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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2012 / You’re Going to Have Newt to Kick Mitt Around For A Long Time

You’re Going to Have Newt to Kick Mitt Around For A Long Time

by @heymistermix.com|  February 5, 20129:14 am| 55 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012

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Republican caucus vote counting is proceeding at its usual incompetent pace in Nevada, so while it’s clear that Romney won the first Mormon primary, second, third and fourth are not completely settled. If my math is right, unless Clark County (Las Vegas) is a real Libertarian stronghold, Newt will edge out Dr. Paul for second place, with Santorum being relegated to where he’s usually found, in the rear. Based on the strength of his showing, Newt says that he’s not going anywhere:

What happens is, every primary day or caucus day, the Romney Headquarters in Boston sends out the rumor that they believe I will withdraw, which is of course their greatest fantasy. I’m not going to withdraw. And I think the contrast between Governor Romney and me is going to get wider and wider and clearer and clearer.

That first sentence is pure Newtonian dog-whistle. Romney’s HQ is elitist Boston, it’s Romney’s campaign, not Romney, that do the thinking for him, and all they’re doing is worrying about me. This grandiose fucker has a real hate-on for Mitt, and a faith-based plan to pull even with him by Texas, in April. Romney’s going to have to grind this one out.

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  1. 1.

    aimai

    February 5, 2012 at 9:16 am

    Ugh. Why use Romney and Grinding in the same sentence? Unless it was a reference to Soylent Green?

    aimai

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 5, 2012 at 9:25 am

    Good. Adds a nice scoop of schadenfreude to the maple syrup on my Freedom toast this morning.

  3. 3.

    iriedc

    February 5, 2012 at 9:25 am

    “…Santorum where he’s usually found in the rear..”
    We see what you did there!

  4. 4.

    Waldo

    February 5, 2012 at 9:25 am

    Cool. Here’s hoping Newt keeps pooping on Mittens right through to the convention — and beyond.

  5. 5.

    max

    February 5, 2012 at 9:27 am

    This grandiose fucker has a real hate-on for Mitt

    I believe that ‘Mitt’ in that sentence should be replaced with ‘that other grandiose motherfucker’.

    Romney’s going to have to grind this one out.

    Yes! Isn’t it great? I’m really hoping for a Youtubable violent scrum between Mitt’s Mormons and Newt Nasties. Actual Confederate flags would be gravy.

    max
    [‘I’m also still keeping my fingers crossed for one of the R candidates to kill and eat one of the other R candidates, even if Bachman is out of the race.’]

  6. 6.

    J.W. Hamner

    February 5, 2012 at 9:30 am

    I already feel like the coverage has dropped off substantially… it doesn’t matter whether Newt stays in or not… it’s over and the media is realizing that.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2012 at 9:32 am

    The longer Noot stays in, the more chances he’ll have to fuck Mitt up good for the main event against Obama. After Mitt loses, Noot can keep shooting at Mitt with the “I toldja so”‘s. And Noot can stay in until he runs out of Sheldon Adelson’s money, so why not?

    It’s a win for Noot, for the Democratic party and Obama, for America and the world. Go Noot! elebenty!

  8. 8.

    iriedc

    February 5, 2012 at 9:33 am

    Sigh… edit function hates my Droid today…

  9. 9.

    Bo Alawine

    February 5, 2012 at 9:33 am

    … with Santorum being relegated to where he’s usually found, in the rear.

    ROFLMAO!

    Clever! A tip of the coffee mug to you!

  10. 10.

    EconWatcher

    February 5, 2012 at 9:37 am

    Why is Adelson doing this? Isn’t John Bolton Mitt’s foreign policy advisor? Is that not neocon enough for Adelson?

  11. 11.

    harlana

    February 5, 2012 at 9:38 am

    this is just delicious!

    so when do we get down to Mormonism? hmm?

  12. 12.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 9:40 am

    Santorum being relegated to where he’s usually found, in the rear

    pretty nasty of you. lovin’ it.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    February 5, 2012 at 9:40 am

    How much longer before Newt goes full scorched earth and brings up the dead baptisms in a debate? That will be a popcorn moment.

