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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R)
American Solutions for Winning the Future, the once vaunted political group founded by Newt Gingrich, has gone bellyup.
The Center for Public Integrity reports that the organization -- the centerpiece of an enterprise widely known as "Newt Inc." -- has quietly shut its doors and laid off its remianing six staffers, an apparent casualty of Gingrich's beleagered presidential drive.
American Solutions had raised $52 million in the past four years, using the funds to promote Gingrich's various policy positions and helping to keep its founder in the public eye. Its largest single donor: Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who kicked in $7 million.
Gingrich, who is lagging in the polls, had to cut off ties to American Solutions once he announced for president.
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Newtsie is still running? Who knew? lol
Evil job killer is what he is!
You can't blame it on uncertainty cause one things for certain he doesn't stand a chance of getting elected!
No money: No campaign. That's pretty simple Newt. Now you can also go home.
"Now you can also go home."
Via Hawaii, of course.....
I think he is already in Hawaii this week.
So Newt has been a casino magnet's bi#$h all these years?
With the wrong direction the Teabaggers are taking the country, Gingrich actually looks good in comparison. If one takes away all the wife swaps, etc. and allowed "old school" conservatives like Gingrich to speak openly without fear of being "primaried" from the right, it would be refreshing. Huntsman is the only one so far who is taking a bit of a risk, while Romney, McCain, Hatch and others who like Bob Bennett are solid conservatives, yet have totally cowered to the extremists.
The "Tea Party" is the same old far-right folks who supported Goldwater. But it's worse now, because since Reagan, this group has become anit Separation of Church and State. Goldwater, Nixon, Bush Sr., none of these guys had to pander to the Evangelical minority. No longer--it's insane, and they'll take the Republican Party down with them.
Most likely most of these Tea Baggers are still card carrying members of the KKK.
Newt was running for President? Who knew?
The KKK were mostly Democrats.
Newt is a savvy, smart man with good ideas. Unfortunately, he made himself unpalatable due to decisions he made in his personal life.
That would be fine if he was a Democrat and didn't send nude photos of himself via his cell phone. But he's not.
Doug - Your side inherited the Dixiecrats, they have found their true home "of white racists"!
Really? you pathetic asswipe? Was Robert Byrd a "Dixiecrat"?
"The Center for Public Integrity ....has quietly shut its doors and laid off its remianing six staffers"
And MSNBC laid off its "remianing" spellcheckers last week, so it could dedicate more resources to its ongoing campaign to re-elect Barack Obama,.
Can Newt say what goes around comes right back at ya?
Newtie you might want to abandon that government defaulting thing next time.
Soo...boobie decides to point out a ...spelling error...
...here's your sign...
So the spelling cop didn't pay attention (again)!
MSNBC had NOTHING to do with it - it was a direct quote from; The Center for Public Integrity reports!
The dumbing down of America marches on...
Way to go boobie.
I've never seen a man who ridiculed himself like Newtie. Imagine Newt as president, that will amount to a complete fiasco in WH.
Pius Emeka Nebo
"I've never seen a man who ridiculed himself like Newtie..."
You haven't? Go back, and read the post immediately above yours, P E N.
DBO,
THAT? I take my comment back.......my bad. He's awesomely right there with the nuts......Beck is a joke when compared.
Is he still vacatio . . . I mean "campaigning" in that pivotal Republican primary state of Hawaii?
Poor Bob, still not happy, President Obama came home early from vaction just like he wanted so Bob had to find another pretend reason to hate on President Obama.
Totally ignoring that the republicans are getting ready to raise his taxes but not raise taxes on the rich. Ironic the party you are defending is getting ready to raise your taxes.
I told you they only care for the rich and the rest of America can just fall over and die.
Poor Gingrich not running for president and his third wife won't be first lady. Even his own party doesn't want him.
Who do you think the Big O is going to "officially" raise taxes on? What threshold do you consider as "rich"? His policies have already "raised taxes" on the poor.
Doug - Kindly and with all due respect "go pound sand".
Dispute the facts or STFU you sycophant POS,.
Personally, I have Bob on "ignore". But just once in awhile I check up on him to see if he is still the same idiot. Question answered. Back to ignore.
I have a couple others on ignore, but Bob is such an easy target with all his repeated propaganda talking points and its almost entertaining seeing how Bob can twist anything into reasons to hate Obama.
My sister and I use to make jokes about our sister-in-law that got sick or something and had to be waited on every time she came to our house and could never help in the kitchen. We would laugh and laugh with all the excuses we thought she would make when we realized it was a pattern. I especially remember when my sister and I nearly fell out of our chairs laughing when on one visit she used the very excuse we had been laughing about before she arrived and Mom sent us to our rooms trying not to laugh herself.
Bob makes me laugh in the same way that his post are ridiculous. He just tries so hard to make everything a negative and actually thinks that the rest of us believe him like my sister in law though we believed her.
Old boobie and JAS 1 are so much alike.
Newt is crazy as a bedbug, mean as a snake, and as self-centered as a puppy, but by comparison he seems more qualified than the even crazier, meaner, and more narcisstic Republican presidential candidates who are presently frightening the electorate.
Robert Burnside
The fact that you are right is just a bit scary, isn't it?
Hmmm. $7 million from Sheldon Adelson. Nothing like scamming a Las Vegas casino magnate out of $7 million for your personal ego trip. Good job Newton..
Newt is washed up in this race, and I wish I could say the same for Perry. Of the Republicans running Slick Rick is the most dangerous to the people of the United States.
you can go back to Fox news.,,,,have a niceday
Well, at least Obama's on the ball. Remember Katrina? Bush down on the ranch, and "Good job, Brownie!", yeah those were the days......
Poor old Newt has foot in mouth disease....he accidentally tells the truth about the right wing of his party and it's radical social agenda, and he gets tromped until he knuckles under and swallows....and he's done.
Perry won't play in Peoria or most other places....that schoolyard bully routine is not nearly as appealing as he thinks....and the rest of what comes out of his mouth. Now he's waving the flag-last year he was all for secession.
Flag wavers always make me wonder what they have to hide. True patriots don't have to scream it from the rooftops, they just uphold the Constitution and try to make the USA what it was intended to be....a lot more liberal-ask George if you're not sure.
Newt reminds me of that actor that ran last time. Sorry I can't recall his name for sure but I think it was Fred Thompson. Newt will be a zero like Fred. Both are worthless.
I don’t much care for either one but ….
Fred Thompson is an actor, an attorney, a Lobbyist and an 8 year Senator from TN. Fred was elected to finish Al Gore’s unexpired term, replacing Harlan Mathews who was appointed to replace Al Gore until a special election was held. Fred won the special election and his reelection both with over 60% of the vote.
Fred is a better person than Newt and more reasonable for a conservative.
Now the rest of America can see what the State of Texas produces. You could grow more talent under a rock .Paul And the Latest Texas Turkey Perry ,along with a couple of Bushes validates the fact that we should let Texas Seceede from the Us and go down and screw up Mexico like they want to do here. It is really hard to believe that their is that much stupidity in one state. I do not visualize the US VOters running to the poles for this group of booby prizes.
I really dont understand Newt for any average american just browsing the net could tell immediately that
Newt could not win the presidental nomination and I think his ploy was money motivation.
With his past history in politics I dont see his logic in thinking he could get anywhere in a presidental race.
I will give him an E for effort.