Newt Takes Self-Parody to New Heights
Troy Senik ·
Jul 16, 2011 at 6:18pm
Too delicious not to pass on. From Matt Lewis at the Daily Caller:
FEC reports released Friday show that former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s campaign has $1,030,627.82 in debt.
He blames his consultants who resigned en masse last month. But the Gingrich campaign’s FEC report shows that nearly half of the debt comes from charting private airplanes. More specifically, the campaign owes $451,946.00 to Moby Dick Airways LTD.
Moby Dick Airways? Apparently Newt's penchant for grandiosity extends to irony as well.
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Dec '10
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Newt has executed this campaign so poorly that he's probably even devalued his speaking fees by it.
Apr '11
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Fred Thompson called, Newt. He wants his All-Time DOA Campaign record back.
Aug '10
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Newt's campaign reminds me of Ricky Henderson's later years. Ricky, at age 46, could not face retirement and chose instead to play for the obscure San Diego Surf Dogs of the Golden Baseball League.
Newt's achievements are epic, he would be a mortal lock for the Hall of Fame, if the GOP had one. But like Ricky Henderson, Newt finds it impossible to admit that he no longer dominates the field.
As a man in my late forties, I completely understand.
Edited on Jul 16, 2011 at 6:53pmJul '10
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I could have saved Him some money by booking Him on "Titanic Ocean Liner" or "Hindenburg Zeppelin" or AMC Gremlin.....
Sep '10
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Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Aug '10
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Loved it, love that site.
Apr '11
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Is anyone else having a problem concentrating on reading while looking at what appears to be a large Sperm Whale as it were?
As to your next question, I'm hetero.
Jun '10
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What has Newt ever done to you?
Did he disappoint you in some way?
Newt is the only one in the country with a real record of achievement. Everyone else sails on with the hopes that we all invest in them. If you think Newt disappoints, wait to see how much you will hate these new darlings of the right as time goes on and they are really tested in trials by fire.
Newt will always have my gratitude. Just as I am grateful to Ronald Reagan and a few others who have actually done something instead of talking about it.
Apr '11
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Larry Koler: What has Newt ever done to you?
Did he disappoint you in some way?
Newt is the only one in the country with a real record of achievement. Everyone else sails on with the hopes that we all invest in them. If you think Newt disappoints, wait to see how much you will hate these new darlings of the right as time goes on and they are really tested in trials by fire.
Newt will always have my gratitude. Just as I am grateful to Ronald Reagan and a few others who have actually done something instead of talking about it. · Jul 16 at 8:26pm
Fair enough.
Then....
Would you assert that the class of '94 did not betray Reagan's legacy? Fine if you do, and go ahead and make the case, but there are probably more than a few of us hereabouts that never confused Reagan and Gingrich. Just sayin'.
Jun '10
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Michael: The class of '94 brought to the floor all 10 points of the Contract. Just as they promised.
What betrayal are you referring to?
The only surpluses to speak of in a century of promises by every conservative since Goldwater and beyond. Welfare reform. The House of Representatives finally functioning like it should with the Speaker a force to reckon with. Most of what you think is bad with the Republicans of this era is what you have probably learned first from the MSM -- and the MSM hated Newt and these new type of Republicans. That's a badge of honor in itself -- you are known by your enemies.
Apr '11
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Larry Koler:
(snip) What betrayal are you referring to? (snip)
Plural, not singular.
Seriously?
OK, start here.
I thought we all generally understood that the class of '94 fell far short, face-first.
Apr '11
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Invoking Kenneth's Law.
If you want to debate content, that seems the appropriate approach hereabouts. Don't start off, though, by telling me I'm stupid. [edited: angers me.]
Edited on Jul 17, 2011 at 4:24amJun '10
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Michael Patrick Tracy
Larry Koler:
(snip) What betrayal are you referring to? (snip)
Plural, not singular.
Seriously?
OK, start here.
I thought we all generally understood that the class of '94 fell far short, face-first.
Don't start off by telling me I'm stupid. Chapter and verse, my friend. What do you have for a betrayal. I was there then. I remember what was going on with Newt very well. I remember that the MSM hated him -- nothing much more than that.
As for the CATO people -- I'm glad of their help on the intellectual front but don't pretend as if they have ever run anything or had to make difficult executive decisions.
What's generally understood is often wrong.
"Kenneth's Law" is an evasion not a law. If people start giving me Democratic Party and MSM talking points I need to be able to point that out, don't you think? Perhaps they don't even know where the talking points come from. It needs to be pointed out and "Kenneth's Law" is a way to try to remain ignorant of being used.
Jul '10
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Larry Koler
What's generally understood is often wrong.
Hear! Hear! Living in DC at the time, even as a cradle to grave media skeptic, the stuff that was flung at Newt was so thick and so furious that there were falsehoods that were only brought to my attention since joining this site.
Ironically, I tend to sort Newt and CATO into the same box these days. Great ideas, some worth trying, others not so much. I was also around for the Contract, bought a copy, and kept score. As a busy pre-web professional, I don't recall major achievements beyond that, but like to think I am educable. My impression is that, by the end, his own caucus had become the third leg of a butt-chewing stool, with the Dems and the media being the other two.
The current edition of Newt would have more of my respect if he hadn't joined Pelosi on the AGW couch. And I can't say he has convinced me that he appreciates the fiscal crisis.
Apr '11
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I'll save the editor the trouble:
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Mar '11
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All other things being equal, I think Newt is going to have a hard time making the case that he can run a fiscally conservative agenda in Washington if he can't even keep his own campaign in the black.
Apr '11
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Jim DeMint: "But frankly, the thing that killed the ’94 revolution was that you got a lot of new people came in, but the guys who’d been there forever took over the chairmanships of committees, and we went downhill from there."
Tom Coburn: "It’s well-known that the 1994 Republican Revolution sputtered and failed to turn the country around. The failure of that revolution though was not so much a matter of failed tactics, but failed character. Each turning point for the worse – the failure of the government shutdown, the betrayal of the term limits movement, overspending, the K-Street project, earmarxism, and entitlement expansion – came about because of hubris, self-preservation and careerism."
Dick Armey: "Somewhere along the road to a "permanent majority," the Republican Revolution of 1994 went off track....But by the summer of 1997, the appropriators -- rightly called the 'third party' of Congress -- had begun to pass spending bills with Democrats. As soon as politics superseded policy and principle, the avalanche of earmarks that is crushing the party began."
Buncha MSM libiots, what do they know?
Apr '11
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Bingo.
Aug '10
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I think you guys are missing the point, Newt is wisely following the Clinton election rules,damn the debts, full speed ahead. The Chinese will pay the old bills.
Where's Norman Hsu when you need him ? Probably at the Clinton Campaign Donor's Retreat ( club fed).
Feb '11
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Isn't Moby Dick Airways aware of the fundamental principal that politicians should always be kept on a short leash when it comes to the extension of credit?