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

[Moliere]

you do great work here, Ox.

Any way you might move up the Hottie date timing?

Don't distract him. We need him to focus through November.

[Surfah]

Alright now we just have to go make that Big 12 thread more effective.

[Viking]

Alright now we just have to go make that Big 12 thread more effective.

Halo effect!

[Moliere]

Do we now need one of these threads for Obama? If so, I nominate oxcoug to make the title since he's by far and away #1 in making thread titles.

[oxcoug]

Do we now need one of these threads for Obama? If so, I nominate oxcoug to make the title since he's by far and away #1 in making thread titles.

Why do you do that to Triple?

[Moliere]

Why do you do that to Triple?

Because I care

[wuapinmon]

Do we now need one of these threads for Obama? If so, I nominate oxcoug to make the title since he's by far and away #1 in making thread titles.

I prefer scottie's directness.

[cowboy]

May I suggest: "the pig is walking on two legs, comrades - ending the reign of the mostly equals."

[Pelado]

May I suggest: "the pig is walking on two legs, comrades - ending the reign of the mostly equals."

Do you have an Animal Farm, cowboy? Please be kind to the animals.

[myboynoah]

Newt cldn't have handled the first lady question any worse.

First of all: there are word combinations Newt shld never, ever let escape his lips on a national stage. "Three wives" is one of them.

Secondly - he almost gave off the impression that he was talking Callista down. He said she wldn't be "innately better" than any of the others. He used the word "like" instead of love. And then he wrapped up by saying "I'd love to hang out with her in the White House."

I'm guessing it was a cold lonely night for Newtie.

And what. In. The. Hell. Was he thinking?

What voters HAD to hear from him in that moment was how deeply in love he was with her, how she inspires him, how she will inspire America. They should have heard NOTHING about any other woman - nothing that suggested anything but his undying devotion to her. Instead they got exactly what they expected/feared. It was like "hey these broads are pretty much interchangeable so, uh, who's up for a wife swap?"

Given that he went third AND had a full commercial break to reflect.... mindboggling.

I think that the question itself was some subtle payback from CNN who has been steamed all week.

On a separate note: This thread has very nearly fulfilled its purpose. You're welcome, America.

Hack

[beefytee]

Looks like Newt's financier is being investigate for ties to the Chinese mob:

http://news.yahoo.com/bribes-chinese...-abc-news.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

Looks like Newt's financier is being investigate for ties to the Chinese mob:

http://news.yahoo.com/bribes-chinese...-abc-news.html

lol.

I heard a quote last night after the debate on CNN. Some big shot in the Republican party predicted that if Newt won the nomination we would witness a meltdown in the party that would make Three Mile Island look like a marshmallow roast.

[myboynoah]

Morning Joe Drills The Gringrich a New One

Conservative stalwarts like Steve Largent, Tom Coburn and Matt Salmon joined me and seven others to demand a cut in spending and a promise to hold firm on tax cuts.

Newt did not take the rebellion lying down. He immediately summoned the sergeant of arms to drag the 11 rebels down to a Republican caucus meeting in the bowels of the Capitol basement, where Newt lined us up in front of a packed room of seething House members who were now missing the first day of their Easter recess because of our insurgency. Gingrich then began screaming and demanded that the 11 of us account for our behavior.

He then taught me a political lesson I will always remember: Never willingly hand the microphone over to your enemies. Especially when the first rebel to speak was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame and one of People Magazine’s Most Beautiful Men Alive.

. . . . . . . . .

The beautiful NFL Hall of Famer then quietly moved in for the kill.

Turning to the Speaker, who a year earlier had been named Time Magazine’s person of the year, Largent said, “Newt, you were the one who drafted the contract and then told us to sign it. Now, you’re the one pressuring us to break it. But Newt, if I wasn’t intimidated by the thought of 250 pound linebackers who wanted to kill me every time I crossed the field, why would I be intimidated by you?”

And with that, the speakership of Newt Gingrich was over. A year later, he would be driven from power and sent into a political wilderness from which he emerged 14 years later on a Saturday night in South Carolina.

Gingrich’s precipitous fall from power was the result of arrogance, self-satisfaction and a fatal tendency to flit from issue to issue — and even from core conviction to core conviction — in the seeming belief that if he spoke well enough (and used as many adverbs as possible), no one would notice that he was doing something he had equally eloquently (and equally adverbially) opposed before.

[thesaint258]

Newt's campaign shoots itself in the foot. I guess the press can still follow Newt on Monday, but after this fiasco, why would they? Newt seems to be begging them to completely ignore him on the day before the primary.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Newt's campaign shoots itself in the foot. I guess the press can still follow Newt on Monday, but after this fiasco, why would they? Newt seems to be begging them to completely ignore him on the day before the primary.

This article made me lol. Am I the only one that thought Gingrich was trying to turn a profit from the press?