Trump fired speculation with his promise of a “major announcement” at a Las Vegas press conference last Thursday. Would he re-enter the race? Release Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate? The media widely - and incorrectly - reported the Gingrich camp’s claim that Newt was about to snag the coveted Trump endorsement. But embarrassingly for Gingrich, Trump announced that Mitt’s his guy. Romney, looking profoundly uncomfortable, professed himself “delighted” and wrapped up the event so fast that it was over five minutes after it began. In thanking Trump, Romney said “There are some things you can’t imagine happening in your life. This is one of them.” His tone suggested he didn’t mean this in a good way. (Watch it here.) Pundits have questioned Romney’s wisdom in tying himself to a man known in pop culture for the catchphrase “you’re fired!” (Photograph: Michael Nelson/EPA)
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Trump fired speculation with his promise of a “major announcement” at a Las Vegas press conference last Thursday.

Would he re-enter the race? Release Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate?

The media widely - and incorrectly - reported the Gingrich camp’s claim that Newt was about to snag the coveted Trump endorsement.

But embarrassingly for Gingrich, Trump announced that Mitt’s his guy. Romney, looking profoundly uncomfortable, professed himself “delighted” and wrapped up the event so fast that it was over five minutes after it began. In thanking Trump, Romney said

“There are some things you can’t imagine happening in your life. This is one of them.”

His tone suggested he didn’t mean this in a good way. (Watch it here.)

Pundits have questioned Romney’s wisdom in tying himself to a man known in pop culture for the catchphrase “you’re fired!”

(Photograph: Michael Nelson/EPA)

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Twitter users respond to Sarah Palin’s reference to 1990s ultra-left-wing rock band Rage Against the Machine.
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Twitter users respond to Sarah Palin’s reference to 1990s ultra-left-wing rock band Rage Against the Machine.

On Sunday Palin appeared on Fox News and urged GOP voters to “rage against the machine, vote for Newt, annoy a liberal.” Over at the New York Magazine, Dan Amira asks, “is this the most wrong Palin has ever been?” He came up with a precise estimate of where “a vote for Newt” in Florida actually ranks on the list of “things that annoy liberals.” See above.
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On Sunday Palin appeared on Fox News and urged GOP voters to “rage against the machine, vote for Newt, annoy a liberal.”

Over at the New York Magazine, Dan Amira asks, “is this the most wrong Palin has ever been?” He came up with a precise estimate of where “a vote for Newt” in Florida actually ranks on the list of “things that annoy liberals.” See above.

Gingrich last night promised Americans the moon (yes, really) when he reiterated a campaign promise made last Friday: “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.” Under Gingrich’s lunar-tic plan, moon colonists could form a U.S. state. Newt definitely isn’t interested in rational problem-solving, writes The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf, and his fascination with moon colonization reveals why. Friedersdorf hones in on a revealing moment in which Gingrich defends his “large” visions: Gingrich: “The reason you have to have a bold and large vision is you don’t arouse the American nation with trivial, bureaucratic, rational objectives.” “That is telling,” says Friedersdorf. “Problem-solving isn’t [Gingrich’s] object. He aims, as he tells us, to arouse the American people.” Friedersdorf riffs on this to create a “bold” slogan for Gingrich’s campaign: “Newt Gingrich — he’s like Viagra for the national psyche.” (Side effects may include nausea, bigger deficits, self-aggrandizing speeches, foreign wars, demagoguery against Muslims, ethics scandals, and shameless demonstrations of moral hypocrisy. Not to be combined with actual executive power.)
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Gingrich last night promised Americans the moon (yes, really) when he reiterated a campaign promise made last Friday:

“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.”

Under Gingrich’s lunar-tic plan, moon colonists could form a U.S. state.

Newt definitely isn’t interested in rational problem-solving, writes The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf, and his fascination with moon colonization reveals why.

Friedersdorf hones in on a revealing moment in which Gingrich defends his “large” visions:

Gingrich: “The reason you have to have a bold and large vision is you don’t arouse the American nation with trivial, bureaucratic, rational objectives.”

“That is telling,” says Friedersdorf. “Problem-solving isn’t [Gingrich’s] object. He aims, as he tells us, to arouse the American people.”

Friedersdorf riffs on this to create a “bold” slogan for Gingrich’s campaign:

“Newt Gingrich — he’s like Viagra for the national psyche.” (Side effects may include nausea, bigger deficits, self-aggrandizing speeches, foreign wars, demagoguery against Muslims, ethics scandals, and shameless demonstrations of moral hypocrisy. Not to be combined with actual executive power.)

Source: topix.com

At the GOP debate, Florida, Jan 26: PALESTINIAN AUDIENCE MEMBER: How would a Republican administration help bring peace to Palestine and Israel when most candidates barely recognize the existence of Palestine or its people? As a Palestinian-American Republican, I’m here to tell you we do exist. BLITZER: Speaker Gingrich, you got into a little hot water when you said the Palestinians were an invented people. GINGRICH: It was technically an invention of the late 1970s, and it was clearly so. Prior to that, they were Arabs.  The map of Palestine, above, dates from 1924. 
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At the GOP debate, Florida, Jan 26:

PALESTINIAN AUDIENCE MEMBER: How would a Republican administration help bring peace to Palestine and Israel when most candidates barely recognize the existence of Palestine or its people? As a Palestinian-American Republican, I’m here to tell you we do exist.

BLITZER: Speaker Gingrich, you got into a little hot water when you said the Palestinians were an invented people.

GINGRICH: It was technically an invention of the late 1970s, and it was clearly so. Prior to that, they were Arabs. 

The map of Palestine, above, dates from 1924. 

Can Newt Survive the Conservative Media Mauling? Conservatives are freaking out over the possibility of Gingrich as Republican nominee, and one result is the transformation of theDrudge Report into an anti-Newt headline-fest. The main Drudge headline links to a Newt-savaging in theNational Review: Insider: Gingrich Repeatedly Insulted Reagan… Other choice headlines link to stories explaining that Gingrich is a “one-man-band who rarely took advice” (Bob Dole) and “not really a conservative” (Tom Delay), to reports that Gingrich loses to Romney in a Florida poll match-up with Obama, and to a debunking of Gingrich’s debate claim that he’d offered witnesses to ABC to disprove the “open marriage” story.
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Can Newt Survive the Conservative Media Mauling?

Conservatives are freaking out over the possibility of Gingrich as Republican nominee, and one result is the transformation of theDrudge Report into an anti-Newt headline-fest.

The main Drudge headline links to a Newt-savaging in theNational Review:

Insider: Gingrich Repeatedly Insulted Reagan…

Other choice headlines link to stories explaining that Gingrich is a “one-man-band who rarely took advice” (Bob Dole) and “not really a conservative” (Tom Delay), to reports that Gingrich loses to Romney in a Florida poll match-up with Obama, and to a debunking of Gingrich’s debate claim that he’d offered witnesses to ABC to disprove the “open marriage” story.

Source: topix.com