Kill Newt's Chances of Winning the Republican Nomination for President of the US

[Jacob]

He can't help himself. Looks like this press availability was a better effort:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...tHLQ_blog.html

Just saw that. Much better. Tonight will be interesting. Should be a triple team against Newt with Ron Paul also attacking Santorum. Santorum has much more to gain attacking Newt than Mitt. And Santorum started going after him on ethics last debate.

[NorthwestUteFan]

What Mitt needs to say:

Is there any chance you could get a gig as a speechwriter/adviser? His current staff seems hopelessly outmatched. Are they all related to him?

[Surfah]

Pawlenty calls Newt unelectable. One of the articles someone posted said that in Florida we're going to see more endorsements for Mitt and the endorsers stepping up to coalesce around Mitt. I think we'll see more of this.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...-beat-gingrich

[Jacob]

Pawlenty calls Newt unelectable. One of the articles someone posted said that in Florida we're going to see more endorsements for Mitt and the endorsers stepping up to coalesce around Mitt. I think we'll see more of this.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...-beat-gingrich

Pawlenty still wished he never dropped out.

[Pelado]

This may be the most damning evidence of Gingrich's using political status to his own advantage. Gingrich did not even wait until leaving Congress to start profiting from his political connections, amassing a net worth of $7.5 million by the time he left was forced out of the Speakership.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richards...s-like-romney/

Finally, take the case of Newt Gingrich, who despite posing earlier as the sober GOP candidate who’d run a positive campaign and wouldn’t trash his GOP rivals, this week chose to trash one of them: Mitt Romney, the only genuine wealth-maker among the entire GOP bunch. For context, note that when Gingrich first won a House seat in 1978 he was making a mere $10,000 a year; he went on to win nine more terms, the last couple as Speaker of the House (1995-1999). In 1994, the year before he became Speaker, Gingrich reported annual income of $675,000 a year – or many multiples of his official salary. In 1999 Gingrich was forced to resign from the GOP-controlled House and as Speaker, after being disciplined for wrongdoing (with a lop-sided vote of 395-28) and paying a $300,000 fine; it was the first time in U.S. history a Speaker was disciplined for ethical wrongdoing.

By the time Gingrich left as Speaker in 1999 – as a so-called public servant - his net worth had grown to astounding $7.5 million. What possible market value did Gingrich produce to attain such net worth while occupying political office?

Since leaving public office in 1999 Mr. Gingrich has accumulated millions more by peddling his political influence with in-office Republicans, pushing for the destructive policy preferences of pharmaceutical firms, Wall Street banks, Freddie Mac, and the environmentalists. Now Gingrich wants to be president and, according to polls, religious conservatives simply adore him. They don’t mind that Gingrich is an inveterate sinner; they’re impressed that he so frequently seeks the Christian white-wash/hogwash of “forgiveness.” Gingrich is a taker, not a maker – but even worse, as he lacks the decency to refrain from assaulting makers.

[Pelado]

This may be the most damning evidence of Gingrich's using political status to his own advantage. Gingrich did not even wait until leaving Congress to start profiting from his political connections, amassing a net worth of $7.5 million by the time he left was forced out of the Speakership.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richards...s-like-romney/

I left off this little gem from the end of the article, which sums up Newt pretty well:

Newt Gingrich is a corrupt, unprincipled power-luster who’ll say anything and take any position necessary to attain high office, and if he can’t do that, he seeks to take wealth by selling his access to political offices.

[oxcoug]

This may be the most damning evidence of Gingrich's using political status to his own advantage. Gingrich did not even wait until leaving Congress to start profiting from his political connections, amassing a net worth of $7.5 million by the time he left was forced out of the Speakership.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richards...s-like-romney/

Pelado is a political thread MVP candidate for digging up stuff like this.

[Omaha 680]

Pawlenty still wished he never dropped out.

Pawlenty was my guy early on. I think he could have won the nomination if he had just been himself and genuinely shared his ideas on how to fix the economy and reign in spending. Instead he listened too much to consultants and went down in flames. Sounds familiar.

[Pelado]

Pelado is a political thread MVP candidate for digging up stuff like this.

Oh, go on.


Really, go on.

[sparky]

Newt Gingrich is a corrupt, unprincipled power-luster who’ll say anything and take any position necessary to attain high office, and if he can’t do that, he seeks to take wealth by selling his access to political offices.

So Newt is a sociopath?
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

Indeed he is.

[TripletDaddy]

I can sense the anger in this thread. Lots of sore losers here today.

[Moliere]

I can sense the anger in this thread. Lots of sore losers here today.

We are all losers when Newt wins

[oxcoug]

I can sense the anger in this thread. Lots of sore losers here today.

I can see you were hurt by KL's announcement that I have the best thread titles. Don't worry, you have the most thread titles, and no one can take that away from you.

Is there any chance you could get a gig as a speechwriter/adviser? His current staff seems hopelessly outmatched. Are they all related to him?

Thanks for the compliment - my bro is really the one he shld have. That guy crafts rhetorical knockout blows w/ zero effort - YOhio was a student of my bro's game and I occasionally notice Y striving for that kind of virtuosity and almost pulling it off, so maybe he shld apply as well.

On a separate note: My diet today so far -

2 delicious chocolate chip cookies
1 glass of milk
20 oz of Coke zero
4 TJ chocolate pretzels
several chips with garlic onion dip

= winning

[Goatnapper'96]

I can sense the anger in this thread. Lots of sore losers here today.

I agree. Newt will flame out once more. Just a 'lil payuhshens!

[TripletDaddy]

We are all losers when Newt wins

How many sore losers on CUF have posted a threat to leave the Republican party if they don't get their way? lol. threatening to leave a political party. that will show 'em.