Columnist – John Sammon
Newt Gingrich bided his time, while the other candidates, flip-flop Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, the I-can’t-remember-the-government-agency-I’m gonna-eliminate brain freeze, and Herman Cain, the sign-my-disclaimer-and-take-money-so-you-won’t-testify-when-I-mother-grab-you-womanizer with the secret unseen wife, imploded.

Even though his first staff quit because he took a luxury cruise rather than campaign, Newt knew his time had come. Newt and his new campaign manager are arguing over how Newt can take advantage of his new status as front runner because of the stumbling of his Three-Stooge competitors.

“Why should I suck up to liberals and say money given to me from private sources for influence is wrong,” Newt says angrily. “That’s a socialist argument.”

“You’ve got to act presidential, Newt. There are some people out there who feel that bribe influence money from the private sector is improper.”

“A bunch of liberals led by that Kenyan anti-colonial Obama,” Newt snarls.

“You’ve got to act presidential Newt. That means not calling people names.”

“Did it matter that my sleeping around with other women didn’t hurt me,” Newt says. “My ex-wife understood and so do the people of this country. I’m a patriot. I can do whatever I want.”

“Don’t mention other women Newt. You’re gonna give me a heart attack. You’ve got to act presidential. That means you don’t sleep with other women until it’s safe to do so. Remember what happened to Gary Hart?”

“A liberal socialist. Did any of them have the guts to tell it like it is. Ronald Reagan was the greatest man in history, or that for example the people of New Orleans deserved to get wiped out by that hurricane because they were so goddamed ignorant they didn’t even have the intelligence to get out of the way. Let them get a job. Beach volleyball wasn’t thought up by government.”

“Act presidential Newt! What you’re saying, that’s the old Newt. That’s the Newt people don’t like and won’t elect. We’ve got to get some of these liberal sonofabitch traitors to vote for you.”

“When Ronald Reagan and I drew up the Contract for America, we envisioned a new America, one that would send immigrants back to where they belong, and would crack down on socialist freeloaders sponging off the system and their illegitimate kids, where everyone would be forced to be like Reagan and me.”

“Will you forget about Reagan Newt! That was back then. What are you, in love with the guy? Now repeat after me, the..Rain..In..Spain..Falls..Mainly..on..The..Plain.”

“The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain,” Newt says.

“I think you’ve got it. Now say, the president is president of all Americans.”

Newt grimaces. “I can’t say it.”

“Could you at least say, the president is president of deserving Americans?”

Newt nods. “I think I can say that. Will it make you happy if I change my stance on immigrants and say that they don’t all have to go home, just the liberal socialists and those Occupy unwashed street bums and their born-out-of-wedlock kids.”

“There you go again Newt.”

“That’s my favorite line. Reagan said that.”

“Will you forget Reagan Newt? You’re reverting again to the old Newt. We need the new Newt. This is our golden chance if we don’t blow it. Once you get in office you can be the old Newt all you like. Are you going to listen to me or do you want me to quit too?”

Newt shrugs. “Okay.”

“Let’s start again. Repeat after me, act presidential.”

“Act presidential.”

“I think you’ve got it.”

PLAYLIST: Newton Leroy ‘Newt’ Gingrich — Scam Artist Extraordinaire (8+ Hrs of Newt)

One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History

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Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement.

Woodrow Wilson’s girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor Roosevelt to become a revolutionary crusader for equal rights.

The colorful sex lives of America’s most powerful leaders have influenced social movements, government policies, elections and even wars, yet they are so whitewashed by historians that people think Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln were made of marble, not flesh and blood.

But the truth is about to come out. In One Nation Under Sex, free speech activist and notorious Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt teams up with Columbia University history professor David Eisenbach to peek behind the White House bedroom curtains and document how hidden passions have shaped public life.

They unpack salacious rumors and outright scandals, showing how private affairs have driven pivotal decisions—often with horrific consequences. Along the way, they explore the origins of America’s fascination with sex scandals and explain how we can put aside out political moralism and begin focusing on the real problems that threaten our nation.

