No more Texas governors for president
Mitt Romney is a liar, but please vote for him anyway!
Thank you Newt.
(via guardiancomment)
Re: this.
Or at least this one doesn’t.
![theatlantic:
The Worst Racial Demagogues of the Last Decade
Given his insistence that invoking identity is needlessly divisive, Newt Gingrich is certainly a hypocrite. This is a guy who says the best way to understand Obama is through the prism of his alleged Kenyan anti-colonialism; a guy who says that American Muslims shouldn’t be able to build mosques in Manhattan until Saudi Arabia permits churches on its territory; someone who thinks the widespread conservative belief that Obama is a Muslim is both something Obama ought to be embarrassed about (apparently he thinks there’s something wrong with being a Muslim) and that the rumor is Obama’s fault!
It would be one thing if Limbaugh and Gingrich were jeered by fellow conservatives for their long-running forays into racial demagoguery. Instead the prevailing attitude is something like “turnabout is fair play.” Ask a conservative why they don’t call these guys out. The answer is often, “but Al Sharpton is worse.” Even if that were true, the fact that somewhere a liberal is behaving badly hardly justifies the behavior of their conservative analogues; but the uncomfortable truth conservatives refuse to face is that Sharpton’s low point happened two decades ago. Look at the past decade. Limbaugh and Gingrich are the bigger racial demagogues today.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1k013F27Q1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Worst Racial Demagogues of the Last Decade
Given his insistence that invoking identity is needlessly divisive, Newt Gingrich is certainly a hypocrite. This is a guy who says the best way to understand Obama is through the prism of his alleged Kenyan anti-colonialism; a guy who says that American Muslims shouldn’t be able to build mosques in Manhattan until Saudi Arabia permits churches on its territory; someone who thinks the widespread conservative belief that Obama is a Muslim is both something Obama ought to be embarrassed about (apparently he thinks there’s something wrong with being a Muslim) and that the rumor is Obama’s fault!
It would be one thing if Limbaugh and Gingrich were jeered by fellow conservatives for their long-running forays into racial demagoguery. Instead the prevailing attitude is something like “turnabout is fair play.” Ask a conservative why they don’t call these guys out. The answer is often, “but Al Sharpton is worse.” Even if that were true, the fact that somewhere a liberal is behaving badly hardly justifies the behavior of their conservative analogues; but the uncomfortable truth conservatives refuse to face is that Sharpton’s low point happened two decades ago. Look at the past decade. Limbaugh and Gingrich are the bigger racial demagogues today.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
Newt gave the etch-a-sketch to a kid in the front row and said, “You can now be a presidential candidate.”
— @GingerGibsonThat’s not a metaphor, just a thing that happened.
Oh, fer cryin’ out loud, Newt. Talk about a nontroversy.
Newt Gingrich
-Headline of the Day-
“Gingrich says actor Robert De Niro’s racially themed first lady joke ‘inexcusable.’”
At a New York fundraiser, famed juggler and Marilyn Monroe impersonator Robert De Niro made the introduction for First Lady Michelle Obama. It was a…
Welcome to “Stories to Watch” — brought to you by Barney’s Butt-Crack Balm and the Syrian Tourism Board. Now here’s the news…
John McCain thinks it’s unfair that President Obama would be mean to people who want to charge headlong into war with Iran. Keep in mind that this is a guy who’s…
And nobody helps him, heh.
Newt Gingrich’s campaign bus breaks down in West Hollywood.
You may commence laughter and mockery now.
(Photo: Twitter user @ImChrisHughes via KPCC radio)
12 Valentines from Presidential Candidates
If there’s anything these guys know about, it’s meaningful relationships and connecting with other human beings.
Sign me up on the Adele bandwagon! ;)
During a commercial break at the 2012 Grammy Awards, pop singer Adele sings a new version of her Grammy-winning hit “Someone Like You” trashing Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
Saturday Night Live’s Mitt Romney Primary opening.
A very good question - Did Romney EVER have mojo?
Howard Kurtz takes an interesting look at why the GOP is continuing to push for anyone-but-Romney as their 2012 candidate. One question remains: Did Romney EVER have mojo?
An excerpt:
Romney is still the likely nominee, of course, but these and other GOP analysts are saying for the first time that Santorum has a shot. They see him as having eclipsed Newt Gingrich, whose fortunes have sagged since his brief, shining moment in South Carolina.
Given that Romney was coming off solid wins in Florida and Nevada, his vote totals on Tuesday were stunningly weak, even if social conservatives form the backbone of the electorate in the three states.
As Ron Brownstein points out in National Journal, Romney got 25,900 votes in winning the Minnesota caucuses four years ago; this time, in finishing third, he won only 8,090. The same pattern held in the Colorado caucuses, which Romney won last time with 42,218 votes; on Tuesday he finished second with 22,875. And he drew just over a third as many votes in Missouri’s beauty contest as in 2008.
With Newt claiming he’s taking this to the convention, it’s looking less like a primary cycle, and more like the GOP’s last stand.
