Newt Gingrich does a pretty good Garrison Keillor impersonation
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-That didn't take long-
Mere days after announcing that he'd run for president if he raised $30 million, Newt Gingrich has bowed out of his kinda, sorta, maybe campaign to take the White House. He claims that it's because he'd have to give up his astroturf organization, American Solutions.
"To give up and kill an organization we spent a year on, and that had 2,000 sites around the country where people had now invested their time and effort, just to look at whether or not you could run, I thought would be irresponsible," Gingrich said sunday on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Yeah, because AS has accomplished so much, like... Ummm... Uhhh... A poll and pretty much nothing else. Well, what do you expect from an organization who's motto is -- and I'm not making this up -- "Real Change Requires Real Change?" Not a lot of thought as gone into anything Gingrich has done lately.
Anyhoo, it's likely that as soon as Newt launched his big fundraising push, it went absolutely nowhere. So, he comes up with this excuse. Too bad. It would've been nice to see him get humiliated just one more time... (ABC News)
-The Whackadoodles for Jesus Party-
Right wing religious screwball James Dobson got a bunch of his fellow psychotics to sign on to a resolution at a weekend meeting of the Council for National Policy stating "if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third-party candidate."
It's clearly a slam on Rudy Giuliani who, despite the fact that 9/11 turned him into a pro-lifer (or something like that), the religious right still considers a baby killer. Whether or not this is a serious threat is anyone's guess -- it could be that they're hoping to scare off Rudy. If so, they don't know about his tremendous ego.
On the off-chance that the threat is serious, they'll have to think of a name for their third party. My suggestion has already been made. But if they don't take Whackadoodles for Jesus, they might try the Nuts Who Sank the GOP's Chances in '08 Party. (Americans United)
-Headline of the day-
"Indian Jews Outraged Over 'The Nazi Collection' Line of Bedspreads." Another case of overreaction to moronic marketing. In this case, NAZI is a poorly chosen acronym for "New Arrival Zone for India." The Indian Jewish Federation has threatened to sue, but it's kind of hard to figure out on what grounds they'd do so. Gross dumbassery? (AP)
