This is a pretty remarkable statistic:
Of the 1,012 spots Newt Gingrich’s campaign ran, 95% were negative. Mitt Romney’s campaign ran 3,276 ads and 99% were negative.
I hope this thing goes on forever, but I doubt Newt has the stamina.
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Raven
25 or 624
Martin
He’s on his third wife. That takes some stamina…
chopper
meanwhile, obama’s working the hopeful populist angle. which one do you think is going to win?
J.W. Hamner
Newt might stay in, but at some point the news organizations won’t pay to have reporters cover an obvious farce.
JGabriel
DougJ @ Top:
Is it Newt’s stamina we have to worry about, though, or Shelly Adelson’s?
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dmsilev
Well, to be fair, would you want to be the guy charged with writing a positive ad touting Newt?
flukebucket
The Romney campaign is an obvious farce to me but I am loving every minute of it.
Citizen Alan
@J.W. Hamner:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Odie Hugh Manatee
The longer they bludgeon each other the better it is for the rest of the nation. The meltdown at places like Redstate have been glorious to behold. Fractured, fragmented and torn asunder, that’s the Republican party of today. I only wish their candidates were given axes prior to each debate. Naah, maybe the audiences should have been given them.
Either way it would be one impressive bloodbath, that’s for sure!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
on MSNBC the other day, Mark Halperin contradicted all his fellow panelists that this wasn’t about the money, it was about… I forget what, Newt too negative, Romney learning to campaign (which I think is true, maybe I’m just getting used to him, but he does seem a very little bit less robotic since So Car). But it was about the money, and Halperin’s a dick
In the meantime, Newt sent another fund-raising appeal to the Adelsons
flukebucket
Newt is a psychopath in full mania. Stamina should not be a problem. Did you hear him tonight? People trump money every time. And he was surrounded by hundreds of them.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@dmsilev: To be fair, it would depend on how much they’d pay me. And of course, how much energy I had for cognitive dissonance.
amk
And yet fucking willard could not breach the fucking 50% mark in his own fucking party.
Jenny
Tweety just called Mittens a “Dirt-ball”
He’s on fire!
JGabriel
@J.W. Hamner:
That may be true, but will it happen in our lifetimes?
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amk
And of course, the turnout was 300 K lower than that of 2008. Hopefully FL’ians saw the error of their ways in 2010 and are now ready to take a dump on the rethugs.
AA+ Bonds
I’d call the entire election for Obama tonight if history didn’t mock prophets with shit like, I don’t know, a mass worldwide die-off of a major staple crop or something
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Was it just me, or did Chuck Todd sound just now like he had a happy hour “interview” with John Boehner?
clayton
All that money and for what? Did it create a single job or did it just make all of the wingnut media and the mainstream just that much richer.
They all want this to go on and on.
I would love that but for the money Clear Channel is getting and hording.
I hope that Hopey uses the money I send him like he is now — nice ads on neutral sites that will catch some eyes.
Citizens was only ever to make the so called liberal media richer. Like they needed more money.
Hopey is already skirting them and pissing them off. With the ability most non morans have to skip the tv and radio commercials, Citizens is already dead, don’t you think?
AA+ Bonds
@flukebucket:
I hope you mean “in Gingrich’s head” because hundreds of people listening to a speech aren’t even worth hundreds of dollars in a U.S. national campaign, let alone the millions he would need if he had any chance of outraising Romney at all anymore
But yeah he could run a deluded and impoverished campaign for a while and since the press has it out for Romney they will listen to whatever lunatic shit Gingrich says until he drops out
AA+ Bonds
@clayton:
Of course they are, I heard a gaggle of them giggling and rubbing their hands on NPR and saying that quite loudly and clearly and without any reservation
This is what Paris Hilton culture does to everyone – you prove you’re worth something in this country by behaving in a fucked up fashion, the exact opposite way from how you’re supposed to behave, and daring anyone to stop you
AA+ Bonds
If Hitler showed up tomorrow and started running a political movement in the United States, the press would be fighting each other for the privilege of keeping the whole thing going
J.W. Hamner
@JGabriel:
Ron Paul will stay in it to the end, but reporters won’t bother covering it. Same thing will happen with Newt and/or Santorum… they can keep competing but at some point very soon Romney will have won enough to not even bother with debates and this nonsense will be over.
