Newt will save America!

RangersFan - do you ever add anything of substance to the conversation? or do you just call people names and try to tie them to other posters?

It would be nice if you would stop personal attacks and try to add something of substance. Just try using your intelligence instead of the lizard side of your brain.

petrfitz, its important to let frauds like you know that some of us are on to you and your tactics. now, i will ask you again, petrfitz - who is the one who is afraid to come out and own your previous posts and has now become the ultimate coward by trying to reincarnate. we are on to you, live with it. and i will continue to call bs on you although you are rather boring.

OCCUPY STREETEASY!!!!

grey the fraudsters, the imposters, the cowards and free the 1% who in and onto themselves have more substance that a million petrfitz'!!! petr, there is time to change your handle once again, but be a bit more creative this time.

and i never tied any others except swe back in the day, to anyone else except now YOU - because as the saying goes, lipstick on a pig....

I'm still hoping for an explanation of education technology. To me it sounds like Solyndra. Something that will be promoted via politics, supported by skimming from the government, and benefit no one except for the owners, management, and the politicians.

no one owes you an explanation of anything.

I said hoping, not expecting, not felt that I was owed.

Hey, whatever happened with your test at the DMV?

Rangersfan thank you for answering. You do not add any value to the conversation just personal attacks. Your life must be so fulfilling

Wasn't this thread started as an attack?

"Republicans are pissed about Obama's health care plan so their 2 top candidates have either supported the plan like Newt or actually implemented a state wide exactly similar plan - Mitt."

"Newtie was a consultant advising Freddie Mac on homeownership expansion."

so...YOUR problem with the 2 republican front runners is that they are closet centrists? and in fact have a fairly accommodating history wrt the agenda YOU support? would you say that's accurate?

usertofferson is in the estate planning business, helping the top 10% of the top 1% pass money on with minimal taxes to create trust fund babies. I find that type of Democrat amusing, especially when they are so rabid. Makes you wonder, are they Democrats, or have they figured out the best scam to be a wolf in sheep's clothing? Not so different from the union leaders who skim off of their members.

my "attacks" on you petrfitz merely comes down to "outing" you to the rest. most who have been on these boards long enough probably would have been on to you as well but just doing a public service here. continue to deny, but you were terrible at trying to reincarnate and obviously didnt have the intellectual capacity to be a bit more creative with your attempted ruse.

what was your irr on that painted lady in lake las vegas? couldnt have picked a worse locale at a worse time. brilliant.

"so...YOUR problem with the 2 republican front runners is that they are closet centrists?"

No that they are hypocrites.

Amazing Jason. You've identified the first and only two hypocritical politicians.

Good speech.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/11/17/newt_gingrich_msnbc_essentially_the_obama_re-election_team.html

"No that they are hypocrites."

all politicians are. they say and do what they have to to keep their job, which they do either for money or ego. no altruistic idealists ever get far enough in their political career to gain national recognition. altruistic idealists never get far in any career, for that matter. because they tend to be crazy and not play well with others.

I resent that

rangersfan: Look at the people you are demanding be freed from the gray zone.

As if they aren't/haven't been posting under other noms de streeteasy.

Go to the penalty box. Have a Gatorade and chill out.

Newt is a fantastic crook

Hasn't anyone told Newt's supporters yet that his entire presidential campagn is just a ploy to sell books?

Did you know that the majority of Barack Obama's wealth comes from his books?

where does your wealth come from?

And Newt's wealth comes from his lobbying, I mean consulting, fees.

>And Newt's wealth comes from his lobbying, I mean consulting, fees.

Not sure that anyone disputes you.

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where does your wealth come from?

Some of it from books, but not based on any book authorship by me.

How about you?

hey truth, personal bias should count for nothing. sorry you had a personal row - or so it seems, but doesnt take away from the fact that these boards have been significantly dumbed down since the banishment began. now you got idiots like petrfitz trying to orchastrate a "dialogue". my two year old daughter has more sense.

and i am very chill about it all but still OCCUPY STREETEASY!!!!

banishment? what banishment?

streeteasy made several people grey. They can still be here.

Aboutready is just a quitter. She was on Brick Underground. That's a moderated forum. But she couldn't survive there either and quit. But then again, maybe she didn't want to be there because she had no one to attack.

