the leftists. It is our only choice for survival..

First, to Steven VK, that's Geez, not geese, although Newt's latest version could be "Goose Dung." Look, I like Newt. I think his heart's in the right place. But how in God's name does he think the American people are gonna a buy this when he and the fellow Republicans of that day totally, and completely fumbled the ball. Simply put, they did not live up to that "Contract with America" the first time. What the heck makes him think that folks are gonna buy the same package, albeit dressed up differently. How about this contract: You know that oath all elected officials take to uphold the values, principles and rights under the US constitution. That's a freagin' contract, and it's also their word. Let's start with honoring that oath of office and everything else will take care of itself. Enough with the gimmicks. Do the damn job.

Newt lost me when he backed the liberal republican vs the conservative republican in NY23. Bye Bye Newt!

By the reaction above it is clear you liberals are nervous. This is a right of center country and your leftists in Congress are pushing us over the edge. The people will speak come Election Day as your independents are fleeing the ship. This is not the "Change" they wanted. They now realize they were sold a large dose of snake oil.

Say what you will but the inevitable is coming.

Newt Scozzafava!

HA HA HA!

Is there any way that these comments can be fwded to the RNC? They might learn that we conservatives don't want RINOS back in. The rinos showed their colors when they supported the person in NY23

Does any one know how to FWD these comments to the RNC?

C'mon ... this is old hat. And I can tell you right now ... No one wants a president named "Newt".

We already have a president with a stupid name and look how that's working out.

Further ... Newt supported the district 23 New York Republican candidate who is a Socialist. Splain' that one Newt!

The parade has moved on from Newt and he hasn't yet noticed. Sad.

Newt Gingrich has some good ideas, but he lost my support some time ago. He's a Republican first, and an conservative second (ahis actions in the NY 23 race proved). He's drunk the Kool Aid on amnesty and global warming.

The Contract with America was a good idea, and the GOP does need a unified theme to run in in the next Congressional elections ("Repeal Obamacare" would do nicely), butopportunists like Gingrich are, sadly, part of the problem these days.

Wonderful idea! Bringing forth a brand-new "Contract" will only remind everyone how little of the OLD "Contract" Republicans took seriously and how much they lied!

Here's to Newt! Couldn't ASK for a better Christmas present than to watch him slam the final nail in the Republican coffin!

Hey Newt, how 'bout terminating the $787B porculus spending? Here's an even better idea: get the federal government OUT of health care and OUT of education. While you're at it, get it OUT of the retirement ponzi scheme too.

Revive the TENTH AMENDMENT and turn these over to the states! Either that or watch our Country first lose its AAA bond rating and eventually go bankrupt with no one to fund the deficit.

Wow, Huffington Post as a reference? REALLY??
Newt is a Greenie and not ever going to get my vote.
p.s. "climate change" is what happens when summer turns to fall, etc..

Newt is a smart man, but he has a tendency to join in on FAR left wing marxist plots from time to time...this is unexcuse-able. Newt your best move is not to run, your too unpredictable and we cant chance that in the next elections. America will NEED a rock solid leader with uncompromising conservative values matching 80% of the countries peoples beliefs...not one that is fickle and opportunist like yourself. By the way, you dems who attempt to fan the flames of discontent in the republican party by trying to push liberals who have infiltrated the party...it isnt going to work..we know scum when we see it, and conservatism NEVER compromises on LIFE, LIBERTY, or the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS. Liberalism seeks to enslave citizens to the Government, destroying prosperity all the expense of GOD GIVEN LIBERTY than no man can steal as hard as leftists/liberals try...Your phony baloney tyrants..that if you do get this country and enslave us, you sign your own death warrants, as we PATRIOTS will not rest, and there will be no where for you to hide. Gimme LIBERTY or GIVE ME DEATH!

All you "Know-It-All" posters who enjoy criticizing Gingrich would get demolished in a face to face debate with Newt. He has more intelligence in his little finger than you all have in your entire bodies. Most of you are Obama socialists who are scared to death that Newt could have a big impact in the coming elections.

All you "Know-It-All" posters who enjoy criticizing Gingrich would get demolished in a face to face debate with Newt. He has more intelligence in his little finger than you all have in your entire bodies. Most of you are Obama socialists who are scared to death that Newt could have a big impact in the coming elections.

Regardless of whether the GOP finally comes around and finds its CONSERVATIVE roots or a 3rd party (Conservative Party, if you will), labels and party names really matter little. Steele may well have been my choice as a write-in before he took the helm of the RNC as "fundraiser in chief". At that moment, I realized that his "conservative stance was simply a political ploy to gain that position.

Take Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, and Sarah Palin, throw them in a blender, and that's about as close to Reagan as we can realistically hope to achieve after so much damage has been done by BOTH major parties.

BOTTOM LINE: Candidates' party affiliations do NOT matter. Only the candidate him/herself does. I'll take a "Blue Dog Dem" over a "Pink Pub" like Specter, Scozzafava, Snowe, etc. (I'm still flabbergasted that Specter has never been brought up on charges of Fraud, but heralding from CA I guess I'm used to it).

I think most Americans believe that the government is too big, too powerful, too involved and meddling in everything (and screwing it up instead of helping - like causing the housing bubble), takes too much of our money, and is absolutely out of control when it comes to spending money. If the Republican Party focuses on those issues, instead of being the party of big government that's against abortion and gay marriage (as opposed to the Democratic Party that's for big government and FOR abortion and gay marriage - which is the only difference between the two parties), they have a real shot at winning.

Just draws attention to the fact they didn't accomplish half the things on the first contract.

Sorry, Newt, but as a lifelong Republican, I'm fed up to here with all the good ol' boys in the party, you being one of them. You talk the talk, but don't walk the walk, so please step aside for some new folks we can trust to really represent us.

ANYONE who is for smaller government will get the vote. All you Gingrich haters - eat nuts! Your man - Obama, Ried, Palosi have extended the amount of debt this government can create and growing the government beyond ANYONE's ability to repay. The programs they have created in his first year of office will by taken down - either now or when collectors come calling for their 12 trillion dollars back. You better hope the US Dollars in your pocket and bank accounts can still buy a loaf a bread in 2 years. Don't believe me - ask Russians in the late 80's, Mexican's in the 90's, or any other country whose currency becomes 3rd/4th rate. Too much debt, too many promises, too many government controlled enterprises and ZERO FAITH in leadership = $100 loaf of bread. Pretend Obama is a republican and find all the reason you hate what he is doing. Stop drinking the damn coolaid. You have NO IMAGINATION even though you proclaim to be all knowing. Bush was wrong in not letting AIG, et al fail. He should have crashed the whole markets. Obama is worse by continuing in the false premise that these companies, the people running the companies, are worthy to be saved. You wanna save something? Use those billions of dollars to convict the bastards who started that mess. New companies will jump into their business arena once they are gone. STOP APPLYING GOVERNMENT MANDATES - stop calling these Man Dates. That's freakin rediculous in itself.

