June 10, 2011
— Ace See, it was my strategic vision that we should work for my candidacy for president.
But my team felt the proper strategy was to work for Rick Perry's candidacy.
A quote from Gingrich, still pitching this as a struggle of the Outsider Grassroots against the Insider Establishment, in which he is... dreadfully miscast.
“There is a fundamental strategic difference between the traditional consulting community and the kind of campaign I want to run. Now we’ll find out over the next year who’s right,” Gingrich told reporters in a video recorded by ABC News.
This really isn't fun. I have always liked Newt a fair amount. But the Titanic just emailed me to say, "That's a shaky, shaky launch. Whoo! Douchechills."
Something about Gingrich's manner of speaking bothers me. First of all, when he makes a statement, he usually begins, "Look."
"Look, it's not any secret that the Washington Power Establishment feels threatened by a genuine grassroots transformative candidacy."
Then, at the end, he usually adds an intonation-rising coda, usually of the type "And that's just common sense."
Or: "And the American people understand this."
Like: "Look, this is what we're going to be seeing, the threatened establishment undermining a determined revolutionary. (Rising intonation.) And the American people understand this."
The other thing is that he tosses in buzzwords like "fundamental," "transformative," etc. These are the sorts of words you see in a blurb for an Alvin Toffler book (and, if I recall right, Gingrich was a big fan of Toffler). His speech is always studded with Futurist buzzwords. And I often find My Ears Glazing Over because, well, too many adjectives, and too many of the same kind of adjectives.
Like:
"Look, when a transformative figure promising truly revolutionary change to the fundamental conception of the core principles of ordered Constitutional liberty, the Washington Power Brokers are naturally going to react in fear. And that's just common sense."
I'm more of tangible, gut guy. I like Anglo-Saxon-derived words for their immediacy and tangibility. I tend to not like the abstract, Latinate-through-the-Norman-Invasion words.
Just saying. Just a preference.
And the American people understand this.
Ah, Yes. That Is A Strategic Difference. Commenters, whose names I don't know but whose genitals I have all seen, inform me that the key strategic difference here is that the staffers wanted to be paid, and Gingrich didn't want to do enough to bring in money in order to pay them.
I have had numerous strategic disagreements like that in my time, generally involving landlords, or banks, or car financing companies.
Look, these people have to understand I'm a truly tranformational figure, with a fundamentally different concept of the idea of "repayment," and of course they feel threatened when confronted with a grassroots insurgency challenging their bizarre, frankly unamerican fetish of timely payment.
And that's just common sense.
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And Ace: thanks for the Ivanhoe reference at the end.
Posted by: Keith Arnold at June 10, 2011 12:17 PM (Jdtsu)
Posted by: John Huntsman at June 10, 2011 12:19 PM (DNTer)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 10, 2011 04:16 PM (DNTer)
And Strawberrys... don't forget the Strawberrys...
Posted by: Capt. Queeg at June 10, 2011 12:19 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: Keith Arnold at June 10, 2011 12:19 PM (Jdtsu)
I guess you could call that a strategic difference.
Posted by: Dang at June 10, 2011 12:20 PM (TXKVh)
Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...
Posted by: Captain Queeg at June 10, 2011 12:20 PM (tf9Ne)
Don't forget "profoundly", "radically", and "remarkably". Planning a drinking game, centered around those 5 words, for the debate on Monday. If my comments Monday night are across the line, you'll know why.
Posted by: Dave S. at June 10, 2011 12:20 PM (UvR6d)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 12:20 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 10, 2011 04:16 PM (DNTer)
And Strawberrys... don't forget the Strawberrys...
Posted by: Capt. Queeg at June 10, 2011 04:19 PM (NtXW4)
Let me fire up my geometric logic difference engine to figure it out...
Posted by: The Robot Devil at June 10, 2011 12:21 PM (DNTer)
Posted by: blaster at June 10, 2011 12:21 PM (l5dj7)
Newt thinks that's what "fast food" is.
Posted by: K~Bob at June 10, 2011 12:21 PM (I/JQb)
Don't start that again.
And, Ace, there might also be the thing where he decided to go on a two week cruise through the Mediterranean (see also: things normal schlubs scrimp and save for years to do) right in the middle of some pretty serious crisis management (see also: things which would be Resume Generating Events for normal schlubs).
I think the advisers looked and saw a candidate they didn't believe was serious enough- though, on paper and against a very different back-drop looks very solid- and left for greener pastures.
Newt Gingrich- the LeBron James of Politics.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:21 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 12:21 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: MaxMBJ at June 10, 2011 12:22 PM (qBKEb)
'Douchechills and Enemashivers' is my favorite HOle album
Posted by: garrett at June 10, 2011 12:22 PM (DsR57)
Posted by: DarkLord©, reaching from Palin's e-mails at June 10, 2011 12:22 PM (GBXon)
Posted by: mike at June 10, 2011 12:22 PM (cTfh7)
Well according to stuff on the sidebar Gingrich is just as pussy whipped as Mitch Daniels appeared to be. The only difference is that his wife was allowing him to play presidential candidate.