Streeteasy was "dumbed down" because no one new could come by, and part of the reason (certainly not all) was the attacks that would come flying by older posters against newer posters who had a point of view that differed. You are a rangers fan - you are used to a fight, as am I, but not everyone wants one when they are looking for advice and information.

hb, if most of the folks here are looking for advice and information then you have made my point for me. listen, i dont think i would have ever gone to lunch with ar or ever had a sidecar with alan. in fact, i had many disagreements with them on fundamental issues. BUT, as far as insights and knowledge about nycre, the have greyed out the best posters. that includes, rhino (who is an ahole) and many others.

lots of thin skinned peeps around here, have some ballz and stand up if need be but like i said, now we have guys like petrfitz dominating threads. give me a break.

they should all comeback. but first ar has to take all the liquor in her house and give it to alan, and w67 has to let his wife read what he posts about her here. if he is still physically able to type after that and if she's says it's ok, he should come back.

>that includes, rhino (who is an ahole)

Really, a blowhard who basically says that real estate is too expensive because of the financing bubble, and then says it over and over and overagain. How is repeating the same thing over and over make him one of the "best posters"?

>listen, i dont think i would have ever gone to lunch with ar or ever had a sidecar with alan. in fact, i had many disagreements with them on fundamental issues. BUT, as far as insights and knowledge about nycre

alan could actually suggest ways to renovate or maintain your apartment. aboutready could tell you how to call the super.

want to see the type of contribution aboutready would make, check this thread: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/17818-80-carpet-rules

and the summary of aboutready's posts nicely put together by jsmith:

jsmith9005
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report abuse "romary, again, PLEASE READ. i don't have an issue now. none"

Then why were you cursing everyone out in this thread? Here's just a sample of your diatribe:

"how the f did you take "a glimpse of their living room" without their consent?"
"how do you have a rats ass clue as to why they don't have floor coverings? "
"you're a tard. "
"btw, you're still a tard. no compassion."
"once again you're absolutely full of shit matt. absolutely. "
"maybe one day you'll have a kid with asthma. happy days!"
"do you get it now? your kid can be a fucking obnoxious loud nightmare "
"Matt, you are such an asshole. such an asshole."
"btw, you're a jerk of the highest order."
"good f'ng lord the assumptions here are crazy. maly, same for you."
"give me a f'ng break"
"and really. what an assholic thing to write"

>w67 has to let his wife read what he posts about her here.

streeteasy deleted my favorite comment that w67 wrote:

"of the thousands of people who touched my wife" ...

huntersburg is in the gray zone too.
But he's not a prisoner.
He's the warden.

What did petrftz do to you, rangersfan?
Why does it matter to you if User_Userstofferson is petrfitz?
Why are you all hot under the jersey about it?
Did he high-stick you?

Yes, huntersburg.

That all of those not-crazy and not-hateful comments were posted all on that same thread.
It was more like an entire bolt of bad fabric unfurling before our eyes.

Nobody needs to have had "a personal row" with aboutready.
She was on patrol for a fight on every thread.

That guy just wanted advice about floor-covering based noise complaints.
That's what he started a discussion for.

Get real, rangersfan.

Besides, petrfitz is in Eze.
Up top with the cacti.

Neither party represents the middle class or if you will the 99%. We need a third party.

A fourth party.

that's brilliant.

I'm sure that cc. who just rushed to his computer and posted a comment within 10 seconds of my comment being posted, has nothing to add here.

huntersburg will confirm that when he gets back from his real life plans.

Unlike cc. who has nothing better to do but troll me.

kind of like huntersburg.

And cc is back again within seconds of my comment being posted.

hmmn...but you're not?

I'm going out to an event. With real people who live real lives.

Leaving that loser cc. to twist here in the wind.

send a limo for hunters burg.

listen truth, you seem to have a bead on everyone but also appears like you like to engage. i am outing petrfitz cause he is hiding from himself. and when he starts a thread with another shout from the mountain bs crap, and tries to dominate other threads with his worthless and half-baked commentary then he deserves to be outed.

you got a problem with him being outed? so my outing has to do with HIM and letting him have the ballz to take ownership of his bs posts. make sense to you now? seems like you stick your nose in a lotta places it might not belong but your asking me to chill out? oh, forgot your at the debutante ball. say hello to the grangers for me. and remember not to double dip the pate.

