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Gingrich? Seriously?

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Nobody has accused Cain of sexual molesting. Except you. I would assume you have some evidence... or more correctly, I would assume that if any believable person made that claim.
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The lady accuser said Cain reached for her genitals.
How could you miss that, it was in all the papers?
 
MaGZ said:
The lady accuser said Cain reached for her genitals.
How could you miss that, it was in all the papers?
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That's called "assault". It isn't molestation unless he grabbed them and did something with them, not to mention that "molestation" is almost always in reference to an underage victim. By all accounts, he never actually touched her genitals. How could you miss that?
 
But is there anything to suggest this will be sustained and not just another 'anyone-but-Romney' surge?

I'd say there is some grounds to believe it will be sustained, simply because the grinch has more substance than the other three (Bachmann, Cain, Perry) and thus prevents the 'what the hell were we thinking' from Republican votes when they realise their latest flavour of the month can't tie their own shoelaces.
 
Even in disgrace, that pasty-faced blob has been keeping his name charged up and ready to roll as a pundit. His web presence is overwhelming. In association with the Coulter critter, he has been positioning himself with the far right as some sort of "cultural warrior."

A good enough propoganda push can make the sort of dimwit who thinks that a shift farther to the right is a good idea forget that he had been chased out of Washington by his own party when he became too much a disgrace even by their low ethical standards.

Unthinking partisans have a short memory span, so it would not surprise me if he is successful at sweeping his past sleaziness under the rug.
 
I think it is that the field is so very weak.

Neither Romney nor Gingrich are particularly electable.

Romney is going to have a problem with the Mormon thing. Especially with that Musical making the charts now.

Gingrich has history. I can mine a TV vault and come up with dozens of attack ads with only his words in them.
 
Gingrich has a new strategy. Basically he's assuming he's going to be nominated and will no longer address the other Republican candidates, but is only worried about Obama.

Let's see if he can withstand the piling on.
 
I just cannot see Newt as a national- level candidate. He has so much personal baggage that even were he to be nominated, much of the Republican base might simply stay home.

The all-important"independent" voters....Difficult to see them cozying up to Newt either, he's just too prickly and mean-spirited.
I think that when serious campaigning begins, an awful lot of folks will say, "Well, that Obama....Maybe he's not THAT bad...."
 
Looks like ol' Newtie has been lying again. He said that his first wife asked for the divorce but...

"Newt Gingrich filed a divorce complaint on July 14, 1980, in Carroll County, saying that "the marriage of the parties is irretrieably (sic) broken."

"Jackie Battley Gingrich, the congressman's wife and the mother of Jackie Gingrich Cushman, responded by asking the judge to reject her husband's filing."

And yes, the stories about him being so chintzy that the church had to take up money to feed her family are true.

"Despite repeated notice to plaintiff and requests by defendant, plaintiff has failed and refused to voluntarily provide reasonable support sufficient to include payment of usual and normal living expenses, including drugs, water, sewage, garbage, gas, electric and telephone service for defendant and the minor children," she said in court documents. "As a result, many of such accounts are two or three months past due with notices of intent to cut off service and gas and electricity."

Gingrich has repeatedly described these allegations as innacurate, but now the court documents show that is is he that has been lying.

"Gingrich has admitted he has not led a perfect life and has at times had to go to God for forgiveness."

If you want forgiveness, Newt, STOP LYING. Be a man and own up to your past instead of trying to shift the blame.
 
At this point I think his campaign is irretrebiably broken.
 
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BenBurch said:
I think it is that the field is so very weak.

Neither Romney nor Gingrich are particularly electable.

Romney is going to have a problem with the Mormon thing. Especially with that Musical making the charts now.

Gingrich has history. I can mine a TV vault and come up with dozens of attack ads with only his words in them.
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[rank speculation]The powers behind the GOP curtain don't want a principled candidate. They only want those who have shown either a lack of autonomous thought and action with an air of leadership capability or someone who is corrupt (corruptible). If that were true then this is the field of candidates you would get. The problem is that you can't always depend on the general public to swallow every cynical attempt to run the country counter to the best interests of the electorate. Democracy can be a bitch for plutocrats at times. Especially when the rank and file forget their part in the play.[/rank speculation]
 
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The GOP can't find anyone else? Romney represents the corporations and Gingrich lobbies for the corporations. Ringer for Obama
 
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Now that was weird. I responded to a post in another thread and the response disappeared. I come here and find the missing response to something unrelated. Okay, that's enough Vicodin.
 
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chuck4842 said:
The GOP can't find anyone else? ...
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There is one and only one way that a candidate not now in the race gets the nod; A floor fight. Remember that you are voting for delegates, not candidates. Many RNC delegates are un-pledged, and if nobody got a majority on the first vote, you could roll the dice.

ETA: Would make great television. If they then went on to pick the right guy (who?) they might have quite a support surge.
 
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Newt Gingrich: The Democratic Process Is a Terrible Act of War

Newt Gingrich will not be on the Virginia primary ballot, because he was having too much fun running for President on the teevee to be bothered to run for President in real life and hand in on time the 10,000 signatures that the state requires to qualify. A lower mind might attribute such a problem to organizational failure and shoddy management skills, but where is the sense of delusional victimhood in that? Right. BORING. The more likely explanation is that Virginia is like Japan, and they are doing a Pearl Harbor on Newt by not letting him on the ballot against the rules, for fascism.
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Cleon said:
I really don't think that's a fair criticism; Gingrich is saying that he got a sucker-punch with Virginia's decision, but they'll find a way to keep going to what he laughingly thinks will be victory. He's not calling them fascists or saying it's an act of war.

Dammit, I need a shower now.
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It's just snark. Not meant to be taken too literally.

ETA: This is Wonkette's standard approach to everything. Snark it up!

Here's another post on the same blog:

Fancy Old Man In Bejeweled Golden Hat Warns of ‘Christmas Glitter’

A creepy old priest-king clad in Prada slippers, flowing robes of silken embroidery and an enormous bejeweled golden hat warned Christians that the true meaning of Christmas was being lost to a sinful pursuit of “glitter.”
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