Newt Gingrich Makes Me Sick

[ThomWV]

Gingrich will be the Republican nominee, no question in my mind about that. The asswipe is on a replay of C-Span's Washington Journal program (recorded earlier this morning) spouting more of his anti-American bullshit.

God dam, he makes me sick. At a gut level I despise him even more than the memory of Ronald Reagan.

[qdemn7]

1. Gingrich???

What the hell have you been smoking? Gingrich isn't even running?

[youthere]

2. He said on WJ this morning he's considering running as a "Green Conservative"

[DemInBuckhead]

9. Green Conservative....sigh

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an article Newt wrote about how conservatism and the markets would help the environment. A touchy-feely article with no analysis about how the markets would do what regulation could not, nor any sort of rebuttal to anyone who would argue that the EPA and the Clean Air/Water Acts of the early '70s greatly improved the environment. Newt basically says "The markets will improve the environment...listen to me now and believe me later."

[Catherine Vincent]

13. He looks like a "White Conservative" to me.

:)

[qdemn7]

15. Oh?

Well shit my bad. :blush:

[youthere]

16. Oh yes..and it was vomit inducing to hear the Newt-groupies call in..

and gush over him.

[SlowDownFast]

26. Greenwashing Conservative, more like.

Greenwashing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwash

[ThomWV]

3. Listen to him and them come back and tell me he's not running.

[rurallib]

6. I for one expect him to jump in in about a month

He has this front group 'American Solutions' that will be having a meeting soon. I expect that will begin the kickoff to a run.

[SlowDownFast]

25. He's getting ready to. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

4. Yup - and people who fall for his reasonable-sounding pandering too.

[bunkerbuster1]

11. But, enough about David Broder.

it's nauseating all right, but it's just David being his usual Serious Centrist Self.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091901702.html

[BlooInBloo]

12. lol! A fine example.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. I had to turn him off. he is nauseating.

[JHB]

7. Tell Newt to Shut Up

...and read the book of the same name.

[tularetom]

8. I heard he said he'd run if his backers raised $30 million

I considered kicking in a few bucks to help them along. That asswipe would be a Democrat's wet dream as an opponent, he's carrying more baggage than a 747.

[bunkerbuster1]

10. What's this? Jumping in as a third-party candidate to siphon off votes from Rudy or Fred?

Run, Newtie, Run!

He sure as hell wouldn't hurt us if he did.

Seriously, don't worry about this nutter. He's a legend in his own mind. He forgets that he's never actually received a citizen's vote outside of his cracker district in GA.

(and since I call GA home, I'm allowed to say that!)

[TwilightGardener]

14. There's no demand for Gingrich. Repubs know he'll lose for them if

he's the nominee--they won't let that happen. He's just trying to fill that McCain maverick "sweet spot" role with this green bullshit and the "break from Bush" stuff--"Look at me, MSM, I'm a Republican rebel!" In all likelihood, he won't get offers of support, and won't run, unless he's utterly delusional.

[valerief]

17. Yeah, he's like e.coli on California lettuce. You can't completely

get rid of him.

Isn't he a gazillionaire by now? He must have made out tremendously with the Contract on America. I wonder how much of his wealth is hidden from view.

[donsu]

18. one of the things he said got my back up

he said the French thought if they put up an "attractive" woman she would win the election.

and she lost. (re: Hillary) my back wasn't up because of Hillary, but at the "attractive" he added to the word woman. thus diminishing her worth to her looks. It was an insult to the French woman.

and then I too muted the creep.

[PDenton]

19. Just to the Left of Ayn Rand on economics

A pure ideologue, not like any of the other candidates (except Ron Paul- yuck). Unforutanetely, alot of people buying into his nonsense because he's so exurebant and bubbly, just like Ronald Reagan. Granted, he has a better head on him than Reagan did, but that makes him more dangerous.

[SoCalDem]

20. I almost hate myself for this, but

I have gotten to the point that when I see someone like him on tv, I just change the channel.. I used to be able to "humor" them at and least listen to what they had to say, but lately, I have ZERO TOLERANCE for the slime-bucket sleazoid garbage that oozes from every pore..

It aggravates me to no end how these disgraced creeps are still given a platform, and are treated as if their words are pearls of wisdom..

Just think of all the idiots who are still given air time..

John Fund
Bernie Kerik
Tom Delay
Newt
Bob Bennett

I am sure I forgot some.. but the point is that they give these creeps credibility by having them on tv all the time.. and people who only watch this stuff intermittently, don;t even know the back-stories of these people, and then believe what they have to say..

[yellowcanine]

21. Republican and Independent women will line up to vote against Newt. He has

never figured out how not to offend women so he does it nearly every time he opens his mouth.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Newt epitomizes the term "loose cannon".

In the days of wooden sailing ships, cannon were mounted in wheeled wooden cradles sitting against wedge-shaped blocks and held in place by ropes. When the cannon fired, the cradle would roll "uphill", thus dissipating the recoil and sparing the hull from excessive stress. Ropes would restrain the cradle and return it to firing position.

In the course of a battle, particularly in bad seas, a gun cradle -- which could weigh a couple of tons -- might tear loose from its restraints and roll about the deck of the ship, killing and injuring the gunners and crew even more effectively than enemy fire. Worst of all, a loaded cannon might even discharge. Second only to "fire on board", no call was more alarming to the crew than "loose cannon on deck". Thus, "loose cannon" became a term applied to someone who recklessly endangers his own, even to the extent of helping to defeat his own cause.

Newt is all about Newt. He has delusions of grandeur, and cannot stop thinking of himself as a Great Leader -- abundant evidence to the contrary notwithstanding -- which obviously implies potential presidency. Republicans who benefited from Newt's brand of leadership the first time around realize they can't afford any more.

I might believe that Pee-Wee Herman could get elected President, but not Newt. He has a rabid, but small, fan club (Newt, not Pee-Wee), which is not enough to win so much as a single state primary.

[Elidor]

23. I wish he would run

Krazy Katy Harris is a long time gone, and I need some laughs.

Thank god Alan Keyes jumped in.

[SlowDownFast]

24. Yup. He just might be the nominee.

Caught him yammering on Fox & Fiends whilst channel surfing this morning.

What kind of dirt we got on him?

I seem to remember some significant skeletons exposed in Newt's closet some years ago...