Newt Gingrich on the couch with Obama & Al Sharpton
This is what happens when you get too much Beltway on the brain.
Newt Gingrich — who sidled up on a couch with Nancy Pelosi for one of Al Gore’s global warming ad campaigns — championed President Obama’s education speech today.
Subtext be damned.
Gingrich, you should know, has been on a summer road trip with police-bashing, violence-inciting, race charlatan Al Sharpton and Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan:
The tour starts Sept. 29 in Philadelphia, heads to New Orleans on Nov. 3 and then to Baltimore on Nov. 13 — cities selected for what they can teach others about school reform.
Gingrich paid homage to Sharpton earlier this spring along with Vice President Joe Biden.
Sharpton is an agent of hate with nothing — I repeat, nothing — of value to contribute to the school reform debate.
Keep this self-serving traveling circus away from America’s classrooms.
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Newt is no better at representing a conservative point of view than John “McAmnesty” McCain!
That thing with Pelosi wasn’t a fluke.
Newt has issues.
I can understand when Gingrich wants to encourage libs when they seem to be on the right message, but you never see these dirtbags reciprocate. Compromise with these types means surrender of your principles and smelling like the pigs they are. We need to defeat the Sharptons, Obamas and Bidens of the world, not cuddle with them.
Newty is a Washington pol. He long ago lost whatever affinity he had for ordinary Americans.
Sigh. Newt was a hero. They all catch the disease.
We need to support a charismatic candidate coming from the farthest reaches of the Republic. Someone practical and down to earth. A person with some useful experience in governing and campaigning, but who has never been sucked into the D.C. sewer or the globalist groupthink. That’s the only way we’ll ever get it cleaned up.
Now who could we find …….. ?
I no longer have any use for Gingrich. He’s just another Republican sell-out.
Just when you think someone is a person to be trusted, they start to slip. And once you are sliding in mud, you can’t stop. Evidently this is what has happened to Newt. I noticed awhile back, once he had parked on the couch with Polosi, that he was getting more and more “understanding” of the left.
A pox on all the pretenders!!!
Newt’s creditabilty is in the same toilet as Obama’s. Newt is a conservative only when he is looking for donations. Photo ops are more important to him than the truth.
Why are you not attacking Laura Bush for not attacking the same bogeymen you claim lurk around every corner of this speech?
Jeez, Newt…didn’t your mom ever tell you that people judge you by the company you keep?
If I ever met Gingrich in person, I would tell him off right to one of his faces.
I’m not sure if Newty is planning to run for president or not. These flirtations with liberal democrats may be designed to make him appear presidential; some sort of compromiser, maybe even statesmanlike. If so he may be making a serious mistake.
Politics in the age of Kennedy, Clinton, Bush, and Obama have become far more of a contact sport than in recent decades. The days of looking good in legacy media sound bites are giving way to the scrutiny of the internet.
I guess what I’m really trying to say is that if you lie down with dogs in the internet age, everyone is going to see the fleas.
And Newt makes Mark Sanford look like the leading candidate for “All-Time Greatest Husband and Father”.
We saw Newt and Hillary. But Newt and Sharpton? Newt and Pelosi?
Washington DC is a septic tank. Eventually the feces gets to everyone.
Dumocrats have only one rule that they live by and that is “MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY“. I won’t say that they are immoral, but I will say that they are AMORAL
I may regret asking this, but chap, when did Laura Bush go on a roadtrip with Al Sharpton?
And am I the only one noticing how many of the “conservative” bloggers are tut-tutting the flap over Obama’s school speech? It seems that suddenly, there are many new “conservatives” competing for the mantle of “reasonable”. You can tell who they are when they start referring to the rest of us as “extremist kooks”.
I plan to point them out when their links appear on the side bar. What is wrong with you people?
JSR: The Chapsticked one is engaging in deflection, as usual. Ignore the troll.
Newt Gingrich = Stockholm Syndrome
Wake up Republicans, the American people already have.
My sentiments exactly.
*Newt is a tool, as in the vibrating kind you would use in private; And he can go f… himself with it; In other words, beware Republican failures from the past!
I haven’t had any use for Gingrich since he did the ad with Pelosi. Now, his group solicits me for donations. No way would I give to this sell-out.
Off topic: Michelle, I may be the only one….but I sure liked it better the way you used to number the threads on your blog. (starting with #1 and on up). Just my .02 on that.
Newt is now a RINO ala McLame–they love to reach across the aisle to absolute lefties and scoundrels. Adios Newt—You have zero credibility and are damn sure not a coservative–what a loser.
