GINGRICH: PALIN'S STILL GOT A SHOT

[BLUSH]

GINGRICH: PALIN'S STILL GOT A SHOT

July 13, 2009 5:09 PM

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro

Here's one we missed Friday evening, but came across perusing Newt Gingrich's Twitter feed this afternoon...

As we, at First Read, have also argued, Gingrich said he thinks Sarah Palin still has a legitimate shot at the 2012 nomination.

He was asked on audio on his Web site, "If you decided to run for president in 2012, would you be open to having Sarah Palin as your running mate?"

Gingrich replied: "Well, I think it's important to remember that Gov. Palin may well be the nominee. There are lots and lots of Republicans who like her. And she's now going to be able to campaign full time for the next-- almost three and a quarter years. And so, who knows what's going to happen. I think it's a long way off, but I think she has a very major role to play in the party. And I wouldn't rule her out for either the first or second slot."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/13/1995213.aspx


:wtf:

[Xipe Totec]

1. It's still good, it's still good!

Bart and Homer race wildly after Lisa until she pushes the pig grill off
the top of a slope. The pig passes through a hedge.

Homer: It's just a little dirty. It's still good, it's still good!
<Passes traffic, jumps a bridge and lands in the water.>
It's just a little slimy, it's still good, it's still good!
<It gets caught in a dam spillway, and when the pressure builds,
it shoots into the sky.>
It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good!
Bart: <Crestfallen.> It's gone.

[DaveinJapan]

14. PERFECT. nt

[dorkulon]

18. "It's just a little airborne"

Loved that. There's a Simpson's quote for every occasion.

[BLUSH]

27. from the chimpsons to the simpsons

[Ilsa]

2. Not if her hair keeps falling out! Those deeply issues-oriented Freeper-types

:sarcasm: aren't going to be happy with a balding ex-beauty queen.

[rocktivity]

3. As legit as YOUR shot, Newt?

This is like the lions cheering on the Christians!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[BLUSH]

6. Newt has one thing Palin lacks: a brain.

But Newt is evil smart.

I'm not sure which is more dangerous ... brainless Palin or brainy Newt.

Newt and Palin remind me of Nixon and Bush 43.

[jasi2006]

33. All this means is that Newt doesn't have a shot. nt

[YOY]

4. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

It's like watching Hitler with two broken legs trying to ice skate. The scary thing is part of me believes that it is possible but improbable for it to happen!

We need two parties to make this country work...couldn't they just go away and let us split into a center-left and a center-right?

[Spider Jerusalem]

56. I think more than two parties would be nice, personally...

in practice, the two-party system means that the two parties are effectively each 'big tent'; the Republican tent may not be AS big, but socially conservative Jesus freaks, Ayn Rand cultists and imperialist foreign policy hawks wouldn't end up in the same party if they had other viable options (just as socialists, pro-labour populists, green energy campaigners and so on wouldn't all be Democrats if there were other viable options).

[theoldman]

5. What else can he say at this time?

If they compete for the Republican nomination he will change his tune. Then he will call her an ignorant bitch.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. I think we're screwt.

[BLUSH]

12. Newt plus screwn = screwt?

:)

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Yep.

:)

[BLUSH]

25. So it was the media's intense screwtiny that drove Palin from office ...

:)

[Optical.Catalyst]

8. Oh Please, Oh Please, let the Republicans nominate Sarah Paling as their presidential candidate

We have the 2012 Presidential election sewn up. President Obama will be elected to a second term without even breaking a sweat, no matter who the Republicans nominate

But the idea of handing the Republicans an utter slap in the face defeat at the hands of their blow up doll Palin is just too much to resist. It would be a beautiful thing.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. "So you're telling me there's a chance? YEAAAHHHHH!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA

[BLUSH]

13. a classic

[Bjorn Against]

10. I hope Newt is right, I would love to see Sarah Palin as the next Republican nominee

I have heard a few people suggest that she may run on a third party ticket and it is looking more and more like that may be the case. If the Republicans nominate her they will be a third party.

[zbdent]

11. damn ... I thought I got rid of all her ammo ...

