Even better--the guy's just ridiculous.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
Perry's attacks were hapless.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
all those "attacks" were hamfisted, bungled, or relatively congenial.
these two, however, have the skills to be really nasty to each other.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Take out "the"--I haven't started calling him "the Mitt," promise.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty clever reader comment from TPM: Newt Gingrich + Mitt Romney = Knute Romney, All-American.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
lmbo @ bachmann getting pwned by high school girls.
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-drops-bombshell-past-201641043.html
― furnace mane, Friday, 2 December 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
a Dean scream from Donny Osmond
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
You're supposed to smoke cigarettes, Mitt, not eat them
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 2 December 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol, newt gingrich would turn white-house into an 'ideas factory'
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
Idea #1: Please shut up immediately until after the Iowa caucus!
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
An ideas factory, staffed w/ children
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 2 December 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
newt gingrich would turn white house into a "chocolate factory"
― Hunt3r, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm seeing rumblings already that various socon types in Iowa are moving towards Santorum, but of course.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
eventually all socons end up immersing themselves in santorum
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
What the fuck, Newt, don't you know that being an ideas factory is not a legitimate function of government?
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Newt's flameout is going to be spectacular
*MJpopcorn.gif*
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
not with the base, i'll bet.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Indies decide elections, and in the general election Gingrich will collapse.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
in a general-election v. obama? oh, gingrich will be crushed.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
The ideas flow freely.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Gingrich: The New Bob Dole
― Aimless, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
can't imagine a lot of women flocking to Newtie's campaign, for ex.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Now there's a guy who I bet is not a big Newt fan. (xpost)
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
You've got to check this awesome list:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/fundamentally-newt-gingrichs-favorite-word.html
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
ezraklein Ezra Klein -- Buy buy buy RT @DavMicRot: Steady downward trend for Romney finally pushes him below 50% yhoo.it/tM3wrZ
BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BYE BYE
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
For all my heartfelt Newt-love, this does say a lot: I wouldn't even consider putting down anything more than fifty on him.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'm fundamentally nervous every time he speaks.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
fundamentally out of touch with the reality of the real world
d/n plz
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm...
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
not going to hurt him.
look, i don't think newt gingrich will win the nomination. i still think romney will. but it's a slight feeling, and i wouldn't be surprised to see gincrich win. to me, it will be a function of two things: (a) does newt -- like the anti-romneys before him -- implode; and (b) will the other non-romneys drop out of the race in time for it to become a clean "romney v. non-romney" choice. if things fall into place, gingrich can win the nomination, and the timing for a non-romney to gain crucial momentum is better now than it has been in months (i.e., less time for newt to screw it up before he hits a key state -- south carolina -- where romney likely isn't that strong).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
“He can be a historic president,” Graham adds. “If he has matured as a person and is, for lack of a better word, calmed down, I think he could really motivate the country to do big things.”
lol
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
^^ That's pretty gentle, as NRO attacks go. The Tom Coburn quote, calling him a whipped dog who cowered before Clinton, is a nice touch.
― Aimless, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
for Lindsay to be more insulting would be unladylike
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
haha, i like this description of rick perry by romney's chief campaign strategist in today's hilariously titled NYT mag article, Building a Better Mitt Romney-bot:
to Stevens, Rick Perry brings to mind the townies in the early scenes of “The Deer Hunter” who go loping into Vietnam expecting to kick butt
exactly
― Z S, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kgnL5Py4tj6n.oEMCdKs8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/greta-cain.jpg
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
is the one on the right Greta in blackface
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
the one on the right is Greta in mustacheface
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
that hat looks stupid.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
I actually thought GVS was pretty good on CNN through the O.J. trial. That was the first I'd ever seen her; I don't get Fox News, so I've never seen her since. I take it she's typically awful.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link