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Newt Gingrich-related crap. Need I say more? No. I need not.

Why Jon Stewart is my secret other husband.

Posted on February 14, 2012 by | 3 Comments

“You’ve confused a war on your religion with not getting everything you want.”

(Yes, I know it’s everywhere. I feel very strongly that it should be here, too).

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Newt Gingrich at CPAC: Not this crap again

Posted on February 10, 2012 by | 11 Comments

Today at CPAC, Newt Gingrich dug deep into his barrel of bullshit and spewed it forth into the willing upturned faces of the conservatives masses.

After grandiosely claiming that President Obama will begin to wage a war on the Catholic Church after his reelection (really?  What would that even look like?), Newton set his phasers to fearmonger:

“I, frankly, don’t care what deal he tries to cut,” Gingrich said in an afternoon speech, referring to the administration’s “accommodation” with religious groups on a proposed mandate for birth control. “We cannot trust him, we know who he really is, and we should make sure the country knows who he really is.” Continue reading →

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Dear Asian-Americans: I am so sorry that I didn’t warn you about the GOP.

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | 13 Comments

Or: The GOP – they really don’t seem to like much of anybody!

Last week, I wrote a post asking the GOP to just shut up about black people, a post which got a surprising amount of attention across the web.

In the aftermath of that, I found myself wondering: “Huh. Who is the GOP going to demonize and belittle next in this election cycle?”

And I knew: Asian-Americans. A post began to form itself in my head, one I intended to write sometime this week.

I mean, they’ve demonized and belittled gay people already:

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BREAKING: Polls say nobody likes Mitt

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | 2 Comments

About as shocking as the weather forecast in Seattle, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll reports large black clouds hanging over GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s campaign.

Romney, who notched his second consecutive victory Saturday by easily winning the Nevada caucuses, continues to solidify his position as the front-runner in the race for the GOP nomination. But as the contest has grown more negative, public impressions of the top Republican contenders have soured, as has the former Massachusetts governor’s standing as a general-election candidate.

As President Obama took a 9 percent lead over Romney (52 to 43) and saw his job approval rating jump to the highest it has been in eight months, the former Massachusetts governor actually lost support.

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Posted in Election 2012? Oy vey!, Eye of Newt, Magic Underpants, Nicholas Wilbur, Obama 2012: Yes We Will!

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Newt Gingrich: Obama’s Biggest Fan

Posted on February 6, 2012 by | 5 Comments

With friends like Newt Gingrich, who needs Organizing for America?

In his concession speech following the Nevada primary Saturday night, Gingrich laid to rest the Romney campaign’s “greatest fantasy” by clarifying that he would continue his campaign all the way to the Republican convention.

“I am a candidate for president of the United States,” he said. “I will be a candidate for president of the United States. We will go to Tampa.”

While it may have quashed Romney’s “greatest fantasy,” it served simultaneously as a reinforcement to Democrats’ “greatest fantasy.”

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Tweet of the Day – Newt’s Campaign Harem

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Gingrich Supporter Rick Tyler: Democrats Abort Black Babies [updated]

Posted on February 1, 2012 by | 17 Comments

Madness.

Gingrich campaign strategist Rick Tyler opened his mouth last night and a whole lotta stupid fell out. The below clip demonstrates that Republicans really do live in an alternate reality where up is down, the sky is green, and asking a question about racism ipso facto makes you racist.

It’s surreal:

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As karoli over at Crooks & Liars put it:

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Juan Williams: Simp Phony For The Devil

Posted on January 30, 2012 by | 3 Comments

And speaking of Newt Gingrich and media moderators…

Having taken over Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog for Steve Benen (now part of the Maddow team at MSNBC, and more power to him there, he’s badly needed), Ed Kilgore is doing a pretty solid job so far.  He flags this article from The Hill written by FOX News punching bag Juan Williams and immediately asks the correct question: How long will Juan Williams now last at FOX after stating the obvious about the network’s racial dog-whistle language?  Williams states:

The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are “entitlement society” — as used by Mitt Romney — and “poor work ethic” and “food stamp president” — as used by Newt Gingrich. References to a lack of respect for the “Founding Fathers” and the “Constitution” also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core “old-fashioned American values.”

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Newt Gingrich Refuses to Debate President Obama if Reporters Serve As Moderators

Posted on January 30, 2012 by | 18 Comments

Awww! Wittle Newt thinks he’s gonna get to debate Pwesident Obama! How pwecious!

During a campaign stop today, Newt claimed that he won’t debate President Obama if reporters serve as moderators.  Even though every debate is moderated by a reporter of some kind, Newton seems to think he’s special and that he gets to make the rules.  I don’t know what he thinks he’s entitled to — a debate moderated by Colonel Sanders?

It’s kind of cute, in a way.  Cute like a raccoon is cute until you realize it’s rabid and it tries to bite your face off.

What?  I don’t know.

From Think Progress,

GINGRICH: As your nominee in the fall, I will not accept debates in which reporters are the moderators, because I will not accept another Obama person in the debate.

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