When did Newt? And what is the relevance? MM is implying Newt is a sell out for not attacking whatever “subtext” she sees in the speech. Why is Laura not being criticized for doing the same? It’s in the same freaking article she cites.
This is exactly the reason I pay no attention to Newt any longer. This is exactly why I am no longer a Republican.
Newt needs to go find a quiet place and keep his mouth shut. If he had an ounce of wisdom left he would but we know that isn’t the case so brace yourself for more such idiocy from Newt…
Many have tried. But the impish twinkle in my eye and winning smile always lures them in.
Maybe you want to one up MM on the conservative street cred scale and launch into an attack on Laura, about how she is now a useless piece of sell out trash? It could be the launching point for your very own blog!
Ragman …
I suspect Chap was referring to the MSM sound bites from Laura Bush saying that she didn’t have a big problem with the basic premise of acccountability and encouragement contained in Obama’s speech …
That being said chap must not have been watching FNC … they are the only ones that showed the rest of the interview in which Laura Bush indicated she did have problems with the “guidelines” and “lesson plans” that were originally sent out to schools …
Newt has failed to grasp the fundamental truth about politicians of the left. They may make nice to your face, but they will NEVER forego the chance to stick it to you when your back is turned.
Newt might want to take a lesson from Dick Cheny. When a certain lefty senator tried to make nice after publicly attacking Cheny, the response was F… Off!
Chap–I think it must be something Laura ate at the Texas State Fair. She is a gracious lady who went through 8 years of Bush hate. However, Obama is a divider and not a uniter and is a socialist loving man who surrounds himself with despicable people. Laura knows it, but won’t say it–just like President Bush.
There you go again, Chap: BUSH DID IT!!
The beaten horse that never dies, eh?
ewwww – gross!
Chapstick I have neither the time, inclination, nor patience to do full time blogging. Not to mention the fact that I would all too likely emulate Charles at LGF and banhammer your pipsqueak little troll body all over the figurative bridge.
Huh?
As I read the following, it is pretty clear to me that Laura Bush is criticizing the “subtext’ of political indoctrination.
“Impish twinkle”, or not, I generally find your arguments well reasoned, and challenging, although based on a liberal foundation. I think that today
your game is off.
Of course, if anyone had actually read what our intrepid host actually WROTE it would be clear that she is decrying the fact that Newt has spent too much time “inside-the-beltway” and not simply that he supports Obama’s kiddie indoctrination efforts.
Newt desperately wants to be loved by the “inside-the-beltway” lefties who loathe him. And he is far too eager to sell out those principles he once represented to get the faux approval of those lefties. He needs to find a quiet place and reflect on his insecurities. Doing so in public is simply too embarrassing to watch.
But who am I to “Newt-pick…”
This may come as a surprise to some, but there are a lot of politicians to whom politics is nothing more than a big “game”. They put on a face every day, play “politics”, then go home at night and become themselves once again.
Newt is one of those game-players, if you haven’t noticed already. He occasionally says things that Conservatives want to hear, then goes on to hob-nob with other politicians of every stripe afterwards.
Newt really only thinks about himself, not the good of the country. That’s why he committed suicide by getting a divorce and dropping out of Congress.
Newt is a bridge to nowhere because his act is as phony as a three-dollar bill.
Btw, it’s interesting to put the “game-player” matrix over some of the other people involved in the Conservative movement. It’s a real eye-opener.
Gingrich has never impressed me. A naive history professor who thinks everyone is legitimate and plays by the rules. Country club Republicans and 1930s German Jews. What do they have in common? Anne Frank syndrome… hope for the best and trust that people will do the right thing. Please.
Good grief Newt, you should know better.
Well, we are certainly all the poorer for it.
You assume I would register and post there? Uh uh. Leave me out of your perverted “ban fantasies.” Maybe you could just follow what I suspect is your usual M.O. and pay some other person to write up some posts, pretending to be me. You could “threaten” them with your mighty “banhammer” and ban them wherever you like…in public on a bridge, out in the woods, in your old bedroom in your parent’s house…
Huh?
Laura isn’t relevant, Chap. I thought that would be obvious.
The commenters on this blog are way past the Bush’s. Come along and join the discussion.
Newt and the others still think they are dealing with traditional Democrats. If he was, I would be the first to defend his efforts.
These are DINO’s. DINO’s are socialists, sometime Marxists. They have no time for the Constitution, consider America basically evil, its citizens stupid, and feel it’s their duty to destroy the capitalist, free market system.
