Gingrich: White House race is wide open
Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on CBS' "The Early Show," Friday, November 11, 2011. / CBS
The recipient of good news in the latest CBS News poll of Republican primary voters was for New Gingrich, who has seen his candidacy climb as support for other candidates has weakened a bit.
In the poll released Friday, Gingrich is now tied for second place with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, while businessman Herman Cain remains in the number one spot. Both Cain and Romney have lost support since late October.
But the race could still change; seven in 10 Republican primary voters say it is still too early to decide for sure.
"It's great to be back in contention," Gingrich said Friday on CBS' "The Early Show," "and I'm very grateful to the voters who are supporting me.
"The big thing I take from your poll is that this is a wide-open race. Any of the candidates could make a surge and suddenly be in dramatically better shape."
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Gingrich appeared in advance of the Republican presidential primary debate on foreign policy being hosted by CBS News/National Journal on Saturday, November 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET. on CBS. (Submit a debate question: What do you want to ask the candidates?)
When asked to explain his rise in the polls, Gingrich offered, "I think substance really matters. If you go to newt.org to see all the different things in our 21st century Contract With America, it's probably the most substantive campaign in modern history. And I think that's mattered because people are really worried about jobs, they're worried about the economy, they're worried about the deficit.
"You could not have timed your debate tomorrow night better than the week the report comes out on Iran and nuclear weapons and all the different things going on around the world, the challenges with Greece, Italy and the economy. I think people are looking for a serious potential president because they see the issues as being so very serious to their own lives."
When asked by anchor Chris Wragge if he thought the foreign policy theme of the debate was a way "to show the American people you are most prepared to be commander in chief over the others on stage," Gingrich replied, "I think people have to make that judgment themselves.
"I'm the only candidate who has been working with the U.S. Army since 1979, I'm the longest-serving teacher in the senior military for one- and two-star generals and admirals. I was one of the key people on intelligence as Speaker of the House. So I have a background in that area.
"But I think for the country it's really good that you're hosting a debate on foreign policy and national security because ... these are much bigger issues. This isn't a governor's race; this is the presidency.
"When you start thinking about worldwide national security, economic security issues, the question of American sovereignty in a world where a lot of other countries would like to entangle us in their laws which are very often different than the American Constitution, there are some really big issues at stake.
"I think people will watch all of this and try to think differently because when you think about these things, you have a different yardstick for being president than when you think about domestic policy, which governors can do pretty easily."
When asked if he thought Herman Cain had done a sufficient job answering allegations of sexual harassment raised by four women - Cain has adamantly denied ever harassing anyone - Gingrich said, "Well, I think he's been answering each charge as it comes up, and it depends on whether or not there are more charges. He's admitted himself that if there are more charges then he's going to have to answer them, he can't get out of it. It's a fact of life. Up to now he seems to have satisfied most people that the allegations aren't proven, and that having people who hold press conferences isn't the same as a conviction. So I think people are giving him the benefit of the doubt.
"I have known Herman a long time. He's a very attractive, very articulate person. He's been very bold in his ideas and I think people admire that kind of boldness."
Gingrich was also asked how he felt in the debate earlier this weekend when Texas Gov. Rick Perry stumbled badly, stating that as president he would dismantle three cabinet-level bureaus and then being unable to name them.
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"It was very uncomfortable because I like Rick Perry a lot. I wrote the foreword to his last book. Plus I regard he and [Perry's wife] Anita as good friends. The thing that makes it doubly uncomfortable is, any of us could have it happen. Let's be clear, I'm a pretty good debater. I've had moments in my life when I couldn't remember a name or I couldn't remember a fact or something. I can imagine doing that in front of the whole country. And so I don't think any of us took any happiness or any glee out of it. We all felt very uncomfortable for Rick. We also felt there but for the grace of God goes me. I think we're a little cautious to jump to judgment on that one little incident."
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His 3 illicit affairs make him Non-npresidential material.
I am not sure who I will be voting for in 2012, but it absolutely will not be for President Obama. His failed policies are killing this country eco0nomically, and his poor practices are tearing the nation apart. He is an extremist and a socialist, and Europe is on the verge of a fiscal collapse because of democratic socialism. They can't afford it, and neither can we. In 2012. President Obama must be sent back to Chicago.
How can anyone in their right mind continue to support President Obama? Most Americans don't care for lies, corruption, and extremism in a President.
Let's look at the list of achievements during his first 3 years of President Obama and fellow progressives:
1) He lied 8 times in promises to televise the health care discussions openly on CSPAN.
2) He made deals giving one premium health care plan to union members (supporters) and another to the rest of the country.
3) He stood by and allowed the House and Senate to buy health care votes using taxpayer money.
4) He allowed the health care bills to be fashioned behind closed doors and be filled with political favors. This disaster of a health care law costs the American taxpayers an additional $105 billion EACH YEAR, after the Democrats cut more than $400 billion from Medicare to pay for it.