ChrisNYC
On msnbc they raised the specter of an INDY run. If Romney continues to drop with GE voters, that would be a savior for the GOP. The ultimate excuse for “Obama didn’t REALLY win a 2d term.” NG definitely couldn’t pull off the org needed to get on GE ballots but I would so so so not put it past him to go for a blowhard write in campaign, e.g., giving speeches outside the GE debates, outside Romney events, etc. Guy’s a destroyer of things. Hasn’t created anything in his life. He is all destruction.
RossInDetroit
@Jenny:
This is unfortunately not true. Mitt is rotten to the core, but perfectly clean on the surface. So featurelessly, glossily clean…
lamh35
Romney’s completely dishonest speech just made me pissed off as hell!!!
Seriously, I’m from NOLA and I’ve got voodoo on my mind.
Dishonest fuck! If that speech didn’t get all Dems fired up and ready to beat the living shit out of Romney, I don’t know what will.
SGEW
My gambling days are done.
cbear
You’re joking, right?
Gnoot has been fucking people non-stop for at least the last 30 years. Stamina ain’t that boy’s problem.
Violet
@J.W. Hamner:
Chuck Toddler said Mitt can’t win enough delegates to wrap it up until April at the earliest.
I think it’s interesting that Mitt couldn’t win the cracker counties. That’s going to make Super Tuesday very interesting indeed. Can Mitt win any of the Confederate states?
DougJarvus Green-Ellis
@SGEW:
Glad someone got this one!
dmsilev
@Violet: Mitt will probably win Virginia. Being as Newt won’t be on the ballot and all that.
(and that episode was probably the most hilarious point to date in an electoral season filled with absurdity. Newt and Rick and Rick failed to meet a threshold that in previous years Alan Keyes and Dennis Kucinich managed to cross.)
RossInDetroit
I’m not a clinical psychologist, but what the hell…
Newt seems to be an adrenaline junkie. Unstoppable when he’s got his drug in his veins. But he’s going to lose, and when he does the comedown will be devastating. It will be interesting* to see what havoc he wreaks on the way down.
*like slow motion movies of really bad avalanches
lamh35
No this sum-a-bitch ex-Gingrich spokesman Rick Taylor did not just throw out the “Dems abort Black babies so Blacks should vote Repubs”…fuckin’ GOP assholes
AA+ Bonds
@clayton:
I want to return to this point too because it did create a lot of the sort of jobs that gets created in the United States nowadays: jobs where you work for a few months and then get dumped out the back of the hopper because your brother-in-law doesn’t run things
catclub
@flukebucket: “Newt is a psychopath in full mania. Stamina should not be a problem. Did you hear him tonight? People trump money every time. And he was surrounded by hundreds of them.”
But that manic part tells me that right after he says ‘we are in until the convention’, he goes on vacation or calls it quits in a fit of pique. I am amazed he has run for almost two serious months.
AA+ Bonds
@dmsilev:
I think it’s less funny and more revealing: all the money pooled around Romney incredibly early and no one could muster the donors for infrastructure
Rove tried to remake 2000 in other words and sort-of kind-of succeeded
Although not really because SC was a huge fuck-up, not seeing Adelson’s hand was a huge fuck-up
I’d also reiterate that I don’t think most of the candidates, even Gingrich, thought they really had a shot at winning anything but a permanent ass-cushion on Fox News given Rove/Romney/money, and so they didn’t really give a shit about “getting on the ballot” and boring stuff like that
Violet
@dmsilev:
Ron Paul’s on the ballot in Virginia too. I wonder if the non-Mitt vote will go to Ron Paul as a protest.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@RossInDetroit: I think Newtie is about as close to completely unpredictable as a person could get. I could just as easily see him making a neo-Dixiecrat run as folding his tent next week and becoming Romney’s loudest– if not most effective– supporter. People are talking about elder statemen of the party forcing him out. I think the only way they can get him out is with bribes, not just money but flattering and ego-stroking. I think he’ll want Romney to grovel, publicly.
erlking
@SGEW: I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke
And Mitt Romney is a vulgar, lying asshole who won.
