Eye of Newt

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."

Macbeth (IV, i, 14-15)

Newt Gingrich is blessed with a brilliant intellect and an unfortunate first name. But that name came in handy as I thought about this passage from Shakespeare. If there were any phrase to describe Gingrich's rapid rise through the Republican presidential ranks, it's "a charm of powerful trouble."

Gingrich was written off, left for dead over the summer as his campaign seemingly imploded over stories of a mass staff exodus and extravagant spending sprees at Tiffany's. "There goes Newt again, people would say. I like him. He's clearly the smartest guy in the room. But he's so undisciplined. And he's got so much, you know, baggage." Meaning: the Clinton wars of the 1990s and the personal issues with his previous marriages.

But who's to say what's baggage and what's not? And who's to say what's damaging baggage and what's baggage people can live with? Voters decided they could live with Bill Clinton's baggage---and he had a whole Louis Vuitton set. Let the American people decide what they can live with and what they can't with regard to a candidate. If GOP primary voters decide that Newt is too baggage-laden, they'll spurn him. They might, however, decide that they're over all that stuff...and the rest of the country might agree.

The longtime frontrunner, Mitt Romney, has played it safe and low-key, efficiently waiting as one challenger after another has risen and faded: Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and most recently, Herman Cain. Cain still has some juice left but the sexual harassment allegations against him have taken a toll. He's receding a bit in the most recent polls.

Which brings us to Newt Gingrich. Those polls show him either tied for first place with Romney or pulling slightly ahead. Is he just another flash in the pan like the others, or does he have staying power? Can he stay disciplined and on message or will he wander off the reservation and shoot himself in the foot? Will the tortoise beat the hare?

Unanswered questions. But for now, Newt is rising for the following reasons: He's a serious conservative intellectual. He's a no BS guy who speaks with authority and absolute fearlessness. And everybody knows that he would crush Obama in a debate with the sheer force of facts, conservative principles, innovative ideas and his total confidence in all of those things.

He is a "charm of powerful trouble" for Romney right now and may be ultimately for Obama. He is also a "hell-broth boil and bubble" for his opponents. Those who underestimate him do so at their peril.

Comments

[DJ]

Delightful and spot on piece, Monica.

[A Twitter User]

Don't worry you NEWT haters! The "mainstream" media will nail him! But does anyone, including the left, take them seriously? Seriously....

[xbjllb]

NO one take him seriously for a single second. The man is a repellent joke.

Intelligence without restraint is suicidal.

America is moving on from Nazism. Get over it.

[xbjllb]

I'm sure Obama would LOVE to run against Newt rather than Romney any day.

Romney has a chance to beat him without Hillary.

Newt? Obama could choose a TOAD as running mate and win against Newt.

[xbjllb]

"Delightful and spot on piece, Monica." - DJ

Well, great, now we know Newt has the KKK vote sewn up...

[Ummahgummah]

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Sorry if I have to disagree with your entire premise, Ms. Crowley. The neut needs to hang it up.

We need NEW PEOPLE, not a RETREAD with more luggage than Bill Clinton.

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[xbjllb]

"The "mainstream" media will nail him! But does anyone, including the left, take them seriously? Seriously...." - Cousin Brucie

Apparently the vast majority, which is why they're called MAINSTREAM.

Really. Why is the obvious so unexplainable to rightwingnuts?

Insanity.

[Nyforcain]

Newt is a political chameleon. Some of us remember and I was on active duty during the budget battle with Clinton and the government shut down. When the kitchen got too hot, Newt folded like a cheap suit and out the window went the contract with America. Then who could forget his commercial with Nancy Pelosi pimping for global warming, to me this was unforgivable. In May 2011 he was on meet the press pushing for an individual mandate for healthcare coverage. He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing! Buyers beware and do your homework. It’s all in the public domain for those who have eyes to see. Here’ a brief rundown of Newt’s political career: Read the rest on my blog http://longislandpatriot.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/the-inconvenient-truth-about-newt-gingrich/

[xbjllb]

"We need NEW PEOPLE, not a RETREAD with more luggage than Bill Clinton." - UG

Yeah. Newt ain't quite Nazi enough, you know?

