It would be swell if, when the votes are tallied and today’s primary finally ends in Florida, animal control would drag Newt Gingrich off to a small wire cage in a cheerless concrete building, where he could bark day and night and none of us would have to hear it.
I doubt he’d be adopted; ol’ Newtie looks like a biter to me. And before long, that would be that.
Alas, he is a mutt who walks on two legs and thus will remain at large as long as Sheldon Adelson cares to give him a loose leash. The Mouth That Roars continues to generate its own reality-distortion field, claiming “momentum” in Florida — though at least one poll shows the RomneyBot 2012 with a 14-point lead — and canceling press charters to keep those annoying fact-checkers at a safe distance.
This morning on “Fox and Friends” Newt was predicting that “the conservative vote will be dramatically bigger than Governor Romney’s. So we’ve got to find a way to consolidate conservatives, and I’m clearly the front-runner among conservatives.”
In other words, if all you losers will have the goodness to piss off, I got this.
Good luck with that, Newtie old scout.
The RomneyBot 2012 can money-whip this fat yellow dog from now until the convention and still have enough left over to buy the general election — though why he doesn’t just paint one of his three houses white and call it good remains a mystery to me, since he’s never articulated exactly why he wants to be president beyond a general desire to cause harm to humans (so much for Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics).
But since it seems that GOP voters find each of the four remaining candidates more or less repellent, ol’ Newtie will continue barking and chewing and peeing on things until his casino owner decides he’s bet on the wrong mutt in this race to the bottom and has him put down.
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Uncle Mitty wants to show up daddy by winning what he couldn’t. The guy acts as if it’s some sort of entitlement but when you’re born with a silver spoon in your mouth, is this any surprise? The 99% better speak up in November if they don’t want to see their ranks increased as the 1% get richer with a corporate raider in the White House. Since the rich ARE so rich now, can we finally put to rest the voodoo economics idea that by letting them get richer prosperity somehow trickles down to the rest of us?
Hey, Larry … I feel trickled down upon. Don’t you?
And what is it with the daddy thing in GOP pestilential politics? Dubya and G.H.W., now the RomneyBot 2012 and its creator … straight out of “Blade Runner,” it is. Asimov was wrong.
Yeah, I was thinking about that as I was typing t-r-i-c-k-l-e. But of course these supply-siders will come up with some BS argument that “if only the rich can get more rich….” if they get their hands on the levers of power again.
Is the Daddy thing limited to Repuglicans? My American history isn’t so good but I can’t think of any Demo’s in recent times.
Ahhhh … but Newt doesn’t have a dad, now, does he? Unless … it’s Darth Vader!
Politics make for juicy irony sometimes. Add together Newt’s benefactor making his fortune on gambling with Newt’s stellar experience as a husband and leader and what do you end up with – a family values guy backed by conservative church do-gooders. Makes sense to me.
Sharon – I always remind folks that gambling is a “tax on stupid people” so maybe Uncle Mitty’s anti-tax philosophy extends to this too? THAT would scare the you-know-what’s off the gambling industry.
I like to think that cheerless concrete building is located in Guantanamo Bay.
What the phuck is “the conservative vote” in a Republican primary? I love how everyone in the GOP thinks the only two real conservatives are himself and whoever he plans to vote for.
They’ve all blamed the liberal elite leadership of the GOP for problems with their campaigns. They’ve all blamed the “tactics of the left” when an opponent gets some momentum.
I really want to meet these pure, Aryan, distilled demi glace conservatives. Cuz ten bucks says when you talk to them for about ten minutes, you’ll find half a dozen ways in which they’re dependent on Uncle Sugar for something.
On paper, I could get behind the Rombot. Top notch resume.
Flip flopping? Yeah, that’s what everyone in this country calls changing ones mind or evolving on an issue.
(Of course, it’s ironic when your opinions evolve such that you no longer believe in evolution.)
And no people skills? Yeah, well, apparently those of Steve Jobs sucked, and he did okay.
But what gets me about the dude is that with a Harvard MBA and tons of private sector experience, the dude cannot explain the simplest aspect of our economy in anything other than platitudes and tautologies. Either he’s stupid or he thinks we are.
(Of course, he’s an idiot on foreign policy, but I can’t hold that against him too much, given that 99% of the country can’t find anything on the map except for the nearest Krispee Kreme.)
With hardly anyone reporting yet, the Romneybot looks like he is on a roll.
Mitt Romney 74,325 52.1%
Newt Gingrich 35,163 26.1 %
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/states/florida
Romneybot may have a stellar c.v., but not sure he every did anyone not in the one percent any good. So will that change? I’m not holding my breath.
http://www.baincapital.com/AboutBainCapital/Default.aspx
About Bain Capital
Established in 1984, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms managing approximately $66 billion in assets under management. Our affiliated advisors make private equity, public equity, leveraged debt asset, venture capital, and absolute return investments across multiple sectors, industries, and asset classes. Since our inception, our competitive advantage has been grounded in a people-intensive, value-added investment approach that has enabled the firm to deliver industry-leading returns for our investors.
From National Public Radio:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/01/10/144938684/rivals-attack-romney-s-record-at-bain-capital
“What Bain Capital was in the business of doing was increasing the wealth of their investors,” (Anderson) says. “In some cases, it meant expanding companies and growing. In some cases, they may have eliminated jobs. Job growth was never the goal. Job growth was the byproduct.” –Howard Anderson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has followed Bain’s business for years.
So what would Mitt’s job be as president? Continue the oligarchy’s job of feathering their own nest, or doing something for the rest of the nation? Hmm.
Interesting op ed here.
Just watched the results, not bad for a state that looks like a dick