Login Here...little hallelujah? (via the WashingtonTimes)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will begin next week to seek financial commitments from donors for a presidential-nomination bid, the Georgia Republican told The Washington Times yesterday.
If he can get pledges for $30 million over the next three weeks, he will join the Republican presidential-nomination race — a prospect he had been downplaying until yesterday....
"I think in the age of television, we are reaching more people today than Abraham Lincoln reached personally his entire career," he told Fox News yesterday.
"Your show has literally that much more penetration," he said. "So I think in the age of television, I've been in Iowa many times."
Proving once again that a grandiose ego, checkered personal background, absence of ethics and utter lack of shame is no barrier for a Republican Presidential aspirant.
Lesson one: never, ever get between Newt and a television camera. Lesson two: pass the popcorn. Because in Newtie's world, if people send him $30 million dollars, that means he's beloved, even though his negatives are somewhere around Dick Cheney's ankles. Newsweek already says that it is hard to take Gingrich seriously. Let the games begin...
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WOOT!
Well I know I’m sending money
Damn, you two are quick! Congrats!
Oh, yes, I’ve been laughing myself silly over this.
That same Washington Times article had this gem in it too:
This is just going to be a blast watching these scumbags go after each other.
Just imagine the attack ads to come.
Glory be.
O please o please o please.
I have been laughing about this YouTube ever since I found it. hehehehehehe
Gingrich. Another family values kinda guy. I’m going into the kitchen. The lady wants my advice. On cooking supper.
Good post, Christy! What a joke! Newt couldn’t even hold the office he had, now he wants to go for a higher office? Oh, well, get on in, might as well, you’re as good as the rest of ‘em.
yeah newtie wait on my donation… its coming…….NEVER!!
I could almost hope he raises the money. It would be entertaining to watch which Repub candidate self destructed the quickest…
Oh Mah Gawd!
Having another dreadful workday (my stars better realign soon, dammit) and you just made up for all of it with this news.
Smiling so hard my face hurts.
This election thingy is getting to be fun
With friends like Newt Gingrich, who needs enemas?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 7
Hilarious!
Christie - you get the popcorn, I’ll get the rum. This is going to be fun!
LHP at 12 — I know. It’s deliciously amusing, isn’t it? And the thought of the Rudy/Newtie/Freddie and Mitt Show going on the road, with all the attendant stink bombs and dirty tricks campaigns? Delightful and de-lovely. Mwahahahahahaha…
American Solutions for Winning the Future
love the name he’s picked for his “advocacy group”
mmmm someone mention rum…..i’m in and i’ll bring the popcorn…or chips ;)
It might be worth send this nitwit some money just for the entetainment value.
Just was about to post this below:
FreedomsWatch.org, a group recently formed to support the war, asked me to investigate because it said it wasn’t offered the same terms for a response ad that MoveOn.org got….Bradley A. Blakeman, former deputy assistant to President Bush for appointments and scheduling and the head of FreedomsWatch.org, said his group wanted to run its own reply ad last Monday and was quoted the $64,575 rate on a standby basis.
That’s FreedomsWatch.org, yet another in an endless series of well-funded GOP astroturf groups. Astroturf=phoney grass roots.
The public editor serves as the readers’ representative. But he does not always serve them well.
“I think in the age of television, we are reaching more people today than Abraham Lincoln reached personally his entire career,” he told Fox News yesterday…, where they “fool some of the people all of the time.”
Oh, hurrah!!
*claps tiny forelimbs in delight*
I have clearly been a very, very good boy this year if we’re actually going to get a Newt candidacy.
Yeeeeeee-haww!!
It’s going to be The Great Snark Hunt!!
Liberty Lover @ 19
Unfortunately for Newtie, my entertainment budget is already stretched to its limit.
Newt’s seen by The Village as the Ideas Guy; one thing the GOP nominating process needs is more Ideas.
Like shutting down the government, eliminating Social Security, and privatizing all other government services. heh heh
This primary just got a lot more fun!
