Well, I went and did it. The n00b writes his first diary. It's not what I originally intended to write about but it's timely and a little dark, snarky even. Sometimes I just wake up that way and I just can't shake it. Today was one of those days.
So if anyone actually reads this, my apologies in advance, if I'm not responding to comments during the day. Thankfully, I work long hours during the week and I'll check in when i get home.
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So there he was, Captain Chameleon, cruising at warp speed to the top of the Iowa polls, surprising everyone but himself, of course. Newt knows better and he'll tell you so in that trademark, silver tongued smug, that rattles the security of intellectual weaklings.
Newt knows and you don't.
“I’m going to be the nominee," he announced to Jake Tapper and the world. "It’s very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high, I’m going to be the nominee.”
This arrogant assesment of the inevtability of his nomination, came as no surprise to his former Congressional colleagues. They remember all too well, when as Speaker of the House, the Blowhard of Bile poisoned the political atmosphere and created a climate of hostility and hatred. He was an equal opportunity offender, roughing up Republicans and lecturing Clinton on his moral failings, even as his own extramarital affair was in full swing. But Congresscritters don't forget, ever.
from Politico
“There are so very many stories out there about his failings, his moral failings, that he certainly would be a bad pick to bear the title of the president of the United States,” says Guy Molinari, a former congressman who had a falling out with Gingrich in the 1980s. “I think there is a huge element of risk involved.”
my emphasis
The day after Newt began measuring the drapes, Ed Schultz interviewed an influential Evangelical pastor from Iowa on his radio program. He predicted that Newts' surge to the top of the polls, might be short lived. He said "Mr. Gingrich asked us to examine his past and that's exactly what we intend to do." He spoke about the "moral risk" of a Gingrich presidency based on his infidelities and failed marriages. Evangelical women were having a difficult time imagining Callista as a First Lady and of Newts' "conservative inconsistencies." He also said, "His past history, tells us he cannot be trusted with the responsibility of the most important and powerful job in the world"
Well, Newt does history too. He'll stand for hours for a fee, with his pasty hands folded and resting on his girth, reciting obscure facts that are somehow, only known to him; the professor, the oh so deep thinker and reader by candlelight, of the dusty volumes of our great history.
Yeah, Newt has a library and you don't.
Funny thing about history. It has a peculiar way of equalizing things and it is particularly unkind to the arrogant. You know, that ole', what comes around, goes around thing.
Newt behaves as though he's planned this all along but behind his bravado, is a dark office, empty chairs and a nearly empty bank account. There is no there, there. This was supposed to be a profitable book tour, not a serious campaign. Romney knows it, the Republican big boys know it and so do all the former Republican politicians, whose lives Newt turned inside out. Say what you will about Republicans, they know how to find the achillees heel.
So armed with this knowledge and a loaded Super Pac, thanks to Citizens United, Romney goes negative, unleashing millions of dollars worth of ads running day and night. Newt can't compete and his poll numbers tumble and non too soon for me. I hope they outspend him into oblivian, smash the empty myth that is his campaign and take his bloated head off my t.v. screen forever. I suspect I'm not alone.
There is a very delicious irony in all this, which makes me kinda', well, giddy. I don't think anyone could have predicted, that Citizens' United unlimited money advantage , would actually be unleashed to eat one of their own. And the vile man that made a career of slicing and dicing others' reputations, is now complaining that his own words are being replayed to take him down. Grandpa Newt lamented, that if his opponents “don’t have anything positive to say, they shouldn’t be running.” Oh, the inhumanity.
Newt needs to go away. He tells the story that his wife continued to support his candidacy, even while his poll numbers were in the single digits and his campaign staff deserted him. Well isn't that nice. The King of Tiffany Bling needs to resume his book tour and bleat to the perpetually uninformed and take great comfort in the fact that
he has a bejewelled Callista and you don't.