Its also really easy to plot a mutiny and mass exodus when the candidate takes a two week vacation to Europe.
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 12:22 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 10, 2011 12:23 PM (FkKjr)
Posted by: Bob Saget was not at his computer when those sext messages were sent to underage girls at June 10, 2011 12:23 PM (F/4zf)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 12:23 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: SFGoth at June 10, 2011 12:23 PM (dZ756)
Or is Ace just finishing that pint of Val-U-Rite to get up his courage?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 10, 2011 12:23 PM (f9c2L)
Hell, if Politico can put words in her mouth...
stupid sock
Posted by: AoSHQ's *second* worst commenter, DarkLord© at June 10, 2011 12:23 PM (GBXon)
Posted by: mixolydian garrett at June 10, 2011 12:23 PM (DsR57)
Yep. Newt's a sucker for anyone who claims to lecture us from The Future. Because that's where he's a viking.
His Global Warming chumpdom, late enthusiasm for monstrous resource-need-predicting bureuacracies, etc., all start with that failing. He's into Destiny. Like, a creepy comic-book-guy stalker of it.
Has anyone noted that Obama stole his "WTF" slogan/theme from Gingrich? It's notable, I think.
Posted by: oblig. at June 10, 2011 12:24 PM (xvZW9)
Okay, serious question: whose candidacy would be more laughable- Newt's or The Donald's?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:25 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 12:25 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 12:26 PM (d0Tfm)
They are useless on a horse.
Not as useless as a crossbow. It takes both hands and one foot to cock and load it.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 12:26 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 04:25 PM (8y9MW)
Newt's.
Posted by: The Gingrich Dog at June 10, 2011 12:26 PM (yQWNf)
Posted by: arhooley at June 10, 2011 12:27 PM (x97q8)
Posted by: creeper at June 10, 2011 12:27 PM (gre5a)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 12:27 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: davidt at June 10, 2011 12:27 PM (GfhFm)
Posted by: nickless at June 10, 2011 12:28 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 04:21 PM (OlN4e)
I think you could use almost any politician with national exposure and actually have the exact same response. Politics does seem to attract a certain kind of person. Probably quite a few of the people we think are on our side and doing the good work don't really believe it and know that this is the way for them to get the power they crave.
Sort of like Fox News. Murdoch isn't really a conservative but he saw the void in the market and put something out to fill it.
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 12:28 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 12:28 PM (kUaEF)
He and Romney are fucknozzles cut from the same cloth. That's just common sense, and the American people understand that.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 10, 2011 12:28 PM (5Xf3c)
Now I'm wondering how douches like that would describe bacon.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 10, 2011 12:28 PM (tqwMN)
Sorry, Newt, but "Going Rogue" is already taken.
Posted by: arhooley at June 10, 2011 04:27 PM (x97q
What if I "Go Rouge" instead. Start wearing makeup ala KISS?
Posted by: Newt Gringrich at June 10, 2011 12:29 PM (DNTer)
You now like the good old day when guys wouldn't stop being a-holes in football.
Posted by: Marcus at June 10, 2011 12:29 PM (CHrmZ)
It's nice to see consultants/strategists from sinking, no hope campaigns like Newt's, coming to their senses and getting on board the Buddy Roemer Express. I suggest you Moe Rons do the same.
Clearly these folks sense Rick Perry is a possible Veep candidate in the inevitable Roemer Administration.
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 10, 2011 12:29 PM (PZOQu)
Which is why Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes used Re curve bows to such deadly effect.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 12:30 PM (tf9Ne)
He was a huckster even then- he was just better about making conservatives believe he really held conservative convictions- instead of just being able to spout conservative theory.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:30 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Barney Frank at June 10, 2011 12:30 PM (kUaEF)
We're going through 24 million e-mail addresses and phone numbers to raise money! Anyone reading this, please contact us if you want to head up our efforts!
Posted by: Newt's New Campaign Strategy at June 10, 2011 12:31 PM (x97q8)
Posted by: Damiano at June 10, 2011 12:31 PM (3nrx7)
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 04:28 PM (oVQFe)
Yes, but this guy thinks Newt is not serious about running. He thinks Newt is running strictly to get his speaking fees increased. He says Newt doesn't do shit unless it puts money in his pocket.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 12:31 PM (OlN4e)
Regardless of what Neut does or says, the only image I have of him is sitting on Queen Nancy's Couch.
I may not be the only one...
That was the defining moment that I booted his big-government, hoax-believing, Pelosi-cootied ass to the curb.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 12:32 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at June 10, 2011 12:32 PM (UciSl)
Well then, he obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. Just ask Tiffany and Co.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:32 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Various Normans at June 10, 2011 12:33 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 04:30 PM (tf9Ne)
Quite correct. And note that Samauri archers bows have a long upper limb and a shorter lower limb to be used on horse back.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 12:33 PM (OlN4e)
It's after 4...
Get on out there, Ace!
The world is your oyster - now shuck it and slurp it down...
just avoid looking directly at it for too long.
