SC Gov. Nikki Haley is furious with Newt.
Haley’s a first-class bozoette but beloved of the wingnuts, and her endorsement in a key early primary state carries some heft to it.
That’s not gonna help the Newt at all.
If there is any state where a history of infidelity is not a negative but actually a plus it is South Carolina 
Newt’s big plus should be his experience, but he’s running like a political neophyte. I never gave him much of a chance in this, but he has moved himself from dark-horse territory into spectacular long-shot range now.
Yea, did he not forsee people were going to ask him about Medicare? You’d think he’d get his story straight ahead of time.
I actually think coming out against the Ryan plan would’ve been a good plan, at least as far as separating him from the GOP pack (and from his 90’s image as trying to cut the program). But its the kind of move you need to go all in on, trying to walk it back the next day just makes him look like an idiot.
Gingrich is getting basted by his own party for his remarks, and the Dems are chortling about him once again shooting himself in the foot. As I mentioned somewhat jokingly in another thread on the guy, the man has never had any self discipline: it’s apparent in both his personal and public lives. He’s also a political anachronism. He may as well save himself some money and go home now.
Hey, it’s not his money he’s spending on his campaign. 
ETA: Wonder what the over/under is on when he’ll drop out? While he doesn’t care about the money, I figure at some point the embarrassment factor will become great enough to get him to abandon the race.
Bollocks. I am a fiscal conservative, and I don’t know anyone who thinks of Gingrich in positive terms at all. He’s a say-anything egotist asshole. To the extent Gingrich can be said to have fixed positions or convictions, I’d say I agree with 80% of them. And I still wouldn’t vote for him.
He manages to go beyond mere idiocy by calling himself a liar:
[QUOTE=Newt Gingrich]
So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.
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Was that intended to be a factual statement?
Factual statement? Hell, I can’t even figure out what it is supposed to mean.
Seriously? It’s pretty clear to me, though pretty stupid too.
Both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had a field day with this hilarious statement of his. And Politico reports that he and his wife owe somewhere between $250,000-500,000 to the jeweler Tiffany’s. She must have a really big addiction to fancy, expensive jewels (or he’s giving gifts to the next wife).
More likely the Tiffany’s bills are the result of “I’m sorry, I was being too patriotic” presents.
It means that the lamestream media shouldn’t distort Newt’s statements by quoting them verbatim.
Just when you thought he’d hit rock bottom, his press secretary gets out the jackhammer and starts digging:
[QUOTE=Gingrich press secretary Rick Tyler]
The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.
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Great Ghu, it reads like North Korean propaganda about the glories of the Dear Leader.
I’d say that he was acting as if it were still 1994, and it was still possible to say remotely rational things as a Republican and not get keelhauled. I’d never vote for the guy, but what he said on Meet the Press seemed to have a tinge of rationality. (His hilarious backing away from them didn’t.) Destroying Medicare is stupid and extreme, and, even worse, is going to lose a lot of votes. Yet when he is smart enough to distance himself from a loser the tea partiers pitch a fit. That may win primaries, but it is not going to win an election.
Perhaps Newt has been thinking and writing more or less in an ivory tower for so long now that he doesn’t really get why reasonable solutions are the kiss of death in the modern Republican party.
Great Ghu, it reads like North Korean propaganda about the glories of the Dear Leader.
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In case you have no idea what the press secretary meant. Here’s the illustrated version.
Apparently, he thinks his blame-the-media rants will appease the hardcore base while his positions will attract mainstream voters. Instead, his positions are alienating the base while his rants make him a laughingstock to mainstream voters.
Aw. I’m starting to feel a little sorry for the guy. Didn’t he used to be a ‘real’ politician back in the day?
Well, he may have stumbled a little out of the gate, but he still has plenty of time to get his game on. And he does need to up his game. He’s got some pretty good competition on the Dem side.
In case you have no idea what the press secretary meant. Here’s the illustrated version.
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I think it should be read by Tina Fey in full Palin regalia, complete with (in)appropriately timed winks.
Shatner version to follow, complete with bongos.
Heh. The sad thing is that he probably thinks he’s invoking that sort of heroic image.
In other Newt news, he isn’t all alone (yet). St. Sarah still likes him, and charges to his defense with an irrefudiatable argument:
[QUOTE=Sarah Palin]
Palin went much farther than Gingrich has in attacking Gregory, however, labeling him “racist” for asking Gingrich whether his claim that Barack Obama was a “food stamp president” was a dogwhistle.
“Well, talk about racism, that was a racist tinged question from David Gregory,” she said. “He made it sound like if you’re black, you are on food stamps and the President is referring to you as being on food stamps. I think that’s racist.”
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