[xbjllb]

INVASION OF THE CAMPAIGNBOT SHILLS!!!

Run for your lives!!

[xbjllb]

Wow. Cain has ONE supporter in New York.

Who knew? Koch Brothers aren't paying what they used to these days.

[xbjllb]

Newt must have asked Warrior Princess for a date.

[xbjllb]

Where are the Mormon hordes when you need them? Poor Mitt.

[gringoman]

Through charm of Monica we forsooth consider "eye of Newt", not to mention "hell-broth bubble."

This doth raise a question boding "powerful trouble": Are the ladies, and such,throughout the land, ready to sing "Hey nonny, nonny Newt"?

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny nonny.

Much Ado About Nothing Act 2, scene 3, 62–69

[xbjllb]

The GOP: A collection of hateful repellent fascist creeps who hate anyone who's not one of them by being good looking and worst of all, likable (Romney), and hate anyone who's not hateful enough (Newt). Not hateful enough!??!?!!?!?!!!!!!!

Oh. And their STUNNINGLY beautiful high-maintenance gold-digging women.

And a couple of whackjob pinup coat hanger queens (Palin, Bachmann,O'Donnell)

[xbjllb]

Sorry folks. Hell freezes over, the universe is collapsing in on itself, it's all over now, Baby Blue:

Gringowhore posted something NOT about Nazis!

A moment of silence for the universe.

[gringoman]

If Newt is so bright and outspoken, surely he'll go along with Rick Perry who says "Throw them all in jail" (meaning corrupt Democrats AND Republicans.) Right, Newt? Right, Monica? Especially since Monica and others think Perry is done and can't do anything anyway. Right, Newt? Right, Monica?

Perry on Insider Trading Congressmen

"Throw them all in jail!"

VIDEO http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/11/14/perry-send-insider-trading-congressmen-to-jail/

[xbjllb]

"Voters decided they could live with Bill Clinton's baggage" - Monica Crowley

Yep. It's funny how a chance at the longest run of peacetime prosperity after decades of Nazi taxcuts, handouts, bailouts and fellatio for the rich fascism will make people consider how execs manage and not their sex life.

Funny. The wise would learn from such truth. It's not the sins; it's the POLITICAL POSITION.

NOT a good time to be on the side of the rich. NO Ma'am.

[xbjllb]

"Perry on Insider Trading Congressmen

"Throw them all in jail!"" - Gringowhore

Oh, that lovable man IS drunk and on his wife's meds AGAIN!!!

[Rafe]

Please do not feed the trolls.

It's best to completely ignore them.

Posted by: DJ | November 15, 2011 at 08:36 AM

So that is all you can muster? You want to renew the "Christian Crusades", by all means, make an attempt. We're ready.

[gringoman]

gringoNOTE: Like him or not (I have mixed feelings), the Newt obviously understands the Obamunists and their hoary Marxist Class Warfare. He even seems willing to throw it smack in their prog pusses. Regardez....

/////The idea of 99 percent of the population versus 1 percent of the rich, which Occupy Wall Street protestors have made their mantra, is just wrong, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said on “The Kudlow Report” last night.

“I am for 100 percent,” he said. “I think this idea of 99 percent and 1 percent is grotesque European socialist class warfare baloney.”

And President Obama is playing right along with that class warfare by expressing sympathy for the protesters, he added.

“I repudiate anybody who wants to divide Americans and I think that that there is a fundamental destructive quality to this 99 percent idea,” Gingrich said. “I think that it is shameful the president of the United States would engage in class warfare and pit Americans against each other in way which can only be destructive of the fabric of American society.”

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A Penn State football coach raping a ten year old boy--that's not an act of violent macho homosexuality. It's just an act of violence. See, moron?

--progasite troll

[xbjllb]

Perry won't get the White House, but if he keeps it up.