Nothing 'abstract' about -
1. No amnesty for illegals, close the border, send the the anchor babies back with them, reduce immigration BACK to levels like almost every other country. Improves jobs, culture, education, crime

2. Eliminate DOUBLE taxation on dividends, index capital gains and cut CG tax rate to 15% - Improves jobs via long term investment

3. Eliminate the dept of education - total WASTE of fed tax dollars. Educational 'diversity' means letting the states take charge of their OWN education programs. Monolithic federal interference STIFLES education. (Just remember, Ted's dead, bury failed federal education and $1T+ health 'reform' along with him.)

4. Put AGW on TRIAL - let the public hear the truth that there is ZERO proof, (and zero correllation as well), of any measurable impact from CO2 but reams of contrary data showing that the models were WRONG!! Ask Spain how many jobs they got for 'going green', (all a socialist scam).

5. Open oil and gas fields that idiot enviro-jihadists have set off limits. We have more fossil fuel reserves here than any other place in the world. Cheap energy means JOBS. (Biden's 3 letter word!)

5. Nail government health care reform to a wall out back and shoot it DEAD; it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Take away anti-trust exclusion from insurance companies.

6. Pass 'Right to Work' - Unions should NOT get anymore special treatment. Competitive industry = JOBS.

The hate-mongers of the democrats sure know how to over-post the typical g-dem' hate bile. All of you g-demnds are just like flies on...(well, you know) This posting blitz must be full-time jobs for you haters ! Jeez! Can anyone say, "broken record?" It won't matter - the g-dems will have destroyed enough of the USA economy with all the taxation and out-of-control spending that they'll have a majority of Americans dependent upon government in some capacity - and isn't that the goal of g-dems anyway ? - Cradle to grave control of the population? Big-Brother is here and he wants to put a probe in YOU!

The GOP wants term limits not because they have lower representation, but for a much more practical reason.

Maybe its just me, but have you ever opened your eyes and realized that there is a bipartisan effort to keep the "career politicians" alive and strong?

Why do we have porkbarrel spending? Why do we have useless legislation? Why are we called a free nation, but have more laws and restrictions than most average democratic nations? It is because our politician's actions, words and beliefs are all manipulated and molded around one central idea, what can get them more votes for re-election? Not what can I do to pogress and help my country.

Its curious how many comment on the previous failure with the contract with America, however it worked, and even led to a heated Congressional v. Executive showdown, so to say it was inaffective, or didnt work, is clear you have either a strong bias, or a minor retardation. This is typical however for liberals who are ignorant of many things within our country and political system.

Question, that is rather important to all political action as well as maintaining a free society and civil liberties; If I were to offer you a piece of paper, or a piece of gold, which one would you choose as more valuable?

After failing to keep the 1st contract, I gotta ask why anyone would believe they would keep a second...

WOW.. just take a look at all the libs posting away on this.

By
the looks of these posting I would have to say you guys are worried.

Let's face it, Obama numbers are down and Americans are not real happy with what the dem-o-crats have done so far.
But please post away... I'm enjoying the laughs.

to the poster who keeps asking how to forward this page to the RNC: Are you serious? I hope you're not one of the new conservatives. Copy the URL in the window at the top ofyour page and paste it into an e-mail to the RNC.

The Contract with America2 is a great idea. In the 1990's President Clinton enacted several points from the first Contract with America (major credit to him!) that served the country well. Holding our government officials to solid 'bedrock' American principles, the constitution, the bill of rights, etc. makes for a strong, dignified America. Never waiver...

PS: Whomever wrote this article is borderline illiterate! Welcome to America's sub-par/unionized education system... Out with the Unions!!!

I don't want any more hep from the guy who supports "card check". Newt is a big fish out of water just flopping around on the shore, gasping for air. Go away and don't come back.

Uhh.... Newt. There's still a NEA, so why should I belive you and your "Contract" this time??? You blew it in '94. I've got a lot of concern about your judgement in regards to you supporting Skazzafuza (whatever her name was) in NY disctrict 23. SHE BACKED THE DEMOCRAT AFTER PULLING OUT 48 HOURS BEFORE THE ELECTION. I think you've lost your touch.

Goodbye Newt! Just shutup and retire! We're not interested in your politics of compromise. Character matters!

Newt needs to be put in charge.

Individual freedom and the constitution is what this country is based on. The government policies of today are not even allowing people to find jobs because the government is stuck in the middle of everything.

That is not freedom and not it is certainly not going to help the land of the free. The bail out and the stimulus are huge disasters. Health care policy is highly questionable in its current format.

Newt, read the comments, then GO AWAY. No more rinos.

Yeah, Dustoff.

We're shaking in our shoes. Shivering in our stockings.

Don't throw us into the briar patch with Newt.

Newt. The Horror! The Horror!

As Joseph Conrad might say.

Finally, a ray of hope for conservatives and other Americans who are up to here with this administrations's spendthrift strategies and government involvement into our private lives! Go for it, Newt!

Go away Newt. You are finished with the Conservative wing of the dying Republican party. As a former Reagan Democratic, turned Republican in 1990 and now leaving Republican Party because of Newt and other Rino's, I say Go Sarah

Read the Constitution Lib!

Your socialist positions are destroying the fabric of this nation.

Speaking of backwards: marxism, socialism, etc. has been tried and failed or found inferior to a representative republic every damn time it has been tried in the history of mankind!

You are relying on principles that sound good in books but never work out in reality. I bet you think Charlie really did go to Willy Wonka's special Chocolate Factory too!

Give me a break. The Constitution, free market and capitalism are time tested!

P.S. 40% of Americans identify themselves as conservatives; whereas only 20% identify as liberals. Chew on that.
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Here we go again with the GOP looking backwards.

It's no surprise that the GOPer's want term limits now days.

Only 20% Identify As Republicans, Lowest Since 1983
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/fewer-people-identify-as_n_326971.html

newt is poopy!!!!!!

Maybe if Newt is visited by the ghost of Reagan and the ghosts of conservatism, past, present, and future he'll have an epiphany. Barring that I say we ignore him the way he ignored Hoffman. We don't need another Contract ON America.

I don't care what they SAY, it's what they DO that counts. It doesn't matter to me if you are republican or democrat. Some one in DC JUST TELL THE TRUTH for a change.

Newt..you are irrelevant to We The People. You backed the wrong horse in Pennsylvania. You and your kind had their chance and re4presented big govt lite. We dont want you or anyone in office now. We want a doove4r with people who already understand their contract with america...and that is to uphold the oath to defend the constitution. How many unconstitutional laws has your ilk passed? How much bigger and oppressive have your kind made the govt. Go away.. We have had it with all of you. You represent more of the same. We want small government , repeal of all federal unconstitutional laws, states rights, and to be left in peace. GO AWAY!

Newt..you are irrelevant to We The People. You backed the wrong horse in Pennsylvania. You and your kind had their chance and re4presented big govt lite. We dont want you or anyone in office now. We want a doove4r with people who already understand their contract with america...and that is to uphold the oath to defend the constitution. How many unconstitutional laws has your ilk passed? How much bigger and oppressive have your kind made the govt. Go away.. We have had it with all of you. You represent more of the same. We want small government , repeal of all federal unconstitutional laws, states rights, and to be left in peace. GO AWAY!