Editorial Reviews

“Well reasoned, well written, and well documented.”–Booklist

“Those looking for salacious details will find them, but Flynt and Eisenbach favor analysis over sensationalism, providing a new perspective of the men and women who have shaped our nation.”–Publishers Weekly

“Dig into the unwholesome side of American history to uncover how the sexual peccadilloes of the men we elect have transformed the world for good and ill…Sometimes it takes an asshole like Flynt to tell stories that need to be told.”—The Stranger

“Only liars will pretend that this book isn’t absolutely fascinating.”–Buffalo News

“Presidential hanky-panky is as old as the nation itself. But no one can bring it to life quite like Larry Flynt.”–Steven E. Levingston, Washington Post

“It is amazing that this inherently salacious subject could be treated in such a thoughtful and documented fashion, scholarly even, and yet be such a great read.”–Robert Scheer, author of “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (See all Banks & Banking Books)“

“Americans often like to think that extramarital sex ? or even a strong libido ? is somehow a sign of poor character in our presidents. One Nation Under Sex explodes that myth. From Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson onward, our most respected leaders have always engaged in bedroom behavior that would outrage the cultural commissars—at no harm to the republic. You don’t have to agree with all of Larry Flynt’s and David Eisenbach’s readings of history to enjoy this sex-filled tour through more than 200 years of scandal.”–David Greenberg, presidential historian, Rutgers University, and author of “Nixon’s Shadow: The History of the Image (See all Politics Books)”

“Larry Flynt has waged a lifelong battle against hypocrisy and prudery: shattering every propriety and slaughtering every sacred cow. The political classes have never been safe from his special brand of satire. Now he turns his rabble-rousing sensibility backwards with a similar imperative. No more whitewashing! Smash decorum! Bring down the elites!”—Laura Kipnis, How To Become a Scandal and of Against Love
“As a Washington, DC, investigative reporter for two decades, I was certain the secret personal lives of politicians had an unappreciated affect on public policy and, eventually, history. Here’s the book that documents it.”–Rudy Maxa, former Washington Post reporter and columnist

“Teaming up Larry Flynt with Columbia University historian David Eisenbach seems like an odd match but Flynt and Eisenbach have combined their talents and perspectives to produce a unique book that transgresses the holy empire of American history by providing a serious investigation of the sex lives of the Presidents. Be warned: this is not smut; this is an important and thorough historical excavation of how sex built the White House and our nation.”–Jim Downs, Professor of History, Connecticut College

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When questioned about his multiple marriages in March 2011, Newton Leroy Gingrich admitted to Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody that he had done “things that were wrong” during his married life.

“There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate,” Gingrich said.

The Passion of The Newt

“And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn’t trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them…I found that I felt compelled to seek God’s forgiveness.

Not God’s understanding, but God’s forgiveness.” Gingrich converted to Catholicism in March 2009, in part due to his third wife’s faith and Mass attendance. Along with his conversion, he formally requested that the Catholic Church nullify his marriage to Ginther.

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Troglodyte & Cockamamie Scam Artist — Newt Gingrich, Officially Enters 2012 Race
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References:

1. Newt in His Own Words: 33 Years of Nastiness, Bomb-Throwing
2. The Newt Gingrich File: A History of Bigoted, Offensive and Tribal Rhetoric
3. Newt’s Women: Gingrich’s Marriages, Divorces, Affairs Through The Years
4. An Unabridged Guide to All of Newt Gingrich’s Wives

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Elsewhere — Michael Tomasky Writes: ‘Why Newt Gingrich Will Never Be President‘ — And Why Newt’s Campaign is Merely Comic Relief
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   By: Michael Tomasky
I don’t know much in this life. I can’t tell you who’s going to win the NBA championship or when the Pakistani ISI will become a bulwark against extremism or what year Keith Richards’ lungs will finally cry uncle. But I do know this: Newt Gingrich will never be president of the United States.

