I favor freedom…The idea that we’re going to preemptively have the government start censoring the internet on behalf of giant corporations and economic interests strikes me as exactly the wrong thing to do.
Newt Gingrich on SOPA.
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Must admit we were proud of this tweet.
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Rick Santorum just launched a thorough denunciation of Newt Gingrich’s qualities as a leader, questioning the credit he takes for the 1994 Republican revolution, and decrying his leadership as Speaker of the House: “I served with Newt, I knew the problems that were happening in the House of Representatives. Four years into his term as Speaker he was kicked out by the conservatives.” He derided Newt’s tenure as producing a plethora of ideas, but completely lacking in discipline.
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“I will give Newt Gingrich his dues on grandiose ideas and grandiose projects. I will not give him his due on executing those projects.” Santorum proceeded to absolutely tear into Gingrich’s leadership abilities as House Speaker. That was brutal.
Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich. He handles it very well… I don’t want a nominee where I have to open the paper every day and worry what he’s gonna say next.
Rick Santorum, rebuking a claim by Newt Gingrich that he lacked the knowledge to achieve anything on the scale of a presidency. He concluded, essentially, by ridiculing Gingrich’s suggestion that he should drop out an allow conservatives to consolidate around him. “I came in first in Iowa, and I should drop out?”
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“Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich.” Zing!
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“I’ll let [Obama] use a teleprompter. I’ll just rely on knowledge.”
“Why is President Obama for young people being able to stay on their parents until 26? Because he can’t get them any jobs to get them to go out and buy their own insurance!”
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In case you missed it: The video of the whole Newt Gingrich/CNN debate drama. (via Buzzfeed)
Unless he screws up royally, Newt is a winner in the #cnndebate. And we are only 14 minutes in. #cnndebate
— The Fix (@TheFix) January 20, 2012
Too early to call it? Not according to the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza.
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Watch: PCB gets a visual shout out on GMA’s Yahoo/Tumblr...
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
Congrats Tumblr!
Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
In 2007, I was...
I started tumblr when I was at one of the lowest points of...
I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that… I am shocked that CNN would take trash like that and use it in a presidential debate.
Newt Gingrich, leading off the South Carolina debate with a rebuke to moderator John King, who asked Gingrich about his ex-wife Marianne’s claims he asked for an “open marriage” while leading the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton. He was met with thunderous applause.
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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to run this country, harder to attract decent people to run this country, and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate like that.
Newt Gingrich, in response to a question about him asking his ex-wife for an open marriage.
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In essence, they played the game, lost, and then complained that the rules were unfair.A federal judge • Revealing that the four candidates that did not make the Virginia ballot — two of whom complained loudly — will not get a second chance to hop on said ballot. That sound you hear is Ron Paul’s supporters cheering, because that gives them a huge advantage in taking on Mitt Romney; Paul’s the only other candidate besides Romney to get their signatures to the state in time.
So, this is what happens when you accept a challenge from Short Form Blog: you end up with a box of awesome.
This is also what happens when you give a Cookie Monster to a smartass crafter: he gets his own yarn toupee and necktie. (If Build-a-Bear sells suit jackets, AW YISS.)
I really thought “box of cookies” was just an East-coast term for a pack. I was clearly mistaken. I also thought the “surprise” Ernie of SFB mentioned to me might’ve been a little keychain. I never expected a whole 12” Cookie Monster, and it has thus far made my year. Thank you, SFB! I’m voting for Obama, but I love my real-life Cookie Newt to bits.
In which a comment Newt Gingrich made turns from a meme into a real-life thing. Enjoy your COOOOOOOOKIIES landofdoom. :) We suggest you turn Cookie Newt into a political commentator who knows his ginger snaps from his snickerdoodles.
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