Newt Gingrich, master of Congressional chaos, FREAKS

[BumRushDaShow]

He delivered this shocker the day after the failed insurrection that he has stoked for over 40 years (complete with the usual GOP misspellings and of course attempting the "both sides" ) -

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Newt Gingrich
@newtgingrich
As a former Speaker of the House I was infuriated by the assault on the Capitol. Everyone who illegally entered the Captiol should be tried. Everyone who confronted the police should be tried on felony charges. We must insist on the rule of law in the Capitol and everywhere.
10:18 AM · Jan 7, 2021

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Newt Gingrich
@newtgingrich
The Republican National Committee should adopt a rule that no one who belongs to pro-violence extremist groups should be allowed to serve as a Republicasn delegate or be eligible to run for office as a Republican.Democrats should adopt the same rule.
10:20 AM · Jan 7, 2021

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Newt Gingrich
@newtgingrich
Yesterday was bad, painful, and entirely unacceptable. If we don’t get a grip on stopping this radical violence throughout our society, our shared American future will become much worse.
Newt Gingrich | Stop All the Violence | Gingrich 360
Yesterday was bad, painful, and entirely unacceptable.If we don’t get a grip on stopping this radical violence throughout our society, our shared American future will become much worse.
gingrich360.com
3:40 PM · Jan 7, 2021

This "revolution" is his baby.

[Norbert]

1. I don't give a shit what you think, Newt.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Dr Newtenstein doesn't recognize his own monster.

Fuck you, Newt.

[SoonerPride]

4. Dr. Frankenstein shocked when the monster he created smashes up his lab and kills him

Fuck off Newt.

[superpatriotman]

17. Lots of Dr. Frankensteins in the gop

Millions of loose monsters

[yellowcanine]

5. Shut up Newt. You are complicit.

[jcgoldie]

6. In other news...

Man pokes dog repeatedly then crusades for banning pets when he gets bitten.

[trc]

7. He also blamed this on BLM and the dems

for their protests over police violence towards people of color. He will forever be a piece of shit.

[Mc Mike]

8. Yeah, 'both sides', newt.

Fat nazi pig.

[fishwax]

9. "Why I will not accept Joe Biden as president," by Newt Gingrich

I won't link to it, but that was the title of an editorial he wrote for the Washington Times last month.

Your outrage now means nothing, you flaccid little cucumber. You own this mess.

[RAB910]

10. I just wanted to keep my slaves, I didn't think that would start a war

[Hestia]

11. Why is this cretin posted on this board? Is this GOP Lite now?

We need to stop giving these asshole our eyes and brains. They are squirrels and we've got work to do.

I'm going to start alerting on these "stories" and "comments." WGAF what they say?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. This is the GOP reaction from those who for years, were behind the events at the Capitol this week

[underpants]

13. Newt, Frank Luntz, and Rush Limbaugh early 1990's at the top of the hill making snowballs

They set them in motion and it’s been all downhill from there.

[Hugin]

14. Chickens. Come. Home. Roost. Now...

That's five!

Did I get it? Is my thinky meat still okay? Doc?

[MineralMan]

15. Crawl back under your rock, you slimy little salamander!

You can't lie yourself out of this one, Newt! We all know you.

[marked50]

16. The only time anyone should listened to or broadcast anything from the people who have helped

create the situation and the division that we are living through now is when they start with something like "I am sorry that I have been responsible for this divide....". Until they can admit that; their "opines" or comments are worthless.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Well, He's Now Been Correct, One Time!

Took long enough! He's 77. Don't understand how someone could wait until 77 before they were right about something!

[usajumpedtheshark]

19. I don't take advice from people who cheat on their spouses and then refuse to provide

adequate support for the family he broke up. Especially when the spouse has cancer. He was cheating on his second wife during the time of the Clinton impeachment travesty.

Apparently, Newt turned Catholic after marrying his third wife. Trump appointed Newt's wife as ambassador to the Holy See which I am sure thrilled the Pope (sarcasm)

[BumRushDaShow]

20. He is basically the founder of their idiotic movement and we have witnessed its self-destruction

I had posted an "Atlantic" interview article about him and one can see where what we have seen unfold, came right out of his fervent extremist philosophy -

The Man Who Broke Politics

Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements.

Story by McKay Coppins
November 2018 Issue

Updated on October 17, 2018

[snip]

On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College. But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before him—he had come to foment revolution.

“One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty,” he told the group. “We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics.” For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to “raise hell,” to stop being so “nice,” to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat “war for power”—and to start acting like it.

The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those who’d survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a “permanent minority” mind-set. “It was like death,” he recalls of the mood in the caucus. “They were morally and psychologically shattered.”

But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. “His idea,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, “was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.”

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/