Posts Tagged With Newt Gingrich
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 / 11:01 am
And They’re Back!
After almost a month, the GOP field graces our evening with the 435th debate of the season!
by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Tags: Newt Gingrich | Rick Santorum | Mitt Romney | Ron Paul | gop | debates
What have you done with yourselves the past month? Haven't you missed Rick Santorum pouting and whining and being a dick? And Mitt Romney, with his surprisingly dorky and inarticulate stammer? And Newton declaring war on any and all comers? And Ron Paul, with his trademarked litany of Sensible Things?
My little brother Cakeyboy and I didn't know how we would live without them, after sharing our evenings with them like eight nights a week. But now, praise Jesus, they are back: tonight, 5 p.m. Pacific, on CNN–Your Home for Whatever.
(“Come over for the debate,” I wrote last time to my little brother. “I will roast us a chicken! Be there, or don't eat a chicken!”
“You had me at debate,” he answered back. “And again at chicken.”)
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012 / 2:12 pm
Thinking About the GOP Field With a Lump in My Breast
What a bunch of boobs.
by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Tags: Newt Gingrich | Rick Santorum | Mitt Romney | Ron Paul | women's health | Planned Parenthood | feminism! | gop | breasts
Almost 15 years ago, my big sister Sarah called me with very important news.
“I just want you to know,” she said. “Being 30? I have never felt like more of a woman!” It was heartening news for a 25-year-old me.
And now, with my right breast sore and a large lump behind my nipple, I have never felt like more of a woman either.
Planned Parenthood will see me Friday morning – thank you, Planned Parenthood – but until then, I can sit here and be angry, or I can sit here and be angry and think about the GOP.
I have seen a lot of articles wondering why women don't like Newt Gingrich. Really, media? You have to ask?
It's not the cheating – Democratic women still love Bill, mostly, much of the time.
It's not Newton's policy choices. What, besides the moon colony and shutting down the government when he doesn't like his seat on Air Force One, have most folks even heard about?
It's that every time a wife gets sick, he is Mr. In The Wind. You'd think the “character counts” (no blowjobs) folks would feel a little squicky with a track record of callously leaving wives to die cold and alone. And it turns out, at least, the women do!
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Friday, January 20, 2012 / 7:43 am
Gingrich and Grandiosity
The Big Lie Souffle and other GOP delicacies.
by Donna Schoenkopf
Tags: Newt Gingrich | 2012 election
I am old enough to remember Newt Gingrich in action, back in the day.
He was and is a very, very clever liar. He drops a lie, coats it immediately with some kind of clever extraction of some kind of well-known truth, and then folds them together into a puffed up Big Lie Souffle. It is always smooth and easy to swallow, so Low Information Voters just gulp the whole thing down. In one sound bite.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 / 11:38 am
Why Newt Keeps Coming Back and People Love Him For It
Smiling their way through the negativity.
by Tony Chavira
Tags: Newt Gingrich | 2012 election
Unlike a lot of my comrades, most of the Republican candidates strike me as gears in a much larger political machine programmed to corporatize the world while justifying the claim that the only answer for rampant capitalism is a healthy dose of more capitalism–instead of devil spawn sent from another dimension to lead us to the apocalypse, I mean. In particular, I don't think Cain, Santorum, Perry, Bachmann, Paul, Huntsman or even Romney have sinister motives. I do think they've been brainwashed by advertisements for a past that never existed, but call that more of a hunch on my part.
