The felony is offering her a spot if she supports him, which by the looks of his waist he might need the entire Palin family.

I'd love to see Newt arrested for this, but he's never been held accountable for anything.

It's kinda why he's such a sociopath.

What job did he offer her? Fluffer?

So? He was in the government, and has lots of money. He gets to do whatever he wants. You peons are just envious, and trying to start class warfare.

It's not illegal unless he offers her the job on the condition she endorses him.

Of course it was also unconstitutional to appoint Hillary Clinton to secretary of state because she had voted to give that position a raise in her most recent term as senator. She turned down the extra money but that doesn't change the fact the law said she is ineligible.

Not that anyone cares but it IS the law.

She endorsed him first and then he offered a hypothetical position. I dislike Newt as much as the next human being, but it seems like the law only applies if it was the other way around.

Tingle007: It's not illegal unless he offers her the job on the condition she endorses him.

Of course it was also unconstitutional to appoint Hillary Clinton to secretary of state because she had voted to give that position a raise in her most recent term as senator. She turned down the extra money but that doesn't change the fact the law said she is ineligible.

Not that anyone cares but it IS the law.

No, it's illegal to announce your cabinet before being elected.

Ahh yes. The coveted Harpy Pariah endorsement.

The question of the day is:

If Santorum offers Jesus a cabinet position before being elected, is that breaking the law?

What Newt's next wife may look like.

/Up next: Newt's recipe for raisin jack.

Details. They're a biatch.

Yet it isn't too hard to see old Newt falling into this kind of error. Technicalities and the hard work of getting the mechanics right just aren't his thing. He sees his role as being the epic visionary and letting all the little people get busy and implement his idea of what has to happen. If everyone would just get with his program everything would be great. In short, Newt is a big ego slacker who has an incredibly inflated impression of his own ability and education.

From the video:

"I'm a tea party reform conservative. I'm not part of the Washington establishment"

-Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich

Surely he'll be arrested and prosecuted for that, despite being a wealthy Republican.

Tingle007: Of course it was also unconstitutional to appoint Hillary Clinton to secretary of state because she had voted to give that position a raise in her most recent term as senator. She turned down the extra money but that doesn't change the fact the law said she is ineligible.

Where'd this come from?

Kos: Bringing the shrill leftist hyperbole in gay Brazilian style every day!

What's good for the goose...

Watchdog: Obama's 2012 Campaign Donors Granted Access, Posts, Perks
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/watchdog-obamas-2012-cam p aign-donors-granted-access-posts-perks/

So basically Newt will lose the primary and run as an independent in the general, thereby embarrassing Romney and achieving his revenge on the GOP by fracturing it even further.

Probably not, but a man can dream.

You know, I despise this guy's guts but I'm wondering if anyone bothered to read the article? it seems to me that he said he would put the woman in his cabinet... doesn't seem that he was pandering for her support, more of 'if you love shooting moose woman vote for me"

But hey, carry on

HotIgneous Intruder: Kos: Bringing the shrill leftist hyperbole in gay Brazilian style every day!

You mad?

arenaninja: You know, I despise this guy's guts but I'm wondering if anyone bothered to read the article? it seems to me that he said he would put the woman in his cabinet... doesn't seem that he was pandering for her support, more of 'if you love shooting moose woman vote for me"

But hey, carry on

Newt Gingrich long ago squandered any possibility that I would take him seriously enough to read about him. To put it another way, the guy is so far down in the mud that it doesn't really matter whether he was a reprehensible piece of shiat this time.

Fark Politics tab: not exactly the Kennedy School.

subtard: Newt may have just committed a felony

I dunno.

I'm reserving judgment until I hear what elchip with his GED in Law has to say about the finer legal points of the matter.

/my GED is in Honk Bag

If there was any chance in hell of this bag of mashed potatoes getting elected, I'd care. But as it is, there isn't and I don't.

WizardofToast: HotIgneous Intruder: Kos: Bringing the shrill leftist hyperbole in gay Brazilian style every day!

The loving hell is a gay Brazilian style?

WizardofToast: HotIgneous Intruder: Kos: Bringing the shrill leftist hyperbole in gay Brazilian style every day!

The loving hell is a gay Brazilian style?



???

Offer a job to a quitter? Not a very good boss, is he?

WizardofToast: HotIgneous Intruder: Kos: Bringing the shrill leftist hyperbole in gay Brazilian style every day!

The loving hell is a gay Brazilian style?