Posted by: garrett at June 10, 2011 12:33 PM (DsR57)
Posted by: mike at June 10, 2011 12:33 PM (cTfh7)
And Callista. Ugh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 10, 2011 12:34 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 04:25 PM (8y9MW)
You'd think Donald but the media took Donald more seriously. And he has cash to back up his words.
Newt would be an unlikable bastard trying to win a popularity contest. With pictures floating around of him and Pelosi on a couch together. And liberal women always reminding other women how gentlemanly Newt treated his wives. Newt's campaign would be more laughable if he somehow came into contention. It would be pitiful laughter.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at June 10, 2011 12:34 PM (GKQDR)
Posted by: Barney Frank at June 10, 2011 12:34 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: davidt at June 10, 2011 12:34 PM (GfhFm)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 10, 2011 12:34 PM (+lsX1)
Which is why Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes used Re curve bows to such deadly effect.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 04:30 PM (tf9Ne)
I thought it was Atilla the Hun that was big on the recurve bow on horseback.
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 12:34 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Tiffany & Co.® at June 10, 2011 12:35 PM (le5qc)
This basic fact, even to this day, never ceases to amaze and disgust me
Yup. Same. And I'm pretty cynical/unfazed by the stupidity of the average sheeple voter. If ever their was an indication of American decline....
My turn to being an eeyore/rational pessimist was 2004, when in a time of war, GWB was only able to beat a walking corpse like Jon Carry by essentially one state (Ohio).
Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 10, 2011 12:35 PM (PZOQu)
Posted by: Gingrich Campaign Office at June 10, 2011 12:36 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: mike at June 10, 2011 12:36 PM (cTfh7)
Posted by: Jason at June 10, 2011 12:36 PM (QKsNa)
That it.
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 10, 2011 12:36 PM (ocecp)
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 04:28 PM (oVQFe)
Yes, but this guy thinks Newt is not serious about running. He thinks Newt is running strictly to get his speaking fees increased. He says Newt doesn't do shit unless it puts money in his pocket.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 04:31 PM (OlN4e)
Yeah that too. I figured he was running to get more speaking gigs, and to justify putting another book out.
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 12:36 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Nancy Lugosi at June 10, 2011 04:35 PM (VXBR1)
Me too. And you still owe me that cocktail big fella!
Posted by: Dede Scozzafava at June 10, 2011 12:36 PM (UciSl)
Posted by: K~Bob at June 10, 2011 12:37 PM (I/JQb)
Your shooting at the wrong targets if you want to help out there Barney.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 12:37 PM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Granny Grammarian at June 10, 2011 12:37 PM (wOaLi)
Shortest. Campaign. Ever. A self-inflicted collapse.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 10, 2011 12:38 PM (1yViP)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 10, 2011 12:38 PM (f9c2L)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 12:38 PM (kUaEF)
Newt's implosion was a grassroots movement. Don't like the Ryan plan? Wanna talk down to the Tea Party (outsider? really? you thot that would work?)?
There's the door. Don't let it hit your ass on the way out- or your Weiner as you attempt to backtrack.
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 10, 2011 12:39 PM (YYaIP)
Posted by: blaster at June 10, 2011 04:37 PM (l5dj7)
As Anglo-Saxon as cumchugger!
Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at June 10, 2011 12:39 PM (N0D8o)
>>> Ah, Yes. That Is A Strategic Difference.
Ace - you should link that David Thorne email exchange with the pie charts to this.
That exchage is freaking hysterical.
Posted by: Roadking at June 10, 2011 12:39 PM (i0z6l)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 12:39 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: ranger117 at June 10, 2011 12:40 PM (FKZC6)
Shortest. Campaign. Ever. A self-inflicted collapse.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel
.......
It really does sound like ole Newt was kinda pussy-whipped going into this.. His wife made him take her on a Greek cruise two weeks after starting his campaign!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 10, 2011 12:40 PM (f9c2L)
Lots of societies used the bow from horseback. What none of them used from horseback was the Welsh Longbow. It's like comparing a Winchester repeating carbine to a Nebraska Long Rifle.
And even the Mongols, Huns, and Cherokee (I think the indigenous American tribe which best perfected the practice after the introduction of the horse) used bow from horseback as a close in weapon- completely different style of combat from European armies.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:41 PM (8y9MW)
By that we mean hit up all sorts of GOP insiders to get the cash stream going so we get paid promptly.
Posted by: Newt's Staff at June 10, 2011 12:41 PM (N0D8o)
Why choose? "Gingrich/Trump 2012!"
This time, why not the worst?
Posted by: HOundOfDoom at June 10, 2011 12:42 PM (KhioZ)
Posted by: mike at June 10, 2011 04:33 PM (cTfh7)
Short foot soldiers. Short, angry little Japanese foot soldiers who needed short lower limbed bows.
