Newt Gingrich, Head Muckraker/Chief Hypocritical Ombudsman of Political Utterances Great and Small, is campaigning in South Carolina today, where he decided around 3 o’clock in the afternoon that his attacks of Romney’s time at Bain Capital might have gone too far. Gingrich was confronted by an unhappy Rick Santorum supporter during a — what else — book signing over his focus on Romney’s money-eating ways, which prompted the fourth-place New Hampshire primary contestant to admit that, yes, maybe this is all making him seem a little too Democratic.
It’s vital that Gingrich go fiercely toe-to-toe with the man with whom he’s competing for ignorable nationwide support, so when the Santofan told Gingrich that…
I think you’ve missed the target on the way you’re addressing Romney’s weaknesses. I want to beg you to redirect and go after his obvious disingenuousness about his conservatism and lay off the corporatist versus the free market. I think it’s nuanced.
…(“nuanced” being a great way to describe Romney’s political career), Gingrich responded by saying:
I agree with you. It’s an impossible theme to talk about with Obama in the background. Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally in that area because he is so deeply into class warfare that automatically you get an echo effect. … I agree with you entirely.
In other words, President Obama is doing such a great job of attacking Romney that I’ve been rendered obsolete yet am still very much here, signing my books and saying whatever is necessary to prevent you from hitting me over the head with your copy of my book.
But there remains the whole problem of the Winning Our Future PAC, which is about to start airing a 27-minute-long “documentary” (which Gingrich alluded to during last Saturday night’s debate). The Gingrich camp has been working hard in the past, oh, 90 minutes now, to finesse their vocal support of that film so that it sounds more like … lighthearted curiosity. [Politico]
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Is that a trunk in your pocket or are you just happy to see Callista?
Don't you mean "Isn't that a little blue box in your pocket, or are you just happy to see Callista?"
Also, little blue pill.
What are those black marks on his trunk and where has that trunk been?
I'll bet they had a 3-way later.
I just threw up in my mouth, after I wrote that.
The Koch Brothers have spoken.
This is actually true.
He's been Newtered!
Roll in El Rushbo having a fit with the Koch's tut-tutting and Newties put the Vulture Capitalist line away pretty quick. You don't shit where you eat, even if you are Newt!
Everything and anything's Obama's fault. Gingrich also blames Obama for his two failed marriages and the fact he's got a waistline bigger than his IQ.
Obama done put the ju-ju on my reason bone!
"President Obama is doing such a great job of attacking Romney that I’ve been rendered obsolete."
Jobkiller!
She has the hair of the future.
“Everything I say today is the truth, until tomorrow, when it becomes a lie”.
–Newt Gingrinch
Newt: "I now realize that I'm not going to be the nominee, so might as well start kissing ass before my book sales take a hit."
It's like having our own personal beta test of Obama's campaign ads.
It's what?
It's this.
Maybe it's a fraternity thing like thigh beta potato or something?
Is there any other kind?
It's better than being a Santorum handler. Yargh.
Oh my goodness! I thought you said "Flea Erections." Never mind.
-Emily Litella-Gingrich
What's all this I hear about Tree Affections?
Newt can not be held responsible for what his anonymous SuperPAC words say.
"I've made a HUGE Mistake."
Newt, if elected president, what will your reaction be if some piss-ant congressman from nowhere has a hissy fit about his seat on Air Force One and shuts down the government?
Bomb Iran?
I smell a Democratic plant. Where does a Republican learn words like "nuanced" and "think"?
Newt also regrets being a fat ugly loser – but he'll keep stealing new babes with his Tiffany account.
Mitt, you're going to need a VP. Please? I'll touch it.
How exactly is Obama "so deeply into class warfare", you idiot? Has he advocated bringing the guillotines to Wall Street?
99% of us would gladly pull the yokes to do that.
And I'll drive a tumbrel.
Negativity is so over? Then I'm sorry.
As the world turns, the search for tomorrow continues..
That elephant looks really happy. The white tie definitely brings out his smile.
It's about time Gingrich weighed in on the Hostess Twinkie bankruptcy.
It's an impossible theme to talk about.
Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally in that area because he is so deeply into class warfare that automatically you get an echo effect.
Great spin, Newt — I'll bet people investing in your campaign are thrilled to hear that you're so easily influenced by ideas that are off in the background that you'll say things diametrically opposed to your own alleged beliefs with only the slightest provocation. Either that or you're playing for the unironically senile Reaganesque comparison.
Next cums the ritual kissing of Rush Limbaugh's draft-dodging ass.
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Eewwww.
Gingrich was confronted by an unhappy Rick Santorum supporter during a — what else — book signing
Yeesh – - anything else but that! He's our leading GOP Geek acc. to whatever-studies-those-were, so let him derive associations with pop-paleoscience and wife collecting and button-busting — just mind his minions. They don't take to teh bookish aura… it burns!
What a world class dick. I wonder who talked to "genius" boy and pointed out to him, um, "hey Newt, you know we support all that Capitalism stuff." Ailes, Russ, Innanity, Mitts, whatever, HE'S SUCH A THOROUGHLY DISCREDITED POMPOUS PUD.
HAHAHAHAHA. Reading the Politico comment board is like watching a bunch of stoned and blindfolded rednecks attacking each other with paintball guns. Not pretty, unaccountably stupid, but hella entertaining.
Hey we can comment again! Not that I have anything to say about it now, so move along, ignore this comment…
*points up* I think Liz was so utterly blown away by the sheer awesomeness of my sharp, witty take on the Politico commenters that she had to shut down this thread.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
I had something really snarky to say about a statement made in the Politico story, but I either hallucinated it or Politico revised the story between the time I first read it and now, because the statement is no longer there.
The pachogerm on the right has a lot of junk in his trunk.
Is that Santorum in the elephant suit? Because, you know, gunk in the trunk.
The hell you say.
Man, I hate those cliffhanger endings.
Looks like the posers are posing in a book store. Barnes and Ignoble?
Word bubble over Elephant: "Help… Me!".
… is apparently for blind people!
(Sorry, Liz, but had to. Besides, this comment will seem WTFish once you actually post the link and/or video)
UPDATE: The comment,
My reply,
THIS is why Hitler NEVER agreed to a book signing!
Never?
I want to beg you to redirect and go after his obvious disingenuousness about his conservatism and lay off the corporatist versus the free market. I think it’s nuanced.
And that allegedly came from a Santorum supporter. Please, don't insult our intelligence, ok?
Tubby Gingrich's twelfth wife looks like the chicken lady character from the "Kids in the Hall" comedy show.
CHICKEN LADY LOVE LIFE!
Definite harpy eagle-Google it and tell me you don't see the resemblance.
that's right, everything is Obama's fault, geez …
Newt Gingrich, the guy who was denied tenure in two different departments at University of West Georgia, (WTF) shouldn't try to tell anyone about anything.
He looks like Captain Kangaroo in that picture.
gross.
It was fine idea at the time now it's a brilliant mistake.
Is that Pedophant?
That's like the best "besides that, Mrs. Lincoln" comment, ever. It's like he's decrying that if the president weren't running for the presidency, than one of the Republicans would definitely be president. lol Yeah, and Newt's the "smart" one.
Get fuckin' used to it.
I don't think any of them said any of that. That is all porn fantasy script from BYU secret gays in Econ class.
Don’t you hate it when you say something you shouldn’t have and you try to walk it back but you can’t because you already made a movie about it that’s opening the next weekend?
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