Newt Gingrich has been an official presidential candidate for only a week, but the former House Speaker is already under siege from fellow Republicans over recent comments that disparaged a House GOP budget proposal and appeared to endorse some form of a health care mandate that conservatives have long derided.
"This is a big deal," said Charles Krauthammer, the conservative Washington Post columnist. "He's done. He didn't have a big chance from the beginning but now it's over."
"I am not going to justify this. I'm not going to explain this," talk radio host Rush Limbaugh clamored. "The attack on Paul Ryan. The support for an individual mandate in health care? Folks, don't ask me to explain this. There is no explanation."
The uproar stems from Gingrich's comments during an interview on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, when the former House Speaker called a Medicare provision in the GOP budget proposal spearheaded by Rep. Paul Ryan a "radical change" and later indicated he supports requiring every citizen to buy health insurance or instead post a bond for insurance.
The two positions appeared contradictory, with Gingrich hammering Ryan's plan to impulse a mandatory voucher system in lieu of Medicare in one breath while offering support for mandated health coverage in the other
Here's Newt being confronted by an Iowa voter.
Holy crap! I don't think I have ever seen anything self-destruct as quickly as the Republican party is right now.
It is like watching a political death march, with the weak falling by the side of the road as they move toward ultimate defeat at the hands of a President who towers head and shoulders above even the most fit and capable among them.
Of course, as most of us know, the Gingrich campaign was just as big of a joke as the Trump or Huckabee campaign. In fact one has to wonder if ANY of these so called "candidates" are actually serious about running.
I know Palin isn't.
I think that Sarah's handlers in the McCain race found out about the fake pregnancy after rumors came out in September and they told Sarah that they needed to know what the real story was and then helped take care of the cover-up that fall. Since then, even though none of them will go on record about what they know, you can be sure that it is talked about in inner circles and no one is going to want to be involved with her. I think that is one main reason she can't get real advisors, once they find out the truth, either from Sarah or someone else, they want out as fast as possible. She may think she can run a campaign on her own, but the reality is she needs a quality team and she's not going to get one.
ReplyDeleteOk, 3 down, plenty to go, coast to coast, 'til Romney can step forward in to a campaign that's less like the carnival side-shows we've all gotten used to.
ReplyDeleteYep, old Newt broke the golden GOP rule:
ReplyDeleteDo not say out loud how completely fucked up your fellow republicans are, NO MATTER WHAT. Also, he's not explaining how anyone can have a $500,000 balance at Tiffanys.
Santorum screwed himself with the sane and even the insane clown posse with his whining about John McCain not understanding torture.
Un. Fucking. Believable.
What worries me is that the GOP may wait until the clown show winds up early next year before introducing more "grown-up" candidates but there won't be enough time to properly vet them, to research their backgrounds and find out if they have Sarah-like skeletons in their closets.
ReplyDeleteUnless the TP continues to be an horse's patoot, the GOP field may suddenly "firm-up" and be able to slide through on sound-bites.
What a dysfuntional group these rightwing people are showing themselves to be....most assuredly the far right!
ReplyDeleteApparently Newts wife, Botox Barbie, has quite a taste for the finer things. It was reported on MSNBC, that the Gingrich's owe Tiffany & Co. somewhere between $250-500,000.
ReplyDeleteSo much for fiscal conservatism, huh?
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/17/newt_gingrich_s_tiffany_s_bill_former_house_speaker_owed_as_much.html
When Newt brought out his wife with all that plastic surgery almost cooked his goose then and then when people started thinking about Newt and blowjobs, hell it was just too much to comprehend.
ReplyDeleteSo thanks to Gryphen for his article the other day and Newt opening his big mouth and sounding off about Paul Ryan's plan and health care. Newt is going to be out before he was ever in, really.
Bt the way, is Newt crying in that picture?
Man. And I thought the 2008 campaign was surreal (oh, and all the Bush years) But this year is starting out to be even weirder. Huckabee out, Trump out, possibly Newt out (well who could take him seriously anyway. Newt. No one named Newt should be near the White House. Ever. And the blow-up doll of a wife he has, too. *shudders*).
ReplyDeleteThen there's Bachmann. I wonder how far she'll go. And Palin. I'm still convinced she'll run.
And the usual suspect, Ron Paul, who, at least is entertaining. And then...what's his name? The pizza guy? Yeah. He's not gonna go far.
The only 'real' candidates, Pawlenty and Romney, probably won't get the nomination because they're too bland. It will probably be someone who comes out of left field. Who that could be, who knows.
I think Sarah is going to run! She will NOT be able to help herself. She will run.
ReplyDeleteNot too surprisingly, they are having a difficult time finding someone sane-looking who will espouse their insane platform.
ReplyDeleteThe rumor in Washington, years ago about Newt, is that he is nuts.
ReplyDeleteHis own aide quit on him because he said the Newt was crazy (in so many words).
You can read between the lines that this is what the pundits believe when they say he has a lot of baggage, both politcal and personal. Yeah, we can name a lot of that baggage, but you never hear about the CRAZY.
I dunno, Griffen. Sarah Palin is nothing if not tenacious. She may be the last idiot standing. She's a opportunist. She is watching everyone else step up to fall out. She may take it and people may support her.
ReplyDeletePoor baby! What could be worse than having to suck up to Republicans: "He undercut Eddie Munster!"
ReplyDeleteThey all know that the repub candidate will be a sacrificial lamb whose career will likely be done after the 2012 election. They are torn, asking "do I REALLY want to be that person." The longer they can wait to enter the race, the less time they have to expose themselves. One of them will have to make a deal with the devil.
ReplyDeleteRomneycare won't let him be the candidate.
I believe $arah WILL enter the race at a very late date, so she can have the title "2012 presidential candidate" (even without the nomination, she'll call herself this). Once the heat is on, she'll bow out, playing victim. Think of all the grift $$ she'll make in the meantime. Or maybe, just maybe, she'll make that deal with the devil and they'll let her go for it, knowing she has no chance. Please, please let that happen. It would be the most entertaining election EVER!
1:30--"I dunno, Griffen. Sarah Palin is nothing if not tenacious."
ReplyDeleteI noticed that about her, oh, almost 2 years ago, when she announced she was going to QUIT HER JOB AS GOVERNOR. Melly
I think it is all a set up for Jeb Bush to come in and be a hero.
ReplyDeleteHuntsman is the one to watch. Dig the dirt on him now, because he will be a legitimate candidate.
ReplyDeleteThat said, at this point in the 2008 race McCain was supposedly done. The media loves a comeback story
Whatever happens, it will be entertaining. I'm still wondering if Ms. "If nobody else qualified steps up..." will decide God wants her to "step up". I shudder...and then I laugh.
ReplyDeleteAnd the best one is sarah palin?
ReplyDeleteMy, high the mighty have fallen.
GW really destroyed that party didn't he?
Sorry to add an extra post, but I can't edit my first.
ReplyDeleteThis is what we have on Huntsman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAc1I--I8Os
Ever since Obama was inaugurated, the GOP has been going off the deep end with ever more outrageous claims against POTUS. Andrew Sullivan has maintained that this will cause the party to crater before sanity (reasonableness) is restored. (He refers to the Labour party during the Thatcher administration, which I know nothing about).
ReplyDeleteOutside of high-tech, medicine & federal (DC) govt., the US economy is really hurting now. Obama really shouldn't stand a chance of re-election, but the GOP can't help themselves. I think it's because they're greedy for themselves & their corporate fat cat sponsors. They loudly promote lies (enabled by their propaganda machine, Fox News) so that well-intentioned, busy people won't be "exposed" to the truth.
The GOP is splintering now, and I think their politicians are afraid of their base, and don't want to risk running for president because they know they will have to sound ignorant and extreme to get their base's attention. I think Huntsman is running just to gain recognition this cycle so that he can sit in the oval office in 2017.