Posted by: davidt at June 10, 2011 12:42 PM (GfhFm)
Yikes. Still, for Obama the pattern is, "As I've always said, yada, yada, um, yada, and that's why the car is in the ditch with Slurpee carcasses strewn about," which is much worse. So Gingrich has that going for him.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 10, 2011 12:43 PM (1yViP)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at June 10, 2011 12:44 PM (GKQDR)
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 04:21 PM (OlN4e)
--
I always thought that he was a four flushing cocksucker and an no good lying bastard.
But, no matter.
Posted by: HOundOfDoom at June 10, 2011 12:44 PM (KhioZ)
Posted by: toby928™ at June 10, 2011 12:44 PM (GTbGH)
"I like Anglo-Saxon-derived words for their immediacy and tangibility."
Englisc..thaet gethiode the we ealle yecnowan maegan, even if we have to spell it with this new-fangled alphabet that doesn't have a proper thorn, eth, ash, or yogh.
Posted by: Grey Fox at June 10, 2011 12:45 PM (lns4q)
Posted by: Ken Royall at June 10, 2011 12:45 PM (9zzk+)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 04:25 PM (8y9MW)
Thats like asking which one if funnier, Laurel or Hardy...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2011 12:45 PM (NtXW4)
Posted by: mike at June 10, 2011 12:45 PM (cTfh7)
They both used them I just thought of Genghis first even though Attila was earlier in history.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 12:45 PM (tf9Ne)
They turned out to be pretty useless as it was.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:47 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 04:41 PM (8y9MW)
FIFY.
Though the Cherokee did have great cavalry units they used guns. The Comanche actually tried using guns and went back to bows.
Posted by: Newt's Staff at June 10, 2011 12:47 PM (N0D8o)
Yikes. Still, for Obama the pattern is, "As I've always said, yada, yada, um, yada, and that's why the car is in the ditch with Slurpee carcasses strewn about," which is much worse. So Gingrich has that going for him.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel
This is why I really don't consider this criticism of Palin or Gingrich to be so dire. Obama is better? Kerry? Biden? They can be condescending, stupid and grating simultaneously, but are they any better than her or Gingrich? I doubt it.
Posted by: Blue Hen at June 10, 2011 12:47 PM (Gzv/o)
"Nebraska Long Rifle"
I am not familiar with longrifles from Nebraska. Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee the Carolinas and Georgia, yeah. Nebraska, no.
Posted by: Grey Fox at June 10, 2011 12:47 PM (lns4q)
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 12:47 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: ChuckOH at June 10, 2011 12:47 PM (B9H/R)
Posted by: glowing blue meat at June 10, 2011 12:47 PM (K/USr)
I give Newt props for his work in the 80's and 90's, but his post-Speaker rehabilitation tour has rotted his mind. Maybe the new prez can throw him a bone, and make him head of the Dept of Ed- with the mission to make it dead.
Yeah, I can rhyme.
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at June 10, 2011 12:48 PM (YYaIP)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 12:49 PM (M3mVf)
Posted by: Sean Hannity at June 10, 2011 12:49 PM (x97q8)
Posted by: Tam al' Thor at June 10, 2011 12:49 PM (DsR57)
Posted by: Sean Hannity at June 10, 2011 12:50 PM (3nrx7)
Perry, Pawlenty, Romney, and Bachmann all could find some way to 270 electoral votes.
Gingrich can't find his way out of a bad hat.
Posted by: CAC at June 10, 2011 12:51 PM (8hi59)
This is what I get for multi-tasking work and non-work topics.
Yes, I believe "Tennessee" was the one for which I was looking. Mostly because I can't remember the primary manufacturer of US Army rifles during and just after the Civil War...
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:51 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 04:49 PM (M3mVf)
I know I am! All these Palin e-mails just make me long for Obama's cock in my mouth again.
Posted by: @benpolitico at June 10, 2011 12:51 PM (c45xH)
No, it was Newt's strategic vision that his team should work for his candidacy for President, while Newt and his wife sampled the buffet on the cruise ship.
One of those situations where the rank and file are asked to bust their butts for the boss's personal benefit, while the boss himself hits the golf links. If the members of the rank and file have other options, they tend to exercise them in those situations.
Posted by: stuiec at June 10, 2011 12:52 PM (HMdeP)
Posted by: ChuckOH at June 10, 2011 12:52 PM (B9H/R)
It had nothing to do with me. Now, get your feet off the coffee table, you slobs. You'll have to excuse me for a couple hours while I reconstuct my hair.
Posted by: Callista Gingrich at June 10, 2011 12:52 PM (wAQA5)
You're going to have to get to it through me!
Posted by: Chris Matthews at June 10, 2011 12:53 PM (tqwMN)
Winner!
Posted by: Sean Hannity at June 10, 2011 04:50 PM (3nrx7)
People like blood sausage too, people are morons.
Posted by: Phil Conner at June 10, 2011 12:53 PM (YYaIP)
Gingrich always reminded me of the guy we all knew in college. The guy that hit on every girl within 2 seconds knowing that even if the odds were lousy, eventually one would respond. He is that way with ideas. he will send dic pics to any idea that he comes across, (as long as it is not one of his competitors. very nih)
He lost me when he said we should give laptops to the homeless. There is so much wrong there that there was no redemption. If doesn't know why, then there is no explaining it.