TRex @ 22
It’ll be the snark equivalent of one of Cheney’s canned “hunts,” that’s what it’ll be. No fun for Newt, but not much challenge for you.
I never thought a day would come when somewhere out there Tony Blankley is doing a snoopy Hallelujah dance at the same time I am. Only Newt could do this to me..)
Great video CHS.
Hee, hee, hee.
Thanks, Christy - really needed this today.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
Oh and when they turn on each other and start playing “pranks” on each other.
I bet the press corps is tunring collective cartwheels.
wow. television reaches more people than abraham lincoln reached in his entire career?
that’s just…flabbergasting. I mean, who would have guessed?
i guess Lincoln never flew in an airplane or ate microwaved food.
my lord, wonders never cease.
looseheadprop @ 28
They can pretend to be each other’s ex-wives and make cell phone calls during speeches before the Christian Coalition.
TRex — Ooooh, I knew you’d be lapping this one up… hehehehe
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
With a lineup like this, new comedy programs debuting on TV this fall will have their hands full trying to outdo these clowns. Jon and Steven are licking their chops, though.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
Gee, It seems like only days ago that I stood on a street corner and campaigned against Newt as Rep. and had eggs tossed at me. The interesting aspect is when a car rolls down the window and threatens to F** you and your mother and you wave and say thanks the cars behind have no idea what transpired.
Mabel at 29 — Not to mention the fact that there are just flat out more people these days. Will wonders never cease?
Semi OT
Ahmadinejad: “We Don’t Have Homosexuals Like In Your Country”
Just like the Grand Ole Party.
Gingrich, Guliani, Thompson:
marital fun and games like an Italian bedroom comedy.
mitt produces the non-eligible for military service offspring while the others trade spouses in a mad frenzy of fighting terror.
The danger with Newt is MSM. They gave him a pass while he was cheating on number 2 while at the same time impeaching Clinton. They’ll give him a pass again.
Hell, just for fun lets get Delay in there too!
Just before he goes to jail.
Perhaps we rabid lambs could each send a quarter to this two-bit campaign for fascism..
And we could do a pool on whether or not he will get another divorce before the first primary day.
JPL @ 37
On the other hand, a certain credibility gap seems to have opened up between the MSM and the body politic. In fact, they still haven’t gotten a ping back on the sonar survey.
Bustednuckles @ 38
ooo I love to hate him too
Christy Hardin Smith @ 31
Who would have ever thought that one sweaty little glob of Crisco would go such a long way? Thanks, Newtie! You’re the gift that keeps on giving!
The Math
US Population
1870 38,558,371
2007 301,139,947
duh
Eureka Springs @ 39
It could be a race between him and Ghouliani. Who can get divorced and remarried before the inauguration. Ready? Set? GO!!
If Newt won the primary he would probably take much of the South in the general. Newt is potential trouble for a DLC candidate, imo.
Edit: Because the DLC and Newt are so similar.
marymccurnin @ 35
That is not the only similarity between the GOP and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Although I think that belief in evolution does not disqualify one from holding office in Iran.
I don’t think Gingrich could run a clean campaign if the nomination depended on it.
This should be interesting.
neurophius @ 47
well he is ethically challenged. :)
Let’s say he raises $20,000,000. obviously less than his stated goal, does he get to keep the money?
Elliott @ 48
Maybe just the interest.
Elliott @ 48
He did say pledges and not actual cash.
Still mightily entertained by this…
Elliott at 48 — He could always consult with Condi about some new shoes…
Ed*ard Teller @ 32
And can you blame Jon and Steven? Newt and the boys are a joke waiting to happen! But I can’t really laugh anymore. I stopped and thought about how weak and ineffectual that the Dems are allowing these clowns to make them out to be, and I realized that Dems could actual lose this thing after all! And look who they’d be losing to. And why! Dems ought to be ashamed of themselves for making Rethugs look effective.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 51
oh mercy!
the thought of him in peep toes…
The headline here is:
GOP to candidates: Can we get someone who isn’t nuts? (Not you, Newt)
The story is:
No.
