Newt Gingrich, The Ship Be Sinking

On the other hand, Suburbia, the war we were in in 2004 is over now. Well, one of the two anyway, and I'd risk a small sum the other one ending might be the "surprise" event of 2012. Not that it's a surprise. The U.S. has been looking for a way out for the last two years.

 

If they made a Broadway play on the campaign of Newt Gingrich - the lead could be played by Bernadette Peters

 

The Gingrich Who Stole Christmas.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/447c05a4ec/how-the-gingrich-stole-christmas-narrated-by-paul-f-tompkins

 

BTW,

Alex Wagner on MSNBC midday is a superstar in the making.

 

Very likeable, and absolutely beautiful.

 

Jon Stewart to the GOP: "Don't do this."

"Don't do this! I know you're madder than usual. The county's being run by a foreign-born Hawaiian, radical Christian Muslim socialist...who's in the pocket of Wall St. And sometimes Newt Gingrich can sound like the answer....here's the thing, he's not Reagan. He's more like a Norman Rockwell painting of Ayn Rand kicking Jimmy Carter in the balls...Gingrich is like if Reagan had been abandoned as a child and raised by a family cactuses."

Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-16/politics/30523928_1_newt-gingrich-cactuses-reagan#ixzz1hHyAYyaL

 

George Will blows him up:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gingrich-the-anti-conservative/2011/12/20/gIQALq8CAP_story.html?tid=pm_pop

When discussing his amazingness, Newt Gingrich sometimes exaggerates somewhat, as when, discussing Bosnia and Washington, D.C., street violence, he said, “People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 16, 1994]. What primarily stands between us and misrule, however, is the Constitution, buttressed by an independent judiciary.

The "people like me" quote is hilarious. There are a million quotes from him like that. I've never, in my life, ever, heard someone talk about himself in the exalted terms that Gingrich uses. It is absolutely unbelievable. Almost, legitimately, not believable that he exists.

 

Joe Scarborough will not be outdone by anybody in terms of becoming unhinged by Newt.

He's on a fucking vendetta, and it's pretty funny.

 

It actually makes me pretty happy that the guys who are running 1-2 for the GOP nomination, and you could argue 1-2-3, are all guys who make the republican base cringe.

I think it's great.

 

On the note of the 2004 comparison...

I think Romney is a better candidate than Kerry was, although not overwhelmingly so...
As someone else pointed out, the economy is in the shitter and that doesn't usually favor the incumbent.
But also, something people tend to forget is that Obama is at his best when he's on the campaign trail.

 

You'd be a better candidate than John Kerry.

He was a guy that thought windsurfing and riding a $2,500 bike in full regalia would humanize him.

Or throwing (and dropping) a football on a tarmac would make him seem like a regular guy.

And, he let the Swift Boat Veterans pull the rug out of one of his main themes, without ever really fighting back.

 

Actually this is reminding me a lot of 1996.

The GOP will end up nominating a guy who has been around forever, because it's "his turn."

Ever since Carter, the Kumbayah Wing of the Democratic Party seems to think you get some kind of noble martyrdom points for stoically ignoring anything and everything anybody throws at you, just standing there and taking it.

Of course the candidate can't crawl down in the shit-smelling foulness himself, but goddamn right they need to send out some attack dogs to rip out the opposition's throat. Instead, they just bend over and take it.