I'll take a Huckabee/Jindal ticket, then put Ron Paul as Treasury Secretary (or let him chair the House Finance & Banking Committee that he sits on--instead of Barney Frank), Newt as Education Secretary and Palin to the Senate to get seasoning or have her replace Steele as head of the RNC. Lieberman should either be Defense Secretary or an "ethics czar". Along with Obama, Reid, Dodd and Boxer losing reelection, Rahm and Alexrod back in Chi Town, Pelosi replaced as Speaker, Murtha and Jefferson and Rangel in jail, that would truly be "change America can believe in."

They should have a contract, starting with Constitutional amendments for term limits, a Federal balance budget amendment, eliminating campaign contributions from businesses, corporations, industries and unions, replace the entire tax code (five times larger than the Bible, filled with tens of thousands of pages of special interest breaks) with a national VAT consumption tax, eliminate capital gains taxes altogether and eliminate all government bailouts or backstopping of private business, not to mention more regulation of the banking and finance industries (like the $500 TRILLION derivatives Ponzi scheme) and returning the U.S. dollar to the Gold Standard and off the fiat.

No. No. No..

Im sorry Newt. The GOP will not get my financial support until it wakes up and realizes that the party needs to open the big tent to real conservatives. I find it disgusting that he holds party so dear that he would support a blazing RINO in NY23 only to have it thrown back into his face. The lady bowed out and supported the democrat, that won.

Principle matters. Conservatism in the GOP matters.

Being a RINO does not matter.

That principled promises is all we get from RINO.

I am from GA and Newt's old district so I know he is a RINO. I knew before the NY-23 crap hit the fan.

Moveon.newt

http://www.dixhistory.com/

Mr. former Speaker, it is informational to know that you have talked with Michael Steele about a Contract with America or basic principles part 2. You have also talked in past weeks with the party officials of New York District 23 regarding their choice of Scozzafava as the republican nominee for that position, the candidate which you endorsed. In your endorsement of her you spoke to your commitment to following the local party leadership in endorsements. Your were wrong then and now. You continue to miss an important if not critical principle, still lacking in your approach to formulating strategy, the average American.

Mr. Gingrich you need to be talking and spending your time with common ordinary Americans, Those who work, when they have jobs, and make this country, its towns and businesses the envy of the world. It's nice that you have debated Howard Dean on the road concerning HealthCare reform, met Al Sharpton at a Baltimore school, Although, those experiences might be helpful in several ways to you, there is absolutely no substitute for anyone (you included) speaking and listening to the American people.

Contract with America or any commitment to a paper plan is past history, frankly it did not work that well. Travel the nation, talk to average people, and perhaps you will discover out of the box ideas to create jobs and point this sick economy back to health. I continue to propose a jobs restoration program, a claw back of those employment opportunities that have been sent overseas because of unfair trade agreements. In your recent trip to China, what did you accomplish with the Chinese government relative to job restoration for aging and dying American cities?

True job restoration can be built by rewarding those corporations who bring jobs back to U.S. workers with exemptions from paying federal and state company taxes--exempt them, China does. Frankly Mr. former Speaker, my service would be to the true employers of government officials--the American people, not lobbyists, party officials, media celebrities, even beltway hacks--I would serve only my fellow citizens. We must have a level playing field with foreign countries!

To truly serve Americans you must talk, listen, and get to know them. A second contract with America is epilogue not prologue, we need action and millions of jobs now, not paper. Although, I would welcome your ideas, frankly to solve this jobs problem I am more interested in the thoughts of average working Americans.

Newt has had some great ideas as to how to fix this country, but the last 6 months he has been all for returning power to the republicans....at any cost of values. He is all about political power. Democrats were in charge of congress for what, 40 years or so, before the 1994 Republican takeover? Republicans became the party of good intentions and were infiltrated with RINOS over the next several years. The influx of rinos( democrats pretending to be conservatives) into the republican party has brought us to where we are at now. Democrats voted right along with every spending bill the republicans put up while they were in control.

The revolution in this country is going to take place at the voting booth. I think all elections should be non partisan and the candidates should have to stand on principle instead of D,R, or I. The lines are so blurred.

It saddens me as an election official to hear people coming in to vote that say " I just heard on the radio that we have to vote D or R today. I didn't know there was an election today"

Stay informed..educate.. get people involved

actually conservatives in america is around 46%

and liberal only around 25

so go look at your facts again

I'd rather have a politcian commit to a contract than have a guy who claims to be a unifier..when elected becomes a full fledged socialist hell bent on spending us into oblivion.

Newt has it right again. The first Contract was a brilliant summation of core conservative ideas that are overwhelmingly popular with the American mainstream. A restatement of those ideas will show inattentive citizens that they are, in principle, conservatives as well.

The American people believe in:
* limited government
* moderate taxation
* local vs. national government power
* individual responsibility as opposed to government regulation
* American sources of energy - including atomic power

Perhaps the Republicans should change their name to the Constitution party to distinguish them still further from the anti-constitutionalists - the Statist Democrats.

You libs laughing about Newt's comments must be in a state of denial, unless you think Barry and the Dem-controlled Congress are doing such a wonderful job. We have 10 percent unemployment and the Dems want to push policies that cost even more jobs and B.O. Plenty hasn't kept one campaign promise he made...but hey, he's still campaigning, so who knows?

He gets his info from the Huffington Post, that a well informed libtard...

Why does anyone listen to Big Government Republicans like Newt Gingrich? Didn't this guy resign for cheating on his wife 10 years ago?

We're done believing Republican lies, Newt. We saw what Bush and the GOP did for the last 8 years.

Get out of the way newt. Let new blood take over - like Sarah.

Backwards indeed, to the good ole days when we were respected and feared which in turn protected us ALL. This president makes Jimmy Carter look like General Patton

Currently 40% of Americans surveyed describe their political views as Conservative, 35% as Moderate, and 21% as Liberal.

If my math is correct it looks bleek for the Dems in 2010

I like the odds for the Contract for America 2

I'm a conservative Republican, but I have to admit, I can't stand Newt. I have always referred to him as a "political whore". He just seems to show up and appear wherever there is something that might make him look good. His opinions/moods change as often as the wind changes direction! He did that ridiculous "global warming" commercial with that nutty woman (Pelosi), and gosh, the list goes on and on. "Contract With America Round 2" is a flop before it even gets out of the gate. Newt---GO HOME and stop bugging us!!

To me, this entire set of posts is begging, pleading, bleeding for a new political party with Americans for Americans first and foremost. The only thing I would want to be first on the list of items to accomplish, actually to share first place on the list, is jobs & ridding my country of those who want to make my country come under Islamic rule. Those who denounce my country & preach death & hate to my country, inside my country need to be kicked out, no ifs ands or buts, just leave, you have lost your rights and worn out your welcome.

hey Steven VK: idiot.

Why is it that really disgraced former Democrat "leaders" like Bill Fking Clinton never go away? Geez!

The "Contract For America" crap as you call it was a huge SUCCESS, liar.

Gingrich did not fail, he beat the crap out of the Dumbs, period.

Try being historically honest, you maggot.

Back to the drawing board, Steven.

When you can admit TRUTH then come back and play with the adults.

This country is not, and never has been, conservative, or liberal. Americans by and large have always been moderates with a dose of each philosophy as their value system. Both screaming libs and wingnuts will forever miss this point. McDonnell won in VA by disguising his rampant conservatism and it will be his undoing. The beloved Reagan was a phony conservative who talked rightwing and governed to the center. Obama is doing the same with the left. It's all just a game folks!

I'm skeptical since Republicans failed to live up to the first Contract With America. Of course we need these ideas (they are more in line with freedom, less government intervention, and the founding principles of this country) but I'm afraid this will be a disingenuous move made in the name of power grabbing, not a a genuine love of freedom and capitalism.

We need term limits and a third party for moderates. Ideological differences have caused both major parties to get too extreme.

If the GOP doesn't accept moderates, we definitely need a third party for moderates. and a mandatory 12 year cap for members of Congress.

Has he figured out how to balance his own checkbook?

This country is not, and never has been, conservative, or liberal. Americans by and large have always been moderates with a dose of each philosophy as their value system. Both screaming libs and wingnuts will forever miss this point. McDonnell won in VA by disguising his rampant conservatism and it will be his undoing. The beloved Reagan was a phony conservative who talked rightwing and governed to the center. Obama is doing the same with the left. It's all just a game folks!

I'm a Conservative, but I no longer trust Newt. He's been buddy-buddy with the likes of Hillary and Teddy, making bad deals with them.

Stop the liberal crybaby posts. Do not tell conservatives what to do!
The Contract With America worked well and can again...which is why the secular socialists (aka democrats) cry about it...
If its so bad, why not let us do it?
(not your business)
Liberals, being congenital smear merchants...always have to re-name things they don't like to distract from the fact they cannot defend secular socialism...
Obama and the kooks are going down...with your 401k...mark it, suckas.

The Grinch is back.

Just in time for Christmas.

Silva,

Congrats on making the Drudge Report. Why else would you have so many post to your article.

Are we really going to listen to the Bohemian Grover who is working behind the scenes to scorch and burn conservatives especially Sarah Palin.

Newt the Scumbag needs to shag his ass back to the couch with his racist, extortion racket friends.

He ripped off Americans with his marketing gimmick known as "The Contract With America" that raised spending 13% on the programs it was suposed to cut or eliminate.

All Americans, regardless of party, need to speak out about the fraud known as Newt. They need to remember that he, along with Geroge Bush, gave us Obama and the mess we are in now.

As a former ardent Newt advocate, I became disillusioned in his second campaign in Cobb County Georgia where he and his lovely wife lived.

It really was true that Newt wanted a “low maintenance” district, one that would not take too much time away from his Washington pursuits. Well it all came tumbling down for Newt when it was discovered that he was two-timing his wife; he couldn’t say too much about Clinton’s immoralities with a young girl. So he resigned. He couldn’t stand the heat.

He let others including Sean Hannity classify him as a “family values” man. He lied to his wife, to me and thousands of others; I could never trust him in a responsible leadership position again. Some say he is very smart, I say he belongs where he is – with his inside the Beltway buddies in Washington.

Ernest Norsworthy
emnorsworthy@earthlink.net

P.S.

It is the “We” part of the Constitution we need to take back; we already have that as our contract. Also, join me in trying to reduce government, namely, by abolishing the federal Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA is, I believe, an illegal appendage to our Constitution.
EN

Forget a new Contract, Republicans should run on the platform of destroying American jobs and the Middle Class by wholehearted and continued support for shipping all the jobs overseas to China and India. It's worked SO WELL for us so far, let's keep it up as a platform. And the second plank of the GOP platform: Obama is a Muslim and was born in Kenya. (It worked in 2008. Right? ... Right?)

What is scary is that many people, as reflected in the comments above, do not see the common sense of what Newt says. The key question in all issues is "Who decides?" Should decisions be made by millions of individuals or by thousands of politicians, starting with 536 in the federal government (President & Congress). Who should decide where to live or work or go to school or who to marry - the individual or 100 people from the neighborhood or some polity in a democratic majority vote? Common sense says the individual. Liberty and democracy are not the same thing.

What is scary is that many people, as reflected in the comments above, do not see the common sense of what Newt says. The key question in all issues is "Who decides?" Should decisions be made by millions of individuals or by thousands of politicians, starting with 536 in the federal government (President & Congress). Who should decide where to live or work or go to school or who to marry - the individual or 100 people from the neighborhood or some polity in a democratic majority vote? Common sense says the individual. Liberty and democracy are not the same thing.

We will take Newt over Dumbo Ears in '12

Policy that matters is controlled by wall st banks and billionaires. The rest is theatre designed to divert your attention.

does anyone care about the consitution anymore? it basically IS America. the demmos don't. they think your life is better controlled by people in washington. I don't really want anyone else controlling my life.
republic= rule of law
democracy= rule of men
the people have chosen unfortunately for a man.
now you just have to decide where to go or what gun to buy. you gave away your freedom and brought shame upon yourself.

We are dead in 2012 if we let Newt run the tent. He is a part of the problem, not the solution.

You dimwits who say the Republican party has no ideas, simply arent listening. You think MSLSD is going to even acknowledge any conservative ideas? They simply ignore it, therefore you think there are no conservative ideas.. You guys who hate fox dont know it, but you are only hearing the soviet style presses version of everything. Pravda. Your goverment owned media is lying to you. And you think "Sweet... free health care! free education! free houses!"

You'll get what you vote for and wonder "what happened to my freedoms?" But come to think of it, Most of you arent free anyway, your all addicted to crack.

GINGRICH is, and has long been the most impressive political thinker in America. He'd make a fine President but I doubt that he could win given the probability of massive attacks from the radical left.

NEUTER NEWT!
Same old crap...How can we miss him if he won't go AWAY!!!

i have been waiting for this - conservatives (whether dem, repubs or independents) need to rally around a set of ideas that will take our country back from those who want to destroy what america is about and the freedoms that we have fought and died for. let's get going with our agenda and get rid of every elected official who doesn't put people first - not their own re-election!!!

You can see the liberal socialists in these comments going right off the deep end... radical comments... extreme comments, launched at Newt... and that is for one reason... They FEAR a new contract with America. It was groundbreaking new politics, and it swept America, putting conservatives in charge for the first time half a century. They protected us from Hillary Care for all those years, they took the endless rise in debt created by the Congresses where they did NOT have control, and for the first time since Republicans were in control, spending was in control, resulting in a budget that was sane and in step with revenues. They finally brought welfare reform.

