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And the undeniable fact that Gingrich is a has been, vanity, fringe candidate that, if he somehow did get the nomination, would lose 40-45 states is mitigated by the fact that Romney is a facist. .

Nobody is happy about Romney being the nominee, Sonny. It's a shame a credible challenger, rather than self absorbed jack ass with his own with his own questionable conservative credentials wasn't around to challenge him. But continuing to ride the Gingrich horse at this stage (or at any stage), and pointing out how there is hope because a poll shows him losing badly to Obama, and then pivoting to accuse others of ignorance based on time at FR, and the complete non sequitur of Romney's apparent facism raises serious questions about just who is displaying ignorance.

Saw it on another post — Rasmussen has Newt Gingrich within 7 points of Obama.

Can you explain how losing decisively to an opponent he will never get the chance to face is good news?

Thanks for sharing your wonderfulness.

Why is it so hard to understand that Gingrich was a fringe, vanity candidate that never had a chance, and his time for preening in front of the mirror is over?

Dissatisfaction that milquetoast Romney will be the nominee is one thing we all share.

But The inability to see that Newt is a major turn off to about 80% of the people who's votes matter, with questionable conservative credentials of his own (see couch/Pelosi. Also see trough feeding: Freedie Mac), that would lose 40 states if nominated, requires willful blindness.

The media and Obama will use the ample ammunition provided by Romney's lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal record

Yes. Obama and the MSM are going to set out to convince voters that Romney is a left-wing progressive liberal and we need a conservative like Obama instead.

Do you listen to yourself? Do you see the slightest problem with your logic? Do you consider yourself lucid?

You forgot the “would lose 40 or more states and hand the house to the dems” line, which Newt would have a “y” in.

You dead-enders are going to be a real hoot as soon as Newt gives up the Bruce Willis “Sixth Sense” role. I see marginalized, inconsequential people.

The smart evade, the brave fight and die in the Warsaw Ghetto or fight and survive in the resistance.

This appears to be bad sentence construction. Applying your own reasoning on such matters, can we conclude you lack intelligence and your arguments are invalid? Is it true that "The illiteracy further undermines the vapid argument."?

Have you ever noticed that sycophancy is one of the least admirable human traits? Playing the role that God carved out for dogs.

I like having choices.

No irony there.

What dya think Jim?

Little Green Footballs redux; complete with obsequious, tattling sycophants hoping for a pat on the head from the big guy for their efforts at cleansing the place of dissension. Wonder what the LGF hit count is these days.

How Jim? How did a distaste for Romney, which we all share, morph into required and enforced fealty to the always fringe and always hopeless candidacy of Newt Gingrich, complete with enforcers like the one I am replying to?

I never thought I'd see the day when Newt Gingrich, of all people, would be whining like a petulant child.

Next thing you know a website will marginalize itself.

So acknowledging your guy has zero chance, because he is just to big of a jerk, while still claiming the other guy’s chances are worse, is a sign of superior intelligence? And someone that notices the problem with that logic is dumbed down?

So the defense of Gingrich has been reduced from spell check to what, capitalization check? And the cliché is where Professor? Do you understand the meaning of your fancy little word with the cute little accent mark that you copied and pasted to get just right?

You must be having the same smug, self satisfied feeling Newt got when he pocketed that cool 1.6 mil for giving history lessons.

I anxiously await your next school marm (Is that spelled right? I sure hope so lest my intellect be called into question my better.) evaluation.

Yes. My illiteracy is a real problem. It has as been my whole life. I can barely get through a cereal box. Or Is it a serial box? I get so confused,being stupid, illiteratre and vapid and all. When typing on my phone at the mall it is even worse. I become a blithering idiot; misspelling at least 1 in 1000 words.

It is very perceptive of you to notice it. It is evidence of your towering intellect and top notch debating skills. The argument is over and has for sure ended in your favor. What was that argument again? It is an absurd notion that Romney might suffer from religious bigotry, or is it an absurd to notion that he won't? In spite of your Volkswagen sized mind, you seem to have failed to say.

It is easy to see why you like newt; having so much in common in the charm, decorum, and full of your self for no particular reason department.

Looks like you are the one obsessing on appearance. I really don't have a candidate I am enthused about that is still standing,

But if we are talking electability in the general, when was the last time somebody that looked like Gingrich was elected president? When was the last time somebody so utterly incapable of connecting with anybody other than his base was elected president? Before television for sure.

You might not be a shallow voter. You might spend your evenings pouring over policy papers. But the people that decide presidential elections are shallow and spend their evenings watching "American Idol". Ignoring this obvious fact reveals true shallowness on the part of many Newt people around here, if you ask me.

If I could simply choose the next president from what is left, it would probably be Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney, in that order. Perhaps I would pick Gingrich over Santorum just for the pleasure of watching leftist heads explode. He'd be a better president than Romney, but it doesn't matter. He won't get the chance.

I would enjoy watching Newt dice Obama in debates. But I am not naïve enough to think a debate performance would prevent Gingrich from losing 40 states, as shallow, apolitical voters recoil in horror at the thought of seeing him on their TV screens for 4 years.

I will always be grateful for what Newt engineered in 94, and would move mountains to vote for him over any Dem. But if you can see anything personally likable about him, you have better eyesight than most. I do enjoy his rhetorical zingers from time to time, but can't see much that's admirable or likable about him. I don't think am the only republican that views him that way.

There is way more to getting elected president than appealing rhetorically to your base. Looks and personality matter. Sorry, but denying it requires a shallowness that can't be denied. Given that, how do you think he will play with 19 year old college girls?

There is no way in hell apolitical people, without core beliefs would vote for him. He would suffer an historic drubbing, in an election against a very beatable incumbent. The purists and anti-Morman voters he would attract better than Romney would be dwarfed by the moderate, apolitical, and shallow he would lose compared to Romney. Why is that so hard to understand?

John McCain never had a chance and Romney’s chances are even worse.

The logic escapes me. Because he isn't conservative enough, like Obama is? Because Obama is so popular now that his record as president is so wonderful? Because Romney isn't fat and obnoxious like Gingrich? Because he has no sweater vests? What?

To me, Newt is an interesting mixture of conservative and futurist.

Perhaps. The Toffler thing was quite a disgrace, to be sure. The problem is that Newt is also an interesting mixture of jerk and selfi-satisfied blowhard that all of us rightfully learned to dislike on the playground.

How you folks that practically worship Newt ever got the idea that the dumbed down general electorate would vote for such a man, while the phony baloney, plastic banana slickster Romney is apparently unelectable, is beyond me.

Years from now, when these kids look at this picture, do you think they’ll want to see something like this?

Will they be traumatized somehow? Will the painful memory of that kid's parents not signing the release come flooding back, just when they thought they had put the whole ugly episode behind them and got on with their lives?

It seems that when you get drunk and crash into another car at a traffic light, there is a 50/50 chance that other car is an unmarked squad.