Newt Gingrich, debt deadbeat

[marmar]

Published on Aug 23, 2015

"Much like Donald Trump today, at one point Newt Gingrich held the frontrunner position in the 2012 Republican primary election. His campaign plodded on using borrowed money for months after most people realized Gingrich didn't have a chance, and when Newt 2012 finally ended, it crashed in a heap of debt that may never be repaid.

The campaign still owes $4.6 million to dozens of businesses that provided things like transportation, voter canvassing and yard signs. The former speaker of the House’s debts put him in company with fringe weirdo Lyndon LaRouche, a perennial presidential pretender since the 1980s who owes $3.2 million across four campaign accounts.”*

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/newt-2012-campaign-debts_55b65859e4b0224d8832dbcc

[PowerToThePeople]

1. Maybe he'll get on board with public financing of elections?

No. Never mind.

[spanone]

2. turn it all over to collection agencies

[pinboy3niner]

3. Totally outshined by all the creditors Trump stiffed on his bankruptcies

I'd try to add it up but I think I'd need a bigger calculator.

[gratuitous]

4. Luckily for Newt

As a member of the club, nobody will bat an eye that he's a deadbeat. Those wealthy people in the club didn't get wealthy by paying for stuff, you know. Newton's one of them, and will be until the day he dies.

[pinboy3niner]

5. I still get a kick out of Peggy Noonan calling Gingrich an "angry little attack muffin"

From the WSJ, January 7, 2012:

Right now Mr. Romney's taking a beating. He's everyone's target, and in a way that speaks of something beyond the usual campaign ferocity. There's something else going on, a taunting: "If you're so inevitable how come I'm not afraid of you?" Newt Gingrich, angry little attack muffin, called Mr. Romney a liar. A Santorum fund-raising letter this week called Mr. Romney a "bland and boring career politician." A radio ad for Mr. Paul: Nominating Romney is "a recipe for defeat." Newt, in an interview: "He's not truthful."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577143202951717744.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

[brewens]

6. A guy like Willy Nelson gets in a shitpile of debt for taxes and works his ass off to pay it all!

Who woulda made the better President? Willy or Newt?

[JI7]

7. didn't Tiffany's or some ohter luxury thing cut off his credit

because he owed them a lot of money ?

[2naSalit]

8. Totally his style. nt