Newt Gingrich admits his failure due to turning Japanese

[Ayatollah So]

It's funny to see the Newt and Perry fanboys across the internet cry about this, especially since they are generally in favor of voter id laws that make it tougher to vote.

Gingrich, who lives in McLean, Va.

Republican candidates have an ingenious plan for the rebirth of the US steel industry! What with all this irony ... ow that pun hurts

 

[JollyRoger]

Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person looks like.

 

[NickyJ]

I still find the Gingrich campaign's comparison of his failure to Pearl Harbor is quite stupid, but hey, whatever floats his boat....

 

[Leonel]

It doesn't? He should definitely know what he's doing in his own state! You're supposed to know what you're doing when getting elected! If Perry hadn't missed the deadline too, I would have said that Gingrich was trying to out-gaffe him.

N... n-no I was being sarcastic. I was implying that it DOES speak volumes about his management and research skills.

 

[NickyJ]

Oh. Sorry for having poor net-sarcasm awareness.

 

[amadeus]

Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person looks like.

Nothing after this could ever be said so correctly and written so briefly. This times infinity.

 

[NickyJ]

Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person looks like.

That's worthy of being sig-ed.

Anyway, Jolly, I disagree with you on many things, but when you're right, you're right. You're right.

 

[Joecoolyo]

A System failure? How can you say there's a system failure when the system ensures that Gingrich isn't a candidate?

No! This is bad! Very, very bad! You want Gingrich to be nominated.

That way Obama's second term is in the bag.

 

[downtown]

This is why unconventional campaigns are very rarely successful. Political campaigning requires conventional jobs, like signature collection, in order to be effective. If you can't hire and manage a staff of 5 20somethings to get a small number of signatures, why should we trust the entire federal payroll to you?

 

[IglooDame]

This is why unconventional campaigns are very rarely successful. Political campaigning requires conventional jobs, like signature collection, in order to be effective. If you can't hire and manage a staff of 5 20somethings to get a small number of signatures, why should we trust the entire federal payroll to you?

Indeed. But, amongst the collection of first-, second-, and third-tier GOP primary candidates here, I wouldn't expect a former Speaker of the House to be running an unconventional/disorganized campaign. The non-Speaker Representatives, sure - though with Ron Paul's enthusiastic support it wouldn't surprise me if someone just figured it out and got it going on their own.

And JR, you've gone above and beyond with that OP.

 

[say1988]

Indeed. But, amongst the collection of first-, second-, and third-tier GOP primary candidates here, I wouldn't expect a former Speaker of the House to be running an unconventional/disorganized campaign.

He didn't have a choice. He tried running a conventional campaign, and his entire staff left him.

 

[Silurian]

As an EU citizen I thought that the USA regarded the defeat at Pearl Harbour more seriously than the failure to place a few people in shopping malls to get 10,000 signatures. I was expecting more attacks for the analogue as well as for the incompetence.

 

[Cutlass]

As an EU citizen I thought that the USA regarded the defeat at Pearl Harbour more seriously than the failure to place a few people in shopping malls to get 10,000 signatures. I was expecting more attacks for the analogue as well as for the incompetence.

Chalk that up to Newt's grossly over inflated ego talking.

 

[NickyJ]

Chalk that up to Newt's grossly over inflated ego talking.

And to people laughing more than actually caring about what a windbag says.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

We need all of our politicians to turn Japanese. Then we need them to do the right thing.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

I still find the Gingrich campaign's comparison of his failure to Pearl Harbor is quite stupid, but hey, whatever floats his boat....

You think that's bad, Nick $aban compared losing a football game to 9/11.

 

[ParkCungHee]

We need all of our politicians to turn Japanese. Then we need them to do the right thing.

Decide who gets the republican nomination with a golf match?

 

[ParkCungHee]

If the analogy is Pearl Harbor, I suppose the next step is the failure to react, followed by a disastrous and bungling defense of the Phillipines?

Maybe a shameful retreat of the leader of that defense, blaming the people under him for his failings?
Yeah, I can see where Dugout Newt is going with this.

 

[Cutlass]

If there's a current Republican campaign analog to MacArthur, you can be sure Newt will hire him.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I still find the Gingrich campaign's comparison of his failure to Pearl Harbor is quite stupid, but hey, whatever floats his boat....

Not sure if intentional