Elliott @ 53
Would she advise peep toes? You can’t kick people with those. You need those steel tipped pointy jobs, maybe covered up with some velvet or leather to blend in…
Newt has that Lieber-whine tone in his voice..
Things that make ya’ go “hmmmm”…
27 million population in US and Confederate states combined at time of secession.
Fox News available to 85 million subscribers in US. (US population 7/2007 was 301,139,947.)
Eureka Springs @ 56
A Gingrich-Lieberwhine ticket! How perfectly awful!
even though his negatives are somewhere around Dick Cheney’s ankles.
too much information! :~)
Not for weak hearts: Video of Jim Rogers on direction of U.S. economy.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/av/
Hey dumb OT question about the Move-On thing:
IF THE DEMS CONTROL THE SENATE, WHY THE HELL DID THEY EVEN LET THE CORNYN AMENDMENT REACH THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE? WHY COULDN’T THEY BOTTLE IT UP?
Mod note: Please do not post in all caps. Thanks.
The possible nominees of the Republican Party (Fred, newt, and Rudy) like to get married every few years. We could have a wedding in the White House and it could be an all day affair on MSM. Wouldn’t that be grand. They certainly have a lot of experience walking down the aisle.
punaise at 59 — LOL — I hadn’t thought about it in those terms. ;-)
He’s got good hair. (g)
If he amasses a decent nest egg, isn’t it possible he might settle for a Saxby Chambliss primary?
Proving once again that a grandiose ego, checkered personal background, absence of ethics and utter lack of shame is no barrier for a Republican Presidential aspirant.
CHS - I just love the way you string words together!
Oh, Brudda.
Who is IN that video?? Looks like Anderson Cooper.
Sunny at 63 — Yep. *g*
I do hope they’re gonna have the next repub debate on Halloween. Would be such a shame to waste that parade of ghouls on a regular day.
This will be the campaign where the ex-wives will out-number the candidates. Now, shall someone do an accounting for them (this is starting to make me feel like that children’s book, “Too Many Cats”, “There’s Puffy and Muffy and Smoke..and Tammy..”)?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
And don’t forget Alan Keyes! Brings a whole new meaning to “defining deviancy downward”…
The fundies have been praying for a better candidate.
God sent them Newtie.
I think He is on our side.
Newt Gingrich, the new “none of the above”!
Newsweek already says that it is hard to take Gingrich seriously.
———————-
In all fairness, you could say the same thing about all of the rest of the Republican candidates.
This also reminds me of Waldo Jaquith’s recent comment on the rumor that Pat Buchanan might jump into the race to replace John Warner:
Newt’s ego inspires a similar sentiment. *g*
Frank Probst @ 74
As opposed to the stellar choices on the other side!
Frank Probst @ 74
Sure, but mysteriously, they do take the others seriously!
Forget the campaign bus, or the whistlestop train car. What the GOP needs right now is a clown car to hold their candidates.
raven at 76 — Having a familiarity breeds contempt kind of day today?
i think hnis comment illustrate one more thing: just how out of touch republicans are with the here and now.
this is the internet age (ie, we can find truth) not the television age (ie they tell us what they want us to hear)
this fat tard will get run over in the next election if he even thinks it.
hmm lets see now…ghouliani - thompson - newtie…all the family values guys in a row…plus the creation crowd … wow just wow!!
Toby Wollin @ 68
Do you think the Dems will be smart enough to capitalize on this? Do you think any of them will know how?
dems know how but they wont do it..
Peterr @ 76
PeterR!!!
Did you just say that?
I guess politics brings out the naughty in you.
A theological question:
Which is worse, not knowing for 13 years that your wife is your cousin;
serving divorce papers on your wife during her chemo;
or letting your campaign, through active omission,
mislead the public about your wife’s “law degree” ?