I really wish there was someone like Biden who could relate to the GOP non-elites to show a few simple facts about the widening income disparity & the fact that eliminating Bush tax cuts is NOT a tax hike but a restoration to sanity (and hopefully prosperity). Biden can't do it because no GOP voter would listen him since he's VP.
I have to admire that man in the video for stating his honest opinion. I laughed at how the blow up Barbie stopped and clearly back away.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine what Mrs. Todd P would do if she was confronted like that. As much as I think he is pond scum, at least the Newt was willing to put himself out where he could get some honest interaction.
The scene with the teacher in Homer comes to mind...if this had be them, Todd would be beating up on the guy and the girls would be calling her names.
I am divided on whether she will run. I think the egotist in her will think she can...but hopefully she will realize that she will have to face real people, like this man, with real concerns and questions that can't be answered with sound bites.
After the George Bush was elected, I no longer have any faith in the American voters and even less in the voting machines and dishonesty that surrounds elections. With nasty people like the Grahams behind her, she could steal the election...in the name of God of course.
What a creepy group these people are showing themselves to be. Yikes!!!
ReplyDeleteIt appears he also stiffed a jewlery shop for about 500K.
ReplyDeleteJohn hunstmen GOP
ReplyDeleteyou heard it here first!!
There is a reason Obama sent him to china as ambassador in 2008
But now he is back
Did you know that they owed between 250,000 to 500,000 to Tiffanys Jewel. at one time. It was a revolving charge acct credit card. You can google it and read all the details.
ReplyDeleteArnold has a love child. . . gee anyone else have a love child? Speak up now!
ReplyDeleteOf course the McCain campaign, at least John and Steve Schmidt, know she faked the pregnancy. That's why Steve Schmidt can confidently say Going Rogue is 100% fiction. He's said it more than once and it's the way he's telling that he knows the wild ride story and the birth of Trig story told in Going Rogue is a lie.
ReplyDeleteI remember four years ago at this time it seemed so certain that Hilary would be the Democratic nominee. Her campaign was a freight train that couldn't be stopped. Until it was.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a registered Democrat, and so long as I have to choose a party in order to vote in the primaries in my state I will stay a registered Democrat. All I can say when it comes to the Republican field, is that we need the Independent vote. So long as the R's lean hard right, there's going to be a problem for them. You can't undig that hole when Mitt gets the nomination.
Even Newt's first wife said he could never be president, and I honestly don't think she was really trying to trash him. I just believe she was telling the truth and she thought America should know.
ReplyDeleteIt is clear that there is to be no debate over issues with the Republican party. It is lockstep, everybody march together. This is not good for the party, and it is not good for America.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Dinty. We need to watch Huntsman. He has no name recognition, but he does have some credentials. And, of course, Jeb.
Anonymous @ 1:53 - NO MORE FUCKING BUSHES!
ReplyDeleteThe thing that really scares me is that the GOP seems HELL BENT on getting rid of Medicare. They can use the words REFORM or SAVE all of they want, but they are outright lies. They want to privatize it, which is the very worst thing that could happen to seniors, the disabled and anyone not super wealthy.
ReplyDeleteIt does nothing to address costs, absolutely nothing. It really scares me how they are all following Ryan when most of the country thinks his plan is terrible. He and some of the others go on the Sunday talk shows and lie to the American people.
These are young guys - Ryan, Mario, etc... They are CLUELESS!!!!!
I am personally glad they are fighting and have a bunch of dumb candidates running.. What a group..
At some point the GOP is going to realize that the only candidate that has even a chance of beating Obama is Romney. Not in spite of the fact that he fashioned a similar ObamaCare program in Massachusetts, but precisely because of it. Only he can rationally and effectively argue Obama down on this one, on the basis of what he felt did not work in Massachusetts.
ReplyDeleteOnly Romney, because of his moderate stances and rationality and fairly good grasp of business issues and economics, can beat Obama. None of the Right Wing wants to believe this, much less accept it - they are so caught up in their own righteousness, their belief in the inevitability and compulsion of their out of touch, impractical and unConstitutional agendas, they simply can't bring themselves around to abandon them.
