Q: How do we know the Repugs got nothing? A: They are looking to Newt as potential savior.

[jefferson_dem]

So says Novak...

All together now -- :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl:

In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years?

To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House.

Gingrich is far from a unanimous or even a consensus choice to run for president in 2012, but there is a strong feeling in Republican ranks that he is the only leader of their party who has shown the skill and energy to attempt a comeback quickly.

http://townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2008/11/08/newt_in_one-two

[rpannier]

1. Damn!!!

And I applied for that job too.

[Ian David]

2. Frankly, Newt can go fuck himself... frankly. n/t

[Joe Bacon]

7. Is he on wife #5 and mistress #6, #7, #8 & #9 yet?

Gee, I wonder how that would play with that Focus on the Family shit? Oh, it wouldn't matter. If Newt went on a murder spree a la Dexter, You know that Dobson and his fellow ASS HOLEYER than thou Christians would forgive him and praise Gawd that he wasn't a gawdless Democrat.

[Submariner]

3. Do it repukes

Nothing would be better for Obama than to run against an ahole that served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital for cancer, and dumped on his next wife by cheating with the office slut during the Clenis/Monica debacle.

Go ahead and do it repukes.....and thanks for the tip off in advance.

[fasttense]

4. The republicon leadership have lost their way. They have given up on real conservatism.

Oh they push their social conservatism down our throats and try to stop any form of social progress. But there is more to conservatism than just stopping social progress.

What about fiscal and economic conservatism? If they had applied true conservatism we would not have wasted our nation's wealth on the hopeless occupation of another country. They would not be paying contractors twice the amount it takes for our military to do a job. They would not be handing out billions of tax payer's dollars to their buddies on Wall Street.

What about ecological conservatism? Conservation was introduced to America by Teddy Roosevelt, a republicon president. Teddy, a firm believer in conservation of national resources, sought to halt exhaustion of timber and mineral supplies by private interests and added many millions of acres of land to public ownership.

It seems the republicons have lost their way and their ideals. They need to move back to being real conservatives again.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Figures that Novak would write for TownHole.com

Both suffer from disorders of some sort.

[AllentownJake]

6. Newt sucks as a candidate or a day to day manager

However he is a very good strategist. They'd be wise to listen to him...hoping they aren't wise.

[Maureen1322]

8. Newt will be their go to guy in 2012.

For better or worse.

[RagAss]

9. They're going further and further into the bag of old nuts !

They will be smaller than the Green party by 2020.

[tularetom]

10. What happened to Novak's so called retirement?

Remember there was a big flurry of activity a few months back after he ran over a pedestrian and drove away, then announced that he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and was retiring form the repuke propaganda bidness.

This is the second or third time I have seen him quoted in the past couple of weeks. Was there divine intervention on the brain tumor front? Or was the whole story just bullshit to keep his fat ass out of jail after his little hit'n'run caper?

[bunkerbuster1]

11. Jim Wootan of the AJC was crying for his Newt as well...

in an otherwise gracious concession piece...

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/thinkingright/entries/2008/11/05/republicans_need_newt.html

As for Republicans, the loss is occasion to reexamine the party’s message. There’s probably no better person to lead those conversations than former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has a knack for reinterpreting conservatism without undermining core principles. Plainly a majority of the country has grown comfortable with big government. The challenge is to find and articulate a course that will wean them from dependency.

So my take-away from this is that Robert Novak is behind the curve of a third-tier daily newspaper's token conservative.

Just when you think Novak can't be any more pathetic...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Oh yeah the guy that sounds like Kermit the Frog will take on one of the most eloquent and

charismatic politicians this century (so far).

[bobd0]

13. NEWT IN 2012!

Great idea. Another candidate whose feet are stuck firmly in the cement of the last century.

Seeing as how that worked out so well for the Republicans this time around I heartily support their choice of Newt in 2012. :rofl: