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| Newt will release his Freddie Mac Records |
| 2011-11-18 |
 The Gingrich Group took in between $1.5M and $2.0M over an eight year period (about $25K per month over many months).Newt says all he offered was strategic advice. Others say it must have been more than that given the amount of billable hours. Newt's former chief of staff was a corporate officer there. |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #13 But I do want to die in my sleep, like crazy uncle Bob, not screaming like his passengers ;) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-11-18 22:47 |
| #12 All these guys need to realize in the debates that, while they have different ideas than the guy standing next to them, their real target is the Imposter-In-Chief; until they start playing the game the same as the left, we will get fo' mo' yeahs of Bammy and Company. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2011-11-18 22:33 |
| #11 You left out the next line. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-11-18 21:49 |
| #10 Call himself Quatrocinco for all I care. I'd talk candidates but not registered r, so don't know if that's cool or not. So I'll leave the old words of wisdom, "Every hands a winner, and every hands a loser." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-11-18 21:22 |
| #9 Call me shallow, but one of my problems with Mr. Gingrich is that his nickname is "Newt" and his last name is "Gingrich". For the life of me I just can't see a U.S. president named "Newt Gingrich". If he just changed his name to something like "Neil Grandman" I would consider him much more electable. Even better would be my all-time macho name: the pulp author "Manly Wellman"! |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-11-18 19:39 |
| #8 so's my dirty sock Is it a native born citizen & over the age of 35? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-11-18 18:19 |
| #7 "Newt is much better than what we got." Not to disparage Newt, John, but so's my dirty sock. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-11-18 16:29 |
| #6 He's a lousy SF writer!!! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-11-18 16:27 |
| #5 The amount of money Gingrich brought in over 8 years is not that much; $250 K per year max. He has a small firm of about a dozen people. The nature of the consulting is more important. I hope it's not another dumb thing like pitching Climate Change with Nancy Pelosi. I like Newt. He could probably chew Obama up in the debates. That would be fun to watch. He seems like an idea and policy guy. Whether he can win the election and govern, I don't know. Newt is much better than what we got. I don't by any means think it's inevitable that Obama wins. There is a lot of discontent in the electorate over the economy as well as many other issues. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-11-18 16:25 |
| #4 The entire country has 'baggage' but I guess its arms aren't yet tired enough of carrying it around. Maybe when the pain is bad, the electorate will become more interested in getting out of this mess than running down any individual candidates. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-11-18 15:23 |
| #3 OTOH, you know of course that Obama has a few extra bags of his own. It should be just a matter of finding a GOP candidate with the balls to talk about it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-11-18 11:45 |
| #2 That's the kind of thing I mean when I say "baggage". And yet, somehow, I still like the guy. Maybe it's that rapier whit that he displays in the debates. But I think the best "advice" he could have given Fannie and Freddie would have been to shut it down. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-11-18 11:44 |
| #1 Newt has problems. I really do not like Romney. Cain has issues. Paul is too radical. Perry is done because of his brain fart. Etc. Obama wins. I do not see the subtlety of the plan. Could someone please explain. |
| Posted by: kelly 2011-11-18 11:43 |