Posted by: nine coconuts at June 10, 2011 12:53 PM (uz3hs)
Posted by: Barney Frank at June 10, 2011 12:53 PM (kUaEF)
I was, until I saw Pat Caddell on Cavuto, seething over the NYT and WaPo treatment of Palin's e-mails.
Every time I see Teh Caddell, I imagine him needing a forklift just to lug his balls around.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 10, 2011 12:54 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Chris Matthews at June 10, 2011 04:53 PM (tqwMN)
Aw, c'mon! It's not like we haven't shared it before.
Posted by: @benpolitico at June 10, 2011 12:54 PM (c45xH)
I hate to bring this up, but I was watching Maddow last night (I was bored), and she did a segment about Gingrich apparently giving people "awards" that they could receive if they sent money to one of his PACs, Nigerian-prince-like. Pretty sleazy, if true.
Posted by: ChuckOH at June 10, 2011 04:47 PM
She might have been reporting on what I take to be a fairly standard practice used on idiot donors. I once went through some mail for a dead guy from Oliver North. You know, "Urgent," "Personal Note to John Doe," "John Doe, I need you." The guy had evidently given to Ollie North before, because he was getting some amped-up version of soliciting. For x amount, Mr. Doe would be put on Ollie North's Confidential Communique List. For 2x amount, Mr. Doe would additionally be sent Ollie's "Eyes Only" mailgrams. For 3x amount, Mr. Doe would be placed in Ollie's Inner Circle and would contribute to important policy statements that would be shared with top government officials. All very harmless and silly.
Although with Gingrich, you never know . . .
Posted by: Sean Hannity at June 10, 2011 12:55 PM (x97q8)
One of the local talk-show hosts here keeps talking about the "big brain" in Newt's head, and I keep asking myself: "Are we talking about the same Newt? Or is he just mispronouncing "The Nuge?""
I don't think I've heard a single, original, good idea from Newt in at least the last 10 years.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 12:55 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Barney Frank at June 10, 2011 12:55 PM (kUaEF)
Yes, I believe "Tennessee" was the one for which I was looking. Mostly because I can't remember the primary manufacturer of US Army rifles during and just after the Civil War...
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 04:51 PM (8y9MW)
That would be Springfield, I believe. Harper's Ferry was the other major US Army armory and manufacturing center until Stonewall Jackson captured and moved the machinery early in the Civil War, IIRC.
Posted by: Grey Fox at June 10, 2011 12:56 PM (lns4q)
My problem is what he says.
Posted by: nine coconuts at June 10, 2011 12:56 PM (uz3hs)
Posted by: glowing blue meat at June 10, 2011 04:47 PM (K/USr)
Look I don't mind him being late but when a drunk ewok walked in stroking himself dragging a stolen radio flyer wagon of val-u-rite bottles and pudding cups, I pretended to go to the ladies room and ran screaming.
Posted by: Ace's date at June 10, 2011 12:56 PM (UciSl)
Posted by: Tony "Schlong" Wiener at June 10, 2011 12:57 PM (7cXE7)
He lost me when he said we should give laptops to the homeless.
WTF....srsly?
That like something a playboy bunny would say.
Posted by: eleven at June 10, 2011 12:57 PM (SRBAA)
Posted by: ten thousand spear chuckers coudn't be wrong at June 10, 2011 12:58 PM (An8Cu)
Newt lost me when he spoke about global warming and I learned what his position was..."There is man caused global warming,...we have to fix it....but lets use plans that make sense....so put me in power."
Posted by: Barack Obama at June 10, 2011 12:58 PM (kCT7A)
Dear gawd! Palin used "sheesh" in an e-mail! Her betters at the NYT must be peeing themselves.
Jeebus.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 10, 2011 12:58 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Playboy Bunny at June 10, 2011 01:00 PM (B9H/R)
Posted by: Jason at June 10, 2011 04:36 PM (QKsNa)
Better than your ass...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 10, 2011 01:01 PM (LH6ir)
..."There is man caused global warming,...we have to fix it....
huh..that sounds like something a playboy bunny would say too.
Posted by: eleven at June 10, 2011 01:02 PM (SRBAA)
Posted by: nine coconuts at June 10, 2011 04:53 PM (uz3hs)
Hey the homeless have dicks that need tweeting too. We need to close the great digital dick divide.
That's just common sense.
Posted by: Mætenloch at June 10, 2011 01:02 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Bob dole at June 10, 2011 01:03 PM (NtTkA)
Still, for Obama the pattern is, "As I've always said, yada, yada, um, yada, and that's why the car is in the ditch with Slurpee carcasses strewn about," which is much worse.
I'm going to try the Obama voice this weekend. When my wife asks me what I want for dinner and how I can help make dinner, I'm going to sound cool, collected, well informed and in charge:
"Clearly, we need to eat tonight. As I've always said, hamburgers are good, but we also need to grasp the importance of the potato salad. For much of the past decade, we've had an imbalance of proteins to carbohydrates, and I believe in your ability to pitch in and do whatever it takes to make a good supper. So get it done."