It will of course be fun to watch him run. Following Gingrich is a form of entertainment–he’s an all-around vaudevillian of political theatre. Journalists have a soft spot for him, even avowedly liberal ones like me, because if nothing else he is sui generis. I met him in 1992 when I was down in Atlanta for that year’s vice-presidential debate, the one remembered if at all for Admiral James Stockdale’s amusing self-interrogation (“What am I doing here?“). Gingrich was in a pretty tough House race that year, but he took ample time out of an October afternoon to shoot the breeze with me, a reporter at the time for the Village Voice, of all disreputable things. He was trying to sell me on the idea that the Republican Party was going to compete seriously for the black vote over the next decade. I was young. He was, or seemed, sincere. I bought the whole package.

But since then, things have changed considerably. Far from having a serious chance of making it to the Oval Office, his actions (and inactions) have rendered himself less electable than Michele Bachmann–and for two main reasons.

The first is the one everyone writes about–his legendary lack of discipline, which shows up in far more than his tendency to launch rhetorical projectiles from his mouth at regular intervals. This, at any rate, is what I took from a conversation with Gingrich’s old and dear friend Matt Towery the other day. Towery is a sharp and likeable guy who runs an inside-Georgia-politics website and was a Gingrich adviser for many years.

In Towery’s view, Gingrich “does have a chance to win the nomination, but Newt has to be not Newt.” By this he means that Gingrich must define himself to voters who don’t remember that he was once the speaker of the House of Representatives (to Towery, most voters), and he must do so in a rigorous fashion. Gingrich needs “to interpret his history for voters, or others will do it for him,” says Towery, and he has to stick to the script: “If he’s talking energy one day and flood protection another day, he’s going nowhere.”

Alas, his 30 years in the public eye give us no sense that Gingrich is capable of doing this. But that’s nothing compared to his second, and far more damning, problem, which came to light when I asked Towery to list Gingrich’s accomplishments as a public figure.

Imagine a Gingrich who dedicated himself to broadening the GOP’s appeal instead ofspreading vicious rumors and raving against the Lower Manhattan mosque. That Gingrich might have had a chance.

Here was the third most powerful figure in American politics, behind only the president and vice president, for several years. Surely he helped shepherd historic legislation into law? Accomplished something vaguely statesmanlike? Actually, no. OK, there was the Contract with America. Its major provisions did pass the House as Gingrich promised they would in 1994, but few of them became law. Two Cato Institute scholars have even calculated that by 2000 the combined budgets of the 95 federal programs the Contract sought to eliminate had actually increased by 13 percent.

Asked to name an accomplishment, Towery pointed to Gingrich’s role in passing a capital gains tax cut in 1996 (fair enough) and… the government shutdown. Here’s Towery’s thinking: “If you reflect on it now, the idea of making a point so that the president of the United States would come to the table and be serious about a balanced budget, that’s a good thing to Republican voters.”

I’m sure Towery is dead right about that, and maybe bragging about the government shutdown will bring Gingrich happy returns in Iowa, South Carolina, and a few other places. But it won’t get him to the White House in a million years. Imagine, by contrast, a Gingrich who spent the 1990s fulfilling that vow made to the young and gullible Tomasky. Who actually dedicated himself to broadening the GOP’s appeal and using his not inconsiderable intelligence toward the end of sowing the earth instead of scorching it as he has in so many ways, from the Tom-Foley-is-gay rumor (which emanated from his staff, according to this Mother Jones piece) to his pyrotechnic ravings against the Lower Manhattan mosque. That Gingrich might actually have had a shot at being president. But that Gingrich would be “not Newt,” as would a Gingrich who refused to use his third wife as a prop to flog his conversion to right-wing social conservatism. “Not Newt” would be a serious contender. But plain old Newt? He’s nothing but comic relief.

