# Gingrich, We Hardly Knew Ye. . **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 9, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898 "2011-06-09T19:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/81 "2011-11-17T01:14:11Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Obama should throw his hat in teh ring for the Republican primary and insinuate the President was born in kenya and he would be tied with Romeny for the lead. We’re drawing closer and closer to English all the time. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/82 "2011-11-17T03:33:49Z")
[Abramoff accuses Newt Gingrich of 'corruption.' Really. - POLITICO](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68547.html) Even Abramoff calls Newt corrupt. But is there anyone who thinks he is not? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/83 "2011-11-17T04:39:45Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > We’re drawing closer and closer to English all the time. If I may, **Damuri Ajashi**? The insinuation is that the anti-Romney Right is jumping so blindly from not-Romney to not-Romney that if Obama put on a hairpiece, signed up as a Republican candidate, and mouthed one or two of the Tea Party’s articles of faith, he’d get the same sort of surge as various other not-Romneys have. Is that English enough for you? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/84 "2011-11-17T05:11:03Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Apparently, that isn’t a problem. I mean, Horndog Bill was unfaithful to his wife in a massive manner and people still think he’s the cat’s ass. Kinda like Newt. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/85 "2011-11-17T16:19:04Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > If I may, **Damuri Ajashi**? > > The insinuation is that the anti-Romney Right is jumping so blindly from not-Romney to not-Romney that if Obama put on a hairpiece, signed up as a Republican candidate, and mouthed one or two of the Tea Party’s articles of faith, he’d get the same sort of surge as various other not-Romneys have. > > Is that English enough for you? [Not-Mitt-Romney cartoon.](http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/2722/TMW2011-11-16colorKOS.png) ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/86 "2011-11-17T17:01:58Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68547.html](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68547.html) Even Abramoff calls Newt corrupt. But is there anyone who thinks he is not? You really want to use Abramoff as a source? What if comes back tomorrow and says President Obama is corrupt? Abramoff is just trying to make everybody else look dirty, so he looks better. At this point nobody has accused Gingrich of even making an improper phone call. I have some reservations about Gingrich’s temperament, but he is probably the smartest person running for president. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/87 "2011-11-17T22:41:14Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Apparently, that isn’t a problem. I mean, Horndog Bill was unfaithful to his wife in a massive manner and people still think he’s the cat’s ass. Yeah but he didn’t try to impeach someone else who was also being unfaithful to their wife and his base was not the same base that Newt has to try and appeal to. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/88 "2011-11-17T22:46:41Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > If I may, **Damuri Ajashi**? > > The insinuation is that the anti-Romney Right is jumping so blindly from not-Romney to not-Romney that if Obama put on a hairpiece, signed up as a Republican candidate, and mouthed one or two of the Tea Party’s articles of faith, he’d get the same sort of surge as various other not-Romneys have. > > Is that English enough for you? Yeah, that’s pretty much it. How far we have come. I remember a time when Newt was so extreme that Democrats were hoping and praying that he would be the nominee and now we realize that Newt may be one of the strongest not-Romney candidates on the field. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/89 "2011-11-17T22:48:44Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Yeah, that’s pretty much it. How far we have come. I remember a time when Newt was so extreme that Democrats were hoping and praying that he would be the nominee and now we realize that Newt may be one of the strongest not-Romney candidates on the field. Sliding on down the rat-hole. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/90 "2011-11-17T22:48:54Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I remember a time when Newt was so extreme that Democrats were hoping and praying that he would be the nominee and now we realize that Newt may be one of the strongest not-Romney candidates on the field. Kind of like being the prettiest girl in the leper colony, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/91 "2011-11-18T16:50:52Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > You really want to use Abramoff as a source? What if comes back tomorrow and says President Obama is corrupt? Abramoff is just trying to make everybody else look dirty, so he looks better. At this point nobody has accused Gingrich of even making an improper phone call. > > I have some reservations about Gingrich’s temperament, but he is probably the smartest person running for president. Yes he has learned the word profound and uses it over and over. If he repeats it often enough, people begin to think he is profound instead of crooked. He got run out of congress by his own people. He has no principles at all. But unlike most Repubs on the stage, he speaks in complete sentences. Abramoff is like Canseco in baseball. He came clean and people distrusted him until it was shown he told the truth. I am well aware of Gingrich and his fostering the Repub right and Lobbyist connections. It is hard to believe anything he says. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/92 "2011-11-18T17:02:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Kind of like being the prettiest girl in the leper colony, isn’t it? Zing! ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/93 "2011-11-18T17:09:45Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Kind of like being the prettiest girl in the leper colony, isn’t it? Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/94 "2011-11-18T17:11:25Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. And if you try it, don’t knock it at all. In fact, don’t jar, jostle, stub, stumble or stove it, either. It’s not pretty. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/95 "2011-11-20T04:59:44Z")
Last couple days Newt has played to his narrow base, by claiming there is no such thing as a 99 percent and that they should get a job and take a bath. This is your man of depth in the Repub party. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/96 "2011-11-20T18:15:31Z")
Oh, it gets better… [Newt feels child labor laws are “truly stupid”:](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/19/gingrich-laws-preventing-child-labor-are-truly-stupid/) > [@](#): > > Newt Gingrich proposed a plan Friday that would allow poor children to clean their schools for money, saying such a setup would both allow students to earn income and endow them with a strong work ethic. > > Speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the former House Speaker said his system would be an improvement on current child labor laws, which he called “truly stupid.” Mind you, this seems less about kids earning a little pocket money and more about breaking the janitors’ union. Still, it’s a half-step from here to having underprivileged fourth-graders helping out in the coalmines. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/97 "2011-11-20T18:32:05Z")
Gingrich is so rich and so privileged that he can not relate to the problems of the people. He has had his pockets filled by the wealthy for so long, that he thinks they are the people . His remarks about the Occupations is proof of how out of touch he is. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/98 "2011-11-20T19:29:34Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Last couple days Newt has played to his narrow base, by claiming there is no such thing as a 99 percent and that they should get a job and take a bath. This is your man of depth in the Repub party. Funny, part of the point of the OWS stuff is that the 1% have fucked things up so bad that there are hardly any jobs to be had. I bet even a lot of GOP primary voters are aware of how tough it is to find work these days. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/99 "2011-11-20T19:38:31Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > FI bet even a lot of GOP primary voters are aware of how tough it is to find work these days. Nonsense. The reason jobs are scarce is because [good Republicans have three, each](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/21/1028664/-Paul-Ryan-calls-Pell-Grants-unsustainable-and-tells-students-to-work-three-jobs-to-pay-for-college)! > [@](#): > > {Rep. Paul Ryan} > Look, I worked three jobs to pay off my student loans after college. I didn’t get grants, I got loans, and we need to have a system of viable student loans to be able to do this. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898/100 "2011-11-20T23:21:46Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Gingrich is so rich and so privileged that he can not relate to the problems of the people. He has had his pockets filled by the wealthy for so long, that he thinks they are the people . > His remarks about the Occupations is proof of how out of touch he is. Hmmm. Is he out of touch or just playing to the “get a job” people to get their financial support? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gingrich-we-hardly-knew-ye/584898.md?page=6)