April 25th: According to his close advisors, the former Speaker is making plans to end his campaign next week and endorse Mitt Romney:
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.
May 2nd: Gingrich formally ended his campaign for President; video of his announcement can be found on his website, 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 (most likely so he can get his face on the teevee one more time). Still, I’m not sure this is a promising start:
Tepid at best, and typical Newt: Always more comfortable attacking his enemies than allowing his allies to have any of the spotlight.
Goodbye, Newt. Please don’t ever, ever run again.
Gingrich Wins! (An Alternative History.)
Wait, I thought George Washington was already dead.
OK, I should be done with this thread. But an old item about Gingrich 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:
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!
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…”
Shepard Smith reacting to Mitt Romney, reacting to Newt Gingrich announcement.
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.
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.