Snark Alert! This is not official campaign material from the Newt Gingrich campaign.
Vegan Coyote just emailed me this graphic that is going viral on the tubz. If anyone knows who the original artist is, please let me know so I can give proper reference.
So far, polls have predicted Mitt Romney will be a stronger candidate in the general elections than is Gingrich, so I've held off writing about Newt's many short-comings. But, this graphic is just too funny, and right-on, not to share just here among us Democrats.
Please feel free to use the comments as an open thread for more cartoons, thoughts on tonight's debate, the Florida primary, the relative benefits of a shorter, or longer, Republican primary, or anything else related to the conspicuous short-comings of Gingrich, or the other GOP candidates.
Last night I was slumming on Redstate where hard core conservatives were slamming Romney with great relish, and generating lots of great ideas we can use in the general elections. One piece of gossip - speculation that caught my eye, was the question of why Mitt Romney would voluntarily continue to face such expectable criticism on the tax issue. Some "anyone-but-Romney" conservatives wonder if Mitt's charity deductions for church donations may be so large as to reduce his "15%" capital gains tax-rate even lower, when even this 15% level is a potential issue some conservatives expect us "opportunistic" Democrats to make hay out of in the general elections, when many regular working folks are paying closer to 30%. What a great idea.
So let's keep our eyes open for Romney's 2010 release of taxes tomorrow morning. He needs to release the last 12 years like his father, or maybe more, given the questions about his Bain years. The issue is not that we oppose capitalism, but rather how much did Romney trash companies, and lay off workers, to make profits, and also potentially exploit bankruptcy laws, and/or local tax incentives federal, state, or local government for his own short-term profit.
I've personally enjoyed seeing the Republican candidates pound the stew out of each other, self-implode, be dissected by media pundits, and generate great general election campaign issues, but I do have some growing concerns that we face some risk that the large ongoing exposure could shift public opinions to the right, and give the public too much of a comfort level with the candidates personally, as happened with the intense primary skirmish between President Obama and Senator Clinton.
Although, they both were much more likable folks than the current gang of GOP zealots.
We should create new ways to prevent us from being marginalized in the media this next year, the way we did to the GOP, in the 2008 Democratic primaries.
6:31 PM PT: BTW Today is my birthday, so celebratory tips and recs are appreciated. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.... woof!