But they must, if they want to defeat Obama. It will be interesting to see whether they can do this or not. I think they can't. This movement has been brewing since the late 80s.
If they can't sustain this, after all of the momentum of the Tea Party, it means their agenda is not sustainable.
Heartbreak Hotel, Baby.
The door is opening wide for Sarah Palin. She has been waiting for the signs and they keep coming.
ReplyDeleteMadame President Sarah Palin. If you think she isn't running, think again!
Or Huntsman. He's actually pretty good. And Obama was smart enough to remand him to China, hoping to get him out of the picture.
ReplyDeleteWas Gingrich ever in? This whole thing is a circus, and he is one of the clowns.
ReplyDeletehttp://possibleexperience.blogspot.com/
@1:21 Daniels or Huntsman. Daniels has the baggage of drugs, both his college era drug bust - enough to distribute, it seems. And then he worked for Eli Lilly (yeah, it was just job training, heh, heh.) he was Spendabush's budget director. And, his wife left him and their 4 young daughters to marry another guy. Then came back and remarried. Add in short an d bald.
ReplyDeleteJHuntsman - well, he's just not crazy enough to appeal to the TeaGOopers.
Shushannah Walshe was on Chris Matthews today, Chris was talking about the republicans who aren't running now and Walshe just started saying Sarah was a contender and blah, blah, blah.
ReplyDeleteChris just started talking about how Sarah never learned anything and knows nothing and that she was STUPID. Walshe (who used to be a Fox bimbo) just shut up then.
I am thinking that Shushannah Walshe is on Sarah's payroll also too.
Newt the lizard, serial fornicator, and man about Washington explains why he said what he said on the talk show. His current wife likes Tiffany Jewelry also , too.
ReplyDeleteHere's the new development. Newt thinks like Sarah Palin.
"Newt Plays The Palin Card: I Wasn't Ready For Those 'Gotcha' Questions!"
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/newt-plays-the-palin-card-i-wasnt-ready-for-those-gotcha-questions.php
In a conference call Tuesday with conservative bloggers, Gingrich said that he was unprepared for a series of "gotcha" questions on individual mandates and the Ryan budget, both of which had been major stories for days before the interview.
Really? That's the best he can do?
You betcha!
"I didn't go in there quite hostile enough, because it didn't occur to me going in that you'd have a series of setups," Gingrich said, according to the Washington Examiner. "This wasn't me randomly saying things. These were very deliberate efforts to pick fights."
Note to Newt: It's not a good thing when you are compared to Sarah Palin.
@2:06 - it's now or never for $carah. Her expiration date on wink, wink, lick, lick is fast approaching. She's looking more haggish every day. NO way she will appeal to all but the most desperate oxygen toting Viagra swiller when she's fifty +. ANd that's all she's got going for her.
ReplyDeleteSomebody is going to get rich, wait till the other books against Palin comes out.
ReplyDeleteLevi, don't hold back.
Arapaho415:
ReplyDeleteI think you're right about Huntsman.
He's a man to watch, but like you I think he will wait until the next election cycle before he makes a big commitment.
Anon @ 2:08 PM: He did not "stiff" a jewelry shop. He had/has a Tiffany's revolving line of credit (i.e. credit card) which had balances of $250K-$500K. While I don't find that admirable, and it seems he may be living beyond hims means (since his net worth is put at $1M - $2.5M), it's very different from stiffing a jewelry shop.
ReplyDeleteSometimes hyperbole doesn't help us here.
It'll be interesting to watch everyone line up behind Huntsman. All that tea party craziness will have been for naught. How did Huntsman's father become a billionaire? Everyone seems so hot for the man, but no one knows his political positions. I get the impression that he's everyone's Great White Hope.
ReplyDeleteGood link, Dinty, on Huntsman.
ReplyDeleteBut it doesn't bring him down in any way - he was just reading the teleprompter, and at that point in time, that really was Palin's reputation, among the GOP and everyone else.
