So.
Newt Gingrich is running. For president.
Yup.
Sigh….
Newt Gingrich is running.
For president.
President of the… (checks) — of the United States.
Of, uh, America.
Fuck.
When I heard this, I was only hoping he was running for president of the White Knights Noble Reserve of Bumfuck, Whereverthefuck, on a platform indistinguishable from old Senator Bilbo’s, only more parochial and with updated euphemisms, and even more pointlessly pissbrained reactionary.
Newt. Fucking. Gingrich.
I was considering a longer post about how Gingrich the multiply-tedious-anachronism is an obnoxious dimwit pseudo-intellectual posturing self-absorbed fossil, but fuck that, contemplating Newt Gingrich for too long makes me sympathize with bears who chew off their own legs rather than say hi to the trapper.
So instead I’ll just offer this trade.
Newt, we’ll give you a mulligan on another child bride if you’ll agree to just shut the fuck up and go away.
For reals. Deal?
But seriously, folks, a GOP field where Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump are among the most credible candidates makes me want to throw up, and I get my kicks from making fun of these twits.



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Newt. Fucking. Gingrich.
If he should get the nomination, I’d like to see his name on the ballot in precisely this way.
Should I tell my Gingrich story again, for like the fifth time on this blog?
Indizzle.
Only if it is mean-spirited.
Newt. Fucking. Gingrich.
fuck
ok, here is the quote from my minister at St. Charles Ave. Baptist Church in New Orleans. Newt went to my church while he attended Tulane.
‘When congressman Newt Gingrich was a graduate student at Tulane University I baptized him by immersion into the membership of the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church. Perhaps I didnt hold him under long enough.’
THERSday!
Newt is a joke candidate with no chance to be elected. That wife of his, however, reminds me of something out of The Lair of the White Worm. the really sad part is that all of the front runners in the Republican line up are jokes. A sad reflection on the state of the modern Republican Party.
Bless that minister.
Jeebus, how the fuck many different denominations can one asshole belong to?
Is he fucking running for reals, or is this just a fucking shiny object to distract us from having to listen to how the fuck Donald Effing Trump does his fucking hair?
Because I don’t know which is worse. And don’t give a fuck either.
Dr. Lee was a totally kewl dude. A liberal Baptist minister and church. Those don’t exist so much anymore.
Donald Effing Trump does his fucking hair?
man just can’t get enough of his own personal Jesus….
Apparently, fuck yeah.
Newt owns Jesus.
Ther(fucking)s!
I smell a Fuck Thread. I know. I’m not supposed to be here, but I’m still waiting for the bathtub to fill.
He was right about his remorse…
Only IF
Donald Effing Trump does his fucking hair?
yup. Every single morning – after he goes into the other room and wakes it up.
Explore Newt 2012!!!
He’s a Catholic now, which is the last refuge of the posturing fake intellectual. Flannery O’Connor was scathing about the phenomenon. As was, indeed, Frank O’Connor, no relation.
Semells and bells. And whips! Don’t forget the whips!
And then, the hair eats breakfast.
Does Newt weigh as much as a duck? Hmmm?
You never fucking sleep do you? You are ubiquitous, aren’t you?
Fuck thread! Party time!
frosted mini-plugs?
Newt Gingrich. Hear the crowd roar? The huge swell of support? No? Me, neither. What a yawner. Is he so delusional he thinks he can actually win it all? If so, he is deranged. (Yes, he is deranged.)
I sorta figure what’s going on in the GOP is positioning for 2016. Obama will be gone. GOP warhorses will be dead or retired. New generation and blah blah blah. Of course, by then the GOP might no longer exist as a viable political party. (As Nelson on The Simpsons would say, “Hah-hah!”)
fuck everytime i see those two, i mentally flash this watertiger comparison
Yeah, I know. The man has undergone more conversions than the Batmobile.
I know. Newt’s site is like if Opus Dei fucked the Stepford Wives and gave birth to pod people, but more disturbing.
I mean last year we had “I’m not a witch” and this year we have “I am a Newt.”
Oh, for some reason, reply’s not working for me.
This is for Dr. Evil.
You party on, dude. (I’ll play the dana carvey one, ’cause I have blond hair and wear glasses. Although the similarities may stop there.)
Have one for me.
Applause.
That’s what he claims. Personally, I think he is more of a toad.
what other spirit is there?
Everything old is Newt again.
uh mah gawd — you din’t
All glory to the Hypo(crite) Toad!
Breit fucking bart went to Tulane also. Coincidence?
Also, I remember the woman in Lair of the White Worm as being really hot. Defective memory?
newt fucking gingrich gonna have a hard time coming up with some of these ingredients
Old girlfriends often seem more alluring in retrospect.
Newt loves attention he did not do this announcement with out having something crazy to say ready to attack Obama and get headlines with I give it a week before he tries to out crazy Sarah, Trump and Michelle.
What ever it is it will be big I of course expect him to be prebooked on every sunday show before he launches his very predictable surprise.
Hush!
I’ll bet wifey can manage it – she’s going to be running the campaign. Newt looks like a feather bed with a face.
*bows*
I don’t think Dr Dick was referring to the woman…
Well there’s that White Woman in the Glare of that there Latex Glove in twolf’s comment at 20.
Perhaps I was thinking of The Village of the Damned.
Couldn’t be Amanda Donohoe in Lair of the White Worm – she sounds like a lot of fun:
I’m sure Callista spits.
What we need now is a photo of Mrs. Gingrich, a photo of a lamprey, and darkblack…
Newt running is about as stupid as Frothy Mixture or Trump running. IMO he;s just gonna fundraise for a bit and then bow out and take his campaign contributions with him.
*fucking shrudder*
I’m a bit of a wuss, and could only get to the sock-knitting horror flick, Village of the Darned.
That joke was really below the belt, but then, so was Callista…
OH NO YOU DI’INT!!!!
The Twolf in this thread is about as bad as it gets, actually, for those aware of Internet traditions…
If Jeb is not in the race and Mitt falters Romney careis enough to toast him with GOP Primary voters then Newt becomes the Corporate GOP’s best guy with all his connections assuming Trump can’t find another issue like Birtherism to rally support with.
The Corporate GOP does not like Huckabee they don’t like Sarah they do have all the money and Diebold.
I think Newt has a shot at being the GOP Presidential Candidate.
If the elections were honest Sarah. Huckabee I fear could give Obama the best run for his money with independent voters.
But he paroled a cop killer. If Michelle does not run its Newt and Sarah. Trump is a wild card waiting for another card to get a pair. Ron Paul needs to fight Sarah for the movement he created until he does that he is not a player.
Not after her throat muscles have been surgically transplanted to pinch-hit for cheekbones.
shudder fucker.
Queen’s Privilege – hah!
Yep. Gingrich and Palin are grifting the whole thing and will bail before it gets to the primaries. Trump is a vanity candidate whose numbers are already plummeting.
Aw, Saturday Night Live had it wrong.
Wait, I didn’t think this post was about Bristol Palin…
Meanie. Bristol doesn’t have cheekbones.
Anti-Trump Vanity Plates- Dump Trump
twolf1 @ 20: { LOL } Those look like latex surgical gloves she’s got on …
Palin
Trump 2012
“You’re Fired!” “I Quit!”
Anymore…
So as not to be construed as sexist, I will also say I do believe Aaron Schock spits too.
I am fading so I think I will toddle off. Take care all.
*snerk*
G’nite DrDick, Corrupter of Young Minds.
He has a huge ego, loves attention and nobody tells him no not that he ever pays attention to or learns from past failures. He used to be able to get a crowd and wow the talking heads. The only way he does not run is if he can’t get attention even negative attention like the old days.
Newt lies off the top of his head the more he talks and the more excited he gets if he does run the Lake will have whole days worth of threads devoted to fact checking him/kicking the shit out of him.
The GOP does not seem to understand the net we can fact check anything in real time in minutes after they say something.
If Mitt fails because of Romney care and Trump fails to find an other issue to connect with 30%ers with just who will be the Corporate GOP standard bearer?
I don’t want to start doing research on all the D listers.
g’nite dr dick
Really, was Trump ever more than a vanity anything?
Romney has les chance of getting the nomination than Newtie does. Even without Romneycare, he’s guilty of being Republican while Mormon.
yes, but where’s the other hand?
Heh. More to the point the Clown Car is going to gawp out a few more freaks until the Regressives get serious.
Call it somewhere between August and October. That’s when the real opponent should emerge. Needs enough time to have a ground game about 90 days before January 1 2012.
{ coffee spew }
did someone say clowncar?
Benadryl, hay fever, work tomorra.
Niters mes amis.
g’nite thers
I’m too am wondering for whom these folks are the rodeo clowns as it’s all already choreographed.
G’nite Thers.
And he is boring as hell it used to be that that alone would sink a candidate but the entire GOP field is D listers and the D listers well… its sad.
Hmph. It’s my opinion that the PWB have decided that Obama will have a second term so they have been encouraging, (and almost certainly promising compensation), to Regressives to spotlight their batshittery. That’s the only way Obama is going to win because he’s been such a dismal disappointment.
All of the republican candidates seem to be impaired. It is like important bits have been lopped off here and there. Or they all went on a retreat together and their nurses got their meds mixed up.
PWB? Powers What Be
inbreeding
Yep. He performed so well for the bankstas right out of the starting block (actually I think it was project- planned well before that and given what we’re seeing now in the States with the multi-state strategy to break organized labor [you must see this]) and I’m sure they’d love to have all three cherrys show up on the slot machine for O despite the fact a majority of voters now despise him.
Oh yeah. My bad. PTB o9f course. :)
Of course. He delivers for the wealthy and makes a perfect whipping post for the reich wing racists to keep them engaged and fired up. The theory being that his presence will keep the Republican Party relevant. It’s a win-win! Well except for the people but we don’t count.
I’ll vote for Gingrich if he announces that his Chief of Staff would be Jane Hamsher and his Attorney General would be Marcy Wheeler. I’m easy.
I took these wiggy pills last night and haven’t been able to splel all dae so I understand.
I really digging using the “MOTU” (Skelly is such a freak show) versus PTB.
I find it too easy to call someone a pseudo-intellectual. He’s certified (if certifiable) as a phd so he has/had some chops. But I think rather than trying to dismiss his intellectual achievement as somehow illegitimate, it is more important and valuable (I think) to understand that he is a political whore.
He hitched his wagon to modern conservatism and pissed whatever integrity he may have had in pursuit of success in that movement.
So is he an intellectual – yeah probably (why doesn’t he produce his diplomas?). Are his ideas worthwhile – yeah about as much as any prostitute’s to a john.
I apologize for insulting prostitutes.
With respect to the pups here, look:
It Is Lazy Thinking To Claim Conspiracy/Puppetmaster Shit; Quit Doing That.
The political world is more complex than that framework. There’s layers and layers of agreements and relationships. If it was a simple as some one master/one puppet thing, it would be much easier to define and dismantle.
But life/reality is proving that it isn’t that simple. There are many winks and nods, many actors, many relationships and a lot of money working the rounds.
So while tempting, and a very human desire to make it simple, it ain’t simple.
It is a complicated circle jerk squared.
3 demensional crookery. So high, so wide and so deep and he loves playing in it.
Are you talking about Newt or Obama?
It really is complicated.
There are a lot of Axe/Force people out there, and I can’t blame them/their feelings. But I’m a Scalpel/Knowledge person.
looks like I missed a great discussion here, damn
but hi!
Don’t give up!
G’niters, all. “A Sweet Lullaby in Quechua“
g’nite mzchief
Well if you are looking for funny, then I got just the ticket. Its a comic on what The Obama Admin is doing on the real unemployment rate of 17%.
and its so true, sadly.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/11/tom-the-dancing-bug-48.html
Now take that to the voting booth.
Please! I don’t believe I’ve had the pleasure of reading it.
Jake
Phoenix
This is what happen when the planet has a bowel movement. All the imbeciles rise to the top. Some of them are dumber that a row of turnips. All we need are drooling buckets for all those inbred bastard on the right. I do believed that some of those so called themselves Blue Dog Democrats are struggling to past the imbecile test.
Newt is pure political entertainment…it’s great news that he’s actually going to run.
He’ll suck oxygen out of the Repub side, and before too long he’ll say way too many outlandish, ridiculous, & contradictory statements. He’ll shoot himself in the foot whis other foot in his mouth. The only thing dumber than voting for Newt in a primary would be to fund him in one, : )
Please do… I haven’t heard it yet.
It’s unlikely that Gingrich will be elected President but he’ll play an invaluable role as an attack dog for the eventual republican nomenee. Newt is a tried and true political bomb thrower and his role in the uncoming election will be to attack President Obama and the Democrats.
I care not a fig for Newton.