Scratch Gingrich in 2012: Newt Backs Out of 9/11 Rally Against Ground Zero Mosque

Posted on | August 21, 2010 | 35 Comments

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) will not be addressing a protest of the proposed mosque in lower Manhattan on the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
The organizers of the rally, Stop Islamization of America and Freedom Defense Initiative, announced Gingrich as one of the event’s confirmed speakers on the Web last weekend. . . .
[A] spokesman for Gingrich, a possible 2012 presidential candidate, told The Hill that the former leader of the House had never confirmed his appearance. Instead, one of Gingrich’s staff had agreed to send a video message from him to be shown at the Sept. 11 rally.
That has since been canceled. . . .
[The spokesman] did not comment on why Gingrich was no longer planning to send a video message to the rally . . .

Two words: Testicular atrophy.

In the space of five days, Gingrich has gone from comparing the mosque to a Nazi sign at the Holocaust Museum to quitting a protest against it.

Make an enemy of Pamela Geller? Be my guest, Newt. Nice presidential campaign you had there.

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35 Responses to “Scratch Gingrich in 2012: Newt Backs Out of 9/11 Rally Against Ground Zero Mosque”

Dandapani
August 22nd, 2010 @ 1:55 am

Gingrich lost his presidential virginity long back on that couch with Pelozi (remember the photo?). As far as I’m concerned, he can go Scozzafava himself.
Dandapani
August 21st, 2010 @ 9:55 pm

Gingrich lost his presidential virginity long back on that couch with Pelozi (remember the photo?). As far as I’m concerned, he can go Scozzafava himself.
smitty
August 21st, 2010 @ 10:08 pm

@Dandapani,
[Touch typing through temporary blindness]
For Heaven’s sake man: put a disclaimer in front of imagery like that!
Well said, though.
smitty
August 22nd, 2010 @ 2:08 am

@Dandapani,
[Touch typing through temporary blindness]
For Heaven’s sake man: put a disclaimer in front of imagery like that!
Well said, though.
Newt Gingrich shows his true nature again | The Daley Gator
August 21st, 2010 @ 10:11 pm

[…] big fan of Newt, for many reasons, in fact too many to list here, but suffice it to say that it is crap like this that has led to my distaste for Newt! RS McCain says that Newt is toast! Stick a fork in him, he’s done: […]
BlueCollarGal
August 22nd, 2010 @ 2:32 am

Newt was “done” for me well before this latest pansy azz equivalent of “no comment.
BlueCollarGal
August 21st, 2010 @ 10:32 pm

Newt was “done” for me well before this latest pansy azz equivalent of “no comment.
Dell
August 22nd, 2010 @ 2:48 am

Was there ever really any doubt?

Not in this man’s mind. And this lily-levered stunt gets him the Hell out of the way for some younger blood to move on up.

Gingrich has been part of the problem (just like McCain) for far too long.
Dell
August 21st, 2010 @ 10:48 pm

Was there ever really any doubt?

Not in this man’s mind. And this lily-levered stunt gets him the Hell out of the way for some younger blood to move on up.

Gingrich has been part of the problem (just like McCain) for far too long.
Adobe Walls
August 22nd, 2010 @ 2:51 am

Newt has some good political instincts and has experience enough to make a great advisor. If he was one of our better viable Presidential candidates we really are done. At any rate he should not be at rallies like this, it might impress the wingnuts like me but it won’t help with some of the… um… less dedicated enemies of jihad.
Adobe Walls
August 21st, 2010 @ 10:51 pm

Newt has some good political instincts and has experience enough to make a great advisor. If he was one of our better viable Presidential candidates we really are done. At any rate he should not be at rallies like this, it might impress the wingnuts like me but it won’t help with some of the… um… less dedicated enemies of jihad.
proof
August 22nd, 2010 @ 2:55 am

For all the brilliant strategery of his Contract with American, Newt has shown not only a tin ear to politics of late, but unusually poor judgment the last few years.

Stick a fork in him, indeed!
proof
August 21st, 2010 @ 10:55 pm

For all the brilliant strategery of his Contract with American, Newt has shown not only a tin ear to politics of late, but unusually poor judgment the last few years.

Stick a fork in him, indeed!
Thrasymachus
August 22nd, 2010 @ 3:21 am

To quote “The Simpsons”, there’s nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak.
Thrasymachus
August 21st, 2010 @ 11:21 pm

To quote “The Simpsons”, there’s nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak.
Joe
August 22nd, 2010 @ 6:32 am

I have one word on Newt: Scozzafava!

Newt is dead to me.
Joe
August 22nd, 2010 @ 2:32 am

I have one word on Newt: Scozzafava!

Newt is dead to me.
Steve in TN
August 22nd, 2010 @ 8:46 am

By all means let us continue to marginalize our potential leadership. The proceeding comments show exactly why we’ll never have another Reagan.
Steve in TN
August 22nd, 2010 @ 12:46 pm

By all means let us continue to marginalize our potential leadership. The proceeding comments show exactly why we’ll never have another Reagan.
Randy Rager
August 22nd, 2010 @ 1:20 pm

Newt’s been dead to me for a lot longer than this. He’s not fit to wipe Reagan’s shoes, and never has been.

