Newt Gingrich

Newtie finally gets his wish. The media is no longer spreading viscous lies about him. They are no longer covering him at all. The huckster has hit a new low by charging supporters for pictures with his routundness, reportedly 50 bucks.

Santorum has an ad superimposing President Obama's picture over one of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, while the narrator intones a "sworn American enemy." It's quick, but the subliminal message is clear. Classy.

Ron Paul tells Piers Morgan that it is "way to soon to write anybody off." His supporters are proving their mettle by putting caucuses into an uproar. As a side note, cranky Paul refers to secret service protection as welfare, but has no qualms about putting six family members on his government payroll. Go figure.

And, finally, just when he seemed to gain traction with evangelicals, Mitt Romney’s second cousin, Park Romney, who once was once a Mormon high priest, is now denouncing the religion as a cult. Not helpful in a country that supposedly values religious freedom.

A really effective new ad from Newt Gingrich's Super PAC: 

Ted Kennedy's campaign made similar arguments in his 1994 campaign against Mitt Romney. Here are a few ads from Kennedy ...

Absentee ballots are now available for Missouri's February 7th presidential primary election. But, there are three very important things you should know about the Show-Me-State's primary next year. 

1) Newt Gingrich will not be on the ballot

2) "Show Me the Pizza" Man Herman Cain will be on the ballot, along with Gary Johnson, although the latter is about to switch to the Libertarians and the former is no longer running for President

3) Oh yeah - the primary won't matter at all, so you can write-in the banana from "It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!!"  if you want, and it really wouldn't make much difference. 

Sen. Jim Lembke (R-Lemay) shared the following thoughts on Newt Gingrich with  adoring Facebook fans today: 

Listening to Beck on the way into the office. He had a dozen or so quotes from Newt saying that FDR was the greatest president of the modern era. If I didn't hear it with my own ears, it would have been hard to believe. I have said Newt is always the smartest guy in the room, but they may have said the same thing about Hamilton.(when Jefferson was absent) Turns out Newt is a progressive Hamiltonian and cannot be trusted with the reigns [sic] of our republic. Don't make a false choice, Choose LIBERTY!!!

Emphasis added. 

Obviously, few things are more damning in modern politics than alleging that a man is a 'progressive Hamiltonian.' 

You're a mean one, Newt GinGrinch!

No, the title of this post is not a typo.  From our friends over at Think Progress, there's this:

Last week, GOP presidential primary candidate Newt Gingrich appeared at Harvard to talk about his campaign. At the conclusion of his speech, he fielded questions from students that were recorded and uploaded to YouTube. One student asked the former House speaker about the pay gap between men and women. Gingrich completely dismissed this gap.

Yes, you read that right.  Gingrich is more concerned with men facing pay inequity.  In fact, here's exactly what he said:

[I]f anything, you’ll be here in fifteen years wondering what we’ll do about men inequality and male unemployment.

Courtesy of Progress Women, we've got these stats for Mr. Gingrich if he ever decides to address pay equity issues in Missouri, where we're no where close to seeing equity for women as they see only 75¢ for every dollar earned by a full-time male worker, essentially making $616/week to the $819/week of their male colleagues.  To add insult to injury, the gap in Missouri is 6% greater than the average gap across the United States and is larger than the wage gap our neighboring states.

Mr. Gingrich, I'll eat my hat if I'm wondering about pay inequality for men in 15 years.

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Newt Gingrich has been known to say the word "fundamental." Perhaps his fundamentals are resonating with the American people and explains why he has been leading in the polls recently. Too bad he fundamentally didn't file for the Presidential Primary in Missouri. 

It looks like when Newt isn't advocating for children to work as janitors in schools or having extramarital problems, he's exploring new ways to use the word "fundamental". It's really quite the impressive list.

New York Magazine has recently commented on the broad range of topics on which Newt has successfully implemented the word "fundamental" or "fundamentally", such as the NLRB, prisons, the exploitation of brain science, philosophy, and even trickle-down bureaucracy.

"fundamentally reshape the NLRB"..."fundamentally rethink prisons"..."fundamentally rethink how we exploit brain science across the board"..."fundamental philosophical basis for America"..."fundamentally wrong because trickle-down bureaucracy doesn't work"...

Read cover  NY Mag.

The deadline for filing for Missouri's Presidential Primary was today and Newt Gingrich failed to toss his name in the hat:

Just exactly how serious is Newt about running for office if he can't even get his campaign paperwork together to stick his name on the ballot?  And he wants to be president?!