even though his negatives are somewhere around Dick Cheney’s ankles.

Thanks, gotta wipe soda off screen now…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

Toby Wollin @ 138

Newt must be certifiable to do this:
He married wife number one when he was 19 years old – she was his high school geometry teacher and was 7 years older than he was. OOOOOkay…let’s see now – where I come from, Geometry is a 9th grade subject; we can all “do the math” (sorry) on this one. Considering his later behavior, I don’t know if I’m ready to say that the high school teacher is the one who seduced the 9th grader.
Affair with Ann Manning in 1977. Got his divorce.
Married Marianne Ginther in 1981.
Gingrich had an affair with a then 33-year-old Congressional staffer, Callista Bisek. He and Bisek were married in 2000.
Affair in 2007 while he’s Speaker of the House.
Now, I say we have a debate where we pull in all of the exwives and the lovers and let them get to it.

And, I’m supposed to feel bad about being a DFH with a foul mouth?

Exactement….

Shuster is subbing for F*cker, scrawl saying; “Coalition of 911 families and NY emergency workers will swiftboat Rudy’s ‘08 campaign…”
Let the games begin…!!! 8-)

When did “swiftboat” become a TradMed synonym for “truth-tell?” That really bugs me.

(And Barbara Boxer, you did NOT help last week, equating the two.)

Shuster is subbing for F*cker, scrawl saying; “Coalition of 911 families and NY emergency workers will swiftboat Rudy’s ‘08 campaign…”
Let the games begin…!!! 8-)

Grrrr… I just hate how the media are trying to transform “swiftboat” into signifying any organized attack on a candidate, away from its true meaning of a blatantly false astroturf attack.

“Well, although we are cousins, and I was a friend of his father’s, I’ve always thought he was absolutely pointless as a politician. He’s just another conservative southerner.”

In fact, Al Gore’s voting record as a senator was surprisingly conservative until he rolled his eye toward the White House. Throughout most of his career, he was pro-life and had an 84% anti-abortion rating from the National Right to Life Committee. From 1979 – 81, he voted five times on the side of a Republican sponsored rider that granted a tax exemption for schools like Bob Jones University that discriminate on the basis of race. He was openly anti-gay, calling homosexuality “abnormal” and “wrong,” and telling the Tennessean in 1984 that he did “not believe it is simply an acceptable alternative that society should affirm.” Gore was such a strong supporter of the gun lobby – ultimately voting against the critical 1985 legislation for a mandatory 14-day waiting period for handgun purchases – that National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre once said, “We could have made Al Gore NRA Man of the Year – every single vote.” Finally, when it came time to vote on conservative Supreme Court nominees, Gore publicly praised but voted against the scandal-ridden Clarence Thomas. He voted in Antonin Scalia. If the wider public had been more aware of his legacy, few would have recognized the Al Gore of 1988 who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Pulling his hat down so that his eyes are shadowed from the sun, Vidal continues his effortless assault on Al Gore: “Another border-state, southern lover of the Pentagon…there was never anything the Pentagon asked for that Cousin Albert wasn’t down there giving it to them; he voted for the first war in the Gulf.”

Indeed, Al Gore was one of only ten Democrats to break with the party and vote for President Bush Sr.’s Gulf War in 1991. But while Vidal sees this as a facet of Gore’s eager-to-please statism, others have attributed his dissenting vote to self-interest. Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson accused Gore of peddling his vote on the Iraq War in exchange for high-visibility, headline-grabbing speech time on the floor. According to Simpson, the night before the vote Gore stopped by the GOP cloakroom and asked, “How much time will you give me if I support the President?” Taking him at his word, Simpson and Senator Bob Dole offered Gore twenty minutes, thirteen more than his own party would grant. In Simpson’s account, over the course of the night Gore jockeyed to have the floor during prime time to ensure that he would get coverage in the next day’s news cycle. The negotiations went right up to the last minute, leaving Simpson to conclude that Gore “arrived on the Senate floor with… two speeches in hand. [He] was still waiting to see which side – Republicans or Democrats – would offer him the most and the best speaking time”

Al Gore described by cousin Gore.