Congressman Peter King slams fellow Republican Newt Gingrich

Let's hope Iowa Republicans will turn away from Gingrich.

tommurphy, I agree with you on both counts, re. Peter King and Gingrich. Gingrich should scare the hell out of rational, thinking people. He is a loose canon, undisciplined, arrogant, temperamental, unpredictable, self-absorbed and mean-spirited. As King noted, his language is excessive and extreme. He enjoys demonizing people. He has few Republican friends in Congress - many remember well the disrespect and contempt they had to put up with until, finally, with very few friends left in either aisle he quit. But he left a horrible legacy - hyper-partisanship and poison politics, resulting in the gridlock we see today. As president, this guy would be a disaster - and very dangerous for our country.

""...a Southern, anti-union attitude that appeals to the mentality of hillbillies at revival meetings." King may be an ass, but he spoke truth to power. Time for NY and New England to ditch the 3rd-World, Poor-ass, GOP-voting Red States. Why the hell are we in this union with these southern neanderthals who are subsidized by prosperous and progressive Blue States like NY? The evil heart of regressive and destructive right-wing politics lies in the south. It's a cancer that is destroying the nation. The cure is simple.

When Mr.King gets elevated to Speaker of the House and writes as many books as Newt has and has chaired a budget,then I'll ask his advice.

and "WE"RE OFF!!" on the battle of who can slam who the hardest! (not that i am a Newt fan or anything close to it) we have a bunch of toddlers thowing hissy fits in Washington...where are the adults???

Until now I thought Obama mightn't make it. But is this keeps up he's a shoe-in.........

As a fellow ND law grad I take umbrage at being referred to as a red-neck because I'm from Georgia and Gingrich's former congressional district. Talk about parochial! Maybe Gringrich's remarks about New York were directed at Pete. But then Pete says he wasn't in the Speaker's inner circle but yet he knows all about what Gingrich was saying. A bit inconsistent no?

King is no dummy

Mr. King should "get over it" and remember the 11th commandment as rendered by President Ronald Reagan "Don't speak ill of other Republicans." Perhaps Mr. King is exhibiting some of the pique he contemns . . . .

Like watching rattlesnakes turn on one another...Obama will win by default if it's Newt.

Finally Peter says something that makes sense. And has the guts to say it, whilst so many of his like-minded Congressional colleagues say nothing, waiting to see which way the wind will blow. Good on 'ya, Congressman King.