Anonymous
Post 11/17/2011 14:28     Subject: Next Up: Newt Gingrich
So now it looks like Newt made $1.8 million from Freddie Mac. He says it is for services as a "historian".

Millions of dollars for historical consulting???? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I don't know what he's smoking, but I want some.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2011 09:13     Subject: Re:Next Up: Newt Gingrich
Anonymous wrote:
I can see the Parthenon from my cabin!


I almost snorted coffee out my nose on that one. Excellent.

Don't do that! Michele Bachmann says that under Obamacare you will have to wait six months for nostril transplant surgery.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2011 07:49     Subject: Next Up: Newt Gingrich
Anonymous wrote:Go Newt! I've always thought he was the only plausible Republican candidate, and the only one I could vote for with enthusiasm (that excludes Romney) and without embarrassment (excludes everyone else). Unlike current Pres, he has vast experience and thus knows how our complex government works, and he has thought deeply about all of the major public policy issues i(you have to concede this, even if you don't agree with him). So I for one am hoping the trend continues.


That might have worked in the last election (oh, wait, but it didn't). But it's just silly to claim that the man who has been president for 3 years is inexperienced. Ineffective? Yes. Misguided? Perhaps. Inexperienced? Come on, you just make yourself look ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2011 07:47     Subject: Re:Next Up: Newt Gingrich
I can see the Parthenon from my cabin!


I almost snorted coffee out my nose on that one. Excellent.

Anonymous
Post 11/16/2011 07:46     Subject: Re:Next Up: Newt Gingrich
takoma wrote:
Anonymous wrote:gotta wonder why no normal politician wants to run. Possible answers:

1. The primary voters are so batshit crazy that they know it's hopeless to try
2. Obama is still tough to beat, and 2016 is a wide open race again with no good Dems
Or maybe they figure the economy will still be a drag in the next term and only the crazies are willing to get stuck with it.


Or they don't have the time, desire or moral flexibility to try to reinvent themselves are the ultra-conservative the tea party demands of the anti-Romney candidate. (I'm thinking specifically of Christie here.)
takoma
Post 11/15/2011 17:34     Subject: Re:Next Up: Newt Gingrich
Anonymous wrote:gotta wonder why no normal politician wants to run. Possible answers:

1. The primary voters are so batshit crazy that they know it's hopeless to try
2. Obama is still tough to beat, and 2016 is a wide open race again with no good Dems
Or maybe they figure the economy will still be a drag in the next term and only the crazies are willing to get stuck with it.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2011 15:53     Subject: Re:Next Up: Newt Gingrich
Anonymous wrote:does anyone have Jeb Bush's mobile #? please call him. yes the last name is poison, but he is smart and accomplished. a popular two-term governor of Florida who speaks fluent spanish ....


gotta wonder why no normal politician wants to run. Possible answers:

1. The primary voters are so batshit crazy that they know it's hopeless to try
2. Obama is still tough to beat, and 2016 is a wide open race again with no good Dems

Anonymous
Post 11/15/2011 11:41     Subject: Re:Next Up: Newt Gingrich
does anyone have Jeb Bush's mobile #? please call him. yes the last name is poison, but he is smart and accomplished. a popular two-term governor of Florida who speaks fluent spanish ....
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2011 23:45     Subject: Next Up: Newt Gingrich
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Post Style section had a great tidbit recently about Newt sipping champagne in a cafe while his wife shopped at Tiffany's. Any Democrat who lived like that would be raked over the coals by pitchfork-wielding Tea Baggers.


Newt said that his recent Greek cruise (the event that provoked his staff to quit) helped him learn about the Greek debt crisis.
You're joking! He had the gall to say that? You'd think he'd hope people would forget his little cruise crisis.

Wow, the Republican primary this year is the biggest circus of all time. It has morphed into a Mexican telanovela!


It sounds like a joke, but is not:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8802631-gingrich-on-rising-poll-numbers-this-is-a-wild-race

Gingrich said his vacation early in the summer to Greece, a controversial break from the campaign trail that contributed a mass resignation of staff in June, was instructive for him given the Greek economy's debt crisis.

"An observation strategically about where we are ... was very much influenced when I visited Greece in June and talked to people what they were faced with in Greece. And I listened to them," he said.


I can see the Parthenon from my cabin!
jsteele
Post 11/14/2011 22:17     Subject: Next Up: Newt Gingrich
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Post Style section had a great tidbit recently about Newt sipping champagne in a cafe while his wife shopped at Tiffany's. Any Democrat who lived like that would be raked over the coals by pitchfork-wielding Tea Baggers.


Newt said that his recent Greek cruise (the event that provoked his staff to quit) helped him learn about the Greek debt crisis.
You're joking! He had the gall to say that? You'd think he'd hope people would forget his little cruise crisis.

Wow, the Republican primary this year is the biggest circus of all time. It has morphed into a Mexican telanovela!


It sounds like a joke, but is not:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8802631-gingrich-on-rising-poll-numbers-this-is-a-wild-race

Gingrich said his vacation early in the summer to Greece, a controversial break from the campaign trail that contributed a mass resignation of staff in June, was instructive for him given the Greek economy's debt crisis.

"An observation strategically about where we are ... was very much influenced when I visited Greece in June and talked to people what they were faced with in Greece. And I listened to them," he said.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2011 22:04     Subject: Next Up: Newt Gingrich
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Post Style section had a great tidbit recently about Newt sipping champagne in a cafe while his wife shopped at Tiffany's. Any Democrat who lived like that would be raked over the coals by pitchfork-wielding Tea Baggers.


Newt said that his recent Greek cruise (the event that provoked his staff to quit) helped him learn about the Greek debt crisis.
You're joking! He had the gall to say that? You'd think he'd hope people would forget his little cruise crisis.

Wow, the Republican primary this year is the biggest circus of all time. It has morphed into a Mexican telanovela!
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2011 21:36     Subject: Next Up: Newt Gingrich
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Post Style section had a great tidbit recently about Newt sipping champagne in a cafe while his wife shopped at Tiffany's. Any Democrat who lived like that would be raked over the coals by pitchfork-wielding Tea Baggers.


Newt said that his recent Greek cruise (the event that provoked his staff to quit) helped him learn about the Greek debt crisis.


I'm sure they did an excursion to Parliament, where they had a very vigorous exchange facilitated by Julie, the cruise director. I wonder if he charged it to his campaign since it was a "business" trip.