I have had hunter and rangers on ignore for months. Occasionally I click to see what all the fuss is about, and every time I see I made the right choice.

Back to TOP:

"Gingrich Calls Child Labor Laws Stupid , Wants To Replace Janitors With Poor Kids"

See the video here: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/20/372918/gingrich-calls-child-labor-laws-stupid-wants-to-replace-janitors-with-poor-kids/

and also http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68729.html

This is not an exaggeration. He really said exactly that.

and you have issues with me trying to free the 1%? too effin bad. is that comment enough for you to call your counselor? try UU/petrfitz/widestance - in his new sims personality, he is passing himself off as a lawyer. hahahahaahahahahahahahaahaha.

thanks, jason. very illuminating. newt is a boob, we all know that - can you now tell us the notional exposure for cds ms has on its books? or how the climate in san fran so resembles that of sardinia? pls keep me on ignore because i have only responded to you after your repeated comments directed to me while i am supposedly still on ignore.

i pray to god every night that newt gingrich is the republican nominee. romney is a serious person and a strong candidate and obama would have a fight on his hands. newt gingrich? please.

btw, the ridiculous meme that he is some brilliant thinker is laughable. his early career consisted of 8 years as a junior professor at west georgia college--not exactly a plum academic position--and even this shitty school denied him tenure. he published not even one significant academic book or article. but he considers himself a serious historian.

he's the sort of boorish person who is so utterly convinced of his own brilliance that by sheer force of will he can convince dumb people that he really is incredibly smart. he's not.

newt as a complete boob and if he receives the nomination (highly, highly unlikely) then you can assure that the dems could bring back a sock puppet of kerry and still probably win.

"he's the sort of boorish person who is so utterly convinced of his own brilliance that by sheer force of will he can convince dumb people that he really is incredibly smart. he's not."

This is the best part. The things he says about himself - most of which are youtube - make him seem like he is the bastard lovechild of Lincoln, Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Adam Smith, Herodotus, Locke, Edward Gibbon, Reagan, and Jesus, all mixed up in Margret Thatcher's egg. He speaks of himself that highly. Its hilarious.

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uh oh. you said the p word. west34 is preparing his assault. any minute now.

i still think gingrich is only doing this to boost his real career. there is no way he gets the nomination. romney is getting the nomination. he is also going to win, just fyi. but the attention gingrich is getting is good for republicans because as long as the media is picking him apart, they leave romney alone. were i an evil genius republican puppet master i would intentionally orchestrate something like this. otherwise the certainty of romney's nomination makes him a sitting duck. you're welcome guys. always happy to clear things up.

Mitt Romney has the business experience to lead America. We should tell everyone how Mitt Romney made his money.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/389132/june-09-2011/the-word---the-business-end

On cue, he proves mine and happy's point. Today he said:

"...By the way, I think I will probably teach a course when I’m president. I think I will probably try to do something that outlines for the whole country what we’re going to try to accomplish, and offer it online sort of like the University of Phoenix or Kaplan. So that way if the country wants, they can sign up. It would be free...."

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/21/373813/gingrich-teach-course/

romney obviously has the strongest chance of winning the nomination--lucille's self-congratulations notwithstanding, everyone recognizes that he's the front runner. but it's also obvious that he doesn't have it sown up. at this point four years ago john mccain appeared to have almost no chance at the nomination--surely less of a chance than romney. it's a classic mistake to claim, as lucille does, that something is "certain" when it is merely probable, and then to claim to be brilliant when the thing that probably will happen actually happens.

that said, i weep at the spectacle of the republican campaign so far. is this really the best one of our two major parties can put forward? and people like herman cain, michelle bachmann, rick perry, newt gingrich, and ron paul can actually garner significant support? i'm no fan of mitt romney but at least he's a serious person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LAnmnS0-9g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdwJC9HvKLU&feature=related

"lucille's self-congratulations notwithstanding, everyone recognizes that he's the front runner."

im only self congratulating myself because a brilliant and clearly stunningly beautiful poster also by the name of lucille said this some time ago. and "everyone" most certainly does not recognize romney as the front runner, as obviously demonstrated by the very existence of this here thread about NEWT GINGRICH.

