tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9175270679391521447.post6454105934712602662..comments2024-01-11T04:23:41.813-06:00Comments on ColRebSez: Newt's comments weren't tactful, but they were factual -- and neededCol. Reb Sezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02962693457509336759noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9175270679391521447.post-23075399362165742042012-02-01T15:12:03.408-06:002012-02-01T15:12:03.408-06:00Thanks for the response and I appreciate your opin...Thanks for the response and I appreciate your opinion. I am not saying that Newt's ex wives are blameless. With that being said, even if one has no problem with divorce per se there is something to be said for ending one relationship before starting another. <br /><br />He carries more baggage than divorce and I don't feel that he is "presidential" for lack of a better word. His political past is less than stellar. I don't think he would be able to mend fences. I cannot see him facilitating a bipartisan government. The Republican Party should be able to do better.Libnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9175270679391521447.post-60971948772170634832012-01-31T19:11:50.556-06:002012-01-31T19:11:50.556-06:00Lib, Newt's divorces just don't bother me....Lib, Newt's divorces just don't bother me. There is a back story to both of them, and while he is certainly not blameless, neither is he the goat he is made out to be. These days a math teacher who carries on an affair with a 16-year-old student is likely to be put in jail, so I just don't have all that much sympathy for Jackie Battley. As for Marianne, she abandoned him for six years, so spare me the jilted woman stuff. So a Christian Conservative should have no problem voting for Newt.<br /><br />As your statement that an analogy comparing adults to breeding animals isn't appropriate, I agree. The comment wasn't made by Newt. But my point was that the NAACP jumped in even though the comment had nothing to do with race. It was about welfare, and the group's behavior ties the NAACP to welfare int he eyes of many.Col. Reb Sezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02962693457509336759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9175270679391521447.post-56156096596496894432012-01-31T16:34:57.614-06:002012-01-31T16:34:57.614-06:00Newt has broken more rules than this. It baffles m...Newt has broken more rules than this. It baffles me that a Christian Conservative would even consider voting for Newt. Not being tactful is the least of his problems. If this candidate is what is presented as the best the Republican Party has to offer, they've lost my vote.<br /><br />Also while the statement that our children need good role models of hard-working law-abiding adults is certainly true, I don't think an analogy to breeding animals is appropriate. We're talking about humans.Libnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9175270679391521447.post-23202337731596603882012-01-29T19:06:28.125-06:002012-01-29T19:06:28.125-06:00What's more frustrating is that the racist cha...What's more frustrating is that the racist charges only come when the person is 1) white and 2) Republican. If he's 3) Southern, it's the "racist" trifecta, which is to say it's not open for dispute or discussion.<br /><br />That said, Newt knows the rules -- or should. I know them. Harry Reid got a pass when he made far more personal and incendiary comments than Newt. Biden got a pass, too. "We know his heart..." No one claims that when Newt or Trent Lott says something along those lines.<br /><br />But those are the rules. Newt knew them. He broke them. Now he will be called "the r word" for the rest of the campaign.Briannoreply@blogger.com