Newt Gingrich takes his fourth ‘no-adultery pledge’. Newt, head for the Pit.

[G-SE]

@Sitnam

Swiftboating.

a.k.a. Caining

[leftfield6]

@Cicero

… 50 year old Korean hair fetishist.

Why oh why didn’t I use this as my screen name.:smack:

[drewtwo99]

@kaylasdad99

+3, actually, since he’s done them three times…

Seriously, it had been my impression that the prior three no-adultery pledges referred to in the article were marriage vows.

Yeah, so including marriage vows, I guess this is his 7th pledge not to commit adultery? And he has broken 5 of them (that we know of)?

What a slimeball.

[elninost0rm]

@Kimmy_Gibbler

Is there like some kind of Pit thread-starting Pokémon contest that you’re in that we don’t know about?

Christ, shut the fuck up already.

[Furious_Marmot]

Are there seriously women lining up to fuck this guy? How the hell does a dude who looks like that get the opportunity to commit adultery?

Is the takeaway from the Cain collapse and Gingrich rise that the Republican base prefer a white serial adulterer to a black uni-adulterer? Does this mean that the Republican primaries are going to settle the question of whether a Protestant serial adulterer is preferable a monogamous Mormon?

[running_coach]

@Furious_Marmot

Are there seriously women lining up to fuck this guy? How the hell does a dude who looks like that get the opportunity to commit adultery?

Money and power are aphrodisiacs.

[Voyager]

Newt is almost halfway to Mickey Rooney territory But at least you can say he doesn’t just lust in his heart.

[shiftless]

@RickJay

That is in fact what the article is referring to; they’re counting his three marriages as “non adultery pledges” and counting this as #4.

I wondered the same thing. I don’t know about Newt but some couples have a “Fidelity pledge” as part of their wedding, in addition to the normal vows. Kind of a belt and suspenders thing I guess.

[BigT]

@Frank

You’re starting pit threads with no more than a link and a “deserves to be Pitted!”
They’re tepid OPs, barely even heated enough for MPSIMS. If I didn’t see your name at the top of them, I would think they had been authored by Big T.

I don’t understand why you’re even bothering. Obviously, it’s not because you’re pissed off at the subject, so there must be some other reason to be doing this every three or six days. Are you a moron, a numbskull, a dipshit? An attention whore (Look At Me!!!), a Pit thread whore (Obviously, I’m important, look at all the responses I get to my Pit threads.), a random dweeb who can’t be bothered to marshal facts, reasons, and invective to tell the rest of us why he’s (not) pissed off?

I really wish you guys would make up your minds. Is it that I get really angry about small things, or is it that I’m always so tepid and never show anger?

Or do you have me mixed up with someone else? I don’t start pit threads, and haven’t for a long time.

[waterj2]

@RickJay

I should point out that Euphonius Polemic knocked this out of the park in Post 2. If the Democrats raise Gingrich’s appalling personal ethics, the Republicans WILL turn it around and try to paint Obama as a bad family man. I’d bet money on it, and I’d bet money it will work on a lot of people. EP is not making a joke; it’s been done. In 2004 the Democrats ran a war hero (John Kerry) against a guy who, shall we say, put some effort into avoiding wartime service (George Bush) and successfully painted Kerry as a bad soldier.

I’m not sure what twist they’ll put on Obama to make him seem like a bad family man. Phony rumours perhaps, but that doesn’t seem nearly devious enough.

Here in Massachusetts, Karl Rove’s group Crossroads GOP is running ads criticizing Elizabeth Warren for being too cozy with Wall Street banks. They don’t care how much of a complete inversion of the truth something is, say it often enough and at least some people start to believe it.

[The_Second_Stone]

The Republican primary has more looney candidates than a San Francisco mayor’s race. To think that one of them might be our next President makes me as proud to be an American as I am to be a native born San Franciscan. Which is to say, where is Willie Brown, the Democrat Republicans have crossed the aisle to vote for more than once?

[Spavined_Gelding]

An Evangelical preacher from Indianola is quoted in the tomorrow’s Des Moines paper as characterizing Newt as “an empty suit with a broken zipper.” That’s pretty witty for an Evangelical, not a type known for a sense of humor.

[Naxos]

@R.P.McMurphy

I can’t stand this pompous asshole. Yet somehow, he’s becoming the darling of the “family values” sanctimonious, ditto-head, hypocritical shit-brains who vote Republican and seem to run the party.

Because the glue that holds them together is blatant racism.

That’s why they will vote for any adulterer, any corrupt piece of crap who will blast the US economy to hell, any cocaine sniffing scum bag, any mindless idiot, any mass death criminal that will hold up the Republican ideal of racism and discrimination.

That’s who they are.

[Abe_Babe]

@Cicero

As Allesan and Miller have suggested, this post more than makes the thread.
I mean, we need a 50 year old Korean hair fetishist.

I think I need to start an “Ask the 50 year old Korean hair fetishist” thread. . .

nah.

And a .500 batting average would make Newt an all-star baseball player.

[mkecane]

@shiftless

I wondered the same thing. I don’t know about Newt but some couples have a “Fidelity pledge” as part of their wedding, in addition to the normal vows. Kind of a belt and suspenders thing I guess.

This really had me giggling for some reason. That’s all.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Death_of_Rats

Does this mean that this time he will divorce wife #3 before he starts banging the intern?

Interns are teenagers, not adults. Hence, he can’t be adulterous with an intern.

[Measure_for_Measure]

@RickJay

I should point out that Euphonius Polemic knocked this out of the park in Post 2. If the Democrats raise Gingrich’s appalling personal ethics, the Republicans WILL turn it around and try to paint Obama as a bad family man. I’d bet money on it, and I’d bet money it will work on a lot of people. EP is not making a joke; it’s been done. In 2004 the Democrats ran a war hero (John Kerry) against a guy who, shall we say, put some effort into avoiding wartime service (George Bush) and successfully painted Kerry as a bad soldier.

I’m not sure what twist they’ll put on Obama to make him seem like a bad family man. Phony rumours perhaps, but that doesn’t seem nearly devious enough.

@waterj2

Here in Massachusetts, Karl Rove’s group Crossroads GOP is running ads criticizing Elizabeth Warren for being too cozy with Wall Street banks. They don’t care how much of a complete inversion of the truth something is, say it often enough and at least some people start to believe it.

Well, Gingrich won’t win: the establishment dislikes him (one guy said that bigfoot in a clown suit was more plausible) and we’re already seeing indications of Peak Newt in the polls.

That said: yes. The strategy works because modern conservatives don’t mind being lied to. In fact they like it: they find it reassuring. I mean you have to be pretty deep in the tank to watch a news source like Fox News that repeatedly puts out misinformation.
Just this week: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/when_fox_news_tries_to_make_a034063.php

Then again, Fox News doesn’t much like Romney:
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/12/fox-news-swaps.php

Their shoddy reporting is chronicled daily at Media Matters: anybody who voluntarily watches such factually screwed up and unreliable material clearly has issues.

[jjimm]

@Abe_Babe

I think I need to start an “Ask the 50 year old Korean hair fetishist” thread. . .

This post has been brushed by The Brush.

[foolsguinea]

@Budget_Player_Cadet

No one else has had to more than once. I really hope it turns out he breaks it mid-campaign…

Hasn’t he been cheating on his current wife during this campaign already? I haven’t been paying attention, but wasn’t there a woman connected to him earlier this year?

[OttoDaFe]

@jjimm

This post has been brushed by The Brush.

And you thought The Grapist was bad . . .

(See here if you’re wondering whatinell I’m talking about.)