Don't know how old you are, but I was an old enough as child to know when he and Dick Army (giggity) shat that turd all over the political landscape. My political self started forming in 4th grade, surprised my teacher with the political cartoon I made of Bush Sr. and his No New Taxes pledge at the time. I've smelled the evil on that man for most of my 36 years of life.

I'm pretty sure I'm older than you.... I well remember Grinch's bullshit when he was Speaker. But anymore I consider him a has-been who just says something edgy to get his name in the news, his 'influential' days are long gone.

i was thinking how bizarre the article was calling him influential as well

Thanks for two things.

One for the absolute bare minimum in decency and common sense which is sadly more than we can expect from the rest of the GOP

Two for seeing him referred to as "Grinch" in the third paragraph. I realize it was a typo in the posted article but sometimes those Freudian slips can speak the truth.

only serve to remind me that he usually doesn't.

I wish his opinion really did hold weight over yonder..........but I doubt it.

Who would have thought him capable of this. Of course, doubt he would say that if he was still an elected RW official.

This bloated sack of shit is now coming around after a bunch of straight white people get shot.

Excuse me... But fuck this guy to hell and back a thousand times over. This vile piece of shit has ridiculed Democrats who have argued for this for DECADES waving his patriotic 2nd amendment bullshit.

I fucking hate these people. Great that he is now coming along... But thinking back to all of the mass shootings, and the death and destruction that could have possibly been spared had him and his POS buddies not shit all over Democrats trying to enact any sort of gun control..... Seething.... I am just SEETHING with rage.

Fuck these people.

but am relieved to see I am not the only one. The GOP has turned into the most vile beings on the planet.

They are going to ruin this country and probably a great deal of the planet, because they can't stop their own madness. They will not listen and only once we are long past the time any reasonable person will act do they consider making some small change that is barely significant in comparison to what they could have changed. If only their greed would have allowed them to.

Don't you know that they're coming 'round to get you?
Standing right behind you their eyes are fixed on me, too
Can't you feel all dirt from their money?
The leather from their briefcase?
The chill from their cold cold hearts

When you let the gun companies and NRA lobbysts hand you the loophole weasel language that they know they can get around, bad things happen.

Believe it or not, some of us are not actually wanting to ruin the fun of these sportsmen but want to make it harder for a killer to have capabilities of killing. Write laws about the capabilities, not the specific technology.

Even our military uses automatic fire only as warning shots and use single fire when they actually want to shoot someone.

He's barely giving an inch, but still, it's something to see.

But you know what they say about broken clocks.

NOW the gop has to do something, since lard-ass adulterer Newticles is advocating gun control, He is sch an "intellectual" It AMAZES me how these gop disgraced pols are forced out of office, then act as though they left amid highly respected circumstances. He was forced out of the Speakership, yet acts as though he INVENTED government. Fugly roly poly ass. Did his third wife get that post in the Vatican, or did the pope reject having an adulterer in his midst?

aren't the same as flintlock muskets?

He was all over the airwaves for the primary and the election, he was trotted out to talk about how feelings were just as important as facts, he did all the shilling the GOP wanted him to do. I give it a few days at most before something on Twitter spreads to Breitbart and InfoWars that shows that Gingrich is a huge traitor to the GOP, he's a DNC operative, he's ignorant and misguided. He's bought and paid for by Hillary and Obama.

A week at the outside. If he doesn't walk those statements back.

They'll turn him out so fast, and then no one will trust him. Lord knows no one on the left has taken him seriously for... well... ever.

he's a GOP "nobody" who is just trying to provide "cover" to the GOP.

It's a classic tactic.

Have some worthless, former piece of shit with no power come out and say; "well, I'm for Gun Control", and the rest of the pricks that are in power can have a little cover.

Fuck Newt and the NRA Horse he road in on.

When Trump accepted the GOP nomination:

"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said. "Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safety will be restored."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017460000

There were two women in front of me, one 60'ish guy in front of me, and a younger fellow behind me. I got nothing to do, so I wait. Besides, I've been going to this barber for 30 years and I like to give her my business.

So everyone starts chatting about the Vegas horror, and everyone of these people were shocked that a single lunatic had the firepower to shoot what, six hundred people in about ten minutes?

The factoid that seemed to stick was that he sprayed over two hundred rounds down the hallway of his hotel in about 11 seconds. The young guy was like "Geez, that's like twenty shots a second". Also that he was 1700 feet away, which is pretty near cross town around here. If you got up on the water tower, you could hit anyone in town at 1700 feet

There is good reason the conservatives are saying "This is not the time to politicize this issue".