I know I missed the party on this discussion, but I wish… _wish_ a Republican would give answers in a debate half as good as what you did.

Of course, it would help if we actually had real debates instead of this retarded “joint press conference” format.

If people who sound like you took the time to distinguish that Romney had two distinct terms with Bain Capital, you would perhaps begin to see the problems with his puffing capitalism. Mitt wants you to focus on his first term, where he led venture capital deals. I want you to also see his second term, where he led LBOs (under their new term, “private equity”). Romney was both a venture capitalist and a corporate raider. He abandoned VC to become a vulture.

The inconvenient ugly parts of Mitt’s record are as much of “what he’s all about” as Newt’s philandering and his time on the couch with Pelosi. We see better with both eyes uncovered.

And I wish the chest-thumping simpletons who equate patriotism with capitalism would investigate the last three decades of debt US accumulation, both gov’t and private. Romney capitalized on easy credit that was the result of gov’t policy. Mitt’s money was leverage that he cashed out, not any “amazing” business success.

Remember, too, the Olympics he “saved” lost over $100M. Romney is groomed to be captain of the Titanic.

That’s about the point where I stopped taking the Republican Party seriously.

Gingrich had had expectations that the Clinton scandal, which had been going on for months by the time of the November 1998 election, would cause the Republicans to gain many seats. Instead, they lost seats. He resigned right after those 1998 elections (pressured by his colleagues to do so), and so he was no longer in the House when the actual impeachment proceedings occurred. But that doesn’t mean he was not a leader earlier in the decisions made; he was, and he also had almost certainly planned to be Speaker when it happened. But the 1998 election results, and his colleagues who were sick of him, scotched that.

I have, in past, googled through a search for Newt comments re Clinton and sex. There are none. Newt did not run the House Impeachment process. Newt was busy running the Repub effort in the 1998 midterm election. After the election, Newt was (wrongly? I think so) deemed a failed leader (due to lost seats), and was forced out in early 1999.

Could there be a possibility that he has a case of undiagnosed ADD? Anybody with an opinion or a suspicion on it?

His life has been quite erratic, to say the least.

What scares me about Romney, though, is that he is not the man to lead us back to pre New Deal constitutional government. But, I’ll take what he does reform and keep working on the grass roots level.

Newt’s baggage+more baggage+temperament=??

Wonder how American women will vote for Newt who’s partnered with his Mistress-Wife? Just one of dozens of flies in the ointment.