After Obama crooned some Reverend Al Green, Newt will be performing Wagner in upcoming GOP "debates."
___DECEMBER 18TH UPDATE: Newt bin al Gingrich is apparently running for Ayatollah. He's now on record has having "activist judges" arrested. Scroll down for the details and link.
Jabba The $1.8 million FreddieMac Historian is about to go BOOM.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Newt Gingrich
"...Newt Gingrich is a student of history, so here's some history. Just a few of the things conservatives appear to have forgotten about Gingrich..." (click the article title link just above)
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Gingrich, the Ultimate Beltway Bandit
"You maybe should think twice when even Jack Abramoff thinks you’re beneath contempt. Not that Newt Gingrich cares.
Abramoff, America’s favorite convicted influence peddler, told NBC’s David Gregory that presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Gingrich is one of those “people who came to Washington, who had public service, and they cash in on it. They use their public service and access to make money.”...
And, don't forget
QUOTING THE GREAT MAN:
1. “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.”Also...
~Newt Gingrich, admitting that he’s an intellectual elite incapable of leading.
2. “If the Soviet empire still existed, I’d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.”
~Newt Gingrich, saying that it’s okay for the President to be ignorant.
3. “The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”
~Newt Gingrich, arguing that it’s okay for politicians to be bought and paid for.
4. “Give the park police more ammo.” ~Newt Gingrich, responding to a reporter who asked what to do about the homeless a few days after the police shot a homeless man in front of the White House.
5. “The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.”
~Newt Gingrich on campaign finance reform.
6. “I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I’m doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.”
~Newt Gingrich, blowing his own horn.
7. “Gingrich – Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.”
~ Newt Gingrich, blowing his own horn.
8. “The most serious, systematic revolutionary of modern times.”
~Newt Gingrich, blowing his own horn.
9. “It doesn’t matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.”
~Newt Gingrich, saying we should do as he says, regardless of what he actually does.
10. “This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger…. It’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.”
~Newt Gingrich, at a book talk in Huntington, NY, April 2008, saying that Republicans should allow terrorist attacks on American soil to remind us of the dangers in the world.
11. “Now, we don’t get rid of it in round one because we don’t think that that’s politically smart, and we don’t think that’s the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it’s going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it — voluntarily.”
~Newt Gingrich, admitting that while they won’t kill Medicare outright, Republicans will try to make it wither on the vine and die.
12. “She isn’t young enough or pretty enough to be the President’s wife.”
~Newt Gingrich, talking about his first wife after divorcing her.
13. “I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.”
~Newt Gingrich, talking about his problems with women.
14. “It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid…These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.”
~Newt Gingrich, advocating for an end to child labor laws so businesses can fire union workers and replace them with cheap labor.
15. “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”
~Newt Gingrich. Two years later, Gingrich unveils a new Spanish-language website, The Americano.
16. “The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.”
~Newt Gingrich, smearing Democrats when in fact it’s Republicans who want to cripple innocent people. Remember when they cheered for letting a man without health insurance die? And speaking of exhibitionism and bizarreness, have you seen the Republican Presidential field?
17. “These people are sick. They are so consumed by their own power, by a Mussolini-like ego, that their willingness to run over normal human beings and to destroy honest institutions is unending.”
~Newt Gingrich, once again smearing Democrats, but telling the complete truth about himself and the GOP. Republicans want to kill Medicare and Social Security, the EPA, and several other honest institutions that serve normal human beings. Speaking of running over normal human beings, remember when Republicans cheered for letting a man without health insurance die?
18. “I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words.”
~Newt Gingrich, advocating for hateful rhetoric and smearing opponents with lies.
Newt Gingrich’s Second Wife Dishes Hard To Esquire: His Money Woes, His Philandering, His Meltdown
And the hits just keep on comin'...
December 7th Newtron update:
"I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time (my grandchildren) are my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American."
DECEMBER 9TH UPDATE
___"Remember, there was no Palestine as a state -- (it was) part of the Ottoman Empire. I think we have an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and historically part of the Arab community and they had the chance to go many places."
So. let me if I have this right: the numerous other Arab states that also have their historical roots in the Ottoman Empire are legitimate, but the Palestinians have no moral right to statehood?
You fucking narcissistic moron.
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December 14, Chris Matthews:
Think about Newt Gingrich with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons at his disposal. Interesting thought isn't it? A man known to be a bomb-thrower with real-live bombs in his hands.
You know, as I do, that the genius of our constitution is making the president the commander-in-chief. It ensures that the top person in the military is the person the American people elect. The other part of this constitutional requirement is that we, the people, elect as our president, make commander-in-chief, someone who has the temperament to handle this extraordinary power.
Newt Gingrich has thrown around words lately that are classic bomb-throwing. He ridicules the highly-nationalistic Palestinians, dismissing them as an invented people, that they are terrorists. So what do you think of having this guy out there in the Middle East debate throwing bombs like that against people on the other side, in a region where certain people who are not our friends talk much the same wild way, throwing insults and accusations around for the single purpose of taunting the other side.
Newt Gingrich would be at home in this world of crazed, wildly agitating rhetoric where words are meant to anger, to insult, to enrage. Newt would be good at stirring things up, at causing trouble, at lobbing grenades over walls and into the narrow, winding streets of the Mideast. He'd threaten. He'd incite. He'd show 'em that a wild westerner could be just as crazy as the craziest of them.
Now Newt's asking Republican voters to give him the presidency, to give him not just the bully pulpit but the army, navy, air force, marines and all the weapons conventional and nuclear in the world's greatest arsenal. His old associates say he can achieve results even if he is erratic. Yet when they had him as a leader, he was out as speaker long before they were. They knew what they were dealing with. Newt was hardly the sort of individual you give license over the world's greatest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
You don't give WMD to someone known even by his old, former allies to be - in the crunch or even whenever things get edgy - to be himself weapon of mass destruction.
America needs many things but a nuclear-armed Newt is not one of them.
Indeed.
DECEMBER 18TH, THE LATEST NEWT BIZARRO STATEMENT
Continuing his crusade against the courts, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich railed against judges “imposing secularism” on the country on this morning’s Face The Nation.
Arguing that “activist judges” who make disagreeable decisions should be held accountable before Congress, he told Bob Schieffer that he would send a U.S. Marshal or Capitol Police officer to arrest judges if that’s what it took to reign them in, and then encourage impeachment:
SCHIEFFER: One of the things you say is that if you don’t like what a court has done, that Congress should subpoena the judge and bring him before Congress and hold a Congressional hearing… how would you enforce that? Would you send the Capitol Police down to arrest him?
GINGRICH: Sure. If you had to. Or you’d instruct the Justice Department to send a U.S. Marshal.
Link here.
JANUARY 7th 2012 NH "DEBATE" UPDATE
Gingrich deserves the Medal of Honor because his FATHER served in Vietnam, and it was very stressful for Newt, -- and because HE helped Ronald Reagan "defeat" the Soviet Union.
Right, Newt.
Oh, yeah, and the "Sacrament of Marriage" stuff was equally rich.
This prick is SO done.