ORLANDO — Are Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin fueling yet another Gingrich rise from the dead? In a week of bad news for Newt in Florida he garners hope with a second Palin semi-endorsement plus the sudden departure of Santorum from the state.
Local TV and newspapers led their campaign coverage with the former Pennsylvania senator’s decision to give up on Florida. As Santorum leaning voters watched this coverage you have to wonder what they think. My guess is they won’t waste their votes on a candidate who abandoned the state. Further, my guess is that they’ll back Gingrich as the only non-Romney, non-Paul left in the race.
It’s not the same as Rick Perry quitting before the South Carolina primary and endorsing Gingrich, but it’s darn close.
Florida then becomes a test. Will a consolidated conservative voting bloc behind Gingrich challenge Romney? Might happen.
And once again, Sarah Palin, comes to Newt’s rescue as she did shortly before the South Carolina primary …
Palin was referring to conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan as “hypocritical” for her scathing description of Gingrich as “an angry little attack muffin.” Palin: “That’s the typical hypocrisy stuff in the media that I’ve lived with over a couple of decades in the political arena.”
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woo hoo “And once again, Sarah Palin, comes to Newt’s rescue”
While the family sleeps, I check in. Sorry to hear that Santorum bailed -- anything that benefits Newtie makes me sad. Bright side -- Newt may be Obama’s best chance at success in November. Palin of course gives her usual whiny “Oh poor me” performance -- after all, no matter who it’s about, it’s about her. Happy to see Peggers is the target this time instead of Robinson, Krugman, … Pat, love the flying monkeys clip. That scared the crap out of my sister when she was a kid.
Pogo so good to see you!
Poor manboob
As for Peggums ..don’t you just hate it when Sarah Palin is right
sanctus sanctorum is just refueling, diving for dollars at a fundraiser in dc. i think he’ll return to florida in time (if he can book a discount flight that is) to make a last ditch pitch.
“Rick bails, Sarah Roars.” and Jeb’s silence is deafening.
Rick to Florida: April 15th is right around the corner!
Craig, I find it fascinating how the cable networks, including MSNBC, make DECIDED announcements after every primary, like it’s all over for the others. It’s going to be a long process, and as far as I can tell, no one’s really warmed up to Romney. I think this is going to go up and down, and on and on for a little while. Interesting to see how those racist anti-immigrant arguments will play in the rest of the country “By the time they get to Phoenix.” And in the meantime, Obama’s looking pretty damned capable!
RR — Thank you so much for your message on last thread. Randy is indeed much better, they have found the source of his severe anemia, and will stay on top of it. My brother’s death was a shock, but I feel the fog lifting this weekend. In the middle of last week, I had quick abdominal day-surgery, (I’m tellin ya, when it rains, it pours!) and am feeling a little more agile today. I look at it this way: after everything that happened in January, the rest of 2012′s gotta be a breeze!
the words “crucify” and “newt” don’t belong in the same sentence. try “truth-i-fy”
and Jeb’s silence is deafening…Jace
I thought when he said the goopers can’t be the party of old white man that it was a tacit endorsement of Santorum
guess not
Barb, please let me add my expression of sympathy at the loss of your brother, and my relief that Randy’s source of distress has been identified. And, you, please now that you’ve toured the operating suite, stay healthy.
Flatus
http://youtu.be/w8r9ZPQ_828
Now that Newt has been offering a Moon base, I went ahead and bought the whole TV series UFO with the purple hair moon ladies.
and now I am listening to Julie London… FLY ME TO THE MOON!
Tylenol,
January has indeed been a wretched month for you.
So sorry to hear of your loss.
Lighting a candle and sending a prayer your way.
Be well and be at peace.
KGC,
Jeb could sink Newt in Florida if he chose to.
Being a bit smarter than his brother however, he is keeping his powder dry and his options open. Nothing on the horizon this year, but the 2016 campaign begins in November.
Jace
Jeb can dream. I think the Bushes are done.
Maybe Jeb’s son can make a comeback for the family
but Jeb “Mr.I sold crap to the Fla state employees and made a bundle while they lost their healthcare….”
I don’t think so
KGC,
All that you say is true.
The fact that a toad like Newt is even remotely considered to be a presidential possibility leads me to think that our electorate has a very short and very faulty memory.
We have entered an era where having screwed, or promising to screw the American public seems to be a badge of honor. Decent people need not apply.
Jace
Sad isn’t it. Although I think Nudie is an aberration out of right wing lunacy and fear of moderation. I don’t think he could be elected president but he could be the candidate of people who are so afraid of losing their perks they would give up all of their other positions just to have a screaming maniac who will say what they want
Newt’s Rube
by Taylor Marsh
All in all, it’s just sad when the person who comes to your defense is Sarah Palin.
Newt..the nut or maybe we should call him Mr. Lunar Tunes..is still pushing his space idea. Does he really think the people in Florida are that dumb? I guess it’s yet to be seen.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/florida-primary-2012-live_n_1221650.html#108_newt-gingrich-doublesdown-on-space-talk
And Greta Van actually took him seriously? Whatever Newt has might be contagious so don’t get close. We recently learned that three women fell for his s— so women might be particularly vulnerable. Barf barf.
good one, ct. wouldn’t be surprised to see that show up in the next debate.
