Here’s a tip, Newt: when you find yourself lavishing praise on a President who is running an obvious long con, and taking pot shots at Sarah Palin, who you suggest should keep her mouth shut when it comes to defending herself against Dem-led accusations that she (and others, including the TEA Party) is complicit in an actual mass murder, you’ve become an establishment Republican, and the only office you’re fit to occupy is at some lobbying firm somewhere, across the hall from Trent Lott.
Gingrich said he thinks Obama “deserves the approval you just showed in your poll,” referring to the Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday morning that had the president’s approval rating at 54 percent and 78 percent of Americans approving of how he handled the shooting.
“I join the 71 percent of Republicans who approved of it,” he said.
Gingrich also gave a thumbs up to Obama’s decision to hire Daley to replace Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff.
“Bill Daley will be an enormous asset,” Gingrich said. “He’s a solid, and confident guy, who understands the business community” and in “the great Chicago tradition, understands getting things done.”
The often outspoken Gingrich, who said he plans to announce whether he’s running for the White House by late February, also had some words of advice for Sarah Palin, a potential opponent in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
“I think that she’s got to slow down and think through what she’s saying and how she’s saying it,” he said.
That’s advice you should have given yourself, Newt.
You and your pro-amnesty campaign? D.O.A.
(h/t JHo)
Newt Gingrich lost me on that bench with Nancy >spit< Pelosi bloviating about the globel warmening that only my tax dollars could prevent.
But, I must admit, he carried himself in that PSA with civility.
And people wonder why I’m so sure Newtie won’t be running for president.
Sigh.
I know what this means in reference to a Daley and it is anything but conservative. If it is American, it is the Tammany Hall/Tweed/mob boss “America” that the Democrats have yearned to expand nationwide, hell worldwide.
Alligator Gar, sideways, no lube.
It amazes me. Obama lets the blood libel on the left go unchallenged four what, four days? Then he comes to a campaign rally in Tuscon and says (in effect) “There’s no blood libel here.” And Republicans are grateful and approving of him because he didn’t repeat the blood libel? Stupid party indeed.
If Gingrich was serious about running for POTUS he wouldn’t be going out of his way to irritate Palin supporters on a regular basis.
Gingrich is acting in service to his paymasters.
I’m sure if called on it, he’ll pull a Pawlenty. “Hey, I’m just trying to defend her (from herself [implied])!”
Mr. Newt has been dead to me since he boinked his office help when he was still married while berating Clinton and Lewinsky.
I preemptively denounce myself for the use of the term “dead to me”, even though it is true.
I have two words for Newt Gingrich: Dede Scozzafava.
I have two more words for Newt Gingrich: Fuck you.
Newt will surely deserve his next poll numbers.
I’ve been done with Gingrich since the late 90s, and have prognosticated for many years that he’ll never be the President of the United States.
“I think that she’s got to slow down and think through what she’s saying and how she’s saying it”
She waited four days and thought it through. But it doesn’t matter, because they will pick through whatever she says and manufacture some outrageous outrage about using a phrase like “blood libel” that is a wholly owned property of Da Joooz. It simply isn’t possible to avoid having your words misinterpreted.
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him” -Cardinal Richelieu
Further blather:
Think this is the first rightist squish I’ve seen actually taking a shot at that target map. And “scandals”? “Scandals”?
Overly shortened quote above. Sorry. Here’s the question that paragraph is meant to answer.
Huh. That’s some of the shallowest analysis I’ve read this year. I normally expect better out of Contentions. I guess nobody’s perfect.
Speaking of shallow analysis, I’d like to take this opportunity to summon our resident Power Weasel to denounce Gingrich as a stupid redneck cumslut, addicted to undeserved celebrity and totally unfit to vacuum the Oval Office, much less to sit behind the desk.
Who the hell is Alana Goodperson?
Is Alana Goodman an agent provocateur paid by the progressive media machine? That possibility would nicely resolve the apparent stupidities of this piece anyhow.
just slow down and think about the words and what you’re trying to say and if you get confuzzled you can take a strategic pause to gather your thoughts
Given that I think the media is the home of morons and liars, I’m hoping she doesn’t give a shit about “media strategy”. Her policy positions should be the only thing anyone should be concerned with.
If you pause, they can cut you off before you can finish what you’re saying, or even if they don’t, they can cut the clip to take your words out of context.
I’ve noticed that women tend to do this more than men, I think perhaps because they’ve become conditioned to being marginalized in talking-heads shows. Elizabeth MacDonald of FBN is absolutely horrible to listen to on Freedom Watch because she so obviously won’t take a breath lest Andrew Napolitano cut her off and turn to Charlie Gasparino three seconds sooner. (He really needs to get rid of the 3-person panel approach, which doesn’t allow for actual conversations, just talking point spewage.)
At this late date, should Mrs. Palin’s locution suddenly take a turn toward normalcy everyone will know her brain had been taken over by an inauthentic other.
So it would seem that as she’s stuck with herself, right along with her idiosyncratic speech patterns, so are we with her. We might as well be resigned to liking them, as two years of campaigning and eight years of Presidency is a long time to have to forebear any pain otherwise.
Remember Angelo Codevilla’s bifurcation? Palin can’t be one of the ruling class. Can’t be, doesn’t qualify. So America is poised to have her. Funny, innit?
Just like W. And she seems to be much stauncher in the stuff that actually matters than W. That’s more for happy’s edification than anything else.
Rape victims should never have worn that particular piece of clothing and these kids are probably to blame here also.
Have to always watch every thing you do, say, or are because you just might set off some insane, creepy, crank with an agenda and it will be all your fault.
W was bold and smart and good-hearted and he governed well and wisely in Texas without any quitty quitty drama Mr. OI
And never ever name your dog “boy” because you never know who’s going to be around when you need to call it.
In fact, it’s probably best to just shut up and eat your cupcake.
No he wasn’t Happyfeet. He was dumb and talked like a southern fried retard*. Bold? Yes, working with the jaundiced Kennedy to expand the very, very, very non staunchy dept of education was fucking bold as anything. And I really loved his bold use of the veto pen during his time in office, too. And he wasn’t being sued off of his ass like Palin as Governor. Plus, even if he was, he came from deep pockets. So he could have dealt with that in a way that the non-rich Palins couldn’t. And good hearted? Wait, Palin is a cum-slut hoochie for being against gay marriage and being anti-abortion, but Bush is “good hearted”? Dude, consistency isn’t your thing. Again is it sexism?
*Please, for many of the great southernors who read this blog, understand that is NOT my opinion. I was just channeling the idiot left and right who hated on Bush for the way he talked. That’s about as shallow as it gets.
I thought Bush was fine. NCLB was a spendy spendy mistake but it was done cause public education in many many places in America is a sad and cruel thing to inflict on children, and NCLB is a statist attempt to make schools accountable. But remember also Mr. Bush pressed vouchers indefatigably.
Frum hearts Gingrich.
Ouch, trouble in Newtville.
Gingrich isn’t so much a ‘has been’ as a ‘never was’. He had his chance to make a difference back in ’94, had all the cards stacked his way, and still blew it Big Time. It would be nice if he’d just STFU and go away, but no, he’s got to try to jump in front of the spotlight in some vain attempt to crawl back out of his well-deserved obscurity.
I vote for a gnarly ‘ol bois d’arc fence post, big end first, and leave the rusty barbed wire attached.