Then I intend to put my feet up and watch TV, becuase commenting on a blog all day is stressful.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 10, 2011 01:03 PM (Rq1/g)
It going to be interesting watching what the MSM reports about the Palin emails and then contrasting those remarks with what they said about Weiner. Two different electronic mediums, two different philosophical reactions. Almost too good to be true.
Posted by: Barack Obama at June 10, 2011 01:04 PM (kCT7A)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 10, 2011 01:05 PM (lGFXF)
Spencer made a few. I have a 56 caliber carbine (rim fire).
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 10, 2011 01:05 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: PR at June 10, 2011 01:05 PM (WvcAo)
Posted by: The Schwalbe: © at June 10, 2011 01:06 PM (UU0OF)
Then I intend to put my feet up and watch TV, becuase commenting on a blog all day is stressful.
Posted by: FireHorse
So is dodging thrown knives.
Posted by: Mrs. FireHorse at June 10, 2011 01:06 PM (Gzv/o)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 01:07 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 10, 2011 01:07 PM (eOXTH)
How comfy is your couch? I ask, because if the answer is "not very," you may want to reconsider your plan.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 01:08 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Pooter Hound, Professor of Olde Englishe cussin' and swearin' at June 10, 2011 01:11 PM (le5qc)
Donate $25 to Obama and get your "Made in the USA" tee now!
Donate over a $million and we'll ignore you killing your citizens.
Posted by: Barry the Kinetic Prez at June 10, 2011 01:11 PM (tf9Ne)
is ace back from being with real people Real People yet?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 10, 2011 05:08 PM (QMtmy)
Apparently, one of them dropped acid in his Val-U-Rite
Posted by: Tito at June 10, 2011 01:12 PM (YYaIP)
Posted by: Jack Burton at June 10, 2011 01:13 PM (6B32N)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 10, 2011 01:13 PM (TMB3S)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 10, 2011 01:13 PM (NtTkA)
But that's about it. He's ultra pompous and overly convinced of his own genius.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at June 10, 2011 01:13 PM (QcFbt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 01:13 PM (kUaEF)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 10, 2011 05:05 PM (LH6ir)
Damn you.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 01:14 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at June 10, 2011 05:13 PM (NtTkA)
I always start with nice, then escalate to full Weiner if that doesn't work.
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at June 10, 2011 01:15 PM (UciSl)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 10, 2011 01:15 PM (TMB3S)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 01:16 PM (FcR7P)
Newton's plans for delivering a successful, two-hour inaugural speech, with neither waistcoat nor frockcoat, and no top hat, in the crisp, January sun were dashed a-borning, when he (metaphorically) rogered his fellows in the budget coterie. I was looking forward to the effort. My hopes are dashed, and I now pass on the desire for revenge to my great-grandchildren. May pneumonia take you all.
Posted by: Wm. Henry Harrison VII at June 10, 2011 01:16 PM (I/JQb)
Lookit, what we have had, and we have now, are substantial policy difference, and when you have THESE KINDS of differences, Sean, what you have to do then is to find some parallelism between the normative and positive.
Lookit, what we have are fundamental differences, not only on policy, but also on the application of policy, and the framework that needs to be put in place for a substantial differnce in the lives of americans.
And look, are there any substantive strip clubs around here?
Posted by: Rev Dr Nude Gingrich at June 10, 2011 01:16 PM (s5aNX)
Posted by: ChuckOH at June 10, 2011 01:18 PM (B9H/R)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 10, 2011 01:18 PM (eOXTH)
Posted by: Zombie Claus von Stauffenberg at June 10, 2011 01:19 PM (xy9wk)
And the American elite intuitively know in their gut, -- and so should you, -- that he's one cool and awesome motherfucker.
Posted by: Fritz at June 10, 2011 01:19 PM (p2IBw)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 10, 2011 05:18 PM (eOXTH)
Nearer the arm pit than the belt buckle.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 01:20 PM (OlN4e)
It could have been newt sending out the dic pics.
Posted by: nine coconuts at June 10, 2011 01:20 PM (uz3hs)
Where should I send the bill for the brain-bleach?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 01:21 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 01:21 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 10, 2011 01:22 PM (eOXTH)
It could have been newt sending out the dic pics.
He couldn't, his telephoto lens won't focus that close.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 01:22 PM (OlN4e)
My dad bought it when he was about 14. It cost him $5 from Bannerman's in NYC.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 10, 2011 01:23 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Tonto at June 10, 2011 01:26 PM (gre5a)
My dad bought it when he was about 14. It cost him $5 from Bannerman's in NYC.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 10, 2011 05:23 PM (LH6ir)
Holy Cow, if it was made during the Civil War even one in poor condition is over$1500!
Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at June 10, 2011 01:26 PM (N0D8o)
Posted by: I, Of Newt at June 10, 2011 01:27 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 10, 2011 01:29 PM (kUaEF)
Holy Cow, if it was made during the Civil War even one in poor condition is over$1500!
Like I said, damn him.
