Newt to the RNC: Take Down That Ad

Wow. You know they've hit bottom when Newtie is telling them they're incompetent and flailing away at nothing ( I wonder if the SCLM will get the hint there' no there there?). I myself am enjoying their rope-a-dope shadow-boxing. Kinda funny watching them wear themselves out before Obama is even inaugurated.

The other day I mentioned that trhe more McCain embraces a reality based, effective government position now, the more dishonest his posture during the campaign is revealed to be therefore his rehabilitation is a self-defeating exercise. I haven't thought carefully about whether the same logic would apply to Newt or not.
He may be many things but an stupid is not on the list.

I liked this piece in the LA Times recently about the party of Joe McCarthy:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,635817.story

What I wouldn't give for an edit function after posting.
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sigh.....

Left unsaid: Newt is "saddened" because the RNC ad blows.

Note that Newt manages to insist that all taped communications regarding the Senate seat be made public, which would be Fitzgerald's call, not Obama's, and could well end up hurting the prosecution's case.

I am taking Newt's lecture with a large pinch of salt. Remember Rove: he was supposed to be out. Just back from Amman, Jordan where the shoe throwing incident has produced a tidy sum of cash for the reporter, and lots of tv stuff from around the Arab World. Looks like he is going to qualify for an Arab Nobel Prize for ???

That is so reasonable! It's like Newt is the best of both parties. I've got a crazy, nutty idea. I know he'd never go for it, but Newt should run for President in 2012!

I agree with Newt, this is a reasonable argument and needs to be said. But something's wrong...
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Oh yeah, he helped the OSP circumvent our intelligence infrastructure and fabricate a case for invading Iraq. OK, now I feel better-- why are we listening to him?

The RNC has afforded Newt Gingrich the chance sound classy and high minded. How low can you go?

Newt missed his true calling. Flimflam ad man. The wildly successful Contract with America is a case in point. He is much more sophisticated than most knuckle dragging Repubs. He offers kind words at the right moment, but watch that knife behind his back.

Seems to me that Newtie and McCain both calling out their party would give permission to all the journalists out there to make a story of the fact that so many repugs (like Karl Rove) are engaged in baseless negative, attack politics. Wouldn't hurt to add that the much of the media is as well.
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Of course, it also seemed to me that the Bush administration was making up their justification for a war in Iraq out of fairy dust as they went along as well but the media, in its wisdom, did not agree.

via Yglesias: Jason Linkins nails the press' inane metacommentary on Blagojevic: “Reporters: Our Obsessive Blago Coverage A Problem For Obama.”

Is this the same Newt Gingrich that co-authored the 'angry white male' persona back in the early eighties?!?!?
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Tell me it's not! NO.
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Tell it ain't!
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Puhleeeeeeeeeeze!

RNC -- Don't listen to Newt. He has been co-opted by the left wing conspiracy...keep doing what you're doing...it will work in 2010...trust me.

Tell 'em, Andy!

Newt Gingrich is launching grenades at his own people. Now that's what you call poetic justice.

KT -- no need to post the ad, though. Let the GOP pay for them to air. You got snookered.

"Clearly, we should insist that all taped communications regarding the Senate seat should be made public. However, that should be a matter of public policy, not an excuse for political attack."
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The only thing Newt has learned is that when you shut the government down it better be on principle and not because you had to eat the stale M&Ms from the back of Air Force One.
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All Newt is doing is telling the GOP that they need to be more subtle and pretend that attacks on Obama are based on "public policy" and not naked partisan advantage.

GOP definition of subtle = train wreck.

This also reminds me of how McCain refused to go negative with the Rev. Wright stuff after it became clear that the negativity was backfiring on him. High principle, GOP-style.

Sorry Newtie, that ship has sailed.
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This is your party. Deal with it.

No mater what it's real purpose, this statement was a step in the right direction. However a more fitting new name for the GOP was in the second paragraph - the "destructive distraction" party.

Newt has had the realization that the rest of the GOP has not: If you want to stop digging a deeper hole than you are already in, it is advisable to put down the shovel.

dunedweller has found the WMDs. The "weapons of mass distraction."

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Karen was manipulated by the RNC to post and promote their obnoxious ad for free. Journos are particularly susceptible to manipulation by Republican PR flaks, even knowing and understanding the bias it introduces.
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GOP flaks produce this cheap garbage and send it around to all the DC journos knowing full well that some of them will post it, so they get free coverage. Scherer, of course, posted and promoted virtually ALL of their stuff during the campaign, and Newtie finally manipulated Karen into promoting their new work of "art." It's to her credit that she only links to it, I guess. Thank goodness for small favors.
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Watch, Mark Silva will do the same thing, so will the Page, a couple
of bloggers on Politico, all using Newt's statement as a hook. Do they know their "audience" or what?