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kpete

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Thu Jan 5, 2012, 10:32 AM Jan 2012

“Newt the Destroyer“

David Corn at Mother Jones invokes “Newt the Destroyer“:

In a bitter and spiteful concession speech last night in Iowa—Kanye West could do no worse—the former House speaker, who finished fourth, signaled a shift in his mission. He would no longer be running to obtain the Republican presidential nomination; he would be campaigning to obliterate Mitt Romney. He would be Sherman; the former Massachusetts governor would be Georgia.

If Gingrich does pursue this march—and there are two debates this weekend in New Hampshire in which Gingrich can be a suicide bomber—Gingrich will be reaching the peak of his 30-year career as a Republican demolition man. And now his target will be the candidate the GOP establishment believes possesses the best chance of unseating President Barack Obama…

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/newt-gingrich-romney-gop-destroyer

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“Newt the Destroyer“ (Original Post) kpete Jan 2012 OP
"Go Newtie go! Sock it to The Willard (R - 1%) - Citizens of the USA SpiralHawk Jan 2012 #1
 

SpiralHawk

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1. "Go Newtie go! Sock it to The Willard (R - 1%) - Citizens of the USA
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 10:35 AM
Jan 2012

"We want to see you and Willard kick the Stupendously Stanky RepubliStuffing out of each other. By all means, express your fear, hate and rage fully. While you are busy having your Chickenhawk Republicon tantrums, we Americans can get back to work in peace and quiet making our country a decent place again."

- The citizens of the USA

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