I tried to get my Dad to buy an M1 Garand when they could be had for 15-25 dollars in the local pawn shop. No dice. He was wrong, just like he was wrong when he was offered 650 acres of good bottom farm land for $12/ acre and he told the guy he would come look at it for 10.........shit.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 01:30 PM (OlN4e)
Dude! We have something in common.
Posted by: Michael Moore at June 10, 2011 01:30 PM (SwkdU)
First, Gingrich -- as one of close associates is now saying in public - does not like to be bothered by detail work. Granted, most presidents should not be but a white Obama in the Oval Office is not the prescription for our current ills.
Second, Gingrich takes advice from nobody. He is the smartest guy in the room because he's published the most books that he actually wrote. Well, if you hate grunt work but won't take advice that makes for some strange delegating.
Third, Gingrich has a very thin skin. He appears to have no internal mechanism for processing criticism -- other than to resign. Giving the "are you really that stupid?" look at reporters does not work because they truly are idiots.
But most damning of all, this so-called Southern Gentleman sat for a portrait with Queen Nan and actually smiled like some lascivious goat. For that, he should not be running for president but rowing boats as a galley slave.
Bow out now, Gingrich, and spare yourself and the rest of us embarrassment. Sympathy runs do not win campaigns. Go write another book.
Posted by: Full Moon at June 10, 2011 01:31 PM (m75CK)
Posted by: Guy who bought the "outsider" meme. at June 10, 2011 01:31 PM (4t9J5)
Posted by: John Anderson at June 10, 2011 01:31 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Jack Burton
I thought someone was cooking broccoli.
Posted by: Dang at June 10, 2011 01:33 PM (TXKVh)
Posted by: someguy at June 10, 2011 01:34 PM (iIQ0a)
...something called boobies...*pant*....quick some water.....GULP.....
...I'll be back.....*pant*
Posted by: Ace in about two hours at June 10, 2011 01:35 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Fartnoise at June 10, 2011 01:35 PM (bCxgV)
Maybe someone who doesn't honor his marriage contract doesn't honor/trust any contract? So why bother?
Posted by: Dang at June 10, 2011 01:37 PM (TXKVh)
Back in the sixties my dad bought a Luger and a Walther p-38 for IIRC $50 each. The thing that drove the purchase was he read the govt was going to ban through the mail gun sales. He has always been kinda ornery about govt rule and that time it made for a very good investment.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 01:37 PM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 01:37 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: ten thousand Mexican mud puppies can't be wrong at June 10, 2011 01:38 PM (HMdeP)
Disappearing ink, like on the Contract With America.
Posted by: Former Newt Staffer at June 10, 2011 01:40 PM (GfhFm)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 10, 2011 01:40 PM (TXKVh)
Posted by: Full Moon at June 10, 2011 05:31 PM (m75CK)
He needs to stay in until he learns some lessons in a way that'll ensure they stay learnt.
Posted by: stuiec at June 10, 2011 01:42 PM (HMdeP)
If California had Texas's business climate, the US would be a very VERY different place. Because Texas has the business climate it does due to limit government/conservative principles. Can you imagine California going back to being a Republican state?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 01:42 PM (8y9MW)
Yesterday my garden was awesome - no bugs, no eggs, etc.
I went out @ 2 today and those stupid f*cking potato bugs had eaten through all my potatoes, and beans within 24 hours.
I am so pissed. I just squished over 300 of the bastards. At least 10 on each plants, over 30 plants.
Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 01:42 PM (nWikJ)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 05:37 PM (tf9Ne)
Are you the favored son? I would dearly love to have a P-38 and a Luger. The P-38 was a machinist's work of art. Not too often you see dove tail slides on weapons.
Posted by: maddogg at June 10, 2011 01:43 PM (OlN4e)
Palin emails rarely mention Michigan, search shows
I mean, BO hasn't mentioned the fires or the floods yet, has he?!
Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 01:44 PM (nWikJ)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 01:44 PM (d0Tfm)
I am so pissed. I just squished over 300 of the bastards. At least 10 on each plants, over 30 plants.
Have you tried our product?
Posted by: Napalm, Incorporated at June 10, 2011 01:44 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: I, Of Newt at June 10, 2011 05:27 PM (zgZzy)
Hahaha.... Everyone knows they don't clean the tables at Arbys!
Posted by: The Gingrich Dog at June 10, 2011 01:44 PM (yQWNf)
@108: "Lots of societies used the bow from horseback. What none of them used from horseback was the Welsh Longbow. It's like comparing a Winchester repeating carbine to a Nebraska Long Rifle."
Ahhh, so solly, lound-eye. Most honolabre samulai used rongbow whire mounted. Not Wersh, no, but rongbow.
Posted by: Usagi Yojimbo at June 10, 2011 01:44 PM (xy9wk)
Where's that four o'clock thread we were promised?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 05:44 PM (d0Tfm)
No fuck. I waited all day for the Palin thread, and then when Ace said he wouldn't be around I thought, 'Cool. I'll work in the garden now so I don't miss the funny in the Palin thread.'
