Sen. Tom Coburn: I Will Have Difficulty Supporting Newt Gingrich as President

[starfish50]

As a voter in the district of Senitor Coburn, I pray he will say NO to any PIPA and SOPA backed bills.,and will vote YES to H.R.3785 - repeal NDAA

[equsnarnd]

@purechaos2000 That's profoundly stupid, isn't it? Not supporting the Republican nominee is different from voting for Obama, how? If you know Obama will be voted in by your refusing support to the nominee then you are voting for Obama by omission.

[starfish50]

@equsnarnd YES exactly. If they do not vote for ANY Republican they are voting YES to the distruve Obama. All my life I have been a democrat. NO MORE - they lost all of my respect when they let Obama RUN WITHOUT any PROOF of his birth place.Don't vote for at least one of these men is a vote for DICTATOR Obama

[Bostinlagga]

This is one of the guys that I want gone, Anyone who has spent anytime studying newt will understand what he is trying to do. I recommend watching Newts speech in Michigan on job creation. Change is hard and it's going to take alot to up root what has been done to this country.

[alteredlame666]

0.28 seconds, priceless.

[thomasjefferson6]

Coburn is no conservative. He is a RINO establishment Republican who has done zilch for the conservative cause.

[JojahBoy]

@thomasjefferson6

Same as Gingrich. It is his hypocrisy on sooo many issues that is going to force the Republicans to lose should he become the nominee.

[MrOklahomaDave]

@thomasjefferson6 You have got to be kidding. He is the best conservative in DC.

[JojahBoy]

Here, Obama vs Paul

firstread dot msnbc dot msn dot com/_news/2011/12/04/9202435-g­ingrich-takes-control-in-iowa

Do NOT blow this nose holders! Vote for the ONLY guy that stands a chance at beating Obama!!

[drrjtco]

I support Gingrich just because RINOs like Coburn are against him.

[JojahBoy]

@drrjtco

Gingrich is the uber RINO. The RINO's like Coburn aren't against him because Gingrich is some saint.........they're against him because they Gingrich is even worse than they are! He's just a sleazy politician lobbyist flip flopper who epitomizes all that is wrong with the political system in America today.

[JojahBoy]

To find out more about this sleazy scumbag politician check:

realchange  d o t o r g forwardslash gingrich d o t h t m

[ruggerdgmail]

It's a shame that the conversation is reduced to ideological nonsense, misinformation and name calling. Not much different than looking at the Daily Kos. I'm out of here. There must be somewhere with some intelligent debate and honest discussion.

[ruggerdgmail]

This is how Obama got elected in the first place. In-fighting among the republicans knocked better candidates out of the running. If he thinks Obama would be better than Gingrich he should keep running his mouth. Otherwise focus on positive attributes of the people we to support rather than tearing each other down. We need to support whoever is nominated or we will have more Obama. The benchmark is against Obama,not each other.McCain didn't discourage people from voting, comments like this did!

[JojahBoy]

@ruggerdgmail Unless you guys elect Ron Paul you won't win. Period. McCain't moment all over again. Vote for the guy with a proven track record of HONESTY and STATESMANSHIP..........NOT lobbying, multiple extra-marital affairs and big hugs with pelosi and the like. Gingrich is the WORST choice possible.

[ruggerdgmail]

@JojahBoy You don't seem like a dumb guy so I don't know why you are on this ideological track. Paul would be a great candidate but what does that have to do with Gingrich. Do you not get it. We need to build up our candidate that we support through their positive attributes. People only resort to cutting others down and name calling when they don't have a strong case. I will support whatever republican wins the nod. Cutting the others up is exactly what lost the last election. Period!

[JojahBoy]

@ruggerdgmail

I get it man. It's the rest of the Republican hold their nose and vote crowd that is screwing it up for everyone else! You guys did this SAME thing last time with McCain and stuck us with Obama. Gingrich doesnt HAVE any positive attributes worth mentioning and they are FAR outweighed by his sleazy personal history, lobbying and 86 ethics violations that had him run out of Congress. Vote for a STATESMAN, not a POLITICIAN. Otherwise, your vote is WASTED.

[ruggerdgmail]

@JojahBoy You don't get it Jonah because if it wasn't for the infighting such as this McCain wouldn't have been the nominee. Gingrich has many positive attributes and got a great deal done in reigning Bill Clinton into a moderate position. Just because you don't like him doesn't mean he got nothing done. His negatives may outweigh his positives but they don't outweigh Obama's negatives. Statesman don't run negative ad's Period, so Paul doesn't qualify on that front. Sorry!

[JojahBoy]

@ruggerdgmail The ONLY guy that can actually BEAT obama isn't Gingrich, Perry, Romney, Santorum, Bachmann or Huntsman. If Ron Paul does not win the nomination you can just hang up getting the required support from true fiscal conservatives/non-pharisee Christrians. They're SICK of supporting flip flopping slimebags like Gingrich. If you don't get behind Paul, we will NOT be holding our nose. Waste your vote on anyone but Paul and you're getting Obama. Plain and simple.

[purechaos2000]

@JojahBoy I agree.. I told people this in 2008 and we got Obama. The independents and true conservatives will not support Romney, Perry, Cain, or Gingrich. None of them will get my vote in the primary or general election. If I have to I will simply leave the box for president blank.

[equsnarnd]

@ruggerdgmail What you say is all true but in no way is it an argument for supporting Gingrich. You have to be blind to support this guy, if not deaf, dumb and stupid. Or an Odrama supporter.

[ruggerdgmail]

@JojahBoy and we shouldn't tolerate or encourage this kind of nastiness. Obama has to go. Whoever gets the republican nomination has to beat him. People on the fence don't need to hear every single piece of dirty laundry aired in this manner. If you think that after Paul that Obama would be the next best candidate then continue in this direction. Just remember four more years of Obama none of this will matter. There will be nothing more to salvage. Do you not get what's at stake here.

[JojahBoy]

@ruggerdgmail

Turning a blind eye to someone so morally unethical that he was run out of Congress and forced to pay more than a quarter million dollars in fines, who sided with folks like Pelosi and who've garnered more than a million bucks lobbying.....NO, we will NOT vote for this person. Obama and Gingrich represent the same thing. Sleazy politicians. We need a STATESMAN. Ron Paul 2012. Support our troops because they support HIM!

[ruggerdgmail]

@JojahBoy You also need to get off this Paul is the only person who can win kick. That is not consistent with polling IN STATES THAT MATTER, and it is utter nonsense. You think people care about honesty and statesmanship. Did you sleep through the last election. You are incredibly misguided if you really believe that Paul is the only one that can win the election. Thats all I have to say on the topic. You are clearly very young and I don't mean that in a demeaning manner. Good Luck.

[JojahBoy]

@ruggerdgmail

Ron Paul is 2nd in Iowa/New Hampshire. You should read up on Reagan and his 3 runs at office, how everyone demeaned him, said he wouldn't win....VERY reminiscent of what's going on right now. Dont blow this for the rest of us. Gingrich is a LOSER and will NEVER beat Obama. Paul can pull the indys, disaffected dems, REAL fiscal conservatives and constitutionalists and non-pharisee denominated christians. What's gingrich got? People with no morals holding their nose.

[rlaycock]

I've heard the same thing from two very good congressmen in So Cal. Not this year but in the past on reviewing Newt's term as Speaker. Same as Tom, not a lot of specifics, just that he was a great Whip but a terrible Speaker.

[BigBingFan]

I will have difficulty in watching Senator Tom Coburn on C-Span, FoxNews, CNN, etc. And to the Ron Paulbots, no Herman Cain people, except the MORE insane ones, will vote for Ron Paul. Newt will be the Nominee. Please deal with it. Senator Coburn will have to.

[JojahBoy]

@BigBingFan

Search YouTube for Serial Hypocrisy. This has already gone viral.....or perhaps you weren't aware? Paul is 2nd place in Iowa in the latest republican polls behind Newt...and that's not including indys and others. As for Newt, if he DID become the nominee, which he won't, there is no way in hell he'd beat Obama. How anyone with any morals whatsoever could vote for someone like Gingrich speaks volumes about them not only as a citizen, but as a human in general.

[XPIOLT]

I have found not one person that supports Gingrich, only the mainstream media. So who exactly is voting for him in these polls? The Neo-Cons? The dumbed down American sheeple? The illegal aliens? Who?

[ruggerdgmail]

@XPIOLT I support him. I am not a sheeple or an illegal alien. But thank you for the useless labels and name calling. You certainly add a lot to the discussion.

[JojahBoy]

@XPIOLT

It's BigBingFan and his Newtbots. What I find particularly ironic is that Newton was the one who had an epiphany on gravity.............you know....what goes up must come down.........just like Newt in the polls :-)

[EntropyPressStAt]

This interview with Senator Coburn, I'm sure, is just the tippity-tippity top of the iceberg with Newt. one word: Scumbag.

[rchicks22]

Newt's personal life is a major concern for many that I talk to. It is hard to vote for someone who had an affair on his 2nd wife with his 3rd wife who is 23 years his junior, while impeaching Clinton for Monica.

[JojahBoy]

@rchicks22

And this is after having dumped his cancer stricken first wife for his 2nd stating this about his first "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." He then proceeded to try to talk about divorce proceedings while she in the hospital recovering from surgery related to her cancer! How anyone could support this scumbag who got 1+ million bucks from the GSE's for "advice" is just beyond me.

[ruggerdgmail]

@JojahBoy get your facts straight. She asked for the divorce, not him. She wasn't cancer stricken and she is still alive. So you would rather see Obama in office I assume than Gingrich. Oh and your back ground is sparkling clean. I know it's not because right now you are involved in unsubstantiated and dishonest gossip.

[ruggerdgmail]

@rchicks22 More misinformation. When will it end. Clinton wasn't impeached for Monica. Gingrich didn't pursue impeachment because of Monica. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath in a grand jury investigation and committing perjury. Can you please stay out of these discussions if you don't understand the issues or are going to misrepresent the facts.

[rchicks22]

@ruggerdgmail It is a fact that Gingrich has cheated on 2 out of 3 wives. I'm not saying that is the worst thing in the world, but we don't have to settle for a repeated adulterer when choosing someone for the highest office of the executive branch. That being said, yes, I should have said "Gingrich pursued impeachment of Clinton for lying under oath to a grand jury about sexual relations with a Ms. Lewinsky." Is that better?

[rockinandout]

I really wish Cain wouldn't drop out.

[JojahBoy]

@rockinandout

Herman Cain forums have thrown their support behind Dr.Ron Paul, the only candidate who predicted the collapse of Fannie/Freddie years in advance, who has NEVER voted to raise taxes, who has gotten more campaign donations from active duty military than all the rest of the candidates COMBINED along with the sitting commander in chief, and who was the only candidate ever endorsed by Reagan. He's also a veteran, astute economist and doctor.

[rockinandout]

@JojahBoy only the more radical ones have. besides at leas with a perry you see a track record of cutting government, growing the economy, and strong defense versus paul's record of just voting for his ideology with no real effect. 4 years is long enough to have an ideologically driven president who cant actually get anything done, lets not do it again. please.

[JojahBoy]

@rockinandout

“Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country.” – Ronald Reagan

Starting the Tea Party and Auditing the Fed wouldn't be what I'd categorize as having "no real effect". Everyone has changed their tune and parrot Paul's talking points. Support the candidate our troops support.

[rockinandout]

@JojahBoy "I want to totally disassociate myself from the Reagan Administration." -Paul May 10, 1988. also Paul's plan is to allow the chinese to protect the seas and our foreign interests simply by his policy to withdraw america from the world. this will decrease foreign trade and ultimately hurt the economy. i realize that isnt what the FF wanted but you have to realize the would is different, america is bigger and the leader of the free world. pauls sound like he wants "leading from behind"

[JojahBoy]

@rockinandout

And WHY did he want to disassociate himself? Government growth! As for foreign policy, we simply don't have the money to be the policeman of the world. Plain and simple. You might want us to suffer a bankruptcy and loss of the dollar as world reserve currency, Dr.Paul doesn't. He doesn't want to withdraw from the world. He wants to trade and have peaceful relations as that is the best means to promote prosperity, not perpetual war. Vietnam is proof.

[rockinandout]

@JojahBoy he also disassociated himself from 20 years of relatively uninterrupted economic growth, supply side economics, and peace through strength. now i agree we should end the wars in the middle east, i believe peace through strength, not nation building but if we end those wars our military is in no way bankrupting us, the entitlement programs are. and we cant have free trade if china is controlling the seas.

[JojahBoy]

@rockinandout

You mean the same supply side economics that led to the Nasdaq bubble? Guess that wasn't considered an interruption, nor the S&L scandal that was being perpetrated during that period? Our military is costing us more than 1 trillion a year when using generally accepted accounting principles and not the big govt smoke n mirror kind. Corporate welfare is what's killing us the most. Subsidies to companies like Halliburton cost more than poor folk getting free cheese.

[JojahBoy]

@rockinandout

And just so you know, I'm glad to see we agree on ending the debacle in the Middle East. It's nothing but a giant money suckhole lining the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned about as he left office. As for free trade, we don't currently have free trade. We have managed trade which is the exact opposite of free. Same thing with our economy. We aren't a free market capitalist economy any more than China is.

[ruggerdgmail]

@JojahBoy He is not the only one who predicted the problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact Bush expressed concern about it as well as John McCain. Paul was very accurate in his assessment but he was hardly the only one that predicted problems with Fannie/Freddie.

[JojahBoy]

@ruggerdgmail

He predicted well before Bush and McCain.

[hipposelect]

I can answer why. How about because he was drummed out of Congress and fined $300,000 for ethics violations. Reason enough?

[JojahBoy]

@hipposelect

Maybe his campaign slogan should be Lobbyist You Can Believe In.