  14. 14.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 9:42 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s a win for Noot, for the Democratic party and Obama

    yup. perfect trifecta.

  15. 15.

    MattF

    February 5, 2012 at 9:42 am

    The 27%-ers all claim that Noot is the candidate that Libruls really fear, being that he’s brilliant and brave and… and so forth. But– how can anyone actually believe that? It’s not even a magic-of-the-marketplace-fairy-dust type belief that sort of sounds like something that might be debatable if you didn’t know better.

  16. 16.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 9:44 am

    @Comrade Nimrod Humperdink: well, mitt’s father-in-law would be an ideal starting point.

    “Tell me, mitt how did it feel to baptize your friggin’ dead FIL?”

  17. 17.

    Larry R

    February 5, 2012 at 9:44 am

    I’m hearing rumors that Gingrich’s big money supporters have had it and are cutting him off. Adelson isn’t going to throw good money after bad. So Newt might stick around, but with no money in the kitty, he can’t run the ads needed to combat what Romney can throw out there. It’s over.

  18. 18.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 9:51 am

    yet another proof of mitt’s tone-deafness ?

  19. 19.

    Maude

    February 5, 2012 at 10:13 am

    @harlana:
    This could get to be a flame war. Wouldn’t that be great?

  20. 20.

    BO_Bill

    February 5, 2012 at 10:17 am

    Politics is very complicated!

  21. 21.

    RossInDetroit

    February 5, 2012 at 10:18 am

    @J.W. Hamner:

    I already feel like the coverage has dropped off substantially… it doesn’t matter whether Newt stays in or not… it’s over and the media is realizing that.

    I would expect the MSM to want Newt to stay in. If there’s no conflict then they have no story. It’s all about the horse race.

  22. 22.

    Mino

    February 5, 2012 at 10:18 am

    Mittens must have promised to move the embassy to Jeruslalem, too. No biggie for him. But one has to wonder if even Republicans think they can trust his word.

  23. 23.

    Mino

    February 5, 2012 at 10:20 am

    @RossInDetroit: They are already ramping up the “who will the Dems nominate for 2016?” Saw it in two places.

  24. 24.

    RossInDetroit

    February 5, 2012 at 10:22 am

    @Mino:

    They are already ramping up the “who will the Dems nominate for 2016?” Saw it in two places.

    Four years out and they’re already looking at candidates? They must think that story has legs like Lance Armstrong.

  25. 25.

    harlana

    February 5, 2012 at 10:31 am

    @Maude: Newt really is a nastier little mofo than I remember and that’s saying a lot! It’s gonna be great! pass popcorn, beer, etc. I have earned this!

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2012 at 10:34 am

    Somewhat off-topic:
    There’s been a personnel matter within Camp Mitt that has yet to be widely noticed or commented upon: the firing of Brett O’Donnell, the debate coach credited by the media for Mitt’s success over Noot in the most recent debate. Apparently, O’Donnell was fired because the media had given him the credit for Mitt’s success over Noot in the most recent debate, although O’Donnell himself never sought the attention.

    It would seem that to the Romney campaign insiders, doing one’s job well enough to get noticed by outsiders is a firing offense. And aren’t those the very people you want running your country?

  27. 27.

    harlana

    February 5, 2012 at 10:35 am

    @amk: you have got to be kidding! i would normally say, hey that has to be a photo-shop! but then i remember, it’s Mitt, after all. priceless

  28. 28.

    harlana

    February 5, 2012 at 10:36 am

    @Amir Khalid: because Mitt likes to fire people who provide services to him!

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2012 at 10:36 am

    @BO_Bill:
    You don’t say.

  30. 30.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 10:37 am

    @Amir Khalid: Heh, mitt went with his ‘gut instinct’, ok ? Get off his case.

  31. 31.

    gbear

    February 5, 2012 at 10:38 am

    @amk: Haha that photo is great! The first lady is wearing an ‘R’ but the second and third kids are in the wrong order. Don’t the Romney people think anything through beforehand? Hope it turns into a new meme.

