Tag Archives: Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich’s campaign team failed to file the paperwork necessary to have his name appear on Missouri’s primary ballot in February. Does it matter? Maybe. Missouri’s primary is a “beauty contest,” meaning that no delegates will be awarded. The state Republican Party will hold caucuses in March for that purpose. However, Missouri is a major state, and the nonbinding contest …

Online swag merchandiser Cafe Press tracks the sales of items bearing the names of politicians. According to a press release issued this weekend, items branded with Herman Cain’s name are no longer selling well. Gingrich-related items (what would those be?) are seeing a slight uptick. Cafe Press says their sales tracking accurately predicted the 2008 election.

Newt Gingrich has a plan to put America’s children back to work. Because child labor laws are outrageous. “You say to somebody, you shouldn’t go to work before you’re what, 14, 16 years of age, fine. You’re totally poor. You’re in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. I’ve tried for years to have a very …

He’d clearly been saving this line all night.

In one of the most snort-worthy lies ever vomited up by the GOP, Newt Gingrich is claiming that he was paid $1.6M by Freddie Mac to act as a historian. And not to peddle his influence as a lobbyist. I offered advice. My advice as an historian when they walked in and said we are now making loans to people …

Newt Gingrich’s polling numbers continue to surge as the rest of the GOP presidential field continues to self-destruct. Today’s graph is from the highly-regarded Public Policy Polling. Although a fair amount of skepticism remains about the recent allegations against Cain there is no doubt they are taking a toll on his image- his net favorability is down 25 points over …

“I wish I knew that he was willing to listen to my advice, I would have given him some: I would have told him not to impeach Clinton, I would have told his successors not to go to war with Iraq, and I would have told DeLay not to go on the dance show. He’s been having a bad year, …

“I think this [gay marriage] is a temporary aberration that will dissipate. I think that it is just fundamentally goes against everything we know.” – Newt Gingrich, who would like remind you that marriage is between one man and one woman whom you abandon riddled with cancer on her hospital bed while you fuck the shit out of your next …

And the soldier’s a douchebag too.(Via – Think Progress)

Almost all of Newt Gingrich’s campaign staff walked off the job yesterday. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s campaign manager, senior strategists and key aides in early delegate-selection states all resigned on Thursday, a mass exodus that leaves his hopes of winning the Republican nomination in tatters. Rick Tyler, Gingrich’s spokesman, said he, campaign manager Rob Johnson and senior strategists had …

Newt Gingrich has recorded the below commercial endorsing the law school at Dead Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, where students are given failing or bad grades if they fail to cite “God’s law” as having precedence over American civil laws. Like that one against kidnapping.

SRSLY. That’s his ringtone.

Defender of marriage, vicious gay rights opponent, Christian theocracy advocate, and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich will officially announce his run for the GOP nomination this Wednesday.

Fox News has terminated its contracts with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in anticipation of their presidential campaigns. The network had suspended the pair in early March. Mr. Santorum filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission this week to officially explore a campaign for the nomination. He was set to participate in a debate in Greenville, S.C., Thursday night hosted …