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This Week's Rising Star - The Newt Thread

Puppycow said:
Newt's latest applause line is telling the OWS protesters to "get a job; right after you take a bath."

This from a man who got paid millions by Freddie Mac for what he claims was being a "historian."
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This type of baiting of counterculture leftists is something started by George Wallace in his run for president in 1968.
 
MaGZ said:
This type of baiting of counterculture leftists is something started by George Wallace in his run for president in 1968.
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This may be true, but I'd be interested to see some documentation that Wallace actually started it. Not that it makes all that much difference.

"Hippie bashing" was a relatively popular pastime during that election as well as before it, especially among the right, but not exactly limited to them. It served to deflect attention from the more uncomfortable questions like, "WTF are we doing poisoning crops and burning farm villages to the ground in Southeast Asia?"

Wallace was running against Romney, Rockefeller, Reagan, and Nixon in the primary, and none of them were the least bit reticent about blaming the protest movement for any and everything that could be interpreted as somehow 'wrong' at the time. Nixon in particular made a special habit of it, to the point of making sure in the general election that his trained attack cretin, Agnew, had lots of alliterative quote moments. (I always admired Safire for having the brazen chutzpah to chastise other people's writing after penning the phrase, "nattering nabobs of negativism".)
 
Puppycow said:
Newt's latest applause line is telling the OWS protesters to "get a job; right after you take a bath."
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When Cain made his job comments about OWS I laughed a little thinking. Out of one side of his mouth he's blaming Obama for lack of jobs and out of the other insinuates there are jobs readily available for the OWS folk. Seems like Newt isn't immune to such failed logic.

But fans eat it up.
 
He was the most impressive debater last night. At this point, I will most certainly vote for Newt over anyone else on that panel.
 
ZirconBlue said:
I think my favorite Gingrich moment, so far, is when he went from supporting military action in Libya to decrying it in like a 2-week time-span.
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Between comments like that and his historical baggage, there's no way he's going to be the candidate or even the VP choice.

DavidJames said:
When Cain made his job comments about OWS I laughed a little thinking. Out of one side of his mouth he's blaming Obama for lack of jobs and out of the other insinuates there are jobs readily available for the OWS folk. Seems like Newt isn't immune to such failed logic.

But fans eat it up.
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That's been their strategy for a while now, make contradictory claims and hope (assume) their "base" won't notice. They claim to have created tons of jobs as Governor, yet they all claim the government doesn't create jobs, etc...

No different than in the last debate where Cain claimed Obama was responsible for threats to our national security. Can anyone remember any actual security failures since February 2009? I remember a really big one back in 2001.
 
So - in the RCP averaging polls, we've got Teh Newt on top in the averaged national polls, and running first everywhere but NH in the early primary states.

The money is still on Mitt, but the GOP masses don't want to nominate him. And Romney's the only one who polls even close to Obama. Even with his non-favorable ratings, according to the last ten polls or so, Barack beats all of them - with Mitt being the only one close.

The GOP is in a bit of a pickle. They don't have a single "machine" pulling together to push Mitt high up enough in the consensus ratings, but they know that Obama's licking his chops at the chance to run against any of these maroons, particularly The Newt. (The Bushies are sitting this one out, 'though I have no doubt they'll make a show of throwing support to the ultimately chosen one. As I've said for almost a year, they're just waiting for the crowning of King Jeb I.)

A note to Obama:
Run against the only entity out there with a worse "favorable" rating than you have - Congress! Time was, most of those negatives were from hearth and home Republicans. With the TP dominating the nightly congressional ain't misbehavin' reports the negatives apply to all the dolts. Run against Congress and the extremists in the Tea Party, whether the candidate you face is one of them or not. It's a popular old Limbaugh/Rove gambit; turn it back on them and let them all spend every afternoon explaining that they're not really part of the whacktard minority.
 
Got out my grisgris to breathe some life into my own zombie thread because I couldn't find a suitable other Newt thread.

I was reading various articles on The Hitch and came across this (has nothing to do with Christopher).

Headline: "New Gingrich Snags the Coveted Pro-Adultery Endorsement"

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/169386/newt-gingrich-snags-the-coveted-pro-adultery-endorsement/


It seems that Ashley Madison, the cheaters dating site, has chosen their nominee. :p Anyone know where that billboard is?
 
Thanks, Ben. (It was getting lonely in here.)

How long before we find out George Soros is behind Ashley Madison? :D
 
BenBurch said:
LOL. It's all part of the Gay Agenda somehow. I don't know how, but you know that Fox News will figure it out and tell us presently.
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Of course it is. We are trying to remove the claim that gay marriage will destroy straight marriage. The easiest way is to get enough straights to destroy it first, then nobody will care if we get married.
 
Foolmewunz said:
No one's started the "flavor of the week" thread for Newt, yet.

With the crash and burn of both Perry and Cain, the Tea Party is now pushing to the crafty old veteran.

In a world where Newt Gingrich was the voice of sanity and calm (the GOP debates, to date, where he played elder statesman), anything can happen. But I think there's more than entertainment coming, here. Newt can win the nomination.

No, he hasn't been under the microscope yet, but yes, he's been under it for years. We know what's going to come, but so do the faithful and they don't care. And Romney can't get above his current percentage range, no matter what. He doesn't inspire the Tea Part fundies, and in fact worries them.

It's not a locked-in certainty, but Gingrich could actually take the nomination.
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Newt! Newt! Newt!

The party faithful don't care that he's a polished turd; it's what they want. Newt put together a coalition of young white men, tea partiers, and evangelicals according to CBS News (those commie pinko preverts).

On to Florida, Newt!
 
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If my fellow Americans want a president with an ego larger than his head, then I guess the results from SC mean something... something that concerns me a lot.

If the results from SC are rooted in a particular segment of the population cheering an adulterer because a question was asked of him in a debate and he was an ******* in his response, thereby "fighting back" against the media... that concerns me more.

If the voters in the SC primary did so because of the wall to wall Fox News/talk radio narrative that he was "ambushed" by John King and the Lame Stream Media on Friday, I'm worried about the survival of our republic.
 
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