Goodbye, Newt

Newt Gingrich is finally leaving what the Guardian UK calls his Awe-Inspiring Presidential Campaign.

For someone so boastful, surreally ambitious, condescending, compulsively philandering and just generally preposterous, it's always been oddly hard to truly dislike Newt Gingrich. If I had to guess the reason, I'd say it has something to do with the boastfulness, the surreal ambition, the condecension, the compulsive philandering and the general preposterousness.

I think about the only people who will miss Newt are the cartoonists, comedians and pundits.

I gathered up some of the Moon Madness about his farewell speech and posted them on my political quotes blog Snark Amendment

Rumor has it that Romney is gaining Newt's endorsement by paying off his huge primary campaign debt. Yeah, there's nothing like buying a good endorsement, or paying off a huge mountain of debt created by a fellow-Republican who complained for the past year about Obama and the Democrats wasting money.

I think Newt and Mitt prove one important fact: all the money in the world probably can't buy the Republicans this election. Yes, they can close the gap with Obama before November, but look at how much they've wasted in the primary just to try and defeat Santorum. And that guy would still be in the race if he hadn't sabotaged himself by opening his mouth once too often. So what did they prove? Obviously that talk is cheap, and they are hypocrites and narcissists willing to spend anything to buy the White House, while telling underprivileged children to become baby janitors so the good white wealthy children (like Newt's grandchildren) will fly to the moon.

Newt reminded us all that the moon is the root of the word "lunatic."







From Comedy Central's Indecision 2012