Until we bloggers got involved and did the vetting for them.
Huntsman (and again, Romney) are formidable. They both are cool headed, comport themselves as gentleman, and are knowledgeable about business. And Huntsman has the China Bullet in his pocket. He really knows the country and can talk their own language.
I think that the only hope the GOP has of beating Obama is to beat him at his own game. Romney can argue about ObamaCare and economics, effectively. Huntsman can pull the China card AND at one time supported Cap and Trade. These cards can work FOR the GOP, not against them, if properly played.
If the GOP wants to beat Obama, they have to send forth a GOP Obama, in the form of either Romney or Huntsman. Fight fire with fire, as it were.
Neither Huntsman nor Romney have skeletons in their closet, so far as I can determine. Huntman actually wrote a well received book about ethics in business leading to success.
These are the candidates we Obama supporters most fear. The Tea Party is toast, they just don't know it yet. They were fun for a while, like a cheap date, but no one is going to marry a Tea Party candidate and have children with them. Not in this country.
MicMac
No way she will run.. she will bilk it as long as they can for pac of money.. Way to much baggage.. Shailey Tripp and all that crap, Todds emails were .gov.. Not a chance. she's a quitter.
ReplyDeleteIf Huntsman declares, the rest of the Repug lineup will tear him apart for having accepted an Obama appointment.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete@2:06 - it's now or never for $carah. Her expiration date on wink, wink, lick, lick is fast approaching. She's looking more haggish every day. NO way she will appeal to all but the most desperate oxygen toting Viagra swiller when she's fifty +. ANd that's all she's got going for her.
Yes. Check this out -- Sarah Palin showing her true face...
http://www.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2010-11-02-at-8.34.01-PM-200x300.png
Maybe the GOP powers that be have set to work to clear out the clowns, in the hopes of paving the way for a candidate who might actually be electable -- or at a minimum is reasonably sane and has no massive skeletons in his closet? Pawlenty comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteBut the more Gingrich flounders, the more Sarah looks good. . .I mean, she already set herself up as the anti-GOP establishment like Newt - so she just looks like the best alternative to him as he struggles to have mainstream appeal (meaning, beyond the TeaBagger base.)
ReplyDeleteYeesh, are the stars going to align again for Simple Sarah? The Platitude Policy Queen? Heavy on payback, light on policy? It's take her half a term (before she quits) to get revenge on her long list before she can even pretend to get to the issues.
Anon @ 1:04 p.m. - It doesn't matter if she doesn't get big hitters to back up her play, when she runs her campaign via social media, she doesn't have to worry about the LSM, vetting or debates.
ReplyDeleteIsn't she pretty? Isn't she nice?
Give her the keys to drive the country and we're in a ditch before the Inauguration.
I should add (while we're piling on Newt) that this won't be a surprise to anyone now, but when I worked on Capitol Hill in the late '80s and early '90s it was pretty well known that Newt would go after female staffers. I didn't have any of this first hand since I worked on the Senate side, but it was pretty well-known.
ReplyDeleteThat was one of the things that made the whole Clinton impeachment hearings so surreal to me.
I would direct you all toward Googling the video of Ann Coulter stating that Sarah Palin told her that Newt Gringrich told Sarah Palin that (This Is The House That Jack Built) the "best way to make money" is to pretend you are running for President, when you are not.
ReplyDeleteTwo birds with one stone, that video.
Conk.
MicMac
First, Christie, Spence and Daniels drop before the starting gun. Then, Huckabee? Gone. Trump? Outta here. Newt goes down next, probably before he gets his Tiffany account paid off.
ReplyDeleteWhile Romney isn't a shoo-in yet, after raising $10.25 Million yesterday, he showed that the big money GOP establishment is going to consider elect-ability more than ideology.
Sarah's afraid to let go of that steady paycheck from Murdoch. She'll take the path of least resistance anyway b/c she is afraid to submit her medical records, as required of all Presidential candidates. No notes from CBJ, no excuses. Mitt won't let her stay in and suck away funds. Assuming the e-mails come out in a couple of weeks as promised, it's probably a moot point anyway.