Peterr @ 78
*spew*
allan_in_upstate @ 83
sounds like the basis for a lengthy roundtable ethics discussion
Christy Hardin Smith @ 79
Oh, I know. I’m such a cassandra!
juslin @ 80
Kind of begs for an FBI-style poster: America’s Least Wanted
allan_in_upstate @ 83
It’s just that if they were so freakin’ righteous, we wouldn’t be able to go there!
Yep.
allan_in_upstate @ 85
I think the divorce-in-the-cancer-ward incident outweighs anything else you could say about the newt.
In the event that newt were to win the nomination, the democrats should never, ever allow newt or his proxies to say a word about the Clintons’ marriage without being reminded of his conduct on that occasion.
The good Reverend is on a roll!
OT - C-SPAN has put Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s speech up under “Recent Programs” already.
here…
EvilDrPuma @ 23
It’s OK, I’ll do double duty on this one for ya… ;)
demi @ 88
but when served up on a platter, would it be polite to refuse the offering?
peterr@89
ROTFLMAO!! i can just picture that poster
To be fair to Newt, he also broke things off with wife #2 just as she was finding out that she had MS. So with Newt, you get a spousal healthcare concernless twofer. Ahem.
1,608 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Patriots:
Yes indeed let the games begin…but remember this is part of the fascist game plan, Newt is runnin’ for 210 when the darlin of the Murdock-A*P*C wing of the fascist oligarchy is SOOOOO unpopular and her draconian economic policies to free up what is left of the treasury to shore up our permanent occupation of Iraq has bankrupted the entire country.
Make no mistake, Newt is NOT stupid nor is he isolated from the fascist “families”…in fact he might be the most “legitimate” politician to have credibility with the reserve army of fascist Brownshirts like the Aryan Nation, Minutemen etc AND the families of the oligarchy.
No, I am gunna focus my attention on the Democratic Party and helpin ta forge an anti-fascist anti-war movement in 2006 to define the Democrats but I won’t forget that Newt is the real thing, dear, and don’tchu underestimate that reptile either.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM!!
demi @ 83
It could also be from playing with my five year old.
But naughty? I’m not the one who was talking about something being down around Cheney’s ankles?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 95
makes you wonder how he ended up with a wife #3
Elliott @ 98
so far
Elliott @ 93
Of course, I meant weren’t,, but yeah, who are we to be rude and not?
The saddest thing about this utterly dismal crop of GOP Prez hopefuls is that come next summer, after the conventions, they will not cover any egregious episode in the GOP candidate’s past. As to the Dems in that same media coverage, we shall see, but the MSM will do all they can to both tighten the race and to minimize the GOP candidate’s shortcomings. Gonna be hard work, but that’s exactly what I predict is going to happen.
Harold Ford, Chair of the DLC, spoke in Little Rock this afternoon.
OK, now I am worried about Newt vs a DLC candidate.
Elliott @ 99
Makes me wonder how wife #3’s health is. It’s got to be rough, if every time you get a sniffle you start to wonder if your marriage is on the rocks.
juslin @ 96
darkblack , if you’re online, consider this as a request.
Bustednuckles @ 38
It’ll be like old home week…
Peterr @ 103
achoo! your smoke is gettin to my sinuses.
Really. You.
Gingrich-Macaca ‘08…a donkey’s dream ticket
Elliott @ 101
It would make me nervous to be # 3 — I’d sure pray a lot not to get a serious disease that might need spousal support.
Hmmm. You know, I don’t like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at all, but I’ve got to give credit where credit is due: The man had the guts to walk into a very hostile forum, sit through a fairly harsh introduction, give his speech, and then take questions from the audience. My first thought after reading about it was, “You know, George W Bush wouldn’t have had the guts to go to Columbia and take questions from a hostile audience.”
If Newt’s jumping in it must mean that Freddie’s not the next Reagan.
I hope the Dem’s are ready because Newt’s main skill is bomb throwing. They cannot allow him to get traction.
Elliott @ 87
Regina Peruggi, Rudy’s first wife:
“She married Rudy Giuliani, who is her second cousin once removed and whom she had known since childhood, on Octobe