Meet The Press: Gingrich Plays Coy With His Presidential Aspirations
By Nicole Belle Sunday Mar 08, 2009 4:45pm
Oy. Something tells me that David Gregory is aspiring to "Tony Snow" his career. Go out on your national news show and lavish a lot of good will to the point of idolatry towards Republicans and all those who have already been proven to not have ideas that help the country. Hopefully, you will fool just enough Americans to vote against their interests and you can stride up to the podium in the White House Press Room. Then you can lie and b.s. your way through a press conference with all your former colleagues. It's good to have a focused career goal, isn't it?
Gregory asks former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich whether he is planning a run in 2012 for the Presidential nomination. Newtie, ignoring that he left the Speakership under a cloud of scandal, plays coy, even though it's patently obvious to anyone with two braincells to rub together that he is clearly posturing himself to once again "save" the Republican Party.
Newt's excuse is that if he says anything other than "no", it would be all over the news right now. My, we are full of ourselves, aren't we? Instead, Newt thinks we should be having a "conversation" this year, not in 2012. WTF does that mean? Is Newt looking to more fully destroy the country by endorsing some sort of national mutiny? What kind of conversation is he looking for?
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Shouldn't your first words be, "Oy Gevalt!"?
to debate the shape of the earth with scientists?
Would David gregory have those who deny the power of gravity on his show to debate gravity with scientists?
Should David gregory have rapists, burglars, murderers on his show to debate whether we should allow people to rape, murder, and burgle in society with police officers?
The above issues have gotten settled.
So why should David gregory have supply siders and libertarians on his show to debate whether their failed policies should get enacted into law, especially when their policies got discredited in 1929 much less in 2001-2008?
Why why why?
Go to write-congress.democratz.org
Oh and their party name: RepubliKLAN party.
"Are you running for President" - ugh ugh ugh - sickening
It's time for that after MTP cigarette - was it good for you too, David?
What is REALLY sad . . . as bad as Gingrich is, and he is B A D, he's the most "reasonable" and practical candidate they have. Don't misunderstand me. It doesn't make him reasonable one iota. He's still horrid for reasons we all konw. But he is still better than Jindal, Palin, Romney, etc. You know your Party sucks when.
Run this gasbag. Gingrich is Limpbaugh with a little less bloviation.
...toss in the lipstick pig and mcAncient as a foursome.
They suck!
I suppose with the bar lowered down a well for the GOP, anything is possible these days, they dont care about personal responsibility or morals anymore in the GOP.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2002/10/29/351/...
Morals? Are you talking about re-Thugs? They haven't cared about personal responsibility and what was morally right since Eisenhower.
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now they dont bother
Ginrich's vocabulary must not include the words, "old", "failed" and "rejected".
Also - the American populace would impeach him after listening to his whining little voice for just one year.
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Um, we suffered through 8 years of bu$h's idiotic utterances, and people cheered for more. You can buy DVDs, books, calendars, etc.
Republican ideas only stand up when presented with no opposition.
If the economy hasn't improved, they could run Limpballs, and he'd get elected.
The Republicans have got nothing, no one...you keep hoping though.
Not ever gonna happen.
...for a fat, entitled career politician to take up where George Bush left off. Let's vote for another aging, scandal-ridden sleezebag Republican hypocrite. Yeah, we're the Republican base, and we want Newt!
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All the gop has to offer are scumbags and morons. This guy is both, and he's the best they have. I think we're looking at least 12 years of Democratic rule, maybe more.
for a hong kong phone book...
They flap and roll and wallow from side to side. The wattles of wealth and privilege. They reek of it...
I was going to say that is one hideous picture of newt, he looks satanic.
How apt- and how repugnant your prosaic imagery of such misprivileged trolls....Wow- and thanks ;)
That's quite extreme to think of a 12-year rule from any party. That's never good.
I do see and agree that the GOP have completely lost their collective minds.
I see two things possibly happening:
1. The Republican Party engages in the "soul Searching" their media representatives proclaimed on Nov. 5th and reforms their ideologies and attitudes about, well - life and people's inalienable rights, among some other esoteric political concepts.
or
2. Another party enters the fold of the binary political system we have. I really can't see 3 parties co-existing - that's too confusing for the easily confused.
The Green Party leans too left right now and if they do some "soul searching", they could have a chance.
The Libertarian Party has a better chance. The name of the party invokes the time-honored American buzz-word of "liberty" and they seem to stand for real important values, as I've gathered from last election year.
I agree those 12 years between 1980 until 1992 were too much. The harm to this country from Reagan and Bush led up to the economic and foreign policy disasters of Dubya. That was 20 years total out of the last 28. That was extreme, extremely harmful to most Americans but not to the crooks that got away with the loot.
the public is going to remember why Newt the Gooper lasted as speaker for barely two Congresses. Also how many wives is he up to by now?
stop asking that horrible question about someone's political aspirations. The guest is never going to answer it honestly, it makes the host look stupid, and it's just freakin annoying the hell out of me. Nothing is worse than the stupid flirtation that goes on when this question is asked.
I couldn't watch it, I turned over and watched McMarionette.
And I'm a better person for it!
He did the same thing last election cycle -- it was excruciating on The Daily Show -- but he knows the two things which prevent his higher aspirations:
1. He has little popularity amongst the rank & file Repubs;
2. He is morbidly obese (he refuses to be photographed on camera walking!) and the public's lack of acceptance of fat folks is, well... let's just say we'll see a woman elected before another the size of William Howard Taft!
Back in black.