Lojasmo
@J.W. Hamner:
Et tu, Romney?
Jewish Steel
I bet on a horse named Bottle Of Newt/And my horse won!
Laertes
I’ll take “sentences that nobody has ever spoken before” for $500, Alex.
Mike in NC
These people are the scum of the earth. That is all.
LongHairedWeirdo
You want to know what will kill Newt? Laughter. Eventually, he’ll be so fucking ridiculous, people will start laughing. And that’s one thing he’ll never be able to handle. He’s too puffed up with himself.
El Cid
If Newt can make a buck and/or keep feeding his ego, he’ll stay in. He’s now been given yet another golden opportunity to see himself as the Churchillian hero defying a corrupt Republican establishment which has so direly failed to recognize Newt’s own awesome genius.
mdblanche
@amk: So far I think the only contest to see increased turnout is South Carolina.
I’m not surprised there were no positive ads to speak of. The GOP no longer has any positive agenda left at all. They’re not Obama and that’s all that they are. That previous president who is not discussed much in public as though he was an embarrassing relation we’ve all agreed to never speak of again has left their old platform discredited and now it’s becoming all too clear that in the last 3 years they’ve replaced it with nothing new but obstructionism.
And Willard is in fact the worst of them on that score. Gingrich at least is promising us the Moon. I almost never hear anyone give a reason to vote for Mitt instead of against Obama. Mitt can win the votes of the anti-Obama crowd but even they can’t tell anyone else why they should vote for him too.
Triassic Sands
@dmsilev:
You’re not going to get me to be a character witness for Newt Gingrich, but in a battle of character I actually see him beating out Romney. A year ago, I wouldn’t have thought I’d say that, but I’ve come to the conclusion that Mitt Romney is the scuzziest, most dishonest candidate I’ve ever seen from one of the two major parties. His willingness to LIE would make a certain twentieth century Austrian painter blush.
I listen to Mitt characterize Obama and his administration and I can’t believe my ears. I’ve been reasonably critical of Obama at times, but somehow it had escaped my notice that the president hates America, wants it to fail, and wants everyone to be unemployed and on the dole. Perhaps most worrisome of all, Obama wants the US to adopt the worst features of Europe. You know, the really bad stuff — like universal health care.
Listening to Romney supporters, or probably more accurately — Obama haters, cheer when Romney says something so ridiculous only a complete idiot would give it any credence makes me ill. The idea that millions of my fellow citizens have reached such a level of insanity is truly depressing.
And I don’t think for a second that Romney believes a word of what he’s saying. He is morally bankrupt.
Gingrich, no one’s candidate for Good Guy of the Year, seems to be somewhat in awe of Romney’s willingness to just make shit up. Is it awe? Or envy?
(LIE = the Big Lie; a lie so egregious that people believe it must be true, because no one would have the audacity to say something so outrageous if it weren’t true.)
Scott P.
71% of the electorate was over 50. I think they’re just dying out.
jon
@Jewish Steel: “Slip a fifty to the wife/and for each brat a crisp new five” doesn’t sound like either GOP candidate until the standard deductions are taken from the children’s wages. Plus, that’s a cheap date for Mr Newtron.
“Inquisitions and suppositions” is what this morning is all about.
Comrade Javamanphil
@erlking: Yeeeewwwwwwwww! [Instrumental solo]
Samara Morgan
it will go on as long as Newt is ahead in the national polling.
expect more Palin.
he has promised her a position in his administration.
Samara Morgan
Palin forevah.
aww, even AllahP is caving to the GOP elites.
oooh here she comes.
EdTheRed
@SGEW: Fuck the stewards, a trip to Lourdes might give the old fuckers the power of sight.
canuckistani
It’s only the right song if Newt wins. The Pogues didn’t sing about losing a 25-1 bet and getting nagged by the wife over it.
Catsy
@Violet: That would be delicious. Redstate has been viciously purging their Paultard population for years now. Watching them have to eat a Paul victory or strong second showing…