Gingrich: In It to Lose It

[erpowers]

In 2008, Hillary Clinton used the phrase "in it to win it". In recent days, I have been wondering if Newt Gingrich is in the Republican primary to lose the primary. It has increasingly began to look to me that Newt Gingrich is trying to lose the Republican nomination. First, it was the moon speech in which he claimed that by the end of his second term there would be U.S. base on the moon. Then, a few days later he announced that he is being endorsed by Herman Cain. Now it is being announced that he will be endorsed by Donald Trump.

I understand that some would say Gingrich is just trying to get a lock on tea party support in that each of these men polled well, at one point, with tea party supporters. However, I would argue that each of these men left the campaign on a negative note. By the time they left the campaign they had lost a great deal of tea party support.

[madokie]

1. Newt is in it for the money only

if by chance he was to win and go all the way that would be icing on the cake. All he knows for sure he can get is the money and he's just going through the motions to get that money. He's a grifter as is sister word salad and a few of the others too come to think about it. paul, man on dog, crazy woman, all of them were or are in it for the money.

[Atman]

2. Book sales and speaking fees.

That's all he's after. Presidentin' would actually be WORK, and if there is one thing Newt hates, it's work. Unless it's a child scrubbing toilets for 79 cents an hour.

[Chill Keney]

3. He's in it to wreck Romney

Something I have no problem with.

[Major Hogwash]

4. Noot is trying to blow himself up bigger and bigger to feed his ego and pocketbook.

He has no intention of becoming the President.
That would require a lot of work, stress, and he knows that he would fuck everything up.

So, instead he's just out there pounding the pavement now in order to sell books that he will write for the next several years to come, that will tell us how smart he is and that he could have done a better job than the President did had he been elected President.

Noot is the guy who never played football in high school, but told all of his friends years later that if he would have played, he would have won all the games when he was a senior, and he would have dated the prom queen who was also the head cheerleader, and he would have went on to a professional career in the NFL, and he would have married the prom queen, and he would have probably won a few Super Bowls along the way depending on how good the O-line was, and he would have become a sportscaster like that one guy for ESPN who always says "he could go . . all . . the . . way."

Instead he's just a balding, overweight car insurance salesman living out in the scrub brush desert near Butthole, Idaho, married to the girl who was voted in high school as looking the most like Roseann Barr.

[RevStPatrick]

5. That's been pretty obvious from the beginning.

St. Rudy of 9/11 created the modern template for running for president to bump up your speaking fees and book sales, and Newt is all over that. I think he may have done better than he expected, and he's milking it for all it's worth!

Newt will never be the POTUS, and he knows it. That's why it seems like he's having so much fun these days. It's all a game to him...

[TlalocW]

6. I disagree with everyone saying he's in it just for book and speaker fees

The man was essentially kicked out of government by his own party. He told his second wife in regards to how he was acting and his bloviating about family values that it didn't matter how he acted, but people NEED to hear what he has to say. He considers himself one of the great thinkers and architects of the modern age. Add that to his pettiness, and not only does America need him, but he gets to salvage his political career and rub it in the faces of everyone.

TlalocW