  32. 32.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 10:39 am

    @harlana: Fuck freudian slip. This is mitt being true to himself. Why can’t you libruls understand ?

  33. 33.

    Jay C

    February 5, 2012 at 10:42 am

    @MattF:

    Sadly, it’s all too easy to see how people might look to Yesterday’s Man Newt Gingrich as some sort of Great White Knight figure: reality notwithstanding. You just have to realize that the 27%-er folks live (politically speaking) in a media bubble: an epistemically-closed echo chamber devoted to reinforcing their prejudices and feeding their paranoia about Sinister Others out to “steal” “their” country from them. Newt talks “tough”; therefore they assume he would “romp” over Obama in debates/election, since prejudiced tough-talk is the main component of politics in their blinkered political world.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2012 at 10:44 am

    @Amir Khalid:
    Here’s the Daily Beast story on the Brett O’Donnell firing.

  35. 35.

    Jay C

    February 5, 2012 at 10:46 am

    @gbear:

    R-MONEY? Certainly fits….

    LOL

  36. 36.

    Jamie

    February 5, 2012 at 10:48 am

    You never know, Adelson might actually sober up before the convention

  37. 37.

    gbear

    February 5, 2012 at 11:00 am

    @Jay C: It’s even better than that. The R is an unreadable graphic, so it looks like ||MONEY

  38. 38.

    suzanne

    February 5, 2012 at 11:10 am

    @Comrade Nimrod Humperdink:

    How much longer before Newt goes full scorched earth and brings up the dead baptisms in a debate? That will be a popcorn moment.

    As much fun as it would be to watch that, it would probably be counter-productive. My LDS friends are all convinced that “the Church is under attack” whenever anyone so much as criticizes it, so it would just serve to further enable the victim complex.

    I personally just want the damn “I’m a Mormon” ads to go away. WWJD? Buy airtime, apparently.

  39. 39.

    dmsilev

    February 5, 2012 at 11:13 am

    @amk: That’s hilarious, though you have to admit that R-Money is just truth-in-advertising for the Romney campaign.

  40. 40.

    Cacti

    February 5, 2012 at 11:16 am

    Mitt is a unique character in that I’ve never seen a guy who inspired such contempt from his rivals…within the Republican Party.

    Even back in 2008, Mitt’s GOP opponents universally loathed him. I guess that “I can buy my way to the front of the line” attitude even rubs the Goopers the wrong way.

  41. 41.

    SBJules

    February 5, 2012 at 11:18 am

    Keep Going, Newtie, I love it. There are’nt enough Mormons to win a national election.

  42. 42.

    Woodrowfan

    February 5, 2012 at 11:23 am

    no wonder Republicans keep trying to suppress voting rights. They are lousy at actually trying to count the damn things.

  43. 43.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 11:23 am

    @dmsilev: he was just channeling his inner mitt. fucking cretin.

  44. 44.

    Cacti

    February 5, 2012 at 11:26 am

    @amk:

    “Tell me, mitt how did it feel to baptize your friggin’ dead FIL?”

    Bill Maher recently “un-baptized” Mitt’s father in law, affirmed athiest Edward R. Davies.

    Link to hilarity

  45. 45.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 11:28 am

    @Woodrowfan: Heh, it’s hard work trying to get mitt over the 50% line, ok ? Vote rigging ain’t for amateurs.

  46. 46.

    Cacti

    February 5, 2012 at 11:30 am

    @Cacti:

    Bill Maher recently “un-baptized” Mitt’s father in law, affirmed athiest Edward R. Davies.

    Oops, didn’t even see that Betty had front paged it.

  47. 47.

    Faux News

    February 5, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    So when and where will the be Mormon bashing? I was hoping South Carolina would be the first to do so.

  48. 48.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    February 5, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Santorum prefers being in the rear.

  49. 49.

    dmsilev

    February 5, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    @Woodrowfan: And it’s not like there were that many voters either. So far, with 71% reporting, there are roughly 26,000 votes. That means maybe 35K or so votes total. In 2008, turnout for the GOP was roughly 44K.

