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,
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For Heaven’s sake man: put a disclaimer in front of imagery like that!
Well said, though.

Newt was “done” for me well before this latest pansy azz equivalent of “no comment.

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.

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.

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!

To quote “The Simpsons”, there’s nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak.

I have one word on Newt: Scozzafava!

Newt is dead to me.

By all means let us continue to marginalize our potential leadership. The proceeding comments show exactly why we’ll never have another Reagan.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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