Not 100% sure but I imagine this gets you close



/Also DO NOT GIS Gay Brazil.... just sayin', I heard from a friend or something

I'm pretty sure there was no felony here without an explicit quid pro quo prior to Palin's endorsement.

Meh, I think this law is unconstitutional, violating the first amendment protection of freedom of speech. Gingrich should be able to say who he wants to hire in the fantasy world where he becomes President of the United States. He's writen science fiction in the past, why not now?

/no, really, he's written a series of alternate universe novels set during World War II
//just like the alternate universe where he becomes President

Although, just because there was no felony, doesn't mean it wasn't sleazy. That's just par for the course with Newt.

Guidette Frankentits: Tingle007: It's not illegal unless he offers her the job on the condition she endorses him.

Of course it was also unconstitutional to appoint Hillary Clinton to secretary of state because she had voted to give that position a raise in her most recent term as senator. She turned down the extra money but that doesn't change the fact the law said she is ineligible.

Not that anyone cares but it IS the law.

No, it's illegal to announce your cabinet before being elected.

Well now, I guess the only issue now is: Was that an offer, or was it only an indication that he'd like her to be on his staff.

With the money he'd throw at lawyers to litigate that, a prosecutor would have to be insane to try to get him on that.

/at least, I'd imagine. I'd love to have a practicing attorney weigh in on this.
//though I hate the fat sack of crap.
///lol, "on his staff"

cannibalparrot: Guidette Frankentits: Tingle007: It's not illegal unless he offers her the job on the condition she endorses him.

Of course it was also unconstitutional to appoint Hillary Clinton to secretary of state because she had voted to give that position a raise in her most recent term as senator. She turned down the extra money but that doesn't change the fact the law said she is ineligible.

Not that anyone cares but it IS the law.

No, it's illegal to announce your cabinet before being elected.

Well now, I guess the only issue now is: Was that an offer, or was it only an indication that he'd like her to be on his staff.

With the money he'd throw at lawyers to litigate that, a prosecutor would have to be insane to try to get him on that.

/at least, I'd imagine. I'd love to have a practicing attorney weigh in on this.
//though I hate the fat sack of crap.
///lol, "on his staff"

D'oh, I meant to say the issue is "was this an actual announcement." not yhe offer bit.

/long day

Laws. You people are so farking cute and innocent. Laws are for little people. Newt could rape a black baby on live TV and then set it on fire, nobody would touch him. Although he would likely get the Republican primary locked up however.

Felony, thats so farking cute.

bugontherug: I'm pretty sure there was no felony here without an explicit quid pro quo prior to Palin's endorsement.

Perhaps. But could it be construed as a message to other candidates that, were they to suspend their campaigns, he's willing to toss an appointment their way in exchange for their endorsement?

MrEricSir: If there was any chance in hell of this bag of mashed potatoes getting elected, I'd care. But as it is, there isn't and I don't.

Thread over...

I don't know what the big deal is....it's not like he used tax payer dollars to bribe a congressman in Nebraska to vote for his healthcare bill or anything.

And his open marriage? Shiat, he'd just been hanging around with Bill and Hillary too much.

Republicans really don't get it. I consider myself independent although I do lean to the right. I have only ever registered as a Republican once and that was only so I could vote AGAINST one in a primary (Joe Arpaio).

But Sarah Palin is batshiat insane Anyone who has anything to do with her should not be taken seriously.

All of the Republicans who I could even consider voting for President have either not launched a campaign or have bowed out. The more I look at the GOP presidential candidates the more I like Obama. And that's a farking shame because I think we do need "hope and change" but Obama has given us little to hope for and absolutely no change (at least not for the better).

I think the GOP has given up any hope for winning the Executive Branch in 2012 and are just farking around hoping that the Dems don't come up with an unbeatable candidate in 2016.

Ron Paul has some good ideas - also some crazy ones. He is unelectable. This is the final nail in Gingrich's coffin as far as I'm concerned. Only nutjobs ever took Palin or Bachman seriously. So what is the GOP's best chance this year? Romney. He's the guy that most of us who are likely GOP voters aren't too sure about, but hasn't really convinced us that he'd be a good president.

Since when did laws apply to rich Republicans?

Laws are only for the little people.

Has anyone ever asked Newt his feelings about all these teacher student sex scandals and they might affect an impressionable young lad?

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/19/142499490/5-things-you-may-not-know-abo u t-gingrich

Newt met his first wife, Jackie, when he was a 16-year-old high school student in Columbus, Ga. Jackie was his 23-year-old math teacher. They married when Gingrich was a freshman at Emory University in Atlanta,