Turns out I have no garden left, and I missed the Palin thread.
Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 01:45 PM (nWikJ)
Posted by: Judge Smails at June 10, 2011 01:46 PM (zgZzy)
I've seen a Japanese Longbow. I've seen a Welsh Longbow. The two have the second part of their name in common, and not much else. Well, besides being of the weapon class "bow" and therefore interchangeable when I take the "Bows" weapon proficiency. But I'm in 4e now, so that doesn't matter to me.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2011 01:47 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 05:42 PM (nWikJ)
Hey, momma, have you tried the ant-shoveling manuever yet?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 01:47 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: The MBM at June 10, 2011 01:47 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: ChuckOH at June 10, 2011 01:47 PM (B9H/R)
It's a quarter to six.
Where's that four o'clock thread we were promised?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 05:44 PM (d0Tfm)
We weren't promised a thread at 4. Ace said open blog. That means that the guys with the open blog keys were given permission to put up some posts.
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 01:47 PM (oVQFe)
Me and one other brother will be fighting it out over my dads collection. I did buy a P-38 that was produced towards the end of the war. The outside machining is much rougher than earlier production which I like since it tells something of that point in history. I don't get modern art but I love gun art.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 10, 2011 01:48 PM (tf9Ne)
Palin emails rarely mention Michigan, search shows
The nerve of that woman! I've been a supporter from the beginning. I nearly moved to Alaska in 2006 just so I could vote for her for governor, but this is the last straw.
Posted by: Concerned in Saginaw at June 10, 2011 01:48 PM (SwkdU)
Pretty damn good. Can I use that?
Posted by: TOTUS at June 10, 2011 01:49 PM (1yViP)
270 Seriously, how is this news?!
Palin emails rarely mention Michigan, search shows
We're just sitting here ready to call her a racist!
Posted by: Muslim-Infested Dearborn at June 10, 2011 01:49 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2011 01:51 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: buzzion at June 10, 2011 01:51 PM (oVQFe)
Posted by: Muslim-Infested Dearborn at June 10, 2011 01:52 PM (zgZzy)
Hey, momma, have you tried the ant-shoveling manuever yet?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 05:47 PM (d0Tfm)
Yes. Unfortunately all it did was kill the big black ants. I figured the little ants (that are eating my garden as well) would die, but no, the big ants did.
But, my kids loved watching the ants fight to the death for a couple of hours
I then small ants from diff. hills and I think I figured out that it is just one major hill that takes up half my backyard (1.5 acres) because they didn't fight at all.
Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 01:52 PM (nWikJ)
Posted by: davidt at June 10, 2011 01:54 PM (GfhFm)
Is there a way to find this/figure it out?
Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 01:54 PM (nWikJ)
Is there a way to find this/figure it out?
Posted by: momma at June 10, 2011 05:54 PM (nWikJ)
If you subscribe to Nexis, you can do a search of news pieces put out by only news outlets. Otherwise, you need to spend a little more time with Bing or Google to search the networks' news domains for "Palin" and "Weiner", filtering by the appropriate date ranges.
Posted by: stuiec at June 10, 2011 01:59 PM (HMdeP)
Posted by: Crispty Crunchity Toast at June 10, 2011 02:00 PM (mmHDH)
Posted by: arhooley at June 10, 2011 04:27 PM (x97q
What about "Confessions of a Super-Genius", by Newt E. Gingrich?
Or "Confessions of a Darwin Award Winner"?
Posted by: stuiec at June 10, 2011 02:00 PM (HMdeP)
One person walking out is a difference, the team walking out is a mutiny!
No, this gang leaving en masse was a newtiny.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 10, 2011 02:03 PM (Ew27I)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 10, 2011 02:06 PM (nyKxa)
But, my kids loved watching the ants fight to the death for a couple of hours.
Two words: magnifying glass.
And on that note, I'm outta here for a while. I have gig at a local BBQ establishment, of all places. Should any BBQ be a part of tonight's pay, I'll report back with a review of the wonderful animal that so valiantly gave its life for my benefit and gastrological enjoyment.. He/she/it shall not pass unremembered...
Adios, y'all.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2011 02:09 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Fiftycal at June 10, 2011 02:16 PM (Deems)
I have had numerous strategic disagreements like that in my time, generally involving landlords, or banks, or car financing companies.
I also had a number of them in college with several young women who were not aligned with my strategic directions around quickly getting laid. When I found one that was highly aligned, eventually it turned into a lifelong strategtic partnership, in which my core objectives have become re-focused on the art of compromise. We compromise on everything - we do things her way, and I continue to sleep in a warm bed, rather than the garage.
This is similar to the compromise agreement reached between the Russians and the former Soviet Union a number of years ago, in which the Swedes agreed to not depth-charge USSR subs they found in their terrotorial waters, and in return the USSR agreed not to blow the top three feet of Sweden into the stratosphere.
Posted by: sherlock at June 10, 2011 02:19 PM (6rLSO)
Newt Gingrich gives a record level of Republican suckiness
Most horrific boring piece of worthless two-faced shit in history.
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