Newt’s self delusion is so intense that I doubt he is aware of just how pathetic he seems to most people.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Within months after taking over as chief lobbyist at mortgage lender Freddie Mac in 1999, Mitchell Delk hired a prominent Washington insider to advise him on how to build support among conservatives on Capitol Hill: Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives.
A key part of Delk’s strategy, as outlined in Federal Election Commission records, was to build goodwill in Congress by holding fundraising events for influential members of House and Senate committees that had oversight of Freddie Mac.
I guess Newt wasn’t a lobbyist, he just worked for a lobbyist and was well compensated for his efforts.
I guess he was just a historian and a janitor.
Jamie..What’s really amusing is that with his lunar fantasy.. Newt is trying to appeal to rocket scientists.
What goes around , comes around. Newt may not have invented the politics of personal destruction, but he was the high priest and chief practitioner of the doctrine.
It is indeed just and fitting that everyone including the republican establishment has decided to claim their pound of flesh.
Enjoy it Newt, you’ve earned it.
Sarah Palin Isn’t Who She Used to Be
by Taylor Marsh
Palin took issue with the way Gingrich’s relationship with Reagan was characterized.
“This week a few handpicked and selectively edited comments which Newt made during his 40-year career were used to claim that Newt was somehow anti-Reagan and isn’t conservative enough to go against the accepted moderate in the primary race,” she wrote. “What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque rewriting of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.”
I guess when you can see Russia from your backyard, you know about Stalin-esque.
Sarah Palinski
That Saul a master of opposition research
The Pizza Pimp endorsed nudie because nudie promised to adopt the 999 plan…just another cog in nudie’s fee based agenda
We “love” ya , nurse tylenol. Nuts! I don’t need those quotation marks…WE LOVE YA , period!
Take care of that man and of course yourself. What a load you have carried these past months.
Santorum’s daughter hospitalized. Whatever their politics, as parents they have done well by their child. It isn’t an easy choice they have made.
Tylenol… I am SO sorry about your brother and also I am so glad your husband is doing well. I am surprised at how many of my family members are suffering with serious sicknesses now. Enough of that. I am REALLY glad your husband is getting better
The life is sometimes really cruel.
I don’t get why Sanitarium had to have a 7th child. I am really sad about the child’s condition, but the world cannot sustain all these children!!! Our planet is running out of resources, space, whatever… And while he has been wonderful with his very ill child, it seems so cruel to bring a baby in to this already messed up world and have a child suffering so much.
“Bella, whose full name is Isabella Maria Santorum, has become a symbol of the candidate’s pro-life stance, as he claimed that most infants diagnosed in the womb with Trisomy 18 are aborted.” And who was he really serving? Bringing a child guaranteed to suffer and a very short life? So I may sound horrible, but I don’t agree that they have done will by their child… They guaranteed a life of misery for that poor girl. Can’t they get it through their heads that they already have 6 terrific kids, and isn’t that ENOUGH??? They also lost a baby from some illness in 2006. This is cruel.
I think that Herman Cain just really appreciated Newt’s position on open marriage.
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Apple labor conditions in China
Wiki report on Foxconn creation and operations globally
Jamie..your first link did not work but your second one did and you can Google Foxconn and find out a lot.
I first heard about that factory on the Daily Show..where I learn most of my news. My question is..can those people just quit working there..why do they have to kill themselves? Let me know if anyone finds the answer to that question.
Election Year January Snapshot: Romney Up in Florida, Advantage Pres. Obama
by Taylor Marsh
Jake Tapper just fluffed nudie
ewwwwwwwwwwwww
KGC,
I turned him off! I will try back with the round table..Newt, too much to take before noon, well anytime really….LOL
Tony
round table not much better one of the fauxed up blonde haters
here is a reason to run the R’s out of office. Grover Norquist thinks he can get the President impeached if he doesn’t renew the tax vacation for millionaires.
http://tinyurl.com/7ao349j
here is one more reason. http://tinyurl.com/7atc9fq
When people talk about the failed policies that got us into this mess — they should name names --They should say the failed policies of George Bush not failed govt policies
Shrub and the goopers got us into this mess
with stupid ideas and failed execution
just take a look at Iraq — literally lost millions of dollars
not too mention didn’t give a flying f— about what the people of the country wanted
and left it in shambles
“literally lost millions of dollars”
wouldn’t it be more like “billions of dollars” per month?
Dr. Dooty
Yes that is true but I was talking about the money they actually lost — brought it in on big pallets and then it just disappeared
I think of all the things Nudie says -- the thing about the food stamps pisses me off the most. Why doesn’t anyone point out that food stamps (EBT CalFresh in california) is the single most effective government program. Especially now that local farmers can take the food stamps.