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Politico: Newt Gingrich’s bizarre launch of his expected 2012 presidential bid, in which he scooped his own news in a morning radio interview and took just one question at the brief official afternoon event, was a déjà vu moment for many political veterans.

   Newton Leroy & Callista Gingrich

As a House member, and in his later iteration as a pundit, Gingrich could get away with running a freewheeling operation. But now, as he’s poised to make a bid for the White House, the most immediate question he’ll face is whether he — and his sprawling political enterprise — can muster the message discipline demanded by the rigors of a national campaign.

His track record, littered with grand pronouncements and intemperate remarks, suggests otherwise. [ READ MORE ]

Master Scam-Paigner: How Scam-Artist Newton Leroy Gingrich Deceives The Gullible For Profit!

Notes: As speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich once lead Republican ‘nutbags‘ in shutting down the Clinton government. An anti-immigrant bigot, an Islamophobe and a “family values” hypocrite, Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26. According to Battley, Gingrich visited while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery to discuss the “details of their divorce.” During the Clinton administration, Speaker Gingrich had an affair with a staffer, Callista Bisek, 23 years his junior — even as he lead Republicans in the prosecution of Bill Clinton for getting a blow-job from Monica Lewinsky.

The Newton Leroy ‘Newt’ Gingrich — Youtube Playlist:

Looks like the grand bigot of the Republican party is rolling. [ THE NEWTON LEROY 'NEWT' GINGRICH FILE: A HISTORY OF BIGOTED, OFFENSIVE AND 'TRIBAL' RHETORIC ] [ NEWT GINGRICH'S LEGACY AS A POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: SMEARS, FALSEHOODS, AND INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC ] [ MORE ON NEWTON LEROY GINGRICH ]

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Meanwhile, the other nincompoop contender, pastor Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, has doubled down — a day after he said that Obama grew up in Kenya. Huckabee now claims Obama attended a ‘Madrassa’ in Indonesia.

FAT Mike who at one point during the 2008 presidential elections wished openly that “Barack Obama should get shot” — should stick to his stupid show at Fox. This man Huckabee — whose jaw did not shrink proportionally to his big fat body after gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery, is a lying sack of shit. In fact, Mr. HuckaMATH lied his way into the Republican presidential primary, by claiming that he lost 110 pounds, dropping from 290 to 180 lbs. within 12 months, by exercise only. Weight-Loss became the rallying campaign issue with which he sold his mediocre “confederate presidential bid” to the delusional G.O.P. fools. There is ample evidence that Huckabee’s weight loss was a scam.

In 2011, Huckabee is back again, this time he is attempting to de-legitimize President Obama — by suggesting that Barack Obama is a Kenyan, and not American — adding that the president is also a Muslim — trained in an Indonesian Muslim Madrassa!

Media Matters’ Rabin-Havt On CNN: Huckabee Is “Clearly Using Dog-Whistle Language To Appeal To” Birthers

CNN’s John King: Huckabee “Distorting” Obama’s Childhood “On Purpose“

Blitzer Questions RNC Chairman About Huckabee’s Falsehoods About Obama’s Childhood

The Huckabee Youtube Playlist

Reference: To FAT Mike Huckabee: Shut The HUCK Up!

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Shuster highlights Gingrich’s “anti-Catholic values” tweet on “Hypocrisy Watch”

On Newt Gingrich: The thrice-married Gingrich was a cheerleader for the impeachment of President Clinton — because the “moralistic” Republicans were outraged over Clinton’s dalliances with Monica Lewinsky. At the same time, Gingrich was having an affair with a House staffer.

Gingrich once said that speaker Pelosi represented ‘an attitude of weakness, appeasement, and surrender‘ to the country’s foreign policy. It figures that he would continue the failed policies of the Bush administration and use the politics of fear against the opposition.

FYI: Ms. Nancy Pelosi has had one husband since 1962, and has not been touched by any scandal.

This self-absorbed Cockamamie Cockroach Newt, now wants to become a Catholic! [ READ MORE ]

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