MAXIMUM GOP BUTTHURT!

I so love 2012 already.

Mitt Rmoney: "I have no view."

OH GOD, SKYNET HAS BECOME SELF-AWARE!!

Whoops. Derp. I retract.

// but doesn't Gingrich look fat?
// and sound like an arrogant 4th-grader?

Headso: Gingrich takes stuff super personal, you could never have a guy like that as president.

Or Santorum.

"But mom.....! They called me a frothy mixture of feces, lube and semen! Me want to sue Google!"

Dr Dreidel: // but doesn't Gingrich look fat?
// and sound like an arrogant 4th-grader?

I think he looks tired.

the former House speaker said Mitt Romney's refusal to disavow attack ads produced by a super PAC sponsoring his candidacy left him with no choice but to go negative.

So he is saying there are no absolute standards behavior, rather they are based on circumstance.

Nice moral relativism, Newt.

Wellon Dowd: Nice moral relativism, Newt.

See, he's acting like a LIE-beral in order to defeat the LIE-berals.

bottsicus: Tyrone Slothrop: Can't you see this is the last act of a desperate man?

You'd do it for Randolph Scott...

♪ Randolph Scott! ♪

I think I remember that convention.

DeltaPunch: So how can a pro-Ginrich superPAC suddenly start airing vicious commercials against Romney without making it painfully obvious that there must have been some coordination between between Ginrich and the superPAC?

Speaking of SuperPACs, I've got my fingers crossed the Colbert is going to unleash his SuperPAC on the unsuspecting people of South Carolina. It could be epic. Can't wait to see what he announces tonight.

coeyagi: i.qkme.me

Wow. Callista is the PS subject who never stops giving the lulz.

Oh, come on now. I think Newt's a human puddle of slime, but the guy's just giving back what he got. Romney had his superPACs run endless anti-Gingrich commercials in Iowa, pointing out that Newt Gingrich was, well, Newt Gingrich. This basically destroyed his candidacy.

Shouldn't Gingrich be able to run ads pointing out that Romney is Mitt Romney? Just because the GOP elite has settled on the human political weathervane doesn't mean he should get a free ride.

/Besides, the lulz are awesome.

indylaw: I can't think of any other reason that Newt would disparage private equity and venture capital firms and call the public's attention to the fact that the presumptive nominee engaged in the great American capitalist enterprise of draining firms and their employees dry.

I can.

In Newt-land, the ends justify the means. Newt is, after all, the smartest man in the Republican Party, the man who will lead them into the 21st Century and finally get the libs to GO to hell (rather than just telling them), the man who brought down Bill Clinton and saved the country's finances from ruin, the man who stood astride the decay of moral values in America and demanded it stop.

Newt wants the nomination, and it doesn't matter if he has to kill his own mother or divorce a cancer-stricken woman to get it.

What Romney did was wrong, you see, because Newt Gingrich did not do it. Newt Gingrich would have done things out of love for country. Newt Gingrich would never profit off the misery of others. Newt Gingrich would never orchestrate a controlled collapse of business to enrich himself and his corporate clients.

Newt Gingrich knows that a successful business is one that creates jobs for everyone and provides its employees with wages commensurate with skill. Newt Gingrich knows that Bain Capital is an aberration, for surely it is not corporate culture for the last 30 farking years to acquire new companies and sell off the parts.

// it's like he thinks we're not paying attention
// though I can't say I blame him - he's gotten this far in the 2012 primary, despite most of us remembering as far back as 1996
// I was in HS at the time, yet the Boomers who vote don't seem to remember it
// maybe they're ON boomers?
// could explain a lot...

Massachusetts moderate who's pro-gun control, pro-choice, pro-tax increase, pro-liberal judge

No one is "pro-tax increase". This is not a position. Maybe you raise taxes in order to pay down the debt or rather than reducing or closing services, but saying "pro-tax increase" is meaningless except when the political scene has devolved into actions believed to be wrong by nature of the action rather than outcome, which Newt is contributing to.

Further, who is "pro-liberal judge"? What a farcical comment to make. This is not a negative except when "liberal" is a negative, and therefore could be the same comment with "liberal" appended to anything. Mitt is "pro-liberal chicken sandwich" is as negative.

At least be negative with some sense.

indylaw: Newt must know that he most likely won't win the nomination, and if he can't win the nomination, he's going to poison the anointed candidate by hitting him where the Democrats will make their most concerted attacks. Best case scenario for Newt - Romney is torpedoed in future primary contests and Newt's chances at the nomination improve. Worst case, Newt at least get revenge.

Oh, for sure.

Newt wants to be the guy, but like a 2-13 team playing its last game of the season, sometimes playing spoiler saves your ego (and, as you say, positions him as "the also ran from 2012" rather than "the guy we booted out of Congress for being a total dick").

Newt cares far more about himself than about the Party, and far more about the Party than he cares about the country.

I don't care about his reasons; the simple fact that Newt is doing this is shedding some very untimely light in places the GOP wanted to remain quite hidden, and for that I will say Newt has finally proven himself useful to the future of the country.

ironically...by going as negative as he possibly can.

I've found John McCain to be an apt analogy for the current Republican party. Formerly proud with noble goals, now it's old and cancer stricken and more than a little senile. And like all things with cancer, Newt Gingrich is distancing himself from it.

/Best primary season ever

Politicians not "going negative" is like two crack addicts trying to not do crack.

"My opponent and I have our differences sure, but one thing I hope we can agree on is that the campaign doesn't resort to negative attack ads."

"Negative attack ads? Who said anything about negative attack ads? I want to keep this campaign positive too!"

"Did you just say negative attack ads twice?"

"That's twice you've used the term negative attack ads! Why are you so fixated on this?"

"THAT'S IT!"

"GLOVES OFF!"

meat0918: So much for the 11th Commandment.

//It never really existed anyways.

Many attend the Church of Reagan but few understand.

I am amazed by the instantaneous and virtually unanimous full court press from the GOP in pushing back against the criticism of Romney's Bain record even from Perry and Gingrich supporters.

It'll be interesting to see if the Paulites or the 'baggers pick it up because it's apparently been declared off-limits to the rank and file Republicans.

Come on, Newt. Don't hold back. Tell us what you really think.