Madonna exits, Mitt marches on
The concepts are unintentionally funny, the players about as exciting as a squad of assembly-line robots. More here.
Central Government for Dummies
Tea Partiers are so ignorant they don’t seem to know what Ben Franklin meant when he used a snake as a symbol to rally colonists into uniting against a common enemy. More here.
Tuning out Newt’s noise
One Randy California guitar solo is worth more than a thousand political campaign speeches:
Newt’s new-found concern
Newt Gingrich is upset — downright indignant, it seems — because Mitt Romney is “not concerned about the very poor.” Even Jim DeMint is upset with Mittens.
Right. If you believe this, I know some hot new housing developments in Florida you’ll want to invest in.
From ThinkProgress:
…Despite all their new-found concern for the middle class and the poor, all three Republicans — Romney, Gingrich, and DeMint — support policies that would substantially undermine safety net programs and result in massive giveaways to upper-income earners and investors, while doing almost nothing for middle- and low-income Americans.
Dirtballs face off in Florida
Newt accused Mitt of having mutual funds invested in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, mortgage lenders backed by (gasp!) big government. Mitt counterattacked with the same charge when he learned Newt also had invested in Freddie and Fannie. In debating circles, this is known as the “you’re as big a dirtball as I am” argument. More here.
Newt promises the moon
Give the people what they want, or at least make false promises:
In a speech pandering to Florida’s aerospace community ahead of the state’s primary, GOP contender Newt Gingrich made a bold pledge to establish a permanent U.S. base on the moon “by the end of my second term.” He further promised that if he becomes president, America will get a man to Mars “in a remarkably short time.” A budget-conscious President Obama ended the program for a lunar colony and moon trip after NASA reported it didn’t have the money for any part of the plan, “and even if it were to get a budget infusion, the schedule was unworkable.” Gingrich rebutted the charge that he is “grandiose” by comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, the Wright Brothers and John F. Kennedy. ThinkProgress has previously reported on Gingrich’s curious space fetish, which has included an idea for a “mirror system in space could provide the light equivalent of many full moons” for nighttime driving.
Pretty easy code to break
Candy Crowley asks Rep. James Clyburn if Newt Gingrich’s reference to Barack Obama as the “food stamps president” was a racial comment. Where did she get that crazy idea?
Embarrassing
The officeholder who shouted obscenities at women hecklers and was caught being shuttled by helicopter to his son’s Little League game had harsh words yesterday for the South Carolina primary winner:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) says that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has “embarrassed” the Republican Party, but former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney never has.
Following Romney’s devastating loss to Gingrich in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, Christie told NBC’s David Gregory that the former speaker just didn’t have the experience needed to be president.
“I think Newt Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time,” Christie explained. “Whether he’ll do it again in the future, I don’t know. But Gov. Romney never has.”
“We all know the record,” the New Jersey governor continued. “He was run out of the speakership by his own party. He was fined $300,000 for ethic violations. This is a guy who’s had a very difficult political career at times and has been an embarrassment to the party.”
“But do you think a candidate, a nominee Gingrich, could also beat President [Barack] Obama?” Gregory asked.
“Sure,” Christie replied.
Another ugly GOP debate audience
When Republican presidential candidates get together to debate, the yahoos come out. They don’t like gay soldiers, child labor laws, death penalty foes, or food stamp users. And don’t forget Mexicans:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may be in the lead in the Palmetto State, but that doesn’t mean South Carolinians necessarily like him.
During a Fox News debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Monday, the Republican audience booed loudly after being told that Romney’s father was born in Mexico…
Newt joins OWS!
I’m joking, but in his speeches and attack ads against Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich sounds a lot like the thousands of Occupiers who protested the vulture capitalism that Mitt personifies. More here.
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