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As you may have seen, yesterday Nancy Pelosi said that "there's something" that she knows about Newt Gingrich that will ensure he never becomes president. It was an obvious setup to help Newt Gingrich (if you're Newt, who better to have as a foil than Nancy Pelosi?) but Mitt Romney in his infinite boneheadedness fell into the trap anyway earlier on Fox:
CARLSON: Mr. Romney, what does Nancy Pelosi know if it would be such a bombshell as to why Newt Gingrich couldn't be president?
ROMNEY: I wish I knew what that was [laughter]. I'd tell people what it is right now.
But that's one of the reasons why I'm saying that all of the records that were part of the ethics investigation, all of the transcripts, all of the records have to be made public.
Not just the final white-washed report but the full record, the reason that 88% of the Republicans in the House voted to reprimand their own Speaker..... we need to understand why that is, and those records need to be released, because you know that if Nancy Pelosi knows those things right now, she will hand them to Barack Obama's campaign if Speaker Gingrich were our nominee.
7:33 AM PT: And Newt Gingrich (predictably) isn't flinching, challenging Pelosi to say what it is that she knows. "I have no idea what's in Nancy Pelosi's head. If she knows something, I have a simple challenge: Spit it out."
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livetohike
(22,165 posts)He's not going anywhere anyway, imo.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)and yes it is a think of beauty.
Stratetalker
(77 posts)Gingrich: Most Of The Asians, Some Latinos, But Not Many African Americans Understand Entrepreneurship
By Marie Diamond posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Jan 24, 2012 at 12:00 pm
GOP contender Newt Gingrich has built up quite a record of making derogatory, racially-charged remarks on the campaign trail. He frequently derides President Obama as a food stamp president and said he would go to the NAACP and tell African Americans they should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. Last week he said work is a strange, distant concept to Fox anchor Juan Williams, who had the audacity to ask Gingrich at a recent debate if he understood why blacks might be offended by his remarks.
More than 40 Catholic leaders recently challenged Gingrich to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes with his divisive rhetoric.
For Gingrich, perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes is nothing new. Today, the Huffington Post reports that at the height of Gingrichs power in Congress, one of his major speeches had to be edited to remove a racist characterization of Asians, Latinos, and black Americans:
But before Gingrich could deliver his grand new theory of American civilization to the public in a 1993 speech, his deeply divisive racial stereotypes would need to be removed.
For poor minorities, entrepreneurship in small business is the key to future wealth, Gingrich wrote by hand in a first draft. This is understood thoroughly by most of the Asians, partially by Latinos, and to a tragically small degree by much of the American black community. [...]
By the time a member of Gingrichs staff typed up the notes and prepared the speech for delivery at the National Review Institute, the racial stereotypes were gone.
Is this 'nuff?
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)We're lucky to have her.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)he's excited; sweat beading up on his forehead and hands shaking so bad he can barely make the call. Nancy answers and says "Mittens? Why are you calling me?"
In a whisper, Mittens stammers around then says "Please tell me what you know about Newt, please please please! I have to know now! I'll do anything you want!"
Nancy chuckles and hangs up the phone.
haele
(12,681 posts)He probably doesn't even think he did anything unethical when he was stripped of his speaker's position. He seems honestly unable to comprehend anything that doesn't directly interest him or fits in his personal narrative. Which probably wasn't a big deal when he was a "team player" and could create his own script under supervision, but in a leadership role, sticks out like a sore thumb.
Ethics? Those change from minute to minute, if you're the type of person who can't concieve that anything you do could possibly be wrong...
Haele
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)...trap for the guy in a second.
This is getting interesting