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    Gingrich: The campaign begins anew Sunday--Thelma and Louise have signed on to drive the bus...

    By jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:40pm |

    Many of us on the left used to grind our teeth at the frequency with which Newtie (hey, that's what his mama used to call him...) was invited to the sunday morning TV follies.  That is, until he self-destructed ("Anyone who quotes me is stating a falsehood..."  Huh?) after rashly speaking the truth about Ryan's kill-Medicare budget.

    Oddly, it would appear that his campaign staff failed to appreciate that the best thing he could do for his electoral chances was to get the heck outta the country.  Purportedly irked because he took a cruise immediately after announcing for president (what, it showed a lack of seriousness of purpose?) his key staff have quit en masse .

    It's always a bad enuff sign when there's a midstream "shake-up" initiated by a floundering office aspirant himself.

    When the rats decide to hit the lifeboats as an ensemble, the end isn't near, it's in the rear-view mirror.

    Put a fork in him.

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    Newt's is a campaign of ideas, not aides.


    by Michael Maiello on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:19pm

    Newt is a cautionary tale that History  teachers should stay outta politics (are ya listening, Genghis?)  He's  a bigger disaster than Woodrow Wilson after the stroke.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:28pm

    I'd say that my buddy Newt did pretty well for himself overall, despite failing to become president. But I'm not a teacher in any case. Nor is Newt, really. He chose his first teaching gig because it was in a strategically winnable House district.


    by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:44pm

    Thought you were assoc. prof @ Brandeis....

    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:56pm

    Must be a different Genghis


    by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:55pm

    Leaving only me and Woodie to attend to the lessons of Newt's impression of the Hindenburg...I musta' misheard Terry Gross when she introduced you (btw, that must have been big fun--I have a huge crush on her)


    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:04pm

    Terry Gross, alas, did not interview me. Must have been a different Genghis.


    by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:42pm

    Now waiiit jus'  minute!  You didn't write "Pox"?  

    Whatta rip-that's Michael Willlrich

     

    Like you said, a different Genghis.  Maybe he teaches at Brandeis...yup, he sure does...what're the odds? (don't answer that) 


    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:55pm

    But if you rearrange your "aides", you get "ideas."

    Or arrested.


    by Donal on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:50pm

    His staff resigns en masse, but Newt Gingrich says campaign ‘begins anew Sunday’ | Political Insider:

    Georgia Democrats could not help but chortle. This was the first line of a press release issued in reaction:

    Campaign staffers of Newt Gingrich’s flailing presidential bid walked off the job en masse today, demonstrating the power of organized labor and teamwork while serving in a hostile work environment.


    by EmmaZahn on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:55pm

    I believe they were heard humming "which side are you on" as they packed up their desks...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:02pm

    Myself, I did not think of Thelma and Louise, I immediately thought of this cartoon:

    http://mflinn.com/cartoons.php?lidenti=393

    especially in that I always thought Newt hardly needed much makeup or costume, possibly only a red ball nose and some big shoes and he'd make a good Bozo type. And I also could always visualize him saying this is going to be a really big shew, whether talking about a symposium he was in on, or a new PAC he was forming or website, or some machinations in the House when he was Speaker.

    So in this case I visualize the scurrying staff like a zany circus act, and then Newt standing in the ring saying the shew must go on, followed by looking straight at the viewer and blowing a clown horn that sounds like a fart or something like that. Laughing

    He's a devil. Not like in evil. Like when Moms used to say:  that kid is a real devil.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:44pm

    I have combed the google to no avail--Newt has scrubbed away a picture of him from his teaching days where he sports a full beard.  


    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:13pm

    Newt will claim both sides hate him, so he must be a centrist.

    He will be free to say whatever, because he'll be seen as a staight shooter, not like that centrist Obama.

    Sure he puts his foot in his mouth, but he'll get airtime.  

    He's human, " to err is human"  not like the Saint Obama and his idolizers, who never admit they were wrong.   


    by Resistance on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:07pm

     

    Okie dokie....I must therefore render unto Jolly the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site; given to all of him from all of me for this gem:

    Oddly, it would appear that his campaign staff failed to appreciate that the best thing he could do for his electoral chances was to get the heck outta the country

     


    by Richard Day on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 10:52pm

    Now, about that stipend...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:08pm