Gingrich Calls Republican Field "Pathetic" and "Pygmies"

Posted by Stephanie Taylor on July 24, 2007 at 02:40 PM

Newt Gingrich dismissed the Republican presidential field as a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies," hinting Monday that he might enter the race.

And just a day after a lively Democratic CNN/YouTube debate in Charleston, Gingrich ridiculed debates as "the idea of 10 or 11 people standing passively at microphones," and said he refused to "shrink to the level of 40-second answers, standing like a trained seal, waiting for someone to throw me a fish."

Comments (12) «

Gingrich Calls Republican Field "Pathetic" and "Pygmies"?

Wow, I actually agree with Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich is an expert at being a Pathetic Pygmie.

1
JohnnyBoswell on July 24, 2007 at 03:09 PM

Is that this Newt Gingrich...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1173

"Critics of Gingrich have long made much of the insensitivity he demonstrated in serving his first wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer. Nor did news of his efforts to cut life insurance coverage for the mother of his children always endear Gingrich to his family values supporters, but it was generally assumed that his marital errors were in the past.

This time, his approach was less personal. Marianne Gingrich told the Washington Post that she was informed of the affair and the request for a divorce last May in a telephone call from Newt to her mother's home, where she was visiting."


2
sunny on July 24, 2007 at 03:25 PM

Is that this Newt Gingrich...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1173

"Critics of Gingrich have long made much of the insensitivity he demonstrated in serving his first wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer. Nor did news of his efforts to cut life insurance coverage for the mother of his children always endear Gingrich to his family values supporters, but it was generally assumed that his marital errors were in the past.

This time, his approach was less personal. Marianne Gingrich told the Washington Post that she was informed of the affair and the request for a divorce last May in a telephone call from Newt to her mother's home, where she was visiting."


3
sunny on July 24, 2007 at 03:27 PM

Well, FRANKLY, none of the Republican candidates FRANKLY hold a candle to any of the Democratic candidates, but, FRANKLY, I don't much care what Newt thinks.

FRANKLY.

4
lw on July 24, 2007 at 03:48 PM

I can hardly believe Gingrich could win an Elementry contest. He is such a two faced person.
You can be assured he won't tell it like it is. Anyone would be a fool to vote for him.

5
freeforall on July 24, 2007 at 04:00 PM

Good Afternoon,

I am shocked and surprised Ging did not address the republican party with words they enjoyed using:

NIGGERDLY MACACA - Republican Presidential Candidates!

These are words more enjoyed by republicans during their 2000 & 2004 campaign!

6
HybridFuel on July 24, 2007 at 04:30 PM

not strange at all why his mother named him after a reptile !

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — John McCain on Tuesday brushed aside derogatory comments made by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who called the Republican presidential field a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies."
"I see the former member of the House of Representatives as a person who has many, many comments to make and he's made many, many comments critical of me in the past," McCain told reporters Tuesday after attending a fundraiser in Grand Rapids. "We had a fundamental disagreement about the role of money in politics."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-07-24-mccain-gingrich_N.htm?csp=34

Quite the family values man!

Newt Gingrich has been married three times. He married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old (she was seven years his senior at 26 years old).[6][7] After an alleged affair with Ann Manning in 1977, Gingrich sought a divorce from Battley[8]. In 1981, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther[9], to whom he remained married until 1999, the same year Gingrich had an affair with a then 33-year-old Congressional staffer, Callista Bisek. He and Bisek were married in 2000 and currently reside in Virginia. Gingrich has two daughters, Kathy and Jackie from his marriage to Jackie Battley, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren

Newtie also:

Although a source of friction in the conservative wing of the GOP (and some pro-union "blue dog" democrats), Gingrich supports a "guest workers program" for Mexican citizens, meaning that an undetermined number of Mexican citizens would be allowed to come to the United States and work for a period of time, then return to Mexico. Gingrich also supports the idea of allowing some of these guest workers to become citizens. In his book Winning the Future, he says:

"Along with total border control, we must make it easier for people who enter the United States legally, to work for a set period of time, obey the law, and return home. The requirements for participation in a worker visa program should be tough and uncompromising. The first is essential: Everyone currently working in the United States illegal must return to their home country to apply for the worker visa program. Anything less than requiring those who are here illegally to return home to apply for legal status is amnesty, plain and simple."


and THIS is where the Anti-Environment came from, his so-called contract with America:

The Contract was criticized by the Sierra Club and by Mother Jones magazine as a Trojan horse tactic that, while deploying the rhetoric of reform, would have the real effect of allowing corporate polluters to profit at the expense of the environment;[17] It was referred to by opponents, including President Clinton, as the "Contract on America".[18]

7
PamB on July 24, 2007 at 07:03 PM

and will the Republican Revolution EVER forgive Newt for this:

Gingrich inflicted a temporary blow to his public image by seeming to suggest that the Republican hard-line stance over the budget was in part due to his feeling "snubbed" by the President the day before following his return from Yitzhak Rabin's funeral in Israel. Gingrich was lampooned in the media as a petulant figure with an inflated self-image, and editorial cartoons depicted him as having thrown a temper tantrum.[citation needed] Democratic leaders took the opportunity to attack Gingrich's motives for the budget standoff, and some say the shutdown might have contributed to Clinton's re-election in November 1996.[19][20]

Tom DeLay recounts the event in his book, No Retreat, No Surrender, that Gingrich "made the mistake of his life" and says the following of Gingrich's mis-step of the shutdown[21]:

"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One...Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and now the whole morat tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child..The revolution, I can tell you, was never the same."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

8
PamB on July 24, 2007 at 07:08 PM

Well, well , well eye of newt speaks.

Hout Freddy the Cheeseball:

Freddy Boy Thompson is a cheeseball second rate actor.
Freddy spent over 10 years as a bloodsucking lobbyist.
Freddy was one of the laziest Senators in history. Showing
up was hard work for Freddy cheeseball.

9
rjsnj on July 24, 2007 at 09:37 PM

Isn't this like the pot calling a bunch of kettles black? Like he's any better than the rest of these jerks?

10
Butte on July 24, 2007 at 11:56 PM

rjsnj - Do you have anything new to say about Thompson? I think I've seen that same post 10 times over the past few months. Give it a break.

11
dark_horseMJ on July 25, 2007 at 10:44 PM

Someone ask newt if he ever attended the Bohemian Club. According to the AJC in Atlanta, newt attended the Bohemian Club meetings in July in CA just North of SF. Google the Bohemian Club and find out about the republican secret meetings and the members that belong to the Bohemian Club. newt is a member along with bush and cheney, etc. These meetings are more secret than cheney's energy meetings. By asking every religious right person and blind republican follower, if they know the truth about the Bohemian Club and its members. Maybe the truth about their "leaders" and God is the best way to open their eyes and destroy the republican base, This could stop the war NOW and be better than impeachment. Start by asking the pathetic pygmy if he is a memmber of the Bohmenian Club. Mr. Dean this may help defeat all republicans everywhere from top to bottom. If I know about the Bohemian Club shouldn't the Democratic leaders know?

12
Vietnam2 on July 26, 2007 at 10:48 AM


« Hide Comments

Comments are now closed for this entry.