I prefer that my leaders actually understand the principles involved (Life, Self-Defense, Property, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness) and have the guts to fight for them.
Randy Rager
August 22nd, 2010 @ 9:20 am

Newt’s been dead to me for a lot longer than this. He’s not fit to wipe Reagan’s shoes, and never has been.

I prefer that my leaders actually understand the principles involved (Life, Self-Defense, Property, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness) and have the guts to fight for them.
Joe
August 22nd, 2010 @ 1:59 pm

Randy, I could forgive Newt his mistakes (heck, Reagan made lots of mistakes), I could forgive Newt his personal weakness (that is for his ex wives to deal with), but I cannot forgive his character flaw–

Reagan had a goal and stuck to it. Newt thinks about Newt and cannot seem to grasp the end game. He loses the goal and goes off track.

Newt is not a good leader.
Joe
August 22nd, 2010 @ 9:59 am

Randy, I could forgive Newt his mistakes (heck, Reagan made lots of mistakes), I could forgive Newt his personal weakness (that is for his ex wives to deal with), but I cannot forgive his character flaw–

Reagan had a goal and stuck to it. Newt thinks about Newt and cannot seem to grasp the end game. He loses the goal and goes off track.

Newt is not a good leader.
Randy Rager
August 22nd, 2010 @ 3:11 pm

Call it lack of focus, lack of guts, whatever. I am in absolute agreement with you on Newt’s leadership abilities, such as they are.
Randy Rager
August 22nd, 2010 @ 11:11 am

Call it lack of focus, lack of guts, whatever. I am in absolute agreement with you on Newt’s leadership abilities, such as they are.
Bob Belvedere
August 22nd, 2010 @ 9:21 pm

It’s been Dog Track Time for Newt for quite a while.

Sir Belvdere: What makes you think she’s a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a Newt!
Sir Belvedere: A Newt…Gingrich?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] … I never got better.
Bob Belvedere
August 22nd, 2010 @ 5:21 pm

It’s been Dog Track Time for Newt for quite a while.

Sir Belvdere: What makes you think she’s a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a Newt!
Sir Belvedere: A Newt…Gingrich?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] … I never got better.
Kim
August 22nd, 2010 @ 10:31 pm

I thought Newt was done after Scozzafava, but according to a post on Gateway Pundit, Newt was never confirmed to be at the protest because he was already committed to an appearance in DC for a screening of his film America At Risk on Sep 11. What is the truth?
Kim
August 22nd, 2010 @ 6:31 pm

I thought Newt was done after Scozzafava, but according to a post on Gateway Pundit, Newt was never confirmed to be at the protest because he was already committed to an appearance in DC for a screening of his film America At Risk on Sep 11. What is the truth?
J David
August 23rd, 2010 @ 2:45 am

The truth is that Newt is a squish now, and has been a D.C. insider-squish for a very long time, without a clear eye for who are the enemies of American liberty. If Newt, or any other pretender to conservative leadership is not preaching the Constitution first-and-foremost, 24/7, they need to be shoved aside, if not trampled on.
J David
August 22nd, 2010 @ 10:45 pm

The truth is that Newt is a squish now, and has been a D.C. insider-squish for a very long time, without a clear eye for who are the enemies of American liberty. If Newt, or any other pretender to conservative leadership is not preaching the Constitution first-and-foremost, 24/7, they need to be shoved aside, if not trampled on.
Mike G
August 23rd, 2010 @ 3:26 am

You wanna know the best argument for buildingthe mosque now? The fact that it will blow up in their– er, poor choice of metaphor there– that they will be hoist with their own petard. You just KNOW this one’s gonna turn out to have some members who do something nasty, and the Feds will turn out to have tapes of the guys plotting it (they should build the thing like the Soviet embassy, with listening devices built in at the time of construction) and the money trail will lead to (name your bad guys). It will be a big mess that will discredit the people who thought tolerance required us to build an Iranian mosque on the bodies of the murdered. And that will be fun to watch. Sort of. In a bitter way.
Mike G
August 22nd, 2010 @ 11:26 pm

You wanna know the best argument for buildingthe mosque now? The fact that it will blow up in their– er, poor choice of metaphor there– that they will be hoist with their own petard. You just KNOW this one’s gonna turn out to have some members who do something nasty, and the Feds will turn out to have tapes of the guys plotting it (they should build the thing like the Soviet embassy, with listening devices built in at the time of construction) and the money trail will lead to (name your bad guys). It will be a big mess that will discredit the people who thought tolerance required us to build an Iranian mosque on the bodies of the murdered. And that will be fun to watch. Sort of. In a bitter way.
Alan K. Henderson
August 23rd, 2010 @ 5:11 am

Didn’t Gingrich surrender to the Clintons in his second year as House Speaker?
Alan K. Henderson
August 23rd, 2010 @ 1:11 am

Didn’t Gingrich surrender to the Clintons in his second year as House Speaker?