And the only reason there are more people on food stamps is because of Shrub’s failed policies. What is the alternative
do what goopers want and let people starve?
What a hateful disgusting piece of crap nudie is …
and the pizza pimp????????????????? I almost never turn off the tv when someone comes on that I disagree with I want to hear what they have to say — but not the pizza pimp what a disgusting excuse for a human being
I thought he was supposed to give the tea party response to Obama — I guess better thinkers prevailed
The other thing that nudie does {and I gues Wolf Blitzer is the only reporter willing to call him out -amazing-
is to tell a lie and then use it to support his point -- (Lylism)
Or to accuse the opponent of the very thing he is doing
When I hear him talk I can’t believe the interviewers just sit there and let him spin that crap
thanks KGC for the clarification. I do remember the pallet loads of money that disappeared. Those Goopers are pretty confounding.
Stephen Colbert says “if this is gonna be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor either we have to pretend that Jesus was selfish as we are, or we have got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.”
I agree that the poor and needy will need to be fed and the best way is thru food stamps.
Dr. Dooty
Thanks for posting the Colbert quote I think I know which way the goopers are going
Jesus was a selfish but because he knew the poor really wanted jobs and starving them to death and refusing adequate medical care is for their own good
Doots..Colbert may be on to something. I have pondered that maybe the poor and needy are here to test us. And I hope they did have the opportunity to volunteer for the service.
I kinda think of life as school and I think..like in school.. we have tests. A little over a year ago I had this homeless..one legged..prostitute lady come up to my vehicle to ask me for a ride. I was going into a grocery store at the time so I told her to check with me on my way out. When I got in the store I realized that I had left my driver’s license in my shorts when I went fishing the day before. When I left the store..I made a beeline for my vehicle to keep the lady from catching me. It wasn’t hard..she had only one leg.
I figured I failed that test pretty bad but I did worry about if something would happen and I didn’t have a driver’s license. May have been a rationalization. God only knows.
A couple of days before.. I had found a homeless cat at my house. I am not living there but do go there every day. At the time I thought.. I shouldn’t feed the cat so it would find another neighbor to take care of it.
After failing the homeless..one legged lady test..I stopped at the next grocery store..that was on my way home and bought a bag of cat food. Have been feeding Fiddler..the cat.. ever since. I didn’t want to fail two tests in the same week.
But seriously, I want moon bases. really!
http://billmoyers.com/ask-bill/how-can-ordinary-people-help-to-overturn-or-nullify-the-citizens-united-decision/
ct, i find that each test has a lesson attached and if you fail that test and don’t learn that lesson, another much harder test and more complex lesson follows.
before you know it you’re kicked outta school.
eurotom, i prefer moon pies myself.
Moon bases make a helluva lot more sense than sending folks to Mars.
Investing the same amount of money in infrastructure here in the US makes even more sense. I hate praying..and rolling down my window for quick exit when I drive over one of our scary bridges here.
If you have not seen this program and have a about 30 minutes to spare..I highly recommend watching this program.
“Bill Moyers explores how America’s vast inequality didn’t just happen, it’s been politically engineered.”
http://billmoyers.com/segment/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality/
Carol, in the near term I agree. Further out, we have to get someone in this country involved in the type innovation and research that our space program provided in the past and can continue providing in the future.
Now, in the perfect world, such programs would be infrastructure based on our small portion of this Earth. But could such infrastructure-based programs provide the pure research and technological leaps that would light fires under our sorry butts?
But Flatus..I think that those 1% who have more money than they can possibly ever use..should finance that project. They can also profit from any innovation that comes from it.
And they should finance the road and bridge projects as well. They’re the ones who’ve played slash and burn with our infrastructure.
I read your first Moyers piece--will get the second one shortly.
Ya know Flatus..watching that Bill Moyers piece..my second link.. last night about how Washington and Wall Street have colluded to screw the 99% of us..it got me to doing some web surfing to look back at who and what and why re our near financial collapse. I’m pretty ignorant about it all.
Well I learned that some of the guys who I thought were good guys really weren’t..ie Bill Clinton. Kinda had an intuition that that was the case. It hit me when he was lobbying for Dubai to run our ports. Sounded like a really dreadful idea. Glad that didn’t work. (Hillary was against it) I’m a little glad that Hillary didn’t make it to the presidency. I would have hated to have been disappointed in her also but I can continue to fantasize that she might have been our savior. Can’t prove otherwise.
And..it was equal in Republicans and Democrats and pretty much all the guys that Obama selected to advise him were rotten to the core.
One hero..who I didn’t know was one is Byron Dorgon..a former D senator from North Dakota. He warned of what was to come. So did Ralph Nader. No one listened. Getting rid of Glass-Steagall sealed the deal. It stopped the regulations that protected us from the practices that just about took us all down.
There is pretty much is no hope for us unless we get rid of all of the bums and start over. Not ever likely to happen.
Maybe I just need to grab a bottle and start watching Jersey Shores??
Or a cheese burger and some mayo coated french fries and watch Paula Deen. That would do my in sooner.
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