5) He and they took over the nations health care by the federal government - most Americans did not want this extreme action - and still do not. This horrible law will cause the majority of Americans to have higher health care cost in rising premiums. The CBO in May 2010 said that this irresponsible bill will cause $1 trillion over the next 10 years in additional federal spending. We already can not afford the size federal government that we currently have, with a $14.4 trillion national debt. It imposes $billions of unfunded mandates on struggling states to provide greater Medicaid coverage. 27 states are suing the federal government over this nonsense, as they don't have the money to pay for this. Businesses are not hiring because of the additional cost PER EMPLOYEE that is caused by this law. President Obama has continued at least a 9% unemployment rate for three years.
6) He irresponsibly overspent 100s of billions of dollars the US didn't have on bailouts (President Bush started it and President Obama accelerated it) and bogus stimulus packages. The worthless 111th Congress (led by Democrat Nancy Pelosi) was too busy screwing up the nation to do their job. They never established a budget for the nation in 2010, and by law they are to do this.
7) President Obama has behaved in the most partisan manner of any recent President, after promising bipartisanship. He has arrogantly trashed everyone who has not agreed with his socialist agenda - even the Supreme Court.
8) Instead of securing the border and enforcing federal immigration laws, the President has made war on Arizona Americans as they attempt to protect themselves from an invasion of illegal immigrants.
9) The President's man, AG Holder, dropped his case against the Black Panthers who blatantly intimidated voters at the polls. Now, Holder may finally be kicked out over "Fast and Furious" - the program that sold guns to Mexican cartels, guns used to kill a US border agent.
10) This President has focused on this extremist agenda, instead of the millions without jobs. You can not grow the federal government on the backs of business and taxpayers during a recession, and expect job creation.
11) President Obama imposed a moratorium on drilling in the gulf, throwing thousands more out of work. One foreign oil company screwed up, and the President decided to punish other oil companies that have drilled responsibly for decades.
12) President Obama wanted the President Bush tax cuts to expire, which would have resulted in redirecting money away from the economy and pushing it into Washington. The President held on to this until he was forced to change by the pounding the Democrats took in the 2010 election. Still, he promises to increase taxes next year.
13) The President and other progressives in Congress have imposed oppressive additional expenses and regulations on private sector businesses that are crippling the private sector jobs market, while expanding the federal government and public sector jobs. Anyone with any economic sense knows that you need tax revenues from a healthy private sector jobs market to fund public sector expansions, and the money is just not there. Yet, President Obama wildly and irresponsibly continues to massively grow the federal government - hence an outrageous $14.4 trillion national debt.
14) He knows nothing about economics or foreign policy, as he was a community organizer. A community organizer is someone who agitates for a particular cause.
He has continually agitated one group of Americans against another in class warfare and pointing blame at entire groups of Americans for his failures (bankers, mortgage lenders, the Supreme Court, private insurance providers, CEOs, all Republicans, oil companies, Fox News, corporations...etc). He does nothing to unite the nation.
Well atleast Barry will have lowered the standard so low....it won't matter.
Yes, it's fair to say it IS wide open...except for him!
The general public is NOT going to vote for this two-timing,
back-stabbing hypocrite and his 'good times', big time spending
Tiffany's of New York City, wife!
The taxpayers simply can't afford these two!
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Newt does not apoligize for his wifes expensive taste in jewlery. He earns the money so he can pay for it.
However, when you see Michelle Obama wear a $42,000 bracelet.....Obama has to set up a photo -op at Target the next week to prove she is just like the rest of the folks.
Fakers
Second, that Newt comes out, and makes comments to downplay it, can itself, be interpreted as somewhat of an apology!
Third, are Gingrich's wife's jewelry purchases an attempt to
pretend SHE (or they)is part of the upper wealthy ruling class
of America? If so, I'd say they're 'faking it', because they're
NOT!
So, who's faking it and who isn't, IS debatable!
Personally, I don't care for either one of them!
The general public is NOT going to vote for this two-timing,
back-stabbing hypocrite and his 'good times', big time spending
Tiffany's of New York City, wife!
The taxpayers simply can't afford these two!
Foreign policy is a major weakness of Cain, which will be very evident in the next debate.
Romney is squishy he will mold to which ever way you want him to go.
Maybe that is a good thing atleast we can manipulate him.
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as the old saying goes ... 'a week is a lifetime in politics' ... where it's not likely to be a surge for anyone that changes the rankings ... but rather a stumble by someone else that allows others to move up.
by GOPeconomicterror November 11, 2011 9:51 AM EST
Jan. 22, 1997
The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a Speaker for ethical wrongdoing.
Concern your self with the staggering amount of corruption and lies this Marxist and admistration has done in the 3 years in taking office. That would keep you busy for a long time to come