    So, in a year where supposedly the Republicans are all fired up to oust the Kenyan Soshalist Usurper, the best they can do is a 20% drop in turnout. Feel the Mittmentum!

  50. 50.

    Palli

    February 5, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    @harlana:
    The information that Mitt post-baptised his ardently atheist father-in-law permits me, at least, the right to address his character and his interpretation of the Mormon religion. I see his disrespect for a Life after death no different than the disrespect shown by individual American soldiers urinating on dead Iraqi citizens. Both were personal crimes against humanity. His version of Mormonism does not jive with my ideas of Humanity.

  51. 51.

    Scott Supak

    February 5, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    Santorum is sometimes found on the front-end parts as well…

    The big news today?

    http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_COMO_205.pdf

    “Tuesday has the potential to be a big day for Rick Santorum. In addition to these two
    polls, a Missouri survey we conducted last weekend found him with 45% to 34% for
    Romney and 13% for Paul. Given how quickly things have moved in this race I wouldn’t
    assume Santorum still has that lead, especially given the momentum Romney has after
    big wins in Florida and Nevada. But nevertheless it looks like Santorum has a decent
    chance at wins in Minnesota and Missouri, and a second place finish in Colorado. 72
    hours from now he may have supplanted Gingrich as the top alternative to Romney.
    Santorum’s personal likability- perhaps driven by the fact that no one has felt the need to
    attack him- has a lot to do with why he’s doing so well in these states. In Colorado 68%
    of voters see him favorably to 21% with a negative opinion. That +47 spread is far better
    than that of the second most popular candidate, Romney, who’s at +29 (60/31). It’s a
    similar story in Minnesota. Santorum’s favorability is even better there at +54 (72/18),
    with Romney next best at +11 (50/39).”

  52. 52.

    amk

    February 5, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    @Palli: Bingo. Talk about disrespecting the dead.

    mormons are not only weird but are also pathetic trying to ‘baptize’ a dead guy.

  53. 53.

    patrick II

    February 5, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    I find it amusing that Newt has taken obvious umbrage at Romney for Romney’s actually going negative against Newt. Newt reminds me of maniac Albert Ganz who was astonished when Nick Nolte shot him:
    “I don’t believe it… I got shot!”

    In adddition (I refuse to write “Also, too), It should be noted that Newt is only allowed to attack Romney from the right. When Newt attacked Romney with something that might really hurt him in the general — the Romney/Bain Vulture Capitalism attack — the republican establishment cried foul — and “Mr. Anti-establishment” Newt backed off. So, while I am happy to see Newt attack Mitt, it won’t hurt Mitt as much as it might in the general if he is only painted as more moderate than Newt.

  54. 54.

    DanielX

    February 5, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    This just makes my day. Newt has more in common with Mittens than he likes to admit, with one of the major points of similarity being that they’re both serial liars. But I have to admit that in the assholedom sweepstakes, Newt is ahead by a full length….

  55. 55.

    AA+ Bonds

    February 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    In related primary news, Kornacki at Salon.com on Romney, Gingrich, Nevada, and C.R.E.A.M.:

    Far more ominous is a New York Times report that Sheldon Adelson, the 78-year-old c*s*no magnate who has directed $10 million to a pro-Gingrich Super PAC since the Iowa caucuses, now recognizes that Romney is likely to win the nomination and has signaled his willingness to ultimately back him. According to the Times:
    __

    Several people who have spoken with Mr. Adelson over the past two weeks said he would most likely continue to help the [Super PAC] as long as Mr. Gingrich remained in the race. But, they said, he is concerned that additional deep-pocketed donors have not joined him. And, they said, his affection for and loyalty to Mr. Gingrich, who met with him here on Friday, have not blinded him to the reality that the nominating contest is tilting in Mr. Romney’s favor.

    The perseveration (and I do NOT mean ‘perseverance’) of an impoverished Gingrich campaign up through the summer would be an interesting beast

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