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/24472-jon-huntsman-for-president?comment_id=384057

with the weeping and the praying, jesus man, grow a pair.

huh? you think it's not manly to pray?

and lucille, you are brilliant because you recognized romney as the front runner "some time ago"? hasn't he been the consensus-recognized front runner since the day after the 2008 election?

the day after the 2008 election the consensus-recognized future republican front runner was the newly minted warholian superstar mrs. sarah palin. romney was the weirdly stiff unelectable mormon.

"The day after the 2008 election the consensus-recognized future republican front runner was the newly minted warholian superstar mrs. sarah palin. "

Nobody outside of a few right-wing ideologues said that. Certainly the polls had her at below 20%.

remember that "lucille" is a personna create by the SE whack job who is spending every minute of its life attempting to be seen here. crazy and sad. but, quite irritating.

that whackjob and i, we've had a little falling out. probably for good this time.

The guy is a little too rumpled for me.

hmmmm, missed out on that one....

rangersfan:
Nope, your claim that I "like to engage" just doesn't add up.

I don't care if you spend eternity in cyberspace arguing with petrfitz.
But you insist on arguing a moot point.
Those who were sent to the gray zone have only themselves to blame.
To keep calling for them to be freed, just makes your petrfitz not-liking less than just that, and more about trying to blame se.

Stay on the ab train.
Maybe she will send you a holiday card.

Just don't start a discussion on se about the ab holiday card.

And how nice it is to receive it from her and Ralph.

Barry Beck would be ashamed of you.

Also: Go stick your nose up ar's butt.
Seems that you like the stink of it.

I've never "engaged" you in an argument.

I thought that you were a fellow rangersfan.
Now I know better.

Will ignore you from here on.

So jason:
Please give us the weather update for San Fran.

Heard it has been nice there.

and jason:
Keep ignoring rangersfan.

Now I see why you have for the past months.

rangersfan is "praying and weeping" with ar/happyrenter.

Hockey is too manly a sport for him.

But for Jason's invitation to visit his place of work, Jason ignores me. I guess this means I'm one of the few people here who isn't a "dummy".

I find it amusing when people ignore. Even columbiacounty is strong enough to attempt to confront. Not that his confrontations don't reveal his lunacy, but at least he tries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/us/antoin-rezko-is-sentenced-to-over-10-years.html

The two Newts

http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/TODAY/Sections/aNEWS/2011/3-March/NewtandKnut2.grid-6x2.jpg

The two what?? What was that word? Two what? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNgONH2ncI

Go Newt!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/01/the-john-kingnewt-gingrich-exchange-111596.html

“Your ex-wife gave an interview to ABC News, another interview with ‘The Washington Post,’ and this story has now gone viral on the Internet,” King said. “She says you came to her in 1999 at a time when you were having an affair. She says you asked her [for] an open marriage. Would you like to take some time to respond to that?”

“No, but I will,” Gingrich shot back, causing the audience to erupt with applause. “I think the destructive vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. I’m appalled you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.”

I agree with the last sentence but the rest is a bit rich coming from Newt Gingrich whose PAC just released a "desctructive, vicious, negative" swiftboating video on Mitt Romney. Unless of course he is using a broader definition of media...

what a dope...runs his continual family values line of shit, and then resents a reality check...and now we get to hear his pontificating about the despicable media...least he'll leave despicable gays alone for a bit

by any standard his treament of his own family defines despicable...but he's just the next gop douche

pack of morons they are

I honestly didn't know that two of the three times he proposed he was married to other women. I find that unacceptable in a President. That kind of character flaw doesn't just go away. At least I'm not so confident it can change that I'm willing to risk the Presidency on it. I can't believe a man who has conducted himself like this is even being considered.

"I honestly didn't know that two of the three times he proposed he was married to other women. I find that unacceptable in a President. That kind of character flaw doesn't just go away. At least I'm not so confident it can change that I'm willing to risk the Presidency on it. I can't believe a man who has conducted himself like this is even being considered."

I find it unacceptable in a HUMAN BEING.

I get that different couples have different arrangements that work for them. Personally, I never understood the "open marriage" concept, but if it makes both parties happy, then I say do what you will, as long as you're not hurting anyone.

Newt wanting an open marriage doesn't bother me. What DOES bother me, however, is his lying about it and trying to cover it up while publicly spouting his sanctimonious moralizing about "family values" and the "defense" of marriage.

Too much criticism here of the man who brought us the Contract with America. This contract brought us The Personal Responsibility Act. Need I say more?