ReplyDeleteI think it is all a set up for Jeb Bush to come in and be a hero.
ReplyDelete1:53 PM
Exactly!
The Bush Crime family has to protect all it's family secrets, including their attempter WW2 coup, Kennedy's assassination, Iran Contra, and the September 11 false flag. Clinton & Obama have done their part.
Here's what's going on: Palin sits in her luxe office "studying foreign policy", when unexpectedly, her new D-list advisors check in on her. They discover an open Neiman Marcus catalogue, and see that Sarah has successfully hacked into Bristol's facebook account, and is currently reading her daughter's private emails. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next President of the United States.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP won't be unified at supporting Huntsman. He's Morman for one thing. That bothers most Evangelicals. Second, he has publically stated he supports civil unions for gay people. I'm not sure about marriage. But the evangelicals and most Mormans won't back that. He also has very little name recognition. If he was smart, and he is smart, he will wait to 2016.
ReplyDeleteRomney is not apologizing for his Massachusetts program and that irked a lot of conservatives.
As Newt has done for the past decade, Palin is now attempting to bleed her base(one more time?)here at the 11th hour. It's so easy to read between the lines of her current fund-raising letter. She's making a last-gasp reach into the pockets of her low-info base, despite the fact that she cannot even use those SarahPac funds to fund anything in a run for POTUS. Now she's even getting pushback from some of her C4P's that can't afford to donate to both her Pac and later to a potential POTUS campaign fund. But few of the Pee crowd know that, so Sarah will grift a few more bucks and her fans will be seriously deflated when the Grifter gives her BS excuse for sitting 2012 out. I'll bet there will even be fallout that completely decimates Bristle's book sales unless Mommy Dearest buys them up with her Pac funds. After all, she's not going to use "her money" (the SarahPac contributions) to fund races for OTHER candidates. What did she contribute from SarahPac in 2010? A paltry $85K, if I recall.
ReplyDeleteI almost feel sorry for these people who are going to be even more disillusioned than they were before clinging onto the Grifter Quitter.
Even though she will sit out 2012, Sarah will be screeching all the way as the attention whore that she has proven herself to be. In fact, she might even make more noise than ever since she will be humiliated time and time again in the coming months. Without ethics and possessing only the skill set to do anything but screech, her "fan base" will be minimized to include only the shamelessly racist, ignorant faithful flock that are easiest to fleece--- those who would never vote in their own best interests anyway.
These folks are unable to make the link between their "Issues Voting" caused by their blind faith and their own inability to break away from their socio-economic bloc with disproportionate Incomes < $24K.
Bachmann/Palin 2012 or is it Palin/Bachmann 2012!
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine how entertaining that is??
Better yet how about Palin/Palin 2012 with Bristol as VP! Why not? She don't need no talent to birth babies and be on reality tee vee. So why not have her be VP?
Imagine the t-shirts, the slogans, the bus tours to all the towns in " real America.".
Anon 1:53 says exactly what I said here a year ago. And I'll bet everyone a quarter that I'm right. The Koch brothers have paid all these dingbats' expenses to hang on until we're all exhausted with these losers. Diebold will take care of the details.
ReplyDeleteMcCain thinks he can dodge when the fake pregnancy is exposed. McCain is planning on a "she had us all fooled". But McCain's plan won't save him. He did NOT vet his VEEP. He did risk putting a stupid, mentally unstable women 2nd in line behind his unhealthy heart and body.
ReplyDeleteBesides the current meltdown of GOP candidates, the GOP has an even bigger problem. ANY candidate selected by the GOP will have to prove their VEEP choice is rock solid.
The GOP is without a candidate and without a VEEP choice too.
I agree that Jeb Bush is also a contender. He is more like his father, than his brother. Bush Senior was not all that bad a President, even looking through a Democratic lens. Again, Bush, Huntsman, Romney. . .because they are capable, non-histrionic, educated, they have actual leadership qualities, and proffer a cool head, just like Obama.