[WI_DEM]

16. Well, I wish she'd drink it already.

[Flying Dream Blues]

17. As long as Cheney's in jail. Make that Rove, too. Otherwise

I tremble at the thought of another * coup. I really never thought I could even imagine someone worse than *, but she's it.

[gratuitous]

19. And if you stick a fork into a light socket

There's an infinitessimal chance that you'll poop out a pill that cures cancer. Okay, it's not very likely, and you'll probably get shot across the room (if you don't die outright), but in the universe of possible outcomes, no one can definitively rule out the cancer-curing pill. So I think that Newt Gingrich should get a fork and start stabbing at light sockets and electrical outlets.

Unless he loves cancer, that is. What's the matter, Newt? Do you love cancer so much that you're not willing to take the chance?

[lpbk2713]

20. How do you spell 'delusional'?

G-I-N-G-R-I-C-H

[BLUSH]

28. ya think?

[Cognitive_Resonance]

21. Newt panders to the Sarahphiles. nt

[BLUSH]

32. Palin/Gingrich 2012

[charlie]

22. Got your eye on wifey #4 Newt?

Give it up, you ain't getting shagged.

[underpants]

23. Newt is just trying to keep and easy-to-beat human straw man standing up

that is all

[cbdo2007]

24. I hope so...it'll be fun watching her get beaten by Obama. badly.

[BLUSH]

29. Here are the numbers

Obama Would Annihilate Palin in a 2012 Presidential Face-Off

By Stephen M.

http://theintrepid.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-would-annihilate-palin-in-2012.html

[TWiley]

26. shouldn't that read "obtuseness and incontinence"?

The average republi-crap is not fiber deficient.

[BLUSH]

34. that would explain these odd facial expressions

[BLUSH]

35. incontinence or INCOHERENCE

Sarah Palin: Ambition, Incoherence, and Paranoia

Peter Suderman
July 13, 2009

Incoherence: As Slate's Dahlia Lithwick points out, Palin has never been coherent except when scripted or interpreted by someone else. Even when given time to prepare remarks, as with her borderline nonsensical resignation speech, she seems unable to express herself in any clear, cogent manner. The consistency of her incoherence in combination with the unexpectedness of her decision to resign suggest both a lack of impulse control and poor reasoning skills. So it may simply be that it's tough to discern why Palin quit because there simply is no reason — other than that Palin isn't very good at thinking things through or acting rationally.

Ambition: Palin seems to have a genuine connection with the weird, frontier-like culture of Alaska, but she's also renowned for her ambition, and governing the state has limited her opportunities to both to live in the public eye and to make money off of doing so. Levi Johnston, the former fiance of Palin's daughter Bristol and father of Bristol's child, has said that, during the brief period in which he lived with the Palin family, he heard a fair bit of talk around the house about a very lucrative potential book deal, as well as the possibility of a Palin-hosted talk show. For someone who seems to view herself as a particularly important and deserving figure on the national stage, the fame and fortune dangling in front of her must have been extremely tempting.

Paranoia: Perhaps there isn't actually a serious scandal brewing, but instead, Palin quit out of an undue, hypersensitive fear of negative coverage combined with an extreme victim mentality. She's exhibited such paranoia before: A few weeks ago, CBS News published emails from the campaign trail depicting a fight between Palin and the McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, over whether or not to respond to stories about her husband Todd's membership in a fringe Alaska secessionist group, the Alaska Independence Party.

In other words, there isn't a firm "answer" perfectly explaining why she decided to step down. But there are some telling behavioral patterns, all of which seem to have been at play in her decision to resign. Palin's time on the national stage has been short, but a few common threads have emerged: paranoia, poor reasoning, and an outsize sense of self-importance. I can't help but think that those are the same factors that drove her to quit.

http://reason.com/blog/show/134754.html

[Cerridwen]

30. A shot or a dose?

Is that like that itch/scratch thing some people confuse?

[rustydog]

31. You betcha she has another shot!

She hasn't shot herself in the other foot yet.

[BLUSH]

36. Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!

[snake in the grass]

37. Hey, Newt!

I've no doubt Palin still owns firearms, but as for her chance in 2012...dream on you gutless coward. Dream the fuck on.

PS - she's got about as much of a chance as you.

[BLUSH]

39. Kondracke: Palin still could be GOP nominee

Kondracke joins Gingrich:


Palin still could be GOP nominee

By Morton Kondracke

Posted Jul 13, 2009

Does she have a chance to get nominated? You betcha. She's attractive, charismatic, ambitious, tough to the point of ruthlessness and smart, if still woefully ignorant.

Before she announced her resignation, she was tied in a CNN poll with 2008 candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, and a Pew poll showed that she had an 85 percent approval rating among conservatives and white evangelicals, to 52 percent for Romney.

Let's hope, as citizens, that all the GOP candidates, including Palin, get serious about devising workable conservative solutions to America's problems and don't just figure out how to pander to the party's right-wing base, as Romney did for most of 2008.

Here's a scary scenario for you, though: Obama, for all his talent, fails to revive the economy, overburdens the country with debt and blunders in foreign policy, making himself deeply vulnerable in 2012.

And his opponent is just a slogan-shouting darling of the right, male or female. What a choice! So, let us hope that the Republican race becomes a battle of ideas.

http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/x737770341/Kondracke-Palin-still-could-be-GOP-nominee

[opihimoimoi]

38. Doddering Newt ....who listens to the old coot who mouths gibberish?

Over the hill and OverBlown....he staggers toward center stage only to miss the podium...and do the Gary Thing....

If he thinks Palin got a shot...he must mean with extremely LOW ODDS....as in 08...

[BLUSH]

40. Newt thinks it's 1994

He thinks the GOP is on the verge of a big comeback.

[opihimoimoi]

41. The COMEBACK PUB....Once a HERO now a ZERO? NEWT? ..PASSE? OUI

Visions of Delusions....what can anyone say??

[BLUSH]

42. Palin Says Alaska Tour Is Thanks, "Not Farewell"

Palin Says Alaska Tour Is Thanks, "Not Farewell"

MATTHEW DALY | July 19, 2009

UNALAKLEET, Alaska — She was greeted like a rock star in Unalakleet, a fishing village on the Bering Sea. She danced with Eskimos in Kotzebue. And she watched grizzlies at a wildlife sanctuary on the Kenai Peninsula.

In all, Sarah Palin has been on eight trips outside her Anchorage base since announcing her resignation two weeks ago. Is this a farewell tour, the start of a possible presidential campaign for 2012?

Palin insists it isn't, although she still won't say what plans she has after she steps down as Alaska governor on July 26, with 18 months left to her first term.

"I am Alaskan. I've grown up here and I'm going to remain in Alaska," she told The Associated Press in an interview. "It's not farewell, it's more like thanks for letting me be here and I'll see you soon."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/19/palin-says-alaska-tour-is_n_240218.html

[Deja Q]

43. At what, a dinner date and movie with the grand cheater/divorcer?

[Gabi Hayes]

44. c'mon...it's Newt! you know the only sort of shot for Palin he's thinking about:

[BLUSH]

46. Who's a better shot, Cheney or Palin?

;)

[Gabi Hayes]

51. depends on how much meth/booze they're doing, respectively

Wasilla is crank heaven, don't you know

[dysfunctional press]

45. Palin 2012-2014.5

'nuf said.

she has NO chance.

[BLUSH]

49. "Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people."

Or should that be misunderestimate?

Who would have thought this guy had a chance?

[BLUSH]

53. here she comes ...

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[nonsequitur]

48. No.............. she does not have a shot, unless it's at some Moose

[Rex]

50. Well you know if someone with the class and dignity of a Newt

says so, then it has to be doomed to fail at launch.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

52. I thought the title said that she had been shot (on first glance)

[BLUSH]

55. It was Jeannie

40 years ago he and Roger walked on the moon (1969)

30 years ago he was shot (1979)

Long Live Larry!

[mwooldri]

54. You mean Palin has been hunting with Mr. Cheney? nt

[BLUSH]

57. New ethics charges against Palin are further proof that Dems fear her!

It's obvious Sarah Palin would beat Obama in 2012.

All these new charges are just another attempt to derail the inevitable, and what is God's will!

:sarcasm: