Newt Gingrich, The Ship Be Sinking

Why did Newt resign from the House in 1998?

Hmm.

 

New ABC/Washington Post poll has Newt at 33% in Iowa.

 

Because he tried to nail Clinton with the Lewinsky affair and his party lost five seats in the House in spite of it.

He managed to pinch off a departing loaf and leave it on the next Congress' doorstep by starting a lame-duck impeachment proceding. Those players — Hastert, DeLay, Asa Hutchinson, etc — are all civilians now.

 

The best part was when Bob Livingston was going to be Newt's replacement, but quit when his own extra-marital affair became known. Then he whined on the floor about how he was being attacked for his private business. Um, hello? You make an issue of the president's private life, you better be prepared to have your own private life examined.

 

Worthless . . . though not as potentially harmful as being endorsed by Trump.

 

As I recall, all that Livingston crap happened on a freakin' Saturday, too. Easy to forget how nuts things went right around then. Seems a far simpler time in retrospect.

 

See, I'm thinking the reverse is true. There's a lot of latent anti-Mormon sentiment in Red States.

But both candidates are not ideal, are they?

 

No candidate "ideal" in the eyes of the Base can win.

Thus, the GOP's problem.

 

But how many will look at Obama and think, "This guy isn't doing it for us" and vote the other way because that's the only other option?

 

And why couldn't the Base come up with a viable candidate?

 

Mordo: Folks uninpired by either candidate often stay home.

 

www.salon.com/2011/12/05/the_infantile_style_in_american_politics/