So he wasn't blinded by his own patriotism this time?

Republicans are all about personal responsibility.

Refusing to admit failure or take responsibility is typical behavior for a sociopath.

This guy blamed his affairs on loving America too much, for fark's sake.

So what position will this staffer have in the Gingrich administration?

Newt Gingrich blames his failure to get on the ballot in VA on an under-zealous the table blowing him staffer

Fixed that for truth.

Awesome preview of what a Gingrich presidency would be like.

B-BU-BUT NEWTMENTUM!!!

/Good riddance, douchebag

Nothing is ever Gingrich's fault.

Set it to music, Newt. Set it to music.

I bet he will come to blame Ron Paul supporters on this one. Remember Ron Paul has no chance of winning that is why Newt failed to get onthe ballot. Acording to Newt being at war is mainstream america, drowing in debt is the american way and every decent ameican wants it this way. To think other wise is lunatic.

But I was told false signatures would never be caught and automatically resulted in voter fraud.

Thank goodness that Newt would never have to make important staffing decisions as president.

"We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 - we needed 10,000 - 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud," Gingrich said, according to CNN.

By Republican logic, GINGRICH COMMITTED VOTER FRAUD!!!!!

/The extra punctuation is for ACORN.

I just don't want a president that is that fat. I know it's rather childish, but seeing his fat ass on stage with Putin or David Cameron would be embarrassing for me as an American.

He's just...too... fat.

So all the Right wingers who attacked ACORN for "voter fraud" when the same exact thing happened to them are now going to attack Gingrich the same way?

*crickets*

Yep, that's what I thought.

Overzealous staffer, isolated incident.

Throwing staffers under the bus.



Stay classy, Newt.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: 11,100 is still a pitiful number of signatures to turn in for a presidential candidate in a state with five million registered voters and simply assuming a 50/50 split.

Exactly. I guarantee I could get 10k signatures in 6 months. And that's without the kind of infrastructure a supposed top tier candidate should have.

That's one every 6 minutes for 5 hours a day, for 6 months straight. That's not that hard.

A long, long time ago, an instructor told me that one of the traits of successful leadership involves accepting responsibility for anything and everything while accepting credit for nothing. If something good happens, credit goes to the staff; if someone on staff screws up, the good leader accepts responsibility. In the corporate world, this is seen most commonly in Japanese organizations.

It's a piss poor person who blames others.

Then again, I've never liked Newt. He's a nasty drunk.

Leadership!

Callista has tracked down those responsible and feasted on their tripes while they were still alive to watch.

I guess we can only hope he'd do a better job of selecting the right people for VP, SecDef etc.

Corvus: So all the Right wingers who attacked ACORN for "voter fraud" when the same exact thing happened to them are now going to attack Gingrich the same way?

*crickets*

Yep, that's what I thought.

This....Exactly.

Hey Newt is saying the same thing happened to him as happened to ACORN.

(Well except ACORN actually caught it, and flagged it.)

What do you want to bet that they'll use this as proof that we have to require picture ID to vote. "Because if someone can defraud a patriot like Newt Gingrich, we must be eternally whargarbl against herpyderp."