Newt Gingrich, The Ship Be Sinking

I've ordered the Newt Gingrich gift pack for all the kiddos on my list.

It will be great to be able to give them something through which they can learn to better themselves!

 

Perry will rebound in this and win, much the same as Slick Willie did after the women began singing.

 

Perry wishes his only problem was women.

 

Wager?

 

I think Perry has made himself practically unelectable at this point (not that he ever was in the first place).

Romney may not excite people, but he is still the best candidate by far.

 

Radio host offers Gingrich
$1 million to drop out of GOP race
The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley


12/12/2011 5:28:31 PM

Conservative radio host Michael Savage is offering Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich $1 million if he drops out of the GOP race within the next 72 hours, according to a message on his website. “Newt Gingrich is unelectable. Mitt Romney is the only candidate with a chance of defeating Barack Obama, and there is nothing more important than that for the future health, safety, and security of the United States of America,” the statement read. “Therefore I am offering Newt Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the presidential race for the sake of the nation.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/198831-radio-host-offers-gingrich-1-million-to-drop-out-of-the-gop-race

 

Hilarious!

I feel for Romney. He is mired in a battle for voters who have been trained for three years by conservative radio and Fox News to embrace hateful, hurtful, snarky, obstructionist human beings - those provincial, gossipy assholes that nobody ends up liking in the long run -when he just isn't that kind of guy. He's a deal-maker and a back-slapper. He struggles to make headway because he's surrounded by a crusty lot of candidates who trade on competitiveness and fear and sarcasm.

I know this: After Saturday night's debacle/meltdown of negativity, the GOP is going back to Christie, back to Daniels, back to maybe even Ryan, and begging them. They tried to run Newt out of the race six months ago, and he didn't leave, and then these FNC talking heads who have been lubing him up for years just kept doing it, hailing him as Mr. Positive. There isn't a more malevolent, Machiavellian creature this side of Nixon than Gingrich, and Sean Hannity's out there holding the guy up as a statesman.

 

Newt ought to say, "OK, I accept your offer. I await your certified check."

Then as soon as it cashes, get right back in. He's done it before, why wouldn't he do it again?

Dumbfuck (i.e. Savage) doesn't specify he has to STAY out.

Take the sucker for a million bucks, then keep on running.

 

This isn't going to happen. It's just not realistic. Yeah, there's still time to get on enough ballots, but none of them could put together the necessary staff and ground game, or raise the money necessary -- even if a couple big money people are telling them they'd back them.

And, they don't have the "fire in the belly". It would make Fred Thompson's campaign look good.

 

They don't need a ground game. The GOP is officially run through the FNC and conservative radio.

Again - I don't think the GOP has any intention of winning the 2012 election. Obama is great for business; he's more conservative than Reagan and he's a Communist demon! The Supreme Court will kill his health care plan 5-4. It'll uphold Arizona's immigration laws 5-4. The Tea Party will win its share again. Why change anything?

I just think they'd rather it be, you know, not Gingrich. Which is why they're out beating bushes.

And it's not about fire in the belly, YF. It's about what concessions guys like Christie and Daniels would have to make policy-wise to satisfy the bean-counters who run conservative media. These guys don't want to eff around with Hannity and Ingraham and all those other puppets, and I don't blame them.

I mean, if I'm Mitch Daniels and I have to sit here and listen to Bachmann bray at me when she's spent the last 720 days or so on TV - and I've been, you know, running a state - I have no time for the BS. I just don't.

 

The chance of this happening -- to quote a book title -- is Less Than Zero.

Even in Perry's current ads, he's given up trying to reach out to anyone other than to his personal base. Done and done.

 

Here he comes to save the day ... Huckabee?!?!?

Now that would be comedy