The real Democrats are in exile just as much as we conservatives are in the Republican party. I hope they can take their party back.
#801517 the LoneRanger said:
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner! It is all a game and the only real prize for the players is POWER.
Is it just me, or does Sharpton look like a teletubbie in a suit?
I guess the Speaker wants to be relevant-and the harder he tries the less so he is. He does get camera time if that is all he wants. His organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future , keeps sending me solicitations. I wrote back once: Sorry Mr. Speaker but if I wanted to support Speaker Pelosi I would send her a check directly.
All this is way too close to “reaching across the isle”. Hang with bad company you get a bad reputation. It is sad.
Exactly, Mtneer.
Folks, I apologize for letting the pipsqueak troll suck me into a personal attack P..ss..g contest. I choose not to allow it to continue.
I am not talking about Bush (the President)’s past actions. I am talking about Bush (the First Lady)’s current actions and opinions. Surely you can see the difference. And surely you can see she is as relevant or irrelevant as any other high profile person that decides to opine on a particular subject.
What in the world is going on with the post numbers? When did our intrepid host abandon the consecutive numbers per thread?
No chance. The ‘real’ Democrats left the party long ago. There are NO commie bashing, America loving, tax cutting JFK Democrats left in the Democrat Party. At least not as elected officials. They’d be drummed out in the blink of an eye.
The post numbers probably have something to do with ad revenue.
Tinkie Winkie?
Thank goodness you choose not to let it continue by refraining from such terms as “pipsqueak troll”. Way to be a shining example to all the bald faced blogless hypocrites out there.
Like Newt?
Um …. NO.
C’mon, Chap. You are a smart guy. You get this. Stop being such a lawyer.
And another thing, did you notice that Laura Bush even had the class to criticize the Education Department, and not the President directly, for the offensive lesson plan material? I can’t wait to see if Lt. Worf has the same level of class when “The One” is out of office(and the sooner the better).
Excuse me. She inserted herself into the conversation and you are saying she is not relevant because her husband is no longer President?
I know you all like Laura Bush, and with good reason. She is obviously a classy, successful woman. But I am curious as to why she gets a pass on saying essentially the exact same thing as Newt.
But bigger point. What has Newt done that has earned him such universal derision? A global warming commercial and not sufficiently attacking what he saw as an innocuous speech? Good lord. Does anyone who doesn’t score a 98% or above on the Ideological Purity Exam just not cut it with you all? Do you think that “true conservatives” like you all can achieve any sort of political power by continually alienating those you perceive as being even marginally to your left?
Sorry Michelle, I must agree with meangreenfan.
If the new #’s help with your blog-tracking, is there any way they can be invisible and the old numbering system visible?
***Due to the new economy, I just spent my last .02 on this one****
Thanks, Obama!
(She wrote with extreme sarcasm)
MM mentioned a few days ago they were having issues with WordPress and that was the cause of the numbering problem.
Makes it a lot harder to find a particular comment in a thread. Maybe it has something to do with 9/9/09 ….
divide by 9, then add the digits, win an appointment in the Obama administration as the numbers czar.
Technically, Michelle is wrong. Newt hasn’t been on a Summer road trip with Al. From her own post, and the link she posted:
Small detail though. It doesn’t excuse Newt.
I am very conservative and I have yet to hear something from Newt that I don’t agree with. We must admit that there are issues and philosophies that the right and left can agree on and I don’t see any reason Newt can’t have civil discussions with members of the left.
Newt isn’t running for anything. If he can get influential members on the left to help champion causes i.e., school reform, or compromise on pollution, I don’t have a problem with it.
Sorry, but Sharpton is persona non grata to me. He is a divisive race hustling shake down liar scum. He and his ilk have no standing in my view.
I like to hear both sides of an issue to get a better perspective but Sharpton is not someone I want to hear from at all.
Newt usually gives a good perspective of the different sides in an ideological argument but giving support to Sharpton and his ilk is beyond the pale. Go to larryelder.com if you really want to learn about that crook Sharpton. I have to wash my keyboard now since I typed his name.
Perhaps you are mistaking me for one of the …… er, commenters here who wouldn’t vote for McCain in order to stop Obama.
The President shouldn’t be involved in lecturing our children in school and sending schools material with which to instruct them. That is not what our forced attendance schools are supposed to be for.
My position is not the extreme position you are trying to make it out to be. Like I said: You are a smart guy. You know what the problem is with the President doing that, whether it was being done by a conservative or a RINO or a leftwinger like our current POTUS.
Do you really like the idea of a President Buchanan taking this to its logical next step in 2021? How much of a public school student’s annual instruction should come from the federal government?
Do you worship the federal government so much you really can’t see anything wrong here?
Sorry, orlandocajun.
That doesn’t cut it. Since you are no longer pure, you must be a Liberal.
Welcome. You Liberal Introductory Kit has been mailed. You will be pleased to know that this month the kit features a $25 coupon to use at any participating Trader Joe’s, which you will be going to since you will no longer be wanting to shop at Whole Foods.
The global warming commercial was enough. If you’re willing to push that scam down the American people’s throat alongside the likes of Nancy Pelosi, you’ll do anything….maybe even hang out with the racist Al Sharpton on a phony school reform tour.
Personally though, I have no problem with the president telling kids to stay in school. It’s all the extra stuff they wanted to add that was the problem.
Fine, but you are willing to cut off your nose to spite your face? Do you really think it serves your side to alienate and marginalize one of the most powerful and effective conservatives over a couple issues?
Sorry, the guy IS running for president. This is what he does every time he is about to release another phony/baloney book. It’s not about agreeing or disagreeing with what he says, it is what he does. He is a charlatan who has worn out his act with movement conservatives. Go away Newt.
MTNEER,
Chap is not a troll. He is very often the voice of reason/devil’s advocate, but is actually a closet conservative. (don’t tell his wife)
Laura Bush is as politically significant as Newt Gingrich and even Sarah Palin for that matter. None hold office, yet still make the news.
On September 8th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, chapoutier said:
Why are you not attacking Laura Bush for not attacking the same bogeymen you claim lurk around every corner of this speech?
Can’t speak for anyone else but I am very dissapointed in Laura Bush. As someone who supported Mr. Bush for most of his eight years as President and Laura , they of all people shoud see the threat Obama poses to our nation and to the Children of this country with his Socialism, Czars, and general lack of control in the ones he associates himself with on a daily basis.
Those days are over for now. There is no one on The Left in a position of authority or responsibility to have a civil discussion with.
Make no mistake. They hate us.
See Joe Lieberman or Zel Miller for details, if you have any questions.
resist, resist, resist–stress, stress
YES
The problem that I have with Newt is that he is just playing a game, trying to make a living off of taking an occasional “Conservative” stance that he really doesn’t mean.
I don’t expect perfection in a Conservative, but I do expect him or her to to believe in what they preach, and Newt only believes in what Newt happens to want at the moment.
Newt is nothing more than a polished actor, living off an image he created our of whole cloth.
Newt is a dead end.
Well Sunday’s NO COMMENT by Newt on Van Jones was quite telling. It is foolish to think the Dems could do all this damage alone.
No he is not and we do not want him to go away so I say say CHAPPY SAID WHAT? sometimes. Besides I like his dinner stories.
That would make a nice tee shirt slogan.
They do not see it at all. Virtually all of the career Republicans don’t. The GOP are the French and British governments in 1938. They thought they are dealing with Germans. They were not. They were dealing with Nazis hell bent on conquest; something Germany traditionally never was.
I repeat, these are NOT DEMOCRATS that we are facing.
“If you know neither yourself nor your enemy you are a fool and will be in peril in every battle.” Sun Tzu 514 B.C.
The real story about Obamas speech to students is that the American people DO NOT TRUST Obama. We had no idea what he might do and we were frightened about what he may do.
We know he is a liar. You can not sit in the racist Jeremiah Wrights church for twenty years and not know what was going on there. He lied to our face about that (just like Bill Clinton).
That means that his story about not being a close associate to Bill Ayers is also VERY suspect. And Bill Ayers IS a very radical “terrorist” who has turned his focus to educating our children. Having Bill Ayers ideas taught to our children is bad bad bad.
Perhaps Obama thinks it is good. Thats what makes the whole thing stink. A liar trying to teach our children something that we don’t know what it is. And he is probably lying about his Bill Ayers connections and may be teaching Ayers philosophy.
Liar=No trust= uproar over access to our children. Sounds like a logical outcome. Why the problem you ask?
“…and did we tell you the name of the game
boy?
We call it ridin’ the gravy train…”
‘Have a Cigar’
Gilmour/Waters
And he is supposedly, according to the RINOs and GOP, the future of the GOP.
No thanks.
He can continue his adventures with Sharpton and Obama.
Leave us out.
oops; I believe Rog wrote that by himself.
C’mon, Chap, Trader Joe’s is not a necessarily a haven for Libs. Used to work there and there are some Conservatives there.
As for Newt, he has NO chance at being President. The Left hates him with a passion and due to his 3 divorces, will not get the Evangelical vote. The best he can do is to run a think tank.
When the indoctrination was first concocted I think people were right to be concerned since it revolved around gleaning support for the president and not focused on educational goals, even if it was accidental (I don’t believe it myself). The WH changed the format to focus on education and that should be the end of it (although we are all more alert as a result). I disagree with our hostess on continuing to beat this horse. They tried, they were caught, they adjusted in a reasonable way. Let it go- but remain vigilant.
Exactly correct. Newt lost me when he sold us out on the Contract with America and his principles to boot. He cannot be trusted – as his former wife can attest.
Hanging with Sharpton? Are you kidding me? I KNOW Sharpton – I had many occasions to “interract” with him and his black union thugs over jobs at construction sites in Brooklyn over 25 years ago when he was starting his race-baiting career. The “good Rev” is a despicable piece of trash, and anyone who lends him any semblance of credibility – as Newt does by hanging with him – is no better than he is. As Phil says … “go away, Newt.”
Newt Gingrich, although very smart and mostly conservative, will never get my vote for president- just as John McCain did not last election and never will. I respect his service but he is a weak guardian of conservative values. His minders still CAN NOT grasp the idea that McCain would not have gotten even close to Obama without Palin- mistakenly believing she dragged him down! Ugh. Boy do we need another, strictly conservative, party.
There is a reason why the left is continuously attacking Palin- well after the election- and ignoring McCain. He is no threat, she is.
Newt is in love with the sound of his own voice, but he never says anything — positive or negative. Typical politician. Typical Beltway Boy. Typical RINO. About four years ago I started hitting the mute button every time he appeared on Fox.
Ever and forever amazes me how white pols always regard Al Sharpie and Jessie Jackson & ilk as the spokesmen/ ambassadors/ representatives/ “leaders”(!)/ (fill in the blanks) of an entire race!
Shallow Newt! Ultra shallow!
James Greenidge
Queens, New York
As stated the Newt Ginrich/McCain wing of the Party are terrified of the Left, afraid to say “Hussein”, suck up to Sharpton, Jackson, Pelosi and such and wonder why we prefer Palin.
Somebody needs to tell the wimps we do not want, need or follow wimps but the wimps are not listening. Newt should go back to his books and McCain should just go away.
The lefties are so willing to tolerate former-conservatives who sell out conservative principles and so willing to chastise those of us who don’t support faux conservatives who sell out. Yet at the same time the left brooks no ideological deviation in their own ranks. It would be amusing if it weren’t so sad. Too bad Newt, McCain and so many “conservative commentators” can’t seem to grasp this simple fact.
Message to Newt.
They are using you. Everybody sees it but you! You have become a useful idiot. You used to teach this stuff. Go back and review your notes. If you have any intellectual honesty left you will realize it. Come back when you have had an epiphany.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
O/T again Michelle,
Please let your viewers know when you are going to be on tv. An alert at the top of the post? I just saw you on Glenn’s show. Thank you both for what you do. Please be safe, there are some who don’t want to hear what y’all have to say.
L
I know this is off topic, but is this really happening?
The U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president
Doesn’t this mean that the US Justice Department is working against justice for the American People? Or at least preventing the requirements of the constitution to be upheld?
The town halls of August should have taught everyone how much these congressional clunkers are out of touch with America. They don’t care a bit about you, your family their well-being or what is right and best for America and her people. That message was burned in the August.
Why do our congressional clunkers not concerned with what is right for America, but seem overly concerned what is right for them. Us against them, all of them, has never been clearer.
Newt will do ANYTHING for attention.
If he’s the next Republican presidential candidate (which he seems to want) he will make McCain look like a winner. Obama too, for that matter.
letget, re: 6:07 pm comment.
I could be wrong, but I think it might be dangerous for Michelle to let us know ahead of time when she’s going to be on tv. There are evil, hate-filled people out there who would love to know her whereabouts at a given time.
“Whatever happened to all this season’s losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking, were’d they disappear?
When I woke up Al and Newt were rolling on the couch.
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling got my Kiss records out.
Surrender, surrender, but don’t give your self away!”
On September 8th, 2009 at 6:45 pm, cicerokid said:
Could have sworn that was Cheap Trick, making it an appropriate band for the politicians in office.
Newtie’s all right. Newtie’s all right! He just seems a little bit weee-eird!
Damn. That was funny.
Darn it Irving,
At least you refrained from using:
I guess Newt won’t be running for anything after these soundbites bite him in the @ss.
Errah Chap; Is it glue yet??!!!