MetaFilter posts tagged with 2012 and newtgingrich

Scoops, Swoops, and Perry's "Oops."

Rhaomi — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:54:11 -0800

Texas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is booked on all the major morning shows tomorrow, and with good reason. After two months of gaffes, impolitic stands, and bizarre speeches that quickly waned his once-strong odds of winning the Republican nomination, Perry went into Wednesday's CNBC debate sorely needing a win... only to deliver a tortuous, cringingly forgetful attempt [video] to recall just which three cabinet departments he'd vowed to abolish, a stunning failure political scientist Larry Sabato deemed "the most devastating moment of any modern primary debate" in his memory. While Perry's slow-motion flameout has boosted the fortunes of dark horse candidate Herman Cain, the unlikely challenger is facing troubles of his own in a volley of sexual harassment claims -- an oddly ineffective scandal Cain is doing his best to (somewhat dubiously) disavow. If Cain collapses, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may reap the benefits, but his moribund campaign has issues of its own. Pawlenty, Bachmann, Perry, Christie, Cain, Gingrich... the base is loathe to rally round him, but after so many failed, flawed, or forfeited challenges, can anyone topple Mitt Romney?

Imaginary friends

msalt — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:18:40 -0800

Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign is floundering despite his brag that "I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined." Maybe because 80% of them are fake. Or maybe they're not. Not the old school fake of "I'll follow you, you follow me" ad infinitem, but -- according to a former aide -- from paid follower faking services. Allegedly, Scientology does this too. Rebuttal: Politico, which earlier ran a glowing article on Newt's personal care and feeding of Twitter followers, defends him (and themselves) by saying that it's because Newt was on Twitter's Recommended Follow List (along with all the other presidential candidates). Gingrich's entire staff quit his campaign this summer, and he is polling near the bottom of the Republican pack despite very high name familiarity.

Newt Gingrich in Front of Stock Photos

mrgrimm — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:45:26 -0800

Yesterday, Newt Gingrich announced that he's going to "explore the possibility" of running for president in 2012 with an exploratory site that uses an awkward stock photo. Then Web incompetence led to an inevitable consequence. (previously)

knives in bed, rocks in head

sloe — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:29:16 -0800

"Bring An End To This False Prophet Obama"

Jon Voight speaks at Annual GOP Fund-Raiser Also: "bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy" by Newt Gingrich (full transcript: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6)