Newt remember Palin, you must appear interested even if you don't want the job, because eventually if you are not serious don't appear serious even Fox News will abdanon you.

That's because his mom wife won't let him sleep over in Iowa unless she's there.

Karac: I'd say he got worried that he'd win the nomination and have to actually run for president instead of getting a gig schlocking his books and doing a speaking tour - except that he probably does want to be president and thinks he has a chance.

THIS. I don't know if it's more cynical to assume he's trying to fail at getting the nomination or he's trying to succeed. But this is either motivated by a desire to fail or lack of financing - if you fail to collect necessary signatures to get on the ballot at all on VA you don't then respond by cutting your commitment to the next state in half.

Of course, Newt's never been all that good at commitment.

/lame rimshot

Thank you, Republican Primaries. Your Extended Derp Debates are beginning to fracture your base in support, and opened the nation to how damn crazy you all are. Before, I had serious doubts Obama could win re-election. Now, you're handing him ammo and giving him a good shot.

Karac: I'd say he got worried that he'd win the nomination and have to actually run for president instead of getting a gig schlocking his books and doing a speaking tour - except that he probably does want to be president and thinks he has a chance.

At this point the less money he spends, the more he gets to keep when he inevitably drops out.

walkingtall: Giving govt complete control over every aspect of every person's daily life and having regulations for every friggin thing under the sun to ensure "fairness" is only going to lead to extreme unfairness.

1) You live up to your self-described label as a "die hard conservative" with that whopper of steaming bullshiat.
2) What does Newt cutting his commitment to Iowa in half have to do with this masturbatory fantasy of yours?

Headso: uh oh those people should go get checked for cancer, he might know something they don't.

I just clicked the "funny" button for the first time. I came to work cancer in there somehow but you've got it covered.

walkingtall: I am a die hard conservative but Newt is a sociopath. A very very smart one but holy crap he makes Clinton look like a eunuch.

Question are you more concerned about Newt being a sociopath or a pussy hound?

Rann Xerox: walkingtall: Smaller govt with fewer regulations that have real teeth can do a fine job of keeping business as fair and clean as is possible.

Upton Sinclair called from the afterlife:

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He says that you are full of sh*t.

No don't you see Bob falling into a grinder just makes the meat much more tender and it's for our freedoms that companies not be regulated so they can make massive profits at the costs of their employees. Why do you hate job creators?

spongeboob: walkingtall: I am a die hard conservative but Newt is a sociopath. A very very smart one but holy crap he makes Clinton look like a eunuch.

Question are you more concerned about Newt being a sociopath or a pussy hound?

Apparently he's more concerned about his fantasy that Obama is a hard-left progressive.

walkingtall: Well you farkers are going to get what you want. The only problem is that things are not going to turn out the way you hope. They never have and never will. Progressive and hard left policies cant work. They have never worked and never will. Smaller govt with fewer regulations that have real teeth can do a fine job of keeping business as fair and clean as is possible. Giving govt complete control over every aspect of every person's daily life and having regulations for every friggin thing under the sun to ensure "fairness" is only going to lead to extreme unfairness. HIstory is full of examples but here we friggin go again.

I just voted for this post as "funny."
Wait, you weren't serious, were you?

He must have found a younger, more attractive bus.

Karac: I'd say he got worried that he'd win the nomination and have to actually run for president instead of getting a gig schlocking his books and doing a speaking tour - except that he probably does want to be president and thinks he has a chance.

I disagree. He wants to be perceived as wanting it. Because it's hard to pry cash out of folks' fists if you are just on a speaking and book tour alone. If you couple them with a campaign, then you're "doing" something, and the speaking engagements increase, the cash payout increases, and the truly terrifying thing for the man would be to actually win the nomination. That would be way too much like working for a living, and that is exactly the opposite of what he wants. He wants to be a Grand Vizier. He wants to be courted for endorsements. He wants cash just for coming off his mountaintop. Actual legislation? Actual policy? That is a lot more work than he's done or wanted in years.

The sad thing? He wants his due for being a hoary headed advisor, after nearly fracturing the caucus. After being removed from office by dint of his own actions, and yet, he keeps touting "personal responsibility" as a mantra, while dodging anything resembling it for himself.

That's hardly Presidential. That's hardly even Republican. He shames the nation and the party, and that so many are tripping over themselves to cheer on this corrupt lying sack of filth, and tying themselves into intellectual and philosophical knots to try to support such a man shows how deeply ill the party is, without an intellectual, philosophical, or moral center. This is the illness that maims my party, and it saddens me that folks have fallen for such tripe...

UNC_Samurai: propasaurusI just voted for this post as "funny."
Wait, you weren't serious, were you?

I've decided I'm not going to vote for any troll posts unless they're just spectacularly and hilariously moronic above and beyond the normal level of derp. Otherwise, we're just feeding bad trolls.

What is this Smart/Funny voting bullshiat, anyway? Did I miss the thread where they rolled this out? It comes off as a lame attempt to crib FaceBook's "Like" tagging of everything under the Sun. Am I supposed to go along in every thread and award Smart/Funny points to posts as I read them or something? Because fark that.

Not only is Newt a useless gassbag, but now he's turned coward. He can't handle anything other than a book signing.

A Dark Evil Omen: LouDobbsAwaaaay: UNC_Samurai: propasaurusI just voted for this post as "funny."
Wait, you weren't serious, were you?

I've decided I'm not going to vote for any troll posts unless they're just spectacularly and hilariously moronic above and beyond the normal level of derp. Otherwise, we're just feeding bad trolls.

What is this Smart/Funny voting bullshiat, anyway? Did I miss the thread where they rolled this out? It comes off as a lame attempt to crib FaceBook's "Like" tagging of everything under the Sun. Am I supposed to go along in every thread and award Smart/Funny points to posts as I read them or something? Because fark that.

It has the same problem as Facebook: Facebook has no "dislike" button and Fark has no "idiot", "unfunny" and "send this poster a bag of dicks" buttons.

And we still can't get the one thing everyone's asked for: an "out the submitter" button.