It makes you look fifty pounds lighter.
Or so his personal fluffer told him.
Funny though, to me he looked like a small novelty bobble head stuck atop a ten pin bowling ball.
Need to get my eyes checked I guess.
Read my Lips = Am a liar and a womanizer. You betcha
I am having some moments of clarity. I thought it was just Limbaugh who looks like a cartoon character to me, but now Newt looks like one, too. I think it was the use of the word "coy" and "Newt" in the same sentence. I have a vision of Newt in an "Alice in Wonderland" costume, white tights, pinafore over a dress, with his finger poked into his cheek smiling demurely, and pointing one toe in front of himself. Acting coy. If only I could draw.
Beautifully in my mind at least! Thx
Newt running for President?! Please say it's true! Nothing would make me happier than to see this guy run, he hasn't a chance in hell of winning, but it would be great fun.
Oh yeah, what we really need is another fat, white, old-guard, GOPig with absolutely no vision, who is hell-bent on taking us back to the stone age. Been there done that. No thanks. Keep dreamin' Grinchrich.
So if Uncle Newtie runs, is he going to write a letter thanking Bill Clinton for clearing the way for a lying, womanizing hack to run for president?
What a sack of crap. Please, please, please run, Newt. We're going to have fun watching you implode.
How's that girl you were nailing during the impeachment debacle, by the way???
There are two standards in this country by the corporate news media..
One for the republicans and one for the democrats...
Where was the protest of Bush's thief of the election in 2000...
Republicans are getting by with stopping Al Franklin to be sworn in for his senate seat which he was voting into last years..
Republicans are prolonging it to take a vote away from the democrats...
We no longer have laws for the elite and corporations. The only laws which are enforced are the ones against the American citizens..
American citizens were track down and for cashing a check with not enough funds in the checking account for amount of $14 and some more, thousands of dollars,, while the criminals in the financials institutions were given billion of our tax money for they thief and destruction of our economy...
GO FIGURE>>>
smells like every rethug guest's ass? and newt is a big fat fucking joke. i hope the corrupt pig runs for preznit. just keep reminding folks that he was doing his own intern in the back of his limo, pig-style, while he was doing his "moral" duty to impeach clinton. then there's the cancer-stricken wife he blew off for some honey he had on the side. these repukes have no self-control--gluttonous in everything they do or conceive.
The problem with Newt is.. he's as coy as a turd floating in a septic tank and just as rank.
Gregory sure rattles around in Russert's shoes.
NBC needs to find something smaller for him.
He's just too painful to watch.
I grew up in Georgia and knew about the rotund reptile long before his was a household name in the rest of the country. Given the dirt there is on Newt Gingrich, I'd love to see him throw his hat in the ring in 2012 just to have it stomped on by the Republicans running against him in the primaries. The Democrats wouldn't have to do much more than mop-up work after that. Newtie is a dirty, dirty man and his shenanigans make Bill Clinton look like a choirboy.
Newt still has his "DraftNewt.com" website up.
Guess he thinks America will "draft" him to run for POTUS.
But as I recall, America already tried to draft Newt once and he refused.
(David Gregory palling around with Newt) what can more easily (and with less complication) be ascribed to moral morbidity, intellectual morbidity and standard-operating-procedure laziness.
Isn't Newt the guy who dumped his cancer-stricken wife while she was still in the hospital? Then he cheated on his second wife. Now he's on number 3. Kind of like McCain in that sense... so I guess he could be nominated by the "Family Values" party.
There is no way in hell Newt Gingrich will ever be POTUS.
the republicans admire newt as one of their ideas men, if not THE idea man of the party, after porky limbaugh and snorker norquist. he talks about a "1-in-3 generation discussion" a catchy phrase that we are all supposed to instantly be intrigued by and which will come to mezmorize the entire electorate and be drawn into newt's tractor beam persona. this "discussion" which is likely something like his "Contract with America", will probably be similar in that history hasn't exactly endowed it with a lasting sheen. the smurf thinks he could be president. he has been the face of the party of the "moral majority" while he trashed his wives and married his (25 year younger) mistress/intern. (If she is with him, does that make her an an ogress? She must be a real [dorky, pudgy, nerdy] beauty!) In his political life, Gingrich has been elected in one district in Georgia. If he thinks he is game for testing the waters of national politics on the big stage, i think he should go for it. up until recently he was a political has- been. i believe he still is and always will be a political has-been even though the republicans now in their desperation are willing to grab for anything, including newt, with all his garbage-y baggage. i think he should go for it. for that matter, why don't porky and snorker run too. that way, republicans can have more of those voices they so value speaking out loudly, publicly while running for office. i say: BRING IT ON!
This twerp doesn't stand the chance of a fart in a whirlwind of becoming the chief executive. All the Dems have to do is bring up his divorce. As the story goes, he handed the dissolution papers to his wife in the hospital where she lay, dying of cancer, then remarried just the other side of the waiting period demanded by law -- clearly indicating he had the "other woman" waiting in the wings.
Then, someone is bound to resuscitate that god-awful 60 Minutes (I think it was) portrait of him, where his mother keeps calling him "Newtie" (when she is not being potty mouthed about Bill and Hillary). Add to that -- ad hominem warning! -- the fact that he looks and talks like a shoe salesman and has a weak, whiny little voice as well as eyes that close down to tiny slits when he gets mean-spirited, which is often. Yeah, Newtie is a shoe-in (pun intended) -- a sure thing for senior welcoming guy at Wal-Mart. He is a loser, big time.
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