Their reforms started with a 100 day goal:

- all laws that aply to the rest of the country apply to Congress
- independent auditing firm to audit Congress for waste, fraud, and abuse.
- Shrink the # of house committees, and staffs by 1/3rd
- limit committee chaiman terms
- ban proxy votes in committee
- require committees meetings be open to the public
- 3/5ths majority to pass tax increase
- Federal Budget to use honest zero-baseline budgeting.

That socialist liberals are scared of such common sense changes, makes my heart sing...

The Contract, so hated by radical leftists, got government in line, if only for awhile.

As long as people wave one flag or another and cheer for one party or another as if it matters, we are screwed. All I hope for anymore is for one party to keep the other from gaining too much influence. Both parties are robbing us blind and selling us down the river with irresponsible economic policy and a "no tomorrow" attitude. The Democrats are just more honest about the fact that they are thieves. Figure out how not to lose our senators and reps to lobbyists as soon as they get to D.C., and eliminate withholding and we might have a chance.

The "idea" is a sound one for the republicans, but I think they or newt have it wrong.
1. National Debt
2. Term Limits for all
3. An amendment to the constitution that states congress shall make no law it does not impose on itself, so things like HEALTHCARE BILL ... if good enuf for me, it damn sure good enuf for them!
4. Pass legislation that fixes the gerrymandering and just assign counties for legislators.
5. Make law that a bill is to be presented by itself, not encompassing a bunch of bills into one. Latest example is Defense Bill with the Hate Crimes bill attached. And, no PORK ATTACHMENTS from special interests.
6. Mandatory balanced budget set at 10% of GDP or something.
7. FLAT or FAIR TAX! 10% for all income period! No exceptions, everyone equal.

Americans won't be able to have a contract with the GOP unless the contract has new ideas from people who haven't already proven to be hypocrytes. We don't want to hear about tax cuts or tort reforms. Been there done that. You must give us new ideas for our economy energy. Forget about healthcare. It will allready be passed by then you will have lost tour oportunity to address that issue. Next time we do send y'all to power remember to fulfill your contract so there will be no need for another contract with the sane recurring issues.

I think most of the commenters here have no idea how many of the provisions of the Contract With America actually made it to the floor and got voted on (and vetoed by Billy). Nor do they have any idea what happened when the freshman Republicans of 1994 voluntarily withdrew from seeking further terms, only to be waited out by the career big spenders. Term limits have to apply to everyone, because as a voluntary item they have no effect.

GO Newt!!
Thank you for attacking the REAL issues. Those people that get so hung up on abortion are at the extremes (right and left). Stay focused on the right things, win the Independents = win the election and continue to work for the country's best interests. Good Luck Newt!!

While I recognize as a true Conservative that Newt is a Rhino . . . .

Better the next Congress is made up of them then those will rubber-stamp the 'president's' plans into action as this current Congress has.

We can deal with Rhino's in 2012. But we MUST stop this socialist and traitor and his cadres in the House and Senate NOW. We cannot wait for three more years.

obama SHOULD be impeached now as a traitor to the US people. Knowing that that will never happen, I would take RHINOs who will say no to some of the damage he can do before 2012, even if not REAL Conservatives.

And to the Libs now endorsing this monkey: You must not consider the future of your kids or grandkids. This 'man' is damning us all to debt and subservience to all the lesser nations of the world. A FAR cry from the oath he took - TWICE - after he screwed it up the first time!

How about a conservative contract with the members of your own party? The republican party left me and if they don't wake up they are about to get their asses waxed yet again. NO MORE RINO's!!! Newt don't get it, Steele don't get it, us conservatives do though. There is about to be a real revolution in this country. The silent majority is about to make itself heard.

As a conservative I stood and apllauded his "Contract with America" Round #1. The main thing I agreed with was Term Limitations. Whether we got a Democrat, a Republican or a 3rd Party Member in it didn't matter just as long as the same person wasn't in the same seat year afte year.
But, as soon as he got his head in the trough we found he wasn't any different from the rest. He soon left his "Silly little idea" of a just and honest congress behind and went on the fill his pockets and eat more from the trough WE THE POEPLE paid for, disgusting.
We need Term Limitations. If you look at all the politicians that have caused us, U.S., the most expense and biggest problems they have ALL then in congress for more then two terms, Where is the "Change" we were promised? Is it the change we have left after the Gov't steals what WE have worked for to give to those that helped these criminals get elected?
Gingrich needs to go away and the GOP needs better leadership and begins with top man Steele. I am tired of supporting LOSERS.

As a former Democrat, I changed my voting strategy after Clinton and party affiliation after 9-11. As of now, I am leaning independent because I feel that both major parties have sold out the American people for their own power and corruption. We need a contract with America and it is called morality and ethics and it begins in the family and continues through school at all levels. Our children are learning tolerance and and political correctness and they are blinded by relativity. Power and greed and ego are the fuel inside the Beltway and it must be stopped by Americans who want a better nation.

I would hope Newt had the sense to sense that he is no longer wanted as the lead spokesperson for the Conservative Movement.

THE 1ST CONTRACT WITH AMERICA ENABLED SLICK WILLIE TO HAVE A SECOND TERM - HE GOT ALL THE CREDIT FOR THE CHANGES ENACTED BY HAVING 9 OF THE 10 CONTRACT WITH AMERICA IDEAS BEING IMPLEMENTED - THE BIGGEST ONE IS MANDATING A BALANCED BUDGET - THE DUMBOCRATS ARE QUICK TO POINT THIS OUT WITHOUT EVER MENTIOING THAT IT WAS THE LAW

THE BEST THING THE REPUBLICANS CAN DO IS ALLOW THE DUMBOCRATS TO KEEP POWER FOR 7 MORE YEARS - RUN THE PARTY INTO THE GROUND WITH THE LIKES OF PELOSI, REID AND HAOOY BARNEY

WE COULD THEN HAVE REPUBLICAN RULE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION - BY THEN I WILL BE DEAD AND IT WON'T REALLY MATTER

PAWLENTY 2016 & 2020

Newt has left the conservative movement to earn a paycheck, collobarating with the likes of Hillary and Pelosi. Anyone that agrees with global warming being a man made problem is just an appeaser. go away Newt, make way for Sarah.

Newt already anticipatorily breached the contract by supporting a RINO in NY, helping to secure the defeat of the true Conservative candidate.

Is anyone aware of the disdain the conservatives have for the republican party? 40% of the country consider themselves conservative. Both parties are inept, corrupt and do not represent the interests of We the People. Newt is a very good college professor..Period. But personal attacks make a fool of the author, not the subject matter.

Could someone please remind Newt that it takes two to contract. His unilaterial pap does not serve as a meeting of the minds.

Please go away Newt, you're a disgrace to conservatism, a wishy-washy weakling.

The Republican party needs to spew lukewarm opportunists like Gingrich and embrace common-sense principles, work *really hard* for smaller government, and show some vision once again. In short, this country is crying out for some true leadership.

