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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewt : "I can think of nothing more despicable"??? I can.
Oh how DARE John King ask Newt about THE news story of the day. Newt of course went belligerent a$$hole and played victim all at the same time.
"I can think of nothing more dispicable"??? I can. The hospital divorce of the first wife. The open marriage request to his recently MS diagnosed second wife (who he cheated on while his first wife was sick) and when she said no he asked for a divorce on the phone ....while she was visiting her sick mother.
Newt is the modern architect of using the media to go negative on not just a single person but an entire ideology (see his collaboration of action words with Frank Luntz).
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)He has the biggest balls in politics.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)He *thinks he's entitled to* so many women. Not cause of the size of his balls but cause he's an arrogant self centered jackass.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)Warned against his tendency to self-glorification, Gingrich reacted to his amazing revival by modestly comparing himself to Reagan, Thatcher, and the founders of Walmart and McDonalds.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/286068/gingrich-gestalt-mark-steyn?pg=2
He left out Don Juan and Errol Flynn.
underpants
(182,276 posts)meaning that the place is teaming with mid-20's all super motivated alpha types (that is how they got there) looking to "network" and "mentors".
There is nothing about Newt that ever made him stand out in a crowd other than power and being on TV.
The class of 1994 - the Republican Revolution - saw something like 24 marriages dissolve once the first timers got to DC. It was flat out PARTY TIME. This wasn't just the men either, the career wives who posed for the pictures and slummed at the county fair saw the crowd around them and said, "See ya later honey" and hit the scene. Joe Scarborough is a perfect example of this. He and the wife that did the campaign with him split from each other as fast as they could. The met back up to sign the divorce papers.
DC is a world of young upwards and people glamming on to them to take the ride up. Go to the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City - the bar is like a grocery store for everyone.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)but the personality type... some people just think they're entitled to live by a different set of rules, cause they're just that special and awesome. I don't have a problem with people who are honest with their partners about open relationships, but newt's sleaziness was dishonest. It's the jackasses that betray people over and over again... out of pure selfishness/narcissism.
underpants
(182,276 posts)"This emotionally and physically repugnant man, who on his best day, places in a Dwight Schrute lookalike contest -- and who, on his worst day, rampages through the city of New York -- has somehow, somehow Jon, like a Judo master -- channeled his weaknesses into strengths. And has been cutting a f--king path through America that Warren Beatty would find daunting," said Oliver.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/daily-show-newt-gingrich-dwight-schrute-283544
JHB
(37,131 posts)It's not really anything new, but he's the one who made it acceptable in Washington, simply because it got results.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)But he has honed his sense of timing. He saw Romney flipping and flopping around that stage last night like a freshly-landed salmon, and decided to throw red meat to a crowd that was far more prone to showing it's reaction than any I've observed at the debates. He senses that he's the one who's up and coming, and he wants to show the crowd what they'd get in a debate between him and Obama versus the lackluster performance they'd get from Mittens in a debate with the President.
My prediction: He works into a virtual tie with Romney, and asks Santorum to split before Florida.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Also, he is painfully lacking in self-awareness. If Newt had any self-awareness at all he'd know that he is far more despicable than any question that could ever be asked of him.
Alas, his self reflections run no deeper than, 'I want'.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)was scripted. No way the question was a surprise to him. I mean, he had a range of ways to respond; ask for forgiveness, try to deflect, deny, etc. He chose "attack the messenger". Conservatives are so funny. They used to slobber all over themselves about military service and medals- until John Kerry showed up. They used to LOVE venture capitalists and big business- until they had to chop Romney down. They used to love "sanctity of marriage" - until it is convenient not to.
deacon
(5,967 posts)aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)What really galls me about that whole little episode is that those people in the audience, who were cheering Gingrich, were the same people who were screaming for Bill Clinton's head on a pike when they found out he got a blow job from an intern. They're the same people who were fine with Gingrich's nasty-ass mother publicly calling Hillary Clinton a "bitch". Remember that one? But, God help anyone who says anything the least bit negative about the wives of any rethug wife.
deacon
(5,967 posts)KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)Firstly, I had real troubles feeling the least bit sorry for John King...a man who rivals Leslie Blitzer in using rushpublican talking points as their main line of "questioning". He had his nose so far up georgie booosh's behind that he came out booooshie's belly button. Gnewt is right when he looks at King and blames him for some of the "thunderdome" aspect that our politics have taken...especially the rushpublicans.
Cadrich has no shame...only a massive ego and the unending need for power, but the wingnuts couldn't clap louder for him. But then these are the same crowds that applauded adultery and greed. The myopia is almost as amazing as the absolute arrogance and ignorance of not only these candidates and the audience but King and his Chicken Noodle Nuze "journalists". Last night reminded me why I gave up watching CNN years ago and why they're the armpit of cable news.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Sparkly
(24,141 posts)What a jerk.
sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)spanone
(135,635 posts)he knows it's his last stand
underpants
(182,276 posts)"food stamps" - we both know what that means to them.
The first standing ovation stunk of staging to me, but then we know that they are all about staging.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)underpants
(182,276 posts)you know damned well that their marriage is on the rocks if he doesn't win. Win it all I mean.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)....but himself.