Reply #25: Well, a Bloomberg-Hagel ticket could still fuck up the works!

[MADem]

Eleven billion can buy a LOT of tv time!

Newt doesn't have a prayer, and really, he never did--there are too many 'holier than thou' moments in his career, and too many documented blowjobs (under the Speekah's desk), screwings on the Speeeekah's desk, conference room table, xerox machine...with his now-staid wife Calista. You'd look at her, and picture her doing a humana-humana-humma with Newt. And it's hard to run without yer First Lady on the stump! See, if she hadn't been on his stump before they married.....!!!!!

Newt's little foray onto the Presidential stage was more hubris than anything else. He sounded good briefly, but the more his own BASE saw him, the more they remembered his faults--his martinet-like attitude, his smarminess, his dismissive and insulting attitude...and they just weren't buying. The Calista Blowjobs were really just the icing on a very bad cake (of course, it's the icing you see first!).

It's still early, though--and way too hard to tell yet who they'll settle on. It won't be boring, though, I'll wager....!