Newt

[heironymouspasparagus]

This is probably true pretty much anywhere.

If what you are trying to say about OK is/were true, then I would agree that it is a waste of money in that everyone (except you and and a few others) already feels that way.  It will probably not alienate potential customers and may in fact attract some in a feeling of brotherhood.

It's a possibility.

No doubt he will gain some from it.  After all, this IS Okrahoma...

[AquaMan]

This is probably true pretty much anywhere.

If what you are trying to say about OK is/were true, then I would agree that it is a waste of money in that everyone (except you and and a few others) already feels that way.  It will probably not alienate potential customers and may in fact attract some in a feeling of brotherhood.

It's a possibility.

Hey! Make your own quotes! Mine are perfect just the way they are!

Its possible that Newt may change his religion to Church of Latter Day Saints if he sees Romney closing the gap. Possible, maybe even likely.

[AquaMan]

Will have to drive by there sometime.  Is this the one just south of where I-44 splits to head east?  (MBI)

I don't want to give the guy any more attention than he deserves. Seems his place is just north of the entrance to 75 off of 41st, next to a truck repair center.

[Red Arrow]

No doubt he will gain some from it.  After all, this IS Okrahoma...

Hey, no disparaging remarks about Okra (the veggie) or I will start bad mouthing asparagus.

[Red Arrow]

Mine are perfect just the way they are!

We obviously disagree on their perfection.  You did have a good start though. It just needed a little expanding.

[Red Arrow]

I don't want to give the guy any more attention than he deserves.

Too late.

[nathanm]

That would be the Harvard School of Business in concert with the Republicontin party for the last 30 years.

Don't knock Harvard. At least back in the 60s, it wasn't teaching dogma. Good thing, as one of the all around better people I know is a Harvard grad. Maybe they changed the curriculum to emphasize short-sighted idiocy in the 70s and 80s.

[Red Arrow]

Don't knock Harvard. At least back in the 60s, it wasn't teaching dogma. Good thing, as one of the all around better people I know is a Harvard grad. Maybe they changed the curriculum to emphasize short-sighted idiocy in the 70s and 80s.

This person may be an anomaly.  Learned the correct way to do things in spite of the profs.  Regurgitate what's needed to get the grades and then move on.  Or, there may have been a curriculum change somewhere along the line but I would suspect it to have occurred before the 60s since that group is too recently retired or is getting ready to retire.  I expect they are not all 1% enough to have retired at a really young age.

[Townsend]

A tweet I read today:

"My cell phone must be dying — Newt Gingrich just asked it for a divorce."

[heironymouspasparagus]

Hey, no disparaging remarks about Okra (the veggie) or I will start bad mouthing asparagus.

Now, this is a classic example of what is horribly wrong with text in that there is no inflection.  No disparaging at all about okra (or the state), I love okra in just about every way it can be cooked.  And asparagus I like ok, but not as well. 

Oh, wait...I guess I should have used another name.  Problem is, Heironymous P. Okra just doesn't roll of the tongue the same way.  And when used for trade magazine subscriptions, it is always amusing to listen to the phone solicitors trying to say the name when they call to try to get you to buy something...

[Teatownclown]

I likey!

[Townsend]

When Chris Farley met Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich's front-runner status in the race for the Republican presidential nomination has inspired a surge of interest in the late Chris Farley's impression of the former Speaker of the House.

Farley, who died in 1997, was well known for parodying Gingrich on "Saturday Night Live."  In one memorable instance, Farley stormed into the House Republican Conference to celebrate the first 100 days of the Republican-controlled Congress. Farley (sporting a gray wig) shook hands with Newt and then proceeded to talk about some of his favorite books, including one by romance novelist Danielle Steele. To his credit, Gingrich himself was laughing as hard as anybody.

You can check out the video above. And keep your eyes peeled for a young John Boehner in the beginning of the clip.

[we vs us]

I'm seeing a lot of chatter about how the GOP establishment is coming out almost unanimously against Newt's candidacy.  You get that mostly in the form of the "thought leaders"/columnists/media personalities on the right just railing and railing against him in as many public forums as they can.

That sets up a pretty interesting dynamic where the GOP generally splits down the center between the unimpressive establishment candidate and the grass roots choice with (huge) historical liabilities.  I've seen a lot of suggestions about a brokered convention, which may or may not happen but which at least sounds plausible as the two sides get farther apart.  In either case, it's hard to see a situation where, should Romney get the nod, the party unites behind him.  It's starting to seem similarly plausible that a Newt candidacy would have the same problems. 

Here's what I haven't been able to figure out:  why hasn't one of the GOP stars that're sitting on the sidelines come running to the rescue?  The field has proven itself to be amazingly weak, and Romney can't seem to crack 20% support amongst the faithful.  You'd think that this would be a great time for a Christie or a Daniels or Paul Ryan or anyone with some star power to come charging in.  But they're all silent.  Where are the viable GOP candidates?

[Red Arrow]

Where are the viable GOP candidates?

Maybe waiting for 2016.

[we vs us]

Maybe waiting for 2016.

Which means that, for all intents and purposes, the GOP has ceded the Whitehouse to Obama in 2012?