ReplyDeleteYou can't go against Obama in an emotional, irrational way. You have to coopt his style, match it point by point to better him.
Pawlenty is a limp wrist. Period. Bridge to Nowhere? How about Bridge to Collapse? Dead bodies, Christie is a gopher who will not rear his head until 2016. But he is also a contender. Not a cool head, but a very powerful, genuine public speaker who is fearless.
I agree with the comment that Newt has been spiked as mentally unstable. You can see this in his commentary over the past few years. Sometimes he seems very smart, cool headed, then he goes off on a tangent that only the Tea Party can follow. He has contradicted himself so many times, it makes your head spin.
My only fear is that one of these cool headed, capable GOP candidates will run with a loose cannon like Palin or Bachmann, to mine both sides of the fence.
Daniels? He's capable in his current office, but he is too old, too much baggage. To beat Obama, it has to be a pitch between the Young and the Young. Or it is McCain all over again.
MicMac
4:09PM
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to represent a platform from behind Twitter/Facebook and a campaign like that would yield under 40%, resulting in a rout for Obama.
Big Money won't support a wild-card as unpredictable and as un-trustworthy as the Quitter has proven herself to be. She was marginally effective as a Gov ONLY when she governed as a populist. Neither Big Oil, Big biz, or big pharma will line up behind someone who can go Rogue as she did in '08. She's useful as a media tool, but only on the sidelines. I can only wish that she would think otherwise and jump into the race. I don't like Karl Rove, but I would enjoy how a company man like him would bring her down just by exposing some of her secrets.
Sarah is crazy as hell, but I don't think she's totally naive. But for the pure entertainment, I hope I have greatly overestimated her ability to reason.
Someone please break it to Sarah gently that God is going to slam the doors in her face. It could save her some money on plastic surgery if she stays away from those doors.
ReplyDelete5:03
ReplyDelete"Without ethics and possessing only the skill set to do anything but screech..."
should read
"Palin lacks both ethics and the skill set to do anything other than screech..."
Wordiness and weak grammar makes my current editor's future employment uncertain. ~Buzz
Okay everybody, do you really think that Gryphen and the other bloggers are going to let Sarah run for the presidency?
ReplyDeleteI have faith, she ain't running but if she does try; well, we will just have to do something about all that.
Gryphen and the other bloggers are holding their cards close to their chest, have a little faith cause Palin is getting ready to run out of gas flailing around that round track. The round track is getting smaller and she is getting ready to meet her worst nightmare head-on.
Betsy S @ 5:06pm--
ReplyDelete"Diebold will take care of the details."
Exactly. That's why we have to start talking this up NOW. Especially if you-know-what "decides" to run.
I think Joe Lieberman would be one to watch too. He was McAsshole's first choice for VP in 2008.
ReplyDeleteNewt looks like an "Apple Doll" someone made me several years ago in that photo. Did he forget to put in his teeth??
ReplyDeleteThe Elephant in the room is that there's no Elephant! First he calls Obama the "Food Stamp President", gets applause, then this?
ReplyDeleteNewt is backwalking already, playing the victim card/gotcha question trump card, and calling Ryan to apologize for "making a mistake".
Sister Sarah of Wasilla will probably try to act like she's running, but how can she give up her gig on Fox? She can't possibly debate President Obama and survive. Obama's got the goods on her, and she knows it.
Boehner's dabbing tears from his eyes while speaking to college grads, he'll be dabbing them the whole time to the election.
I agree with the huntsman assessment, but just can't see another Jebediah running, the brand's got a bad reputation.
"the Gingrich campaign was just as big of a joke as the Trump or Huckabee campaign. In fact one has to wonder if ANY of these so called "candidates" are actually serious about running. I know Palin isn't."
ReplyDeleteNow you're catching on! This campaign was D.O.A. for the Republicans from day one. Once Obama sailed into the WH, there was no chance for Republicans for 2012. They have to wait for 2016. That's why there are no serious candidates, because no one wants to run.
