Newt Gingrich for the Republicans? ( Archived) (62)

Did she graciously accept your apology or did you have to explain yourself for two hours over dinner... Glad you guys met up again...

what does it matter which republicans run for president in 2012. I've heard woebama wants the side-kick spot with Jay Leno on the tonight show after completing his first term.

Holy!

Bring back Bush!

Not quite. You'd be a better option than what is in there now believe it or not.

One of the best quotes ever made fieldworking!

Polls now show that Newt and Ron Paul are ahead to beat Obama…I prefer Ron Paul myself. Hillary should have been President rather than Obama in my opinion...she had more experience.

Ballet for Hillary Clinton:

The World is yours, as it is much mine;
You know what is yours, and you lead all great Powers;
You will be there for many, many long hours;
You give your great strength, to fight what is ours;
Thank You Great Lady, for your service and time.

Hillary, Hillary Clinton, you are doing just fine;
You are a Great Rose; give the World unconditional Flowers;
The world Great Hillary, stands and much so much cowers;
You are building great Peace, and many Great Towers;
Hillary, Great Hillary, you do draw the line.

By John Austin
© 2009 John Austin (All rights reserved)

It starts very local in the neighborhood that you live in. We pay our property taxes to our locality to provide local law authorities to serve and protect us and to make sure that our highways are safe. Some tax money moves on to the counties or parishes for the courts to operate efficiently and prosecute criminals. It moves on to the State level that provides a national guard or militia to protect the State borders from intrusion. Lastly, tax money moves on to the Federal Government which provides protection from a threat by foreign countries to our borders or to fight wars if needed.

This is a simple explanation. Many other details are involved.

December 10, 2011 — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Newt Gingrich is facing his first debate as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Standing next to him will be Mitt Romney, whose campaign has launched an all-out offensive against Gingrich's record and leadership style.

With less than a month to go before the Iowa caucuses, the debate at 9 p.m. EST Saturday was to focus on the federal budget deficit. It also was shaping up a political drama, Gingrich and Romney sharing the stage amid a sharp back-and-forth waged by their campaigns

Gingrich rose to the top of polls largely because of how he's performed in the other 10 debates this year. He's expecting his new position in the race to mean his rivals will criticize him head-on this time, aides say.

If they do, aides say Gingrich knows how he hopes to handle it: Pause, step back and laugh. That's how Gingrich has responded in the past to what he's often deemed "gotcha" questions from debate moderators — before dressing them down, usually to much applause from the audience.

"I wish you would put aside the gotcha questions," Gingrich snapped at Fox News anchor Chris Wallace during one debate. In another debate, the former House speaker told Politico editor John Harris, "I'm frankly not interested in your effort to get Republicans fighting each other."

His challenge Saturday night: keep cool in the face of the kind of repeated, sustained attacks that he's avoided in previous sparring matches. That's how he can pass the temperament test. Responding the wrong way could reinforce critics' charges that he's too undisciplined to lead the country.

The criticism could come from any corner. As the days dwindle before voting begins Jan. 3 in Iowa, almost all of his rivals are piling on. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has called Gingrich an "influence peddler." Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has criticized Gingrich's record in Congress. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has hit his support for a national insurance mandate in the 1990s.

Most likely to take a swipe at the front-runner were Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Romney, who are next in line in Iowa polls. Paul is running an ad accusing Gingrich of "serial hypocrisy." Romney's campaign has used Gingrich's comments about Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare plan — Gingrich once called it "right-wing social engineering" — to accuse him of irrational decision-making and poor leadership.