Newt's "vision" is laughable. When he makes comments to the effect of "he wants both Cheney *and* Powell in the party" (I think it was Newt who made such a comment; this was in response to Cheney stating that he couldn't imagine anyone thinking Powell is still a Republican -- an accurate assessment), when Gingrich says garbage like that, I turn away. Not that I am a fan of Cheney (or Bush for that matter), but weaselly traitorous racially motivated snakes-in-the-grass like Colin Powell are insufferable.

Also, wasn't it Gingrich who made some comments about "moving beyond" Reaganism so we could have some sort of metaphorical "big tent" inclusive of every brand of liberal self-serving elitist hack who would join the Republican party? Nuts to that, Newt.

Yeah, it's time for Gingrich to do some moving along. Nothing to see or hear from this clown.

Stephen VK and Former Republican couldn't be more wrong. If you want to talk about "Facts", how about the fact that liberals constantly cite Clinton's accomplishments which were actually "Contract with America" mandadtes that he merely signed off on. Clinton was a puppet to the conservative legislature from 92 on, and that's a fact, Jack.

How'd that first contract work out for us? Hahaha, these hacks have no clue how to manage a country they just know how to bleed funnel our money to their cabal.

And to the extremists who think this is a right of center country...you keep telling yourself that lie, lol. Just because all the rightwing nuts watch fox news and nothing else doesn't mean you own the country.

One poster talks about "unplanned pregnancy" as if it were a disease. An "unplanned pregnancy" is a baby that has brain function and a heartbeat after just 6-8 weeks. Ultrasound has documented babies trying to escape the abortionists weapons of death. If we are going to murder babies then why not old people or the disabled? If the GOP covers abortion on the RNC health plan that is wrong.

former Republican, using the Huffington Post to back your claims only muddles them further.

we dont need republicans or dems. they both cheat and steal as much as they can get away with and then some. we need conservatives. since niether party has ANY, vote for me for pres in 2012. my slogan, " i cant do any worse"

How about this for first principles, Newt? Don't back liberal radicals running for office, even if they have an "R" next to their name! Ahem... Schizofrena...

Newt, you lost a lot of respect from me by endorsing that clown in upstate NY. I can't trust you anymore. Your just another RHINO !!

Keep watching NY-23. A RINO Republican got displaced by a "third party" Conservative.... and he nearly won! Would probably have if RINO wasn't still on the ballot. However he conceded on erroneous information (the media under-reported his votes... go figure). The final tallies aren't in yet, and the absentee ballots have yet to be counted and are expected to break for Hoffman. So NY-23 gets closer and closer every day, and Hoffman may win it yet. Though I'm sure the left-wingers will call it a "stolen" election, because we dared actually COUNT the votes.

The only contract I want from Newt is for him to contract into a singularity, and vanish with a little pop! Old white guy Republicans (and I am one) have had their chance and dropped the ball. Follow Palin or get out of the way - we don't want your DC-Beltway-club leadership any more.

"Bait and Switch 2" -- lovely.

Newt Gingrich would do the Republicans a favor if he'd just go away. The war-mongering, neo-con, "pretend" conservatives have dug the hole deep enough. It's time to pack it in and let the real conservatives take over.

We don't need a Newt around anymore,,,specially when he
sides with Global Warming tax hikes, and he endorses a liberal republican that lost and she endorsed a dem....
Join the dems, newt... we don't want or need u.

Great!

More lib traitors; thieves; bums;cowards; tax and spenders; socialist S.O.B.s OUT THE DOOR in 2010!

As Obama tanks at the polls - AMERICA awakens.

Then in 2012 ... the PEANUT fARMER, JR out the door in a landslide too!

Newt just does not get it. Many of us are done with him and all the rest of the old party hacks. If he thinks I am falling for his B.S. twice, he's friggin dreaming. His behavior in his personal life alone are more than enough for me to consider him a untrustworthy scumbag.

how funny that the "legacy" of obama's ineptitude will be that we all get screwed again by another republican "contract with america"

re-elect NO ONE!

There is one thing I agree with From the socialist left and that is Newt is not welcome back. In my eyes he is not conservative enough. Oh, I also agree that Bush and the Republican congress did us no favors outside of fighting terrorists.I can't and wont defend any of them.

PLEASE WILL SOMEONE ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE PLEASE SHUT UP THE TOWN IDIOT!!

ROMNEY 2012!!

NEWT YOU CAN NOT WIN THE PRESIDINTCY BEING A CENTRIST
LOOK HOW NOBAMA IS FAILING
NO HOPE ,NO CHANGE
NO DOLLAR, + SOCIALISTIC VIEWS = INFLATION + NOBAMA IS MAKING JIMMY CARTEROOK LIKE A SMART PERSON

A contract with America? We don't need some kind of contract. We need lower taxes. The way to get that is to vote the Democrat bums out of Congress in 2010 and vote the idiot in the Whitehouse out in 2012. Vote the marxists out of office and save your country.

Oops. The comment I posted last night referenced 235 members of Congress instead of 435. I guess I was thinking the less the better. I like my comment otherwise and would appreciate it if your people could correct the typo and post my comment. Thanks!

What we need is a conservative candidate who will run on the following:
1. Put the army on the border to stop ALL illegal immigration.
2. Change the Constitution to say that to be a citizen you MUST be born in the USA and have at least one parent who is a citizen.
3. To vote you must speak and understand English. English only ballots.
4. Make English the official language in the USA.
5. Allow health insurance to be sold across state lines.
6. Send ALL non-citizen prisoners to Arizona and let Sheriff Joe take care of them.
7. This is what I would do if I was King - Only tax payers would be allowed to vote.

Did you say Geese? and did you say Librul?

I can't read anymore.. you're all idiots!

Newt? I wouldn't vote for that ahole if you gave me a millon dollars.

Go home Newt and leave us all alone with your insane ideas.

Newt has got another Contract on America?

Nope, not gonna happen.

Think you like Newt?
Surely then you have read Alvin Toffler's book, 'The Third Wave'. Newt handed out hundreds of copies of the book when he was a member of Congress. Newt gave speeches urging America to follow the book's directives.
And what's the book about? Why, the '3rd wave' - sort of how bright it would be to mix all the good points of 'capitalism' with all the good points of 'communism' and come up with a new brew - sort of a fascist drink where the State together with Big Business gets the really smart people to run both and run the people ragged as they run from job to job hoping to draw a paycheck so they can send taxes to Washington so those really smart people in Washington can continue to tell the sheep where to jump and how high to jump.
Incidentally, Newt gained lots of converts. The 'Third Wave' is essentially the path America is on today, guided by Obama our friends in Congress. So we really don't need Newt to be president. He's already screwed us over.
Don't believe me? Read the book.

In my opionion, Gingrich if not a RINO he is real close to being one.

I take my marching orders from RUSH, not from a "Has been, want to be"

NO RINO's

Why are so many left-wing postings referring to term limits? The article doesn't even mention that phrase.

Anyway, the posters here seem bent on engaging in sarcasm and ridicule. For the most part, they don't make any reasoned arguments regarding the article.

This infantile mentality is hard to respect. It's certainly not persuasive. In fact, it's just the opposite. It creates resistance to whatever purpose is intended by such posts.

Come on left-wingers, say something to convince me to agree with your views instead of trying to turn me off with bully boy verbiage.

Posted by: socraticus | November 16, 2009 7:05 AM

Republicans have become way too radically liberal for my liking... and Democrats have become anti-American socialists who are not even living in reality on this planet... So, there is nobody out there to represent the normal, hard working, constitution-loving, practical, even-minded, middle of the road folks that go to church, own guns, want small government, and want the forces of evil in Washington to shrivel up and go away and leave us to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

As a conservative, I have two words for Newt: Dede Scozzafava. Give it up Newt. You're playing games just like the Democrats you accuse. Just stop while you're ahead. Real conservatives see through your crap and your politics. You're a party man, not a real conservative. Go back home, now.

shouldnt we all read the writings of Newts previous wife
Marianne Gingrich? After all it cost her the jon of the "librarian of congress"
oh yeah! google it

I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice. I don't force anyone to trade with me; I only trade for mutual benefit. Force is the great evil that has no place in a rational world. One may never force another human to act against his/her judgment. If you deny a man's right to Reason, you must also deny your right to your own judgment.
Why is it moral to serve others, but not yourself? If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but not by you? Why is it immoral to produce something of value and keep it for yourself, when it is moral for others who haven't earned it to accept it? If it's virtuous to give, isn't it then selfish to take?
Your acceptance of the code of selflessness has made you fear the man who has a dollar less than you because it makes you feel that that dollar is rightfully his. You hate the man with a dollar more than you because the dollar he's keeping is rightfully yours. Your code has made it impossible to know when to give and when to grab.
Is it ever proper to help another man? No, if he demands it as his right or as a duty that you owe him. Yes, if it's your own free choice based on your judgment of the value of that person and his struggle. This country wasn't built by men who sought handouts. In its brilliant youth, this country showed the rest of the world what greatness was possible to Man and what happiness is possible on Earth.
Then it began apologizing for its greatness and began giving away its wealth, feeling guilty for having produced more than its neighbors.
Your destroyers hold you by means of your endurance, your generosity, your innocence, and your love. Don't sacrifice the world to those who will take away your happiness for it.
Any compromise between good and evil only hurts the good and helps the evil.
I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.

One of the most effective people helping with Contract with America was former Pennsylvania Congressman Robert S. Walker (PA 16th). He was an original member of COS.

When Newt backed the NY liberal I saw him for the RHINO he was. I will never support or believe in him in any way again. He is DOA.x

Newt's "crown jewel" in the contract for America was to eliminate capital gains tax.

Newt is right -- we should eliminate it. Tax all income the same. Tax the profit on capital the same way we tax the profit on business or labor. Just tax it all the same.

However you tax workers or small business - tax capital gains exactly like that, including FICA.

When will the GOP actually "consider" helping America rather than just getting elected??
When will the GOP actually stand "for" something as to always stand against??
Whehn will the GOP be honest with the American People instead of scaring them??
Need I go on??

Gos crawl back under you rock, Newt!

Gingrich showed us his priorities a few weeks ago when he backed Scozzafava over Hoffman in the NY-23 race. For him (and the other RNC party leaders) it's nothing other than party over principles. Most of our citizens have become lazy and allowed a party to dictate thier political and philisophical ideals, where all they have to do is make the choice between a D or an R. Shame on us... I don't trust either party anymore, I would love to see more independant candidates, and preferrably none of them career politicians. I actually expect to hear some truth and commitment from those who wish to work in service for the citizens of this republic.

When is concentrating on wealth and the economy a party with No Ideas? It is disheartening the amount of people that care more about supporting ideas that take away our freedoms and liberties to pursue our own happiness.

""Having a positive set of things that say, 'if you elect us, these are the positive steps we will take,'' Gingrich said, on a program that C-SPAN3 is airing at 5 pm EST. This "may well be the key building block to really become the alternative party, not the opposition party.''..."
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Sorry buddy, it will take more than just lip-service to get people to vote republican again.

Try living your ideals instead of just promising them to us...

At this point, both the Democrats AND the Republicans ARE THE SAME PARTY!

...That party being the "Progressive Party"

PLEASE NEWT - GO AWAY. No one wants to hear what you have to say about ANYTHING. You are a repeat ADULTERER. YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND BLEW IT.

GO AWAY NEWT - YOU DON'T REPRESENT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Newt's a liar and worse. His Contract with America became a Contract ON America. Why would anyone trust the Elephants any more than the Asses? The only thing the Elephants care about is being able to spend the money the way they want. They are corporate fascists; the Asses are socialists. The lesser of two evils is still evil, but in this case, there is no lesser. One is as bad as the other. For example, who on the Elephant side asks whether Congress even has the constitutional authority to talk about health care? Probably one - Ron Paul. The Elephants have ideas, but no one is even questioning whether they even should be meddling in health care! It's a lost cause. If the Elelphants regain control of the Congress, you can bet that nothing will improve.

when you have "people in charge" "running the country into the ground" people like Newt come to the surface and give you alternatives and information - and he doesnt bow to dictators like that silly little man we have as our "leader"

The Republicans are indeed bringing up old ideas …and thank God for it! Personal freedom, personal responsibility, limited government and free markets are old ideas alright and they should be constantly in front of the American people, I believe. The “new” ideas of the Democrats are actually quite old too, the idea that government has the best solutions, not individuals, that the best economy is one based on central planning and government control. Soon both ideas will be before the American people. .

I have no problem with a 'Contract With America', or a newer, updated version. What I DO have a problem with is not living up to those promises and ideals! That's what happened after the '94 elections, the GOP ran a great national campaign fueled by the Dems corruption, only to show the world that they too could become just as corrupt and power mad! Backing off the term limits promises still rankles me, I believe implementing realistic term limits is the single most important step we can take to wrestle our govt institutions back. All other things become possible with them.
But Gingrich is the last guy to be offering such things.

The GOP would do well to cast off these 'old guard' career pols and find candidates who 'walk the walk of the talk they talk'. They need to ignore 'advice' from Dems on how to be just like the Dems, and get back to the true conservative principles that party USED to represent.

Newt.......
Newt?
NEWT !!!!!!!!!!
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Sarah scares him too!

The Contract With America principles in the 90's is what led to the budjet surplus and the lowest unemployment rate in that decade. Lest we forget it was a Republican majority during most Bill Clinton's term. Bill grabs the credit.

Seems to me everytime there is a democrat majority it leads to inflation and high unemployment.

Sigh same old baloney from the GOP! They did so bad we threw them out and now the Dems have been exposed as the Marxist that they are.

Time for a Third Party as the 2 current ones smell like rotten fish!

Newt: Here are some principles for you.

1) Illiminate Corruption
2) Say what you mean and mean what you say.
3) You work for us, we don't work for you.
4) You can't out liberal the Liberals. Quit trying!
5) Principles over Party.
6) Let's try something new. REDUCE THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT! (In case your were wondering, slowing the pace of growth is not the same thing)

COOK COUNTY, FOR SURE!
Newt Gingrich is still around because he is smarter than Al Gore. Newt is multi-tasking, Al can only focus on one thing at a time and, for him, it is mesmorizing. Newt is not someone I'd like to have a beer with, but he is someone that I trust with 'public trust' issues. Newt is scandalized by Chicagoland mentality and by liberal thugs because he is a 'thorn in their liberal socialist sides' that hurts. It hurts their mantra of lies and deceit and manipulation of poor folks. Newt is and will be a 'light' in the 'darkness' of poisonous politics invented by a partner in the design of 'personal political destruction' the one and only Al Gore and his orator sidekick Billy the Kid. Same theme: rob the poor and blame the rich.

Why can't we just jail anyone with a Republican registration? They are all hypocrites and liars, they hate everyone besides white men, I mean, isn't that illegal? I think we should ask Holder to draw up the warrants for these nazis and klansmen calling themselves Republicans. Start with Newt, Rush, W, and Cheyeney.

Think you like Newt?
Surely then you have read Alvin Toffler's book, 'The Third Wave'. Newt handed out hundreds of copies of the book when he was a member of Congress. Newt gave speeches urging America to follow the book's directives.
And what's the book about? Why, the '3rd wave' - sort of how bright it would be to mix all the good points of 'capitalism' with all the good points of 'communism' and come up with a new brew - sort of a fascist drink where the State together with Big Business gets the really smart people to run both and run the people ragged as they run from job to job hoping to draw a paycheck so they can send taxes to Washington so those really smart people in Washington can continue to tell the sheep where to jump and how high to jump.
Incidentally, Newt gained lots of converts. The 'Third Wave' is essentially the path America is on today, guided by Obama our friends in Congress. So we really don't need Newt to be president. He's already screwed us over.
Don't believe me? Read the book.

Funny libs mention term limits, which was number 10 of post day 1 promises. And "old ideas". Don't let the truth get in the way of Republican bashing. Which of these day 1 contract items would common sense Americans reject?
1. Apply all laws which apply to the American people to members of Congress. (duh...)
2. Have an independent auditing company audit the government for waste fraud and abuse?
3. Cut the number of house committees and staff by 1/3? (which had bloated under 40 years of dem control)
4. Limit the terms of house committee chairs (in their role as chair)
5. Ban the casting of proxy votes in committee (you have to be there to vote).
6. Require committee meetings be open to the public (Nancy P promised this old idea, but failed to deliver).
7. Require a 3/5 majority for tax increases.
8. Guarantee honest accounting by implementing zero baseline budgeting. (bottom up from scratch rather than based on last year).

And number 1 after that - a balanced budget amendment (which failed by a single vote in the Senate). Think of where we'd be today had that been allowed to be ratified as a constitutional amendment! No deficit spending! Dem's could have kept Bush's unlawful war spending in check with 1 more measely Senate vote - but they passed on the opportunity. And Obama wouldn't be trying to spend his way out of the recession. And to have such a bloated gov't, we'd have to actually pay for it through our taxes.

But no - libs today focus on the congressional term limits and taking school lunch programs from poor kids, and how the contract was a "failure".

So you think having a list of principles for politicians to vote by is a retread from the 90's Demonrats?

Wait a minute, this just in.....What was that idea that the Clintons were pushing in the 90's......OH WAIT....Nationalized healthcare. That's right. So would that be your retread idea?

Hypocrites indeed.

More like the Contract ON America. It failed the first time around and will ultimately fail again.

Gingrich = Mr. Hanky in a business suit.

Cute. You posted, above on 11/16/09, the correction of my typo of 235 members of Congress instead of 435, but you did not post the comment I submitted on 11/16/09, as I requested,
that contains the typo. Too strong for you??

I've already seen "How the Gingrich Stole Christmas."

I don't think I need to watch it again.

Hey attackers on both sides -- take a breath! This is too important to fall back on the rah rah, my team will win stuff.

Speaker Gingrich is one of the smarter folks to have been in government in a long time. He has been an authority on US healthcare since before he left Congress. He is the first I can remember noticing that medical mistakes kill more than two full 747's crashing every day.

So keep up being proud that your party is represented by a donkey or an elephant, but this is no time to be tossing aside great, reasoned leaders who have the interests of the whole country at heart. And knows how to get things done.

Or is it that you feel he really has what it takes to win election?

Newt Gingrich is not an intelligent politician. He's just a good liar. The reason for the deficit is not the health insurance bill, but the wars and tax cuts --which the majorities of both parties seem to support. It's time to vote for a socialist third party. The capitalist parties are only interested in tepresenting the corporations' interests.

First of all, both parties suck. Both parties support public interest groups more than the people. Both parties are comprised predominately of people who are working for their own financial benefit, just like the rest of us.
Secondly, we all need to learn that what we read in the news is what they want us to know and think, not the reality. Hence the gag order on the healthcare plan/debate.
Most importantly, regarding Abortions, Medical Marijuana, etc. By not supporting these causes, regardless of your own beliefes, you're condoning the government robbing us of our freedoms. We have the right to make the choice regarding these issues as individuals, not as a governed nation. It should not be up to our massive government to control every single aspect of our lives. I support a nationalized healthcare option, but there has to be financial justification and a freedom earned, not taken away, with the passing of a public option. Instead, there's more rules and regulations that will be implemented to further "govern" our lives as "free" citizens in America.
Democrat or Republican, I don't care, just give me options and freedoms. Empower people to make better choices rather than forcing it down their throats.
Also, if you want to know why healthcare's cost is so out of control, you can attribute it to all of the chemicals in medicines that not only effect us, but generations to come as well. As a country, we are so chemically dependent upon things that are completely unnatural to our bodies. That is not to say all medicine is bad, but with these medicines come new issues and side effects, which call for more medication and it has just become a vicious cycle.
Obesity is the largest threat to our health as a country, thus exacerbating health care cost, so perhaps, by trying to regulate the quality of food these fast food companies are selling would lead to a healthier country.
Passing laws/bills/etc isn't the only solution we have as a country. We have the freedom of choice, or we should, and I am tired of every aspect of my life slowly being taken over by a big expensive government who ultimately doesn't give a crap about who I am, how they could improve my life, and how they are paving the way for a better future. How will you ever motivate people to be better, healthier, and more productive if you keep fixing the problems we cause for ourselves?

We like Newt. We've been keepin' score on liars and spinners - Newt's the number two most truthful on our list.

what a bloody joke. after what they did to us? (republicans) ,, revamping the tax codes to make it more impossible for the middle class to sustain thier existance. changing the bankrupcy laws as well. they KNEW this depression was coming and they wanted to protect thier campaign contributions, allowing the dirtbags on wallstreet to really screw up the national economy. please, tell them we have had enough of thier lies and corruption. for thier sakes,, these jesus people better hope that he really doesnt exist , their action are far from true christianity.