If he could cut out Romney's heart on a public stage, hold it over his head while screaming victoriously, and then eat it, he would.

Such raw hatred! Such furious anger! And what incredible hyperbole!

This dull "clown car" race is starting to get fun...!

...and her guy joined Congress in the same class as Newt, in '78. Here's how the guy described him at the time (paraphrased): "...He's really brilliant, but he has no sense of humor and he's crazy as a loon."

I forget the name of the congressman, but I think it might have been Martin Sabo.

Love the description!!!

She was invited to the floor for a joint session when the PM of South Korea (or somebody) spoke to them. This was before Newt was speaker. She sat right behind him and has always regretted that she did not have a hat pin.

great job of pissing people off on both sides of the aisle.

Such a charmer!

Otherwise, what are they going to do? Team up and give Willard a wedgie?

it isn't as if people can be given the choice between mittens and not-mittens (and the latter meaning all but one of the not-mittens have to drop out.) i'm pretty sure i can guess who each would chose to be the not-mittens, which brings us back to what is happening now, a nominating process between multiple candidates. so what the fuck is he talking about?

...New Hampshire.

My favorite Star Trek movie

The whole STIIWoK quote was: "He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up!"

was an homage to Moby Dick and Tale of Two Cities.

to be an epic battle, worthy of classic literary treatment!

The entertainment industry will probably start showing interest shortly. Hollywood may take an option on the story by the end of January!
SG

OMG, look at his hair!

as cold as they get

Does he really think that he would have a chance in hell of winning the GE if he were the Republican nominee? Who, other than the very conservative, would vote for him?

which is why he dropped even the pretense of civility. I suspect that he is motivated primarily by hatred at this point. Now, I think the majority of things included in the anti-Gingrich ads were pretty much things that were public. They are not lies, just not chacterized as Gingrich wants. He clearly blames Romney for his fall from the top - though it started BEFORE the ads, with the reaction of his former peers and his outlandish proposals.

I suspect that, in addition to hatred, I suspect that he thinks if he engineers a convalescence of all the anti Romney vote behind one guy and he wins that Gingrich will be in the Cabinet.

What is stunning is that while many politicians are said to never forget a slight or transgression that Newt is so public with this and so vengeful.

I know what you mean though, and I agree. I think that for a short while I will make Newt my champion, I want him to be very succesful in his effort at wounding Romney as much as possible.

or "coalescence."


rocktivity

I do similar things all the time when I type in a hurry, words "coalesce" in my mind and what appears on the screen sometimes is really funny (or really difficult to comprehend).

I think it will backfire and help Romney. I suspect that Newt is so much a loose cannon now that he will not do anything effective and it will lead to either sympathy for Romney or the idea that he was "tested by fire" when he really wasn't. Not to mention it distracts from the fact that Romney, in spite of a clean image, is the one with the nasty attacks on the others - done with plausible (sort of) deniability.

Seriously, if he were in his right mind and really wanted to destroy Mitt, he would not have announced his intention and he would have tried to be somewhat covert in doing what he was doing. In fact, one way to have hit Romney would have been to have - as best he could - spoken against what the ads said and continued to hit Romney for having all this negativity against others coming from him. The timing would then have put Romney in somewhat of a box. If he then, as he likely will, have had his people attack Santorum, you could then define Romney as the one with the dirty tricks - like Nixon, and the two Bushes. (Note not Reagan, the beloved President of the Republicans.)

This could hurt a man already justifiably seen as not likable. Throw in that he already was caught doing an obviously unfair ad of Obama that he got called on.

There is a spell check in this new thing? Where?

I don't think DU itself has one.

not screaming but encouraging gingrich and taking credit for getting santorum 'win' because santorum evoked limbaugh to surge despite usual warnings from pol consultants not to so they didn't alienate the indies and moderates (pol consultants know limbaugh's worth is in unchallenged messaging and swiftboating, not endorsement).

he brought up mccain and limbaugh senses again he can play a big part like he did forcing mccain to take palin in exchange for getting him on board.

limbaugh can backtrack and rationalize any hypocrisy and could get on board with romney later if they give him VP but he's really going further than if rove was still in charge holding him back.

general election against an incumbent President. First of all, he makes this announcement of an alliance with Santorum without apparently discussing it with Santorum. How stupid is that? Santorum is likely holding on to the hope of being the VP selection (Probably a long shot but nevertheless - fact based reasoning is not a strong suit for Santorum). In any case, he has nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain by publicly rebuffing Newt. I predict this will happen. Clearly the only person who really benefits from this Newt temper tantrum is President Obama.

Newt HATES losing.

Newt Hates. Period.

He is seething with it.

He I steeped in loathing, awash in
abhorrence , and marinated in malice.

The only reason that he eschewed negative ads in the first place was so that he could
appear more righteous for the self righteous un-Christian right.

This is the chance for him to reveal his unnatural nature.

and I (almost) love him for it . It just shows that all he cares about is himself, more precisely his pathologically inflated ego. He is smart and if he stopped to think for a moment aboput the implications and if he cared about the implications, he would not do it. GO NEWT!!!

you get the idea.

and we don't want newt.

