2012 GOP Presidential Campaign -- "This individual's going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time."

now Wall Street's confused.

McCain's campaign was 1.5m in debt at the end of 2007. after those primary wins in january, he ended up raising 75m in the first three months of 2008.

People will get in line behind Gingrich if he notches up primary wins.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gingrichflier-440x570.jpg

But we're five weeks away from Iowa and the current storyline is Mitt looking unhinged in a room full of juice bottles.

and a week ago it was "this individual's going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time"

GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich defended his stance against certain child labor laws during a campaign stop in Iowa Thursday, saying that children born into poverty aren’t accustomed to working unless it involves crime.

“Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed.

“They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal,” he added.

keep talkin Newt!

Plus w/o child labor laws we won't need to employ the illegals! Picking in the fields is a lot easier when you're three or feet tall so it's actually a humanitarian gesture.

http://images.politico.com/global/news/111201_romney_time_cover_400.jpg

because youre just not insane enough mittens

Good job, Newt--this will really keep the momentum going:

GINGRICH: “They are not going to be the nominee. I don’t have to go around and point out the inconsistencies of people who are not going to be the nominee. They are not going to be the nominee.”

TAPPER: “You are going to be the nominee?”

GINGRICH: “I’m going to be the nominee.”

So maybe this will play out like the Larry Sanders episode where Hank gets to guest-host.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPqhFUvo8E

man this is going to be awesome

seriously try watching this without repeatedly, aloud just hollering OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RenwNhL1Te0

why did no-one mention interracial marriage laws, here

oh man "they abide by the same laws as everyone else, they can marry a man or a woman" lololololol

hoping for a knock-down fight between romney and gingrich -- nasty, brutish and personal.

haven't we seen this already between Romney and Cain, Romney and Perry, Romney and Bachmann? What more can you want?

I can't believe Herman Cain's got his lawyer on Piers Morgan doing damage control. Would seem to be a little late--unless it's damage control meant for Mrs. Cain. ("I know Herman Cain...Everyone knows Herman Cain--except Mrs. Herman Cain.")

Even better--the guy's just ridiculous.

haven't we seen this already between Romney and Cain, Romney and Perry, Romney and Bachmann? What more can you want?

― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, December 2, 2011 1:55 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

I don't think anyone has come close to the venom and viciousness of attack that McCain, Thompson et al. mustered against Mitt in '08.

Perry's attacks were hapless.

haven't we seen this already between Romney and Cain, Romney and Perry, Romney and Bachmann? What more can you want?

all those "attacks" were hamfisted, bungled, or relatively congenial.

these two, however, have the skills to be really nasty to each other.

Everything's been exceptionally mild so far. Except for Perry's shrill Hail Mary over the Mitt's illegals, there's been basically nothing until these Paul and Huntsman ads of the past two days.

Take out "the"--I haven't started calling him "the Mitt," promise.

Pretty clever reader comment from TPM: Newt Gingrich + Mitt Romney = Knute Romney, All-American.

lmbo @ bachmann getting pwned by high school girls.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-drops-bombshell-past-201641043.html

a Dean scream from Donny Osmond

You're supposed to smoke cigarettes, Mitt, not eat them

Perry did 10 minutes of what basically amounted to "Aw, shucks" on Leno last night. He's back to calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, so I guess he's thrown in the towel.

lol, newt gingrich would turn white-house into an 'ideas factory'

Idea #1: Please shut up immediately until after the Iowa caucus!

Idea No. 2: all illegal immigrants must move to detroit, which will be otherwise emptied and turned into an internment camp, while we convene citizen counsels for individual "stay-or-go" trials for each one.

jonathan capehart is right: these comments by newt gingrich are really despicable. but i don't think they'll hurt him with base GOP voters.

An ideas factory, staffed w/ children

newt gingrich would turn white house into a "chocolate factory"

I'm seeing rumblings already that various socon types in Iowa are moving towards Santorum, but of course.

eventually all socons end up immersing themselves in santorum

for those who think romney is a really formidable general-election opponent, it's bad news for the non-romneys to keep splitting the not-romney vote. so now -- for many reasons -- i especially hate santorum.

What the fuck, Newt, don't you know that being an ideas factory is not a legitimate function of government?

I'm in panic mode today. It occurs to me that I'm rooting for a guy who's...a tad undisciplined. (I think it's funny beyond words that Newt thinks that congress right now is a good operational match for an "idea-factory" president.)

Interesting post:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/12/newts-appeal.html

Suggests that part of Newt's appeal is his gift for highfalutin language and the snarky jab. Conservatives delight at the thought of Newt taking the professorial Obama down a peg.

Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.

Newt's flameout is going to be spectacular

*MJpopcorn.gif*

Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.

not with the base, i'll bet.

Indies decide elections, and in the general election Gingrich will collapse.

in a general-election v. obama? oh, gingrich will be crushed.

Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.

You see, I think he's just so focussed on job creation and what's going to get America moving again, he sometimes gets ahead of himself.

The ideas flow freely.

Gingrich: The New Bob Dole

Indies decide elections, and in the general election Gingrich will collapse.

^^^

can't imagine a lot of women flocking to Newtie's campaign, for ex.

Now there's a guy who I bet is not a big Newt fan. (xpost)

You've got to check this awesome list:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/fundamentally-newt-gingrichs-favorite-word.html