NEWT: "I feel like a guy whose compass is so goofed up I have no idea which way is north."

[kpete]

https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/13/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1736/
— Newt Gingrich

[hatrack]

1. Did you mean "moral compass", shitbird?

[onetexan]

16. Ding ding ding!!!

[NNadir]

26. + a few million.

[hlthe2b]

2. When you've lived your life with your head up your a...s, I'd guess that would be the result.

Newt, you are truly detested. Just go away.

[Meadowoak]

3. Maybe you died and went to hell, right where you belong.

[NorCalBlue]

4. So says the guy who pushed the first domino.

Good article on his early involvement in this current mess.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[malaise]

14. Great post

Thanks for the link

[magicarpet]

5. Well that explains it,...

Why in the political spheres - Gingrich doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

Weather vane Newtie. Hold on a second,.. I have to wet my finger so I know which way the political winds are currently blowing.

[sop]

6. When Republicans lose their bearings, they always go further down into the rabbit hole.

[LakeArenal]

11. It's not their bearings lost. It's their souls.

[Beatlelvr]

7. Good. Now go home

Even if you have to ask directions.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Now he knows what he did to our world back in the nineties.

[yellowcanine]

9. You never knew which way was North, Newt

Unrepentant Confederate Lost Causer.

[dlk]

10. It's easy for someone to get lost when they lack a moral compass

It’s a new day and Newt is upset his old bag of dirty tricks no longer wins the day. As Republicans love to advise Democrats: get over it.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. He created the chaos that we see today with the GOP (and is STILL feeding it)

I have posted this numerous times before but it underscores what is happening right now -

The Man Who Broke Politics

Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements.

Story by McKay Coppins
November 2018 Issue

Updated on October 17, 2018

[snip]

On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College. But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before him—he had come to foment revolution.

“One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty,” he told the group. “We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics.” For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to “raise hell,” to stop being so “nice,” to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat “war for power”—and to start acting like it.

The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those who’d survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a “permanent minority” mind-set. “It was like death,” he recalls of the mood in the caucus. “They were morally and psychologically shattered.”

But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. “His idea,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, “was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.”

[snip]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

[Bucky]

15. Context here would be peachy

[MissMillie]

24. count your lucky stars

at least you had some sense, by the title, that it was about Newt.

Actually, I knew instantly what he was talking about... they didn't get their "red wave."

[3catwoman3]

17. I loathe Newt Gingrich.

He is in love with the sound of his own voice.

[Sibelius Fan]

18. I hate fucking Newt Gingrich.

Going through my mom’s things after she died, I found an unopened DVD featuring Newt and his latest wife offering their thoughts on the sanctity of marriage. Gingrich. Marriage sanctity. Ghoulish.

Preying on people like my mom - fundy Xian, retired, living on SS - getting them to cough up $30 they can’t afford because they deeply believe that’s what Jeebuz wants. Disgusting.

[GoCubsGo]

19. His "compass" has been fucked up for as long as he's been around.

Going back to the 1980s, and in more ways than one.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. He Couldn't Find North...

...with a properly working compass, and that's been the case his whole useless life.

[newdayneeded]

21. The guy who handed divorce papers to

his dying wife in a hospital bed said what?

[VGNonly]

22. You don't need a weatherman

to know which way the wind blows.

In Newty's case it's SOUTH!

[MissMillie]

23. And he'd like us to believe

that this "goofed up" compass of his is something new for him.

[electric_blue68]

25. Oh, Gahds! Neeeewt! I Hate that man ....

I remember him employing that excoriating language on the Dems!
I -never forget- him divorcing his hospitalized wife w cancer!

This article was so informative (and disgusting).

I'd forgotten how much he encouraged bottlenecking Congress, instead of bi-partisenship. And how he leaned into the Clinton-Lewinsky Affair.

I didn't know about his long time relationship with Drumpf! 😲 Nor the fact that he encouraged him to run?!!!!! (Spew!) 😧😬

Now, I have even More Reasons to hate him!

While I Am very vituperative here -
I do spend way more of my time instead in wonderment, beauty, fabulous creativity, caring about others, sharing good info, learning lots of fascinating things, having fun, and laughing than hating on certain Repuglicans, and Putin.

[CTyankee]

27. Oh, shut the fuck up!

Nobody wants to hear what you have to say...