You gotta love it! GO NEWT!

I hope u or sanatorium knock off Mittens cause either one of you idiot teabaggers would be much easier for the democrats to defeat!

except R*n P**l.

St. Ronnie is rolling in his grave. I'm dancing.

Romney was supposed to be the anointed one. The Republican establishment wants Romney to be the
nominee so bad, you can taste it. I have CNBC on in the background at work ALL DAY--and every single
corporatist, one-percenter CEO wants to suck on Romney's toes (gross I know, but you should hear all of
their Romney-worshipping, it's sick).

So, along comes Santorum--doing well in the Iowa caucus and suddenly Newt Gingrich is on fire with rage against
Romney.

Oh the establishment! What will they do? They certainly didn't anticipate this.

You know what this reminds me of? The Jurassic Park movie--where those self-absorbed lawyers and business tycoons
thought they could breed velociraptors and control them all inside fences within an amusement park. You can't control
wild, crazy, nut job politicians--any more than you can contain bloodthirsty dinosaurs!

Oh look! Here's Newt having a Romneyasauras snack! (Seriously...Newt is going to have an rage aneurysm. The man
needs a spa day).

Your compassion humbles me! Newt needs spa day, but spa days don't glisten like diamonds when you buy em. I think for someone like Newt, life is really about getting stuff.

and more flushed and splotchy, not healthy at all. Bad sign--his BP must be at astronomical levels.

Let's hope that aneurysm holds off just long enough for him to carry out his scorched-earth campaign on Mitt!
Go Newt Go! SG

P.S. Love that visual--Newt as T-Rex. LOL!

Edit: spelling

Or will you simply settle for being the next Karl Rove?


rocktivity

What a pathetic loser this one is. Go Newt! I haven't been able to indulge in this much schadenfraude for a long time.

if the McCain/Palin ticket had won.


rocktivity

A well-paid position in which he doesn't have to do anything would be just up his alley.

A pay-off for getting his face off the TV.

No doubt a sufficient sum of money will be handed over to him to keep his wife in jewels and cruises for a few months -- and then the election will be over -- and he and the Republican Party will move on.

Some men promise their young wives a house, some the moon -- Gingrich no doubt promised a First-Lady-Ship.

Well, we all face disappointments.

It would have been much tougher for the Gingrich's had he won Iowa. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Romney is the inevitable 2012 Republican candidate. This is a year in which Republicans will probably lose. Rove and his buddies want to make sure that the Republican who loses is a "moderate," not a conservative, and above all not a representative of the Religious Right -- because Rove knows that the only reason an ordinary person would vote for a Republican is if he or she thinks that God wants him to.

Romney, a Mormon, is being set up to take the blame for the Republican loss in 2012. That is how I see it.

Newt will not cause waves. Wealthy Republicans will make sure of that.

They would be laughing their asses off. If Newt is successful, this could be a vicious, bloody battle over delegates that would make the 1972 Democratic primary look like a friendly card came.

He doesn't realize HOW over he really is...

.... you get some sense of what a small minority Romney really represents.


Maybe we can have them all surgically attached to defeat him...

Like "Human Centipede" perhaps....

oooh, scary!

Bring the Reptilian Party to its knees. Please Newt... Please!

In case anyone here has forgotten what that whole impeachment thing was about. Romney's just the latest Clinton surrogate, unless you consider that Clinton himself was probably a surrogate for whatever bullies used to kick Newt's ass back when he was 13 years old.

So now he's out to fuck up Mitt Romney, despite Romney being the most palatable Republican candidate out there. I think there's a little masochist running around in Newt's psyche, telling him "Hey, superego, let's go shopping at Tiffany's while we're campaigning i Charleston next week! No one'll care and we can feel like winners again for a while!"

Unless The Romney Alliance Makes Him A Better Offer




rocktivity

I am willing to bet that Newt wants top billing and is willing to use anyone to get in the White House.

I don't think I want to know what that means.

That didn't hit me till you wrote it.

when it comes right down to it they will still close ranks if it means hurting Obama and or the democrats because thats really all they care about regardless of the pain and suffering their actions might cause to America and its people.

Newt is a hoot!

He should register the name "Anyone B. Romney" with "B" standing for "but".

it means that corporate America does not trust Mittens. That means in the general, they may abandon him and start working on 2016, since to them, that would be better than 4-8 years of Mittens followed by the inevitable Democratic backlash president.

Romney better learn to kiss Koch Brothers ass if he wants to win.

in tight-fitting spandex superhero outfits with AMA emblazoned on the chest.....





Now WHERE did I put that gd brain bleach!!?!?!!!?

....right on, Newt!

....stop that rich Mormon, Newter that rich Mormon, show no mercy!

He's riding on Santorum tails if you will.

Newt is far too stupid to ever pull anything off... I want to play poker with this idiot.

What next? Ron Paul races Rick Perry through an obstacle course to get an immunity idol?

I think that is a sound political decision and will greatly add to the overall tenor and quality of debate going on in the Republican Party.