Please help me out DUers

[malaise]

How does someone who was kicked out of the House of Representatives for Ethics Violations run for president?

[TheWraith]

1. Very arrogantly. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

2. IOKIYAR n/t

[tblue37]

7. HaHa, BumRushDaShow. We posted the IOKIYAR comment at precisely the same moment: 9:33! nt

[BumRushDaShow]

9. 'Cause we know the deal!!

[tblue37]

3. As a Republican--because IOKIYAR. nt

[femmocrat]

4. He is counting on voters having short memories.

We can't let him get away with that! Unleash the dogs now.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "We can't let him get away with that!"

The Democrats don't have to do a thing. Santorum and Romney and their respective supporters will now spend millions upon millions to remind the voters about the REAL Gingrich!

The Democrats need to save their money and start building up the congressional and senatorial war chests.

[baldguy]

5. How does a guy who thinks $350,000 is "a little money"

and made his fortune putting Americans out of work & destroying their lives run for president?

Same answer: He runs as a Republican, obviously.

[jberryhill]

6. By putting his name on the ballot.

To be president one must:

1. Be at least 35.

2. Have lived in the US for 14 years prior

3. Be a natural born citizen.

Do you have any other questions?

[malaise]

12. I want to know how you can be kicked out of one branch of government

for Ethics Violations and then run for President. Something is wrong with that.

[jberryhill]

14. The Constitution of the United States requires three things

I listed them above, count them. I can count higher than Rick Perry.

[Ecumenist]

32. Malaise...

Yes, indeed, there is!!

[RKP5637]

10. Just run as a republican and it'll be OK, and if that doesn't work just

say you've found god and you've been forgiven. That'll be a guarantee.

That aside, it's damn strange, isn't it ... kicked our by your own people for Ethics Violations and they want you as president ...

[malaise]

11. It's unfuggingbelievable

plus he has tax issues, he was a lobbyist, there are questions about his Tiffanys set up and haven't even mentioned the wives, the open marriage or the rest of scumbag deals.

Something is wrong with this madness

[niyad]

15. madness--that is the explanation

[sad sally]

17. Makes our system look really stupid and bad, huh? And voters who support him even worse.

“The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House’s 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker with ethical wrongdoing.” (The Washington Post, 1/22/97)

[Zalatix]

23. It's up to the Democrats to hammer Gingrich on this. Relentlessly.

[RKP5637]

28. +!000 +++

[malaise]

33. I agree

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. He walks on water

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68547.html

[southernyankeebelle]

13. Only in the republican party can a person get away with that.

[jberryhill]

16. Yeah, to run as a D candidate, you need a pregnant mistress

[southernyankeebelle]

18. By then he was out of the race. But democrats wouldn't let a serial cheater like

the dough boy run knowing all the baggage he has. Lets face it the democrats will be nasty as can be because the learned from the King of Hate Newt who in a short time destroyed the congress with his no compromise and hate of liberals that he would rather see the shot if he could get away with it. He is a coward for not serving in the military. He avoid enlisting. Nothing but a coward.

[jberryhill]

20. I know, I know

I just still shake my head and wonder what he thought he was doing.

Gary Hart tripped on his zipper too.

[southernyankeebelle]

25. Not a troll alert

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[jberryhill]

27. Are you kidding me?

It is not a partisan character flaw which makes guys like Cain, Newt, Hart, or Edwards carry on the way they do.

And throw in Spitzer and Vitter, too.

It's a shame because Hart, Edwards, and Spitzer were otherwise okay. I thought Hart had a good shot at the nomination and he was my favorite at the time.

[southernyankeebelle]

35. LOL, yes, I wanted to see your response. HAHAHA Your right democrats and republicans both

have creepy politicans. We need to elect more women.

[jberryhill]

36. There are some pretty creepy women too

Katherine Harris comes to mind.

[southernyankeebelle]

37. Yep, Sarah Palin, Nikki Haley. I only talking about the ones that cheated on their

husbands. Katherine Harris I don't know about other than she fixed the vote for W.

[ellisonz]

21. Natural Gas. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. Even Abramoff thinks Newt is corrupt!

[hfojvt]

26. Newt was kicked out?

I thought he just resigned after he lost the Speaker's position. He wasn't kicked out any more than Rangel was.

[Lugnut]

29. That's a really good question.

Republicans can do whatever they want?

It astounds me that so many people seem to have forgotten the Newt Gingrich of the 90s and his track record.

[BeHereNow]

30. When your voting public has the memory and attention span of a flea.

That's how.

I am still rubbing my jaw from the pain I felt when it dropped to the floor
as I watched C-Span coverage of a group of his followers- "True Believers" if you will,
saying how they trusted him and felt he represented their "family values."
What, are these people cave dwellers?
Can they not read?
Do they not remember what happened yesterday, much less ten years ago?
I mean, seriously- WHAT the fuck is in the water causing this brain damage?

BHN

[Recovered Repug]

31. There have been 2 members of House expelled since the Civil War.

To the best of my knowledge neither Michael J Meyers nor James Traficant are running for president.

[southernyankeebelle]

38. Only if they murder someone. That hasn't been proven yet.