At Goon Squad they tackle the difficult question. Is Newt pregnant. Actually that is an
important read if you want insight into the type of power
behind Newt. Graphic warning.
By Mike Whitney
January 22, 2012
By now you've heard the story a million times: The Gingrich
bandwagon limps into South Carolina trailing frontrunner Mitt Romney by a full
10 points (or more), but the pugnacious Newt rallies the troops with his fiery
performance at the debates turning certain defeat into a landslide victory.
Woo-hoo!
By Sunday, the philandering ex-Speaker's triumphant grin can be
seen plastered in headlines across the country while political pundits from
both sides of the aisle scratch their heads and ponder the shocking upset
that's turned the campaign into a two-man, no-holds-barred, steelcage
smackdown.
Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Too bad it's all baloney.
Here's a clip from an article in FOX News mulling-over the
Gingrich buzz:
"Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina State co-chairman John
Napier knew the “Gingrich surge” was real last Sunday afternoon. Napier, a
former U.S. Congressman and retired Federal Judge, pulled into the parking lot
of the Land’s End Restaurant in Georgetown, S.C. for a Gingrich event expected
to draw 25-30 people. Instead, over 350 people showed up before others had to
be turned away. Napier said, “There were people there we hadn’t seen since
Reagan ran.” Napier should now. He was swept into Congress from a rural
district in SC in 1980 on the coattails of the Reagan Revolution." (Newt-
Gingrich wins South Carolina primary by uniting Reagan Republicans", Fox
News)
Oh, yeah; they're packing them in for Newtster, just like they
did for the Gipper.
Are you kidding me; a “Gingrich surge"? That's a bit of a
stretch, don't you think? Gingrich attracts about as much attention as McCain
did on his dismal "whistlestop" tour across the country in 2008. Do
you remember that fiasco?
Every time the disfigured senator from Arizona pulled into a
stop, there were maybe 15 or 20 elderly white guys with their baseball caps
cinched around their ears grimacing darkly at the 100 or so reporters from the
major media who had gathered to cover the event. There were more journalists
than ordinary people! What a joke.
Do you really want to talk about the “Gingrich surge"? Then
get a load of this article in Saturday's Washington Post:
"Poor attendance leads Gingrich to cancel appearance at College of Charleston arena", Washington Post:"Newt Gingrich has cancelled a campaign appearance in South Carolina because of poor attendance....There were just a few dozen people in the audience at the College of Charleston’s arena, where the event was taking place. The conference has suffered from low attendance all week but Gingrich rival Rick Santorum went ahead and addressed the group on Thursday." (Washington Post)
The Newts. Sorry I had to post this silly thing.
Nightmarish couple....
Oh dear. So much for the "Gingrich is popular" theory, eh?
And this whole rigmarole about "swarms of tea partiers,
evangelicals, and young white men" flocking to this washed-up narcissist
is utter hogwash. For some reason, liberals are stuck on the idea that there's
a secret army of ignoramuses who only emerge from their spiderholes at
electiontime so they can gum-up the balloting. It's total nonsense; another
groundless media invention. Newt Gingrich has no base of support; he is a
mind-numbingly tedious person with zero charisma. And that's why I think
something else is going on.
But what would that be?
Well, the first place to look would be at the exit polls or at
the precinct results. My guess is that we'd learn alot more about Saturday's
"surprise victory" through a credible vote count than by attributing
it to Romney's troubles at Bain or Gingrich's electrifying personality. (Har,
har)
Anyway, I thought this might be of interest to those of you
(like me) who feel that there's more here than meets the eye. Here's an excerpt
from a post at Bev Harris's Black Box Voting:
"In South Carolina, 100% of election results will be
redirected through a private Barcelona, Spain-owned company, Scytl/SOE
Software, before being reported to the public.
ED: This is an interesting headline to check out. Just days before the election:
“SCYTL’s position as an industry leader along with SOE Software’s core competencies and customer base will provide significant capabilities to the elections marketplace”
There is only one way to immediately find out whether Scytl/SOE
reported the right results*, and that is for members of the public to capture
evidence of reported precinct results when polls close tonight. Think of it as
a giant neighborhood watch....
In Broward County FL, the results reported by Scytl-owned SOE
Software in 2008 showed an entire candidate, who was winning, disappear into
vapor in the middle of the count, and in Hillsborough County FL and Dallas
County TX, votes that had been reported began to disappear." ("100%
OF SOUTH CAROLINA VOTES GO THROUGH SCYTL", Bev Harris, blackboxvoting.org)
Of course, Harris is not saying that Gingrich stole the
election, but it certainly makes you wonder, doesn't it? I mean, the margin of
difference in the polling is just to too great to accept as
"probable". Besides, as I said in an earlier article, I believe this
whole mano-e-mano thing between Gingrich and Romney is just a set-up to split
the vote so that Jeb Bush can ride in at convention time and grab the GOP
nomination.
And--guess what? Bloomberg just ran an article on Sunday about
Bush, pointing out that the former Florida governor has refused to endorse
either candidate. (Although he has scolded them for their squabbling) Here's an
excerpt from the article:
"Jeb Bush... said he will “stay neutral” in the state’s
Republican presidential primary while warning his party’s candidates to leave
the “circular firing squad” of their debates behind and start appealing to a
broader audience.
Bush’s remarks, in an exclusive interview, establish a challenge
for his party’s candidates as the contest advances to Florida, where the Jan.
31 primary will take the race into its biggest and most diverse arena
yet."(Bloomberg)
So, Bush has assumed the mantle of "elder statesman",
right? That's bound to help him when convention time rolls around and the
party-faithful are sick and tired of Romney and Gingrich's endless mud-slinging
and dirty tricks. Old Jeb might just find himself on top of the GOP ticket
without even breaking a sweat.
Stranger things have happened.
Mike Whitney
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