As far as Palin, I'll say it again, her presidential campaign died in 2009 when she quit the governorship. And since then, she's become an even less capable candidate. However, at this point, with the GOP field looking like a clown car, and joke candidates streaming in and out of it, she might do a Newt and announce, then drop out, as Newt is expected to. She'll do whatever nets her the most money and publicity without taking too much from her own pocket.
I still think Gov Daniels- IN is going to jump in the race. If so, he's the candidate for the GOP. I live in IN and can't stand the man. He used to be more middle of the road socially but after kissing the asses of the bible thumpers in the state and de-funding Planned Parenthood (and he a father of 4 daughters) he has started the march to the far right. He's aiming for the far right base. Just be prepared if he does run and wins, public property will not be safe. This idiot wants to privatize everything and sell or lease off public property. *see the Indiana Toll Road* Hell will freeze over before I ever vote for "My Man Mitch" but he does have the backing of the Bushes. Be forewarned.
ReplyDeleteGnewt gets glittered and smacked down:
ReplyDeletehttp://theobamadiary.com/2011/05/17/yikes/
RUN sarah RUN!
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Watching the Republicans go after Newt is sort of amazing to see. I think they expect him to blow Paul Ryan! I know that's crude but did you see Politico? He's on the front page saying he had to apologize to Ryan himself. Wow. Since he was never likely to get the nom, he will really hate Ryan for humiliating him after this.
ReplyDeleteNewt - that's what's for dinner.
Sarah you ignorant twit, this is who you think you can take on?
ReplyDeleteHow Obama Turned a Presidential Prospect Into a Punchline
In a televised appearance that would become a YouTube phenomenon, Obama committed an act of political sabotage that effectively ended the Trump boomlet.
The president’s devastating monologue – delivered with Trump sitting just feet away – focused largely on the absurdity of the developer’s claims regarding birth certificates, executive experience and just about everything else.
The president was graceful enough. But he was not slipping the knife in gently. He was bringing the hammer down.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/160703/trump-trumped-how-obama-turned-presidential-prospect-punchline
I can't believe that the Newster stepped on his dick so quickly!
ReplyDeleteIn all honesty I just don't think any of them really want to be the sacrificial lamb except perhaps Ron Paul who doesn't care anyway.
So who will even stay in the race and who might come up out of nowhere to make a run for it. If the field thins out that much I could see Giuliani taking another stab. I could see Huntsman getting into the race. Might even see Paul Ryan decide to run. I'm thinking Bachmann for sure will throw her hat into the ring. T Paw will likely give it a go but he'll fizzle quickly
Will SP decide the Lord has opened the door? Still not sure. I'm inclined to think she'll wait until the last moment for that dramatic 'here I am to save the day' entrance. She needs a few more people to beg first.
Regardless...what theater awaits!
Sheesh
Who is really running for the GOP nomination? No, no, for real? Please, a serious contender, please...
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ReplyDeleteSince you posted this, Newtie has called Paul Ryan and apologized for talkin' trash about Ryan's Medicare proposal and saying that it was "right-wing social engineering."
We now have a transcript of Newtie's actual apology to Ryan:
Gingrich: "No I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas! I--I had a flat tire! I didn't have enough money for cab fare! My tux didn't come back from the cleaners! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake ! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!!!"
The appropriate name for the Republican Party in its current form should be LIL, or Lockstep In Lunacy. They obviously discourage any kind of independent or even rational opinions. The fact is that they have been trying to sell Ryan's crap, unsuccessfully attempting to persuade likely voters that the crap doesn't stink. Now, they are having a collective, duck-dying fit when one of them points out the obvious in this disastrous plan. It's quite clear that anyone who wants the GOP nomination has to appeal to craziness.
ReplyDeleteLooks to me like Newt threw himself under the bus....I wonder if wife number 4 is waiting in the shadows.
ReplyDeletePalin is a tease and she will tease until the deadline and then play victim.
Huntsman & Jeb? Mama always wanted Jeb to run.
The Fat Bozo is playing the Palin card.
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