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

[oxcoug]

"Polls close at 8. But Newt's marriage stays open all night."

--Andy Borowitz

[FMCoug]

This thread needs to be renamed

Suicide Watch: Newt's Chances of Winning the Republican Nomination for President of the US

[LA Ute]

This is a pretty good slam-down by Jennifer Rubin:

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

[myboynoah]

Florida Republican primary liveblog

7:10 p.m. | Gingrich camp behind robocall, ‘unfortunately’

A spokesman for Newt Gingrich said the campaign regrets putting out a robocall accusing Mitt Romney of cutting off kosher meals for Holocaust victims.

The call was “unfortunately” put out by the campaign but did not go through “the normal vetting process,” Joe DeSantis told the Wall Street Journal, adding that the line of attack would not be used in future contests.

Gingrich told reporters earlier that he had not heard the call.

Huh?

[myboynoah]

Rubin really doesn't like The Gingrich at all.

Newt Gingrich loses Florida — and reminds us why

He obnoxiously ended by pledging: “My life, my fortune, my sacred honor.” But he’s not doing any of that. And it’s quite an insult to American patriots who have said that and meant it.

Gingrich has been reduced to a smaller-than-life figure. He’s a guy with a lot of words and very little appeal, whose meanness got the best of him and helped to wreck his campaign on a heap of attacks, insults and downright vile accusations (the latest being his claim that Romney is hostile to religion).

I wonder if The Gingrich ever did call Romney to congratulate him.

EDIT: I guess not. Mitt said on the Today Show that The Gingrich didn't call him after Iowa, New Hampshire, or Florida. Mitt did call The Gingrich after South Carolina.

[oxcoug]

Brilliant demolition of Newt by Dana Millbank in WaPol

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...s=rss_opinions

How do we love you, Newt Gingrich? Let us count the ways.

We love that, in an age of disciplined pols, you are different: You travel with suit jackets in multiple sizes to keep pace with your yo-yoing waistline. Youre always late sometimes spectacularly so. Romney follows a written, minute-by-minute schedule, complete with weather forecasts; often your top aides dont know where youre going....

We have a special place in our hearts for a man who describes himself as "a really important guy who really knows a lot." We enjoyed that, when you were told your moon colony idea was grandiose, you embraced the charge that I am grandiose and compared yourself to Abraham Lincoln and the Wright Brothers. We feel spoiled by your many attempts to liken yourself to Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and the Roosevelts both of them.

There is so much more. We love your feigned umbrage and your wild superlatives. We admire the way you frequently send us to Google to test your veracity like when you said this week that George Soros had labeled you with words he had not actually used...

We felt discomfort for you when Fox News, playing on a big screen at your Victory Party, projected Romneys win at 8 p.m. sharp. We felt pain when we heard that your concession speech might have to be delayed because there werent enough supporters to fill the seats behind you. We felt anguish when we learned that some of the supporters on the floor were in fact onlookers from a hardware convention.

[Green Monstah]

Gingrich wants to make FL delegates proportional.

If the 4/1 rule is a real rule, it should be enforced.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Rep...z/-/index.html

[Moliere]

Gingrich wants to make FL delegates proportional.

If the 4/1 rule is a real rule, it should be enforced.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Rep...z/-/index.html

Florida was already punished by having their delegate count cut in half. This was known well before any of the primary voting even happened. If Newt didn't like the punishment he should have gone after it back when it was handed down. Instead, he's looking more and more like a whiner.

[Green Monstah]

Florida was already punished by having their delegate count cut in half. This was known well before any of the primary voting even happened. If Newt didn't like the punishment he should have gone after it back when it was handed down. Instead, he's looking more and more like a whiner.

I thought they lost half because they moved up their primary date?

[Moliere]

I thought they lost half because they moved up their primary date?

Hmmm, Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought they lost half because they moved the primary date up past 4/1 because they are a winner take all state. I think the combination was what really brought on the punishment. I could be wrong though...

[Green Monstah]

Hmmm, Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought they lost half because they moved the primary date up past 4/1 because they are a winner take all state. I think the combination was what really brought on the punishment. I could be wrong though...

I think Iowa suffers the same punishment (losing 1/2), but they are a proportional state. Maybe losing 1/2 is the designated penalty for both infractions.

[beefytee]

I think Iowa suffers the same punishment (losing 1/2), but they are a proportional state. Maybe losing 1/2 is the designated penalty for both.

Iowa wasn't punished any because the caucus is non-binding and doesn't really result in any delegate assignments.

[Green Monstah]

Iowa wasn't punished any because the caucus is non-binding and doesn't really result in any delegate assignments.

I'm clearly out of my league on this.

Thanks for clarifying.

[beefytee]

I'm clearly out of my league on this.

Thanks for clarifying.

This is a good resource:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/events.phtml?s=c

Since Iowa neither elects nor binds delegates until 16 June 2012, the 3 January 2012 caucuses do not violate the party's timing rules.

[LA Ute]

Pretty good piece from Bob Tyrell:

As I wrote last week, Newt is a 1960s generation kid. Allow me to elaborate. That generation -- my generation -- was the most ballyhooed generation raised in the 20th century, and it was -- at least in politics -- a failed generation. Gingrich, the Clintons, Al Gore, and the rest of the 1960s hustlers began their political careers in college when they were the first generation to actually believe that student government was on campus to govern. The weak Liberal administrators went along with them and gave them a say in the running of their universities. The universities have yet to recover. Yet, beyond the damage they did to the universities was the damage they did to themselves. They became the most self-absorbed generation of narcissists ever heard of. From their student government days to their days in national politics they all lived out a fantasy. Now it is over. It would be eminently fitting if Romney won the presidency and set the country on course in 2012. He is from the normal half of that generation, a man who was a student in the 1960s and afterwards a businessman, until he had secured his fortune and entered public life in middle age. By then the Clintons and Newt had been supping at the public trough for years.

Yet, Newt's failure is part of a larger failure, the infantilism of the 1960s generation. In his narcissism, impulsiveness, and deviancy he is at one with the Clintons. Mitt, and for that matter Santorum, are just the opposite. They are straight arrows and duty-bound. They would not be a riot of scandals in the White House, but is it not about time that we leave the scandals to Hollywood?

This country is facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. President Obama offers us what Romney calls Crony Capitalism. Romney is right and Crony Capitalism means more Solyndras. Congressman Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, has served up a budget to cure the nation's ills and head us on a course that will not end like Greece has ended. Romney is not far from the Ryan budget and he can move even closer. Newt can be forgotten.