Newt is STILL campaigning on the idea that we NEED to teach MORAL values to poor people (read black people) or else they will stay impoverished. Fuck him.

It's probably no mistake that this turd is named Newt; he's a despicable human being. It's rich that these moralizing, sanctimonious morons want to defend marriage; the heterosexuals are doing a wonderful job destroying it all by their fool selves. People are stupid.

Gingrich claims he has admitted to wrongs in the past so we should move on. But he has never described what those wrongs were so far as I know. How do we know exactly what he understands he did wrong? Americans are pretty good at handing out second chances, but only after a full laying bare of one's erros along with degree of humility and contrition. All we see in this guy is anger that anyone dares to discuss the fact that he obviously took vows and then broke them. Won't he have to take an oath of office if elected--what guarantee can he offer that he won't break that promise? Why won't he discuss all this completely openly and stop being so insulted that intelligent people may actually have concerns about his record in conducting his personal affairs?

And not for nothing, but the very idea of a First Lady being a woman who carried on with a married man for years digusts me.

Plus she's too blond.

What do you think, is Callista shtumping the hairdresser? Whoever that person is, they obviously never leave her side. What particularly galls me is that our good ol' boy Newt walked out on his wife after a diagnosis of a catastrophic illness; he's a real fine fellow. Newt may or may not have admitted to wrongs in the past but he has never been on such a big stage & under such a bright light so we certainly should be discussing this issue. People will believe what they want to believe but taking Newt's (or any candidate's) measure is what this process is all about.

And he is a Catholic to boot. Who do not recognize divorce.

Why POTUS & Mittens are afraid of Newt
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Mr Romney is smooth and competent but Mr Gingrich has something that his competitor lacks – a capacity to articulate and echo the anger of the conservative electorate.

At least among Republicans, Mr Gingrich is so battle-scarred that no matter what dirt is thrown at him – even the fact that his ex-wife said he wanted an “open marriage” – it no longer sticks.

Mr Gingrich is also twice the natural politician that Mr Romney is, and was able to tailor his message on the campaign trail in South Carolina to rouse that state’s voters.

The republicans should be shooting for vanilla, instead...they choose rocky road.

we are in a world of hurt if that scumbaag Gingrich gets the nomination

If you think the President is afraid of Newt, you've been ingesting a lot of crack with your cream cheese. Newt is the best thing to happen to Democrats because his nationwide numbers among independent voters and women, as well as his overall negative numbers, are horrendous. Even if he does not get the nomination, he has bloodied Romney in a way that can only help the Democrats. The Republicans are so desperate now that they are courting Jeb Bush and considering a "brokered" convention. The only way this could get better is for Palin to jump in the race.

The republicans should be shooting for vanilla

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Falcon, I'll take a stab and assume your voting Democrat ,true?
Reason I say this, is that Romney will not have an easy time showing how he's different than Obama. It starts with Health Care.

could christie roll in, suddenly?

I doubt he is able to do much of anything that is physical "suddenly." Roll, yes. Suddenly, no.

Thougtful contribution MidtownerVirginEast, as if Wbottom's post wasn't sufficient and widely understood.

i can't believe that i actually found a post from jason that i can agree. crap, next thing you know the giants will be going to the superbowl....

oh, and what happened to petrfitz? did user swallow him whole?

Romney has to survive the primaries before the real fight begins.
The trick will be getting all these disparate righties under one tent without burning it down.
Obama could win a second term on republican implosion.
At this very moment my vote is rudderless.
I loved Cain, mostly 'cause I like to laugh.
I liked Huntsman 'cause I like those sexy daughters.
I can't vote foe Newt 'cause he's a psycho right wing philander wing nut ( and I type that with great respect).
Paul is well .........let's just say......unrealistic and leave it at that.
That leaves me with Richy Rich, Dudly Doright and Joseph Smith all rolled into one.
Those greying temples look very presidential.

falco, couldn't agree more. what a lot. dems must be salivating for the newt express....

That is pretty much where I stand too... Hoping Paul will eventually pull for Richy rick, but he is too interested in getting his message/ideas out there. A very good message on which they should heed. But,Romney is the best chance we have. No dispespect to Bam, but hes got to go.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-23/gingrich-pressured-to-release-freddie-mac-consulting-contracts.html