Why walk it back, Grinch? You so rarely get one right.
I knew it! The original reports made Gingrich sound too reasonable and smart â neither of which apply to Gingrich.
Both the original Tweet and Newtâs response seem misleading to me. But who really cares what Newt thinks anyway.
I am not sure if Newt Gingrich or Bill Kristol have the greatest failure rate on predictions. They are both damned bad, bad, bad and so full of themselves. It must be Newt because he looks âfuller.â
You could say one out of three ainât badâheâs not at all gifted, and heâs not learning a damn thing, but heâs sure as hell an amateurâbut actually one out of three is pretty bad, even for a bonehead like Newt Gingrich. Trump is no more gifted than a Tickle Me Elmo doll. He was what the base wanted for Christmas and there you are. Weâll see how much the manâs gifts enable him to learn from this point on, but I donât think itâs going to be much.
â⌠and when I say that Donald Trump is an absurd amateur, of course I mean that in the best possible way.â
Newt would claim a complete reading of the Constitution to be âtaken out of contextâ because there was no relevant historical context that led to the composing of the document.
I had been looking for a way to describe The DonaldâŚthanks.
Ooooooooooooh, the Newt is still hoping for that VP slot, isnât he?
Newt: âTrump is learning, a gifted amateur.â
Newt wouldnât enjoy a âgifted amateurâ like President Beeblebrox for long.
Just long enough for Putin to mass Spetsnaz at the Baltic borders.
And for Xi to land PLA Marines to the Paracels, Spratlys, and Senkakus.
Or for Kim to lob a Rodong at Seoul.
The world is full of hungry crocodiles, just waiting at the watering hole for âgifted amateursâ like Zaphod.
NG is a standard GOP sociopath. End of story.
Well, yes. âAbsurd amateurâ is a lot nicer than âracist demagogic egomaniac with strong fascist tendencies.â
And when I say Newt is a fat, triple-chinned piece of shit who divorced his first wife when she was laying in a hospital bed recovering from cancer surgery and cheated on his second wife with a staffer he went on to make his third wifeâŚitâs really a compliment.
I think Trump has exposed the entire presidential selection process for what it isâŚreality tv entertainment. While the readers of this blog enjoy nuanced policy conversations, will comb thru Supreme Court Decisions, and know about relatively obscure entities like the NLRB, many of our fellows citizens eyes gloss over at the mere mention of politics.
So no Iâm not surprised that a guy like Trump mopped the floor with the Republican field.
Shorter Gingrich: I still want to be VP!
âLet me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood. Because I have said publicly those words were inaccurate and unfortunate.â - Serial Adulterer, Newt Gingrich
Dirty little DC secret: Gingrich is notoriously two-faced. He wants to be a leading voice in the right-wing bubble, but at the same time he doesnât want to lose influence within âpolite society.â This means that behind closed doors and among the right type of people, heâll say things that completely contradict his public persona.
I have a close family member that has done work with Gingrich. In private, Gingrich said Obama is the smartest President weâve had since Teddy Roosevelt. He also was largely supportive of Obamacare. This family memberâs organization finally had to take Gingrich aside and give him an ultimatum: he could either continue to work with the organization and support their healthcare-related mission, or he could go out in public and say/do things that went against the mission of the organization. But he couldnât have it both ways. Gingrich kept his cool in public for a few months, but then ultimately decided the pull of Fox News was too strong, so he went back to performing his conservative blowhard public persona.
That sounds like it probably was âabsolute amateurâ, mispronounced/misunderstood/mistranscribed.
Meryl Streep understands trump.
Gingrich says âoopsâ, I forgot I want to be veep or something in the administration. I didnât really mean to say youâre a racist bigot Donald, so please disregard my remarks. Please Donald, let me be relevant again.