Gingrich, We Hardly Knew Ye. .

[Fear_Itself]

I am puzzled that the supporters that jumped from Bachmann to Perry to Cain have apparently now jumped to Gingrich. Bachmann/Perry/Cain are pretty much interchangeable Tea Party clones, but Newt is a Washington insider with a lot of baggage, both personal and professional. He has never been a big favorite with the Teahadists until now. So do they just have short memories, or are their principles just not that important in light of “anyone but Mitt” and “beat Obama” ?

[ElvisL1ves]

@Finagle

I suspect Newt dates back to a time when politicians still occasionally worked together to compromise rather than the knee jerk obstructionism that the current generation has been brought up to.

Absolutely wrong. Gingrich was the central figure in *creating *this period of childishness. Check this out.

As you know, one of the key points in the GOPAC tapes is that “language matters.” In the video “We are a Majority,” Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude and Learning. As the tapes have been used in training sessions across the country and mailed to candidates we have heard a plaintive plea: “I wish I could speak like Newt.”
…

Often we search hard for words to define our opponents. Sometimes we are hesitant to use contrast. Remember that creating a difference helps you. These are powerful words that can create a clear and easily understood contrast. Apply these to the opponent, their record, proposals and their party.

abuse of power
anti- (issue): flag, family, child, jobs
betray
bizarre
bosses
bureaucracy
cheat
coercion
“compassion” is not enough
collapse(ing)
consequences
corrupt
corruption
criminal rights
crisis
cynicism
decay
deeper
destroy
destructive
devour
disgrace
endanger
excuses
failure (fail)
greed
hypocrisy
ideological
impose
incompetent
insecure
insensitive
intolerant
liberal
lie
limit(s)
machine
mandate(s)
obsolete
pathetic
patronage
permissive attitude
pessimistic
punish (poor …)
radical
red tape
self-serving
selfish
sensationalists
shallow
shame
sick
spend(ing)
stagnation
status quo
steal
taxes
they/them
threaten
traitors
unionized
urgent (cy)
waste
welfare

Get the picture?

[kaylasdad99]

If he appears in Doonesbury cartoons, I wonder if Trudeau will use the same icon that he gave Newt in the 90s…

[jayjay]

@kaylasdad99

If he appears in Doonesbury cartoons, I wonder if Trudeau will use the same icon that he gave Newt in the 90s…

That was the bomb, wasn’t it?

[BrainGlutton]

Look, Gingrich really does project everything America hates about the GOP, all the very worst nastiness of it – in fact, he probably will remind people of Cheney and Rove, whose memories are yet fresh, and sore – and if the American people are given a choice between embracing that and rejecting it, a majority will reject it. Newt couldn’t beat Lyndon LaRouche. Romney’s really the Pubs’ best hope. At least he doesn’t inspire visceral revulsion (nor much of anything else) in all warm-blooded vertebrates.

[jayjay]

@BrainGlutton

Romney’s really the Pubs’ best hope. At least he doesn’t inspire visceral revulsion (nor much of anything else) in all warm-blooded vertebrates.

Except dogs. They remember. Theeeey remember…

[kaylasdad99]

@kaylasdad99

If he appears in Doonesbury cartoons, I wonder if Trudeau will use the same icon that he gave Newt in the 90s…

@jayjay

That was the bomb, wasn’t it?

Yup. Maybe he’ll draw Newt as a a fizzled-out firecracker.

[Fear_Itself]

Newt Gingrich is much like what Churchill said about John Foster Dulles: “He is the only bull I know who carries his own china shop around with him.”

[RTFirefly]

@ElvisL1ves

Get the picture?

Yes, we see.*

TPM reporter Eric Kleefeld had a brilliant tweet:

Just got tip that a woman who had affair with Newt is going to surface — Callista is hitting the campaign trail.

• ETA: bonus points for getting the reference.

[RTFirefly]

@Fear_Itself

Newt Gingrich is much like what Churchill said about John Foster Dulles: “He is the only bull I know who carries his own china shop around with him.”

Please keep your bull outside the china shop,
no bulls allowed, that’s where they stop.

[jayjay]

@RTFirefly

Yes, we see.*

• ETA: bonus points for getting the reference.

My folks were always putting him down… (down, down)…

[Finagle]

@ElvisL1ves

Absolutely wrong. Gingrich was the central figure in *creating *this period of childishness. Check this out.Get the picture?

Speculation withdrawn, then.

[Steve_MB]

A smoking gun from The Smoking Gun (emphasis added):

The standard Gingrich “contract addendum” stipulates that a client has to provide the politician with a “non-smoking one-bedroom suite.” It also notes that the Gingrich accommodation should be outfitted “preferably with two bathrooms.”

:dubious:

[a35362]

Eh. So he and his wife don’t like to share a bathroom if they don’t have to.

…His wife does travel with him, right?

[RTFirefly]

@jayjay

My folks were always putting him down… (down, down)…

They said he came from the wrong side of town (he came from the wrong side of town)
…
That’s when the GOP fell for
this month’s Leader of the Pack. (vroom, vroom)

[ElvisL1ves]

@a35362

…His wife does travel with him, right?

Does she scream at him “Look out! Look out! Look out!”? Orr does she feel so helpless, what can she do?

And I’m pretty sure it’s “Leader of the PAC” in his case, anyway.

[RTFirefly]

@ElvisL1ves

Orr does she feel so helpless, what can she do?

Nah, she’ll save that for when he eventually divorces her for Wife #4.

[BobLibDem]

Newt’s wives are like city buses- don’t like the looks of one, don’t worry cause another will be along shortly.

[Swords_to_Plowshares]

Here’s some fodder for the foreign policy debate.

@Gingrich

"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

source

[jayjay]

Diplomacy, motherf’er! Do. You. Speak it?