# Documenting the downfall of Newt **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 7, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077 "2012-02-07T15:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/122 "2012-04-26T04:25:40Z")
April 25th: According to his close advisors, the former Speaker is making [plans to end his campaign](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=15003517) next week and endorse Mitt Romney: > [@](#): > > Gingrich had a friendly telephone conversation Wednesday with Romney and had started planning an event where he would throw his support behind the likely nominee, Gingrich spokesman R.C Hammond said… > > “It’s clear Romney is the nominee and the focus should be on defeating Obama. We should not focus on defeating ourselves,” Gingrich told disappointed supporters in Kings Mountain, N.C… > > “You have to at some point be honest about what’s happening in the real world as opposed to what you would like to have happened…There are times when the mountain gets bigger than your ability to climb it.” I for one eagerly anticipate that his formal announcement next week will be the kind of epic, bombastic finale we’ve come to expect from Newt. This is one guy who will definitely not go gently into that good night. ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/123 "2012-05-02T22:10:20Z")
May 2nd: Gingrich formally [ended his campaign for President](http://news.yahoo.com/gingrich-ends-campaign-urges-party-back-romney-213420182.html); video of his announcement can be found on his [website](http://www.newt.org/2012/05/01/video-thank-you-to-all-of-our-supporters/), and to his credit it’s not the fermented pile of sour grapes I expected. Gingrich didn’t officially endorse Romney during his announcement, but that was [a planned omission](http://news.yahoo.com/gingrichs-official-endorsement-romney-wont-tomorrow-222918588--abc-news-politics.html) (most likely so he can get his face on the teevee one more time). Still, I’m not sure this is a promising start: > [@](#): > > “This is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan. This is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical, leftist president in American history.” Tepid at best, and typical Newt: Always more comfortable attacking his enemies than allowing his allies to have any of the spotlight. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/124 "2012-05-02T22:16:18Z")
Goodbye, Newt. Please don’t ever, _ever_ run again. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/125 "2012-05-03T01:51:02Z")
[Gingrich Wins!](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/gingrich-wins-alternative-history) (An Alternative History.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/126 "2012-05-03T05:17:20Z")
> [@](#): > > “This is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan. This is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical, leftist president in American history.” Wait, I thought George Washington was already dead. ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/127 "2012-05-04T20:30:45Z")
OK, I should be done with this thread. But an [old item about Gingrich](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/31/gingrich-denies-knowledge-of-kosher-robocall/) briefly popped up on Colbert the other day. It’s something so outrageous I can’t believe I missed it, and I thought I’d go back and highlight it–just in case you were starting to feel a little sorry for “The Last Conservative Standing” as he shuffles off the stage: > [@](#): > > 1/31/2012: Newt Gingrich denied any knowledge of a robocall put out by his campaign Tuesday claiming rival Mitt Romney refused to fund kosher food for Holocaust survivors during his time as Massachusetts governor. > > Gingrich’s campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed the calls were going out statewide in Florida Tuesday… > > The robocall begins by saying: “As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes. Holocaust survivors, who for the first time, were forced to eat non-kosher, because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher.” > > Gingrich’s robocall then urges voters to cast votes for Gingrich, saying, “Tuesday you can end Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy on religious freedom, with a vote for Newt Gingrich.” Romney’s 2003 line-item veto was over an item in the state budget setting aside $600K for nursing homes to set up kosher kitchens. At the time, many state-funded nursing homes bused in kosher meals cooked in bulk elsewhere in order to save costs, so the money was simply to allow them to be prepared on-site instead. No one’s religious freedom was in jeopardy. I guess the fact that Newt Gingrich has put me in a position where I have to defend Romney means he gets the last laugh. Well played, doughboy! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/128 "2012-05-05T04:16:34Z")
From the _Washington Post_ article on Newt’s withdrawal - that’s our Newt!: “…For 23 desultory minutes in an overheating conference room, Gingrich took the 150 campaign workers and reporters present on a stream-of-consciousness tour of the Newtonian Mind. He spoke, in no particular order, of Capt. John Smith in 1607, mining asteroids, his novels about George Washington, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Ellis the Elephant, the Strait of Hormuz, Alzheimer’s disease, Chinese bondholders, Todd Palin, electromagnetic pulses, radical Islamists, C-SPAN, his high school years, Nixon, Carter, Reagan (both Ronald and Michael), the civil service, the Civil War, autism, holograms, the Soviet Union, nanoscale science, _The Federalist Papers_ and Herman Cain…” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/129 "2012-05-05T13:18:41Z")
[Shepard Smith reacting to Mitt Romney, reacting to Newt Gingrich announcement.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuF03PTNpp8&feature=youtu.be) How is Shep still on Fox? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/130 "2012-05-06T01:12:34Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Shepard Smith reacting to Mitt Romney, reacting to Newt Gingrich announcement.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuF03PTNpp8&feature=youtu.be) > > How is Shep still on Fox? Beats me. He’s looking kinda rode hard and put up wet, isn’t he? Must not be easy to work in that toxic wasteland. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/131 "2012-05-06T01:19:23Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Beats me. He’s looking kinda rode hard and put up wet, isn’t he? Must not be easy to work in that toxic wasteland. Yeah, I noticed he looked like he has lost weight, and not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077/132 "2012-05-06T02:14:03Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Yeah, I noticed he looked like he has lost weight, and not in a good way. I thought the same. He looks like he may have some serious wasting disease. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documenting-the-downfall-of-newt/612077.md?page=6)