The Right Scoop- http://twitter.com/113KriEger 13Krieger
Newt nailed it! Too bad Romney then quickly opens his big mouth and ruins the moment.
Go Newt Go!!!!
- jollyjellybean
Yes this was good.
- http://www.facebook.com/salvatore.anello Salvatore Anello
Not a Romney fan, but I don’t think he ruined anything with his added comments here.
- stage9
Obamney is a “yes man”.
He neither added anything of worth nor did we gain anything of worth from anything he said…or EVER says.
- Nukeman60
Yes he did. He turned the issue from killing surviving aborted babies to who can choose pastors. Two very different postures.
- PVG
He also made the salient point the scotus voted 9-0 against BO!
- Nukeman60
Yes, that was a good point.
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
Yep- he watered down the powerful point Newt had made. He squashed Newt’s thunder and the media will never replay Newt’s portion of the answer.
- Nukeman60
I hadn’t thought of that. You’re absolutely right. We won’t hear one second of that soundbite.
- PVG
I can think of at least three radio shows that will replay it.
- NYGino
One reason that sites like TRS are becoming more and more important.
- Nukeman60
Now if we could only get it on Drudge, lol.
- NYGino
There is a piece on Drudge right now, taken from the Daily Beast, of all sources, in effect saying that Newt has thrown in the towel. Kid you not.
- Nukeman60
Granted it’s the Daily Beast, but the debate didn’t sound like Newt was throwing in the towel to me. Interesting how the LSM can twist things around.
- Trust1TG
HAHAHAHah!
They. Wish.
They ain’t seen nothing yet.
Repent Drudge and Coulter before you lose it all.
- Nukeman60
An interesting update: within an hour of Newt making that point, National Journal had an article debunking the claim. Hmmm
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
Same on Beck’s site
- Trust1TG
Mormon operative.
- Trust1TG
DISGUSTING. The National Journal has no conscience.
- Rshill7
Wally Cleaver, Eddie Haskell, and Jerry Mathers as, the Beaver:
http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/eddie-haskell-wally-and-beaver-tonight.html
Funny. Good comparisons
- http://twitter.com/Professor_Why Professor Why
Could’ve done with less Romney in that clip (like, none!), but it was a good smack-down all across the board…
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1388784674 Joel Cruz
Pure Newt on that question. Brilliant.
- PVG
This is when the country wins, when these guys unite against the inept ideologue in the Whitehouse!
- Linky1
Uniting against the White House thugs AND the slimestream media.
- 3seven77
OOoh! The slimestream media! I DO like that! Thanks Linky!
- FreeManWalking
Again, Romeny demonstrated that in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, he can’t make his point as well nor as effective as Newt did in 39 seconds.
- cabensg
I know. Santorum and Romney both blather on and on and on trying to get in every talking point they can on every question instead of just answering it. It’s painful to watch and listen to. Even Ron Paul was more to the point in his answers than either Santorum or Romney.
- stage9
“John, John, what’s happened….John….I have to get in here because although I voted for infanticide and….John…John…although RomneyCare paid for infanticide, I believe Obama is wrong to support it John…” — Obamney
The Problem with Romneycare
http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/problem-romneycare - PFFV
Romney on his best night couldn’t have been this quick. Newt has an oratory gift and he is very smart. If he were to become President I wouldn’t worry about anyone pulling the wool over his eyes…lol! He reminds me of Reagan so much of the time in these debates. I don’t know how people can’t see what I am seeing, oh wait, yes I can. People have a tendency to follow blindly as we have seen for about 4 years now.
- sybilll
If Rush does not lead with this tomorrow, I will be shocked. Best Newt line of the night. I am glad he went on to explain that it is killing babies born alive after a botched abortion.
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
I think the law was that doctors had to provide care for botched abortions….He voted against it, in favor of leaving the babies to die in preventing doctors from providing medical care. Interesting perspective on the man that wants to provide everyone’s health care.
- http://twitter.com/PoeAllen Allen Poe
Oh, that is so much better than Newt’s response. I’ll bet ob will spend lots of money to counter Newt’s response. I guess he can use your comment.
- http://www.facebook.com/jaspersilvis Jasper Silvis
Wow, great finish to your point!
- PFFV
So horrific, a baby that may just need simple assistance to survive and Obama voted to deny the baby help? To let it struggle in a garbage can or on a cold table until it dies? Obama and anyone else that supports this should burn in hell! Liberals/Democrats are the murderers of the innocent, such a grand old party indeed, SICK!
- detectivedick
More waste of time and deflection away from the true Marxist, LIAR Obama. Four men on stage and not one has the testicals to either walkout or callout. Shame on you little men, the Nation is Broke, at War, the Constitution is being walked all over and you want to talk about the pill and rubbers. Shame on you ALL.
- PVG
Boy did you miss the point. We are losing our LIBERTY!!!
- detectivedick
Our Liberty is being taken from us by the regulation writers and elected officials, one can only be pushed and taken for granted for to long before the Bubba Affect springs into action.
- Nukeman60
Our Liberty is being taken away from us because too many people are blind to these regulation writers and elected officials, who do what they want, lie to the ‘unwashed masses’, and then claim they did us all a favor. People need to wake up and realize it’s the LSM trying to direct the conversation. The candidates know it. The audience usually doesn’t.
- http://www.facebook.com/jaspersilvis Jasper Silvis
Huh? We DON’T want to talk about the pill and rubbers. But the moderators asked a question and the candidates had to answer it. If they didn’t, the undecided voters out there would see them as ducking the issue. Your point would make sense if the candidates talked about the pill and rubbers when asked about foreign policy or the debt, but they didn’t. They were not reaching to go there. Were you watching the debate or Comedy Central?
- detectivedick
I did not watch the Debate, I only watched to TRS clip. I am suffering from Debate burnout and the lack of GOP messaging that LIAR Obama must be defeated. Remember Nancy Pelosi and the Progressives began in 2006 to blame Bush for everything from gasoline prices to the deficit, etc.
- scottgilbert
Newt showing the media’s hypocrisy once again ….
- Sober_Thinking
Great moment for Newt.
- http://www.facebook.com/jaspersilvis Jasper Silvis
Didn’t like Rick nodding as Romney spoke, though, even if he agreed. Something about that bothered me. Can’t put my finger on it.
- NYGino
An audience can get Newt going and Newt can get an audience going. When this man becomes President he’s going to get the country going.
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
I am conflicted, but I know that this guy wants to be Reagan-esque…..and he’s dying to be remembered for his brilliance- I think he will do it just to try to live up to his ego, and he can be an immensely motivational figure in what are tough years to come.
- NYGino
Anybody aspiring to become President has to have an ego. The important thing is where the roots of the ego come from. Newt’s comes from intelligence and experience. Obama’s comes from affirmative action and Chicago politics.
- http://www.facebook.com/jaspersilvis Jasper Silvis
Amen, Gino. I like ego. That’s why MMA is my favorite sport. Ego in the ring, gentlemen outside the ring. Ego in its right place. That is Newt. He is a man of high ego, but it is always expressed in the right place at the right time. And I might add that his high ego comes from high accomplishments.
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
I think I was slightly misinterpreted- What I meant is that people’s concerns about Newt can be somewhat mitigated by the fact that he has such a huge ego….he wants to be Ronald Reagan 2 and will try to emulate him and out-do him.
You are right about egos, but the simpler point to make is that Newt’s ego makes him want to be the next Ronald Reagan, while Obama’s ego makes him want to be the American Che.
- http://www.facebook.com/jaspersilvis Jasper Silvis
I can understand your point. But I actually do not see Newt aspiring to be the next Ronald Reagan. If Newt can accomplish what he is campaigning on, which is what our country needs, he will be greater than Reagan. The general population does not yet fully grasp the dire problems our country faces. This is similar to how a lot of the country did not truly grasp Reagan’s cold war stance until the wall fell after his presidency was over – then they got it. The problem today is that the country needs to understand what Newt needs to do in order for him to accomplish it. Like what Newt says, “I need you to be WITH me, not just FOR me.” This is what makes his job as next president harder than Reagan’s entering 1981. There is a lot to do and Newt is up for the job, and needs all his ego to give him the confidence he needs to be successful.
- http://twitter.com/ozziecastillo Ozzie
Completely agree-
- PFFV
Mega Dittos
- las1
Newt is up for the job
Exactly right! I’ll just add… Newt is THE ONLY ONE up for the job.
When he says that Obama “is the most dangerous president in modern American history”… can you imagine what he’ll say come a debate with Zero.
- Trust1TG
Psychologists will tell you there is a VAST difference between a healthy ego that comes from knowledge, wisdom, virtue, being God-centered, not ego-centric, and one that needs to be propped up by constant reassurance, by attention, money, success, alcohol/drugs, etc., and the most dangerous of all: power and control over others.
- las1
Obama’s ego is anti-ego… it’s pathological narcissism.
- PFFV
Well said brother!
- Trust1TG
Hi Ozzie,
You are mistaking CONFIDENCE, COURAGE and BOLDNESS for ego.
Newt’s courage, confidence and boldness come from:
1. Confidence – in the Principles and Documents and System of Laws that make our country strong and better than any country in the world. Newt fell in love with those when he was in high school studying in a foreign country. Newt has confidence because he knows how things work in DC, what makes a country great, prosperous, secure…because he has studied those principles for over 50 years now. A half century of thought, study and experience. Newt has confidence in GOD. He has come to the Cross and met the One who created and sustains the universe (Hebrews 1:3) and designed all creatures, who loves, suffered and died for our salvation, who redeemed, restored and gave Newt new and eternal life. (John 5:24, I John 3:14) Newt personally knows in the unfailing power of Love, Truth and Life – and that all true power belongs to GOD. (Psalm 62:11)
2. Courage – because he now knows the Power and Goodness of GOD that created, sustains and undergirds all creation. Matter is just organized energy. GOD gives us courage, His courage to face all our enemies.
3. Boldness – is motivation. Newt is bold because he knows what is at stake. He knows what’s going on at a deeper level than we do. He knows what must be done. He’s put on his godly armour to do it. (Ephesians 6) Holy Boldness comes when people have repented of their sins, have decided to live for GOD’s purposes and glory and not their own, have GOD’s view of what is right and wrong, good and evil – AND – are willing to fight against evil whatever the cost.
Newt sees the danger that is overtaking the US and he is old, wise, loving, strong, confident in God, courageous and bold enough not to sit still and let it happen.
And COURAGE, CONFIDENCE and BOLDNESS is exactly what we ALL will need in this time in the life of our nation.
- stage9
If Newt won tonight, and I’m not really sure any of them did (they’re all rusty after being off for so long), he most certainly won with this line.
- cabensg
I don’t think it’s that they’re rusty it’s just we’ve heard it all before. Without Newt in this race I wonder if Santorum or Romney would have any ideas about anything.
- 3seven77
Yep. Where would they be without the ability to say, “What Newt said.”
- Trust1TG
AB-SO-LUTE-LY!!!
- libertyandtyranny
Fantastic. go after the liberal fascists who want unlimited government, and get to decide what rights we have or don’t have.
- http://www.facebook.com/jaspersilvis Jasper Silvis
…and who lives and dies. Good point, L&T
- PVG
“Newt Gingrich won tonight’s debate, which he needed to do, but not because he out-maneuvered his opponents. Santorum and Romney were simply too focused on each other, with Paul tag-teaming alongside Romney (ambition makes strange bedfellows). All of this gave Gingrich cover and also gave him the opportunity to be the only candidate that directly and repeatedly went after Barack Obama. He looked like a statesman. His answer on infanticide and shifting the focus from GOP and birth control to Obama and his campaign against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act was the rhetorical feat of the night.”
http://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2012/02/22/gop-debate-newt-rekindles-the-flame/ - drphibes
The moment Gingrich brought up the support for infanticide, I knew it was, as this reviewer aptly called it, “the rhetorical feat of the night.” This paragraph by Dana Loesch is a perfect summation of the evening. Thank you.
- theDUHgeneration
Can you imagine if the main stream media would ask even half of the social questions of Obama as they do from the Republican candidates?
Who are the extremists? The leaders of the Democratic Party, and it ain’t even close!
- c4pfan
Can you imagine how it would be if they went after MITT?
- theDUHgeneration
They will if he ends up being the Republican nominee. You know they’re just waiting to pounce on him after they’ve propped him up all this time.
- 3seven77
Newt’s answer was brilliant. I also have to give Romney points for bringing up George Stephanopolous’s ludicrous “contraception” questions at the last debate.
I don’t care who it is, I love it when *any* of them call the media out for their games, their bias, and their hypocrisy.
- nibblesyble
good point!
- Trust1TG
NEWT has made all of them better, braver candidates.
Newt is teaching them how to be strong and how to buck the media and PC agendites.
Romney would/could not have given that strong a response without Newt’s example.
This whole primary would have been much different without NEWT’s courage and sacrifice (of facing the shame of his past, the ire of the estabishment (bushes, rinos, pelosi types) and the nastiness of even the so-called conservative media that we now learn is not really conservative. (drudge, coulter, national review, etc.)
He can’t teach them how to think and analyze at the level that he does. I do hope he wins.
GO NEWT!
- Ariadnea
Newt Gingrich and then Ron Paul (respectively) are looking better in this debate compared to Romney and Santorum.
- Been_There_BT
Newt was great. He is a happy warrior like Reagan. I want the “cheerful” President!
- ellebb
Mitt is pathetic.
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCYMWDZ2I2YLZ2KXPSATSJDM6U tinker thinker
Newt is awesome! Go Newt!
- http://twitter.com/ARTHUR_SWE ARTHUR STEINBERG
Newt 2012 is only adult in this field of GOP hopefuls
- 911Infidel
Nice counterpoint. Be advised that Obama & Co have only changed their meme. When they say contraception they mean baby-killing. Newt understands this new dynamic perfectly.
- Enoch73
I don’t know that Romney ruined the moment so much as made himself look like an unoriginal fool.
- Kordane
You just know that Newt is going to lay the smackdown on the media the moment any question like this comes up. I just waited… and ooop, there he goes, on cue as usual!
- Resistwemuch
I would have loved to see the media reaction, if any candidate had answered, that’s above my pay grade.
- FloydAlsbach
I think that Newt and Romney did well here, both made excellent points and it was nice to see them discuss an issue all four passionately agreed upon.
- denbren52
I really don’t care that Romney took over on that question. Both contributed to the Obama/CNN smack-down and they should continue, we all should continue, to get that message out there: Our President is trying to destroy our most basic liberties including the freedom to freely worship in accordance with our faith and the right to oppose his views.
Unfortunately this clip will not be played on MSM so it is important for us to pass the link along to our friends and help spread the word about Obama’s Marxist policies.
- Been_There_BT
I think Santorum should send Newt a thank you note for this answer. He deflected the question, saved Rick’s rear and put Rombo on the defensive all in one quick move. Brilliant.
- mder4thegov
Well, I saw Ron Paul officially “sell out”, with his despicable lovefest with Romney. (He literally sat on his hands–instead of challenging the guy who laid the foundation for Obamacare.)
I wonder how much it cost Rove and the other corrupt, establishment RINO’s–to get ole Ronnie to ditch his “principles”, and join the unelectable Mitt?
All you Paul supporters should be real proud. - Maxsteele
I love how Romney initially did not want to answer the question (kissing up to the audience booing) then when Newt showed his candor and put everything in the right context and got cheers he all of a sudden rode on his coat tails.
That’s all Romney is good for. He sways like a flag in the wind, which ever way he thinks public opinion is blowing there he is..give me your votes cause I will tell you everything you want to hear. - REHLV
Was it just me or did you get the feeling through the whole debate that Newt was the alpha dog. No matter, even when the puppies were fighting, Newt stood out like the alpha dog, and even John treated him that way.
I believe America would be well served by Newt. He has the “it” factor that you cannot teach, or train. America would certainly get her respect back.
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Wally Cleaver, Eddie Haskell, and Jerry Mathers as, the Beaver:
http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/eddie-haskell-wally-and-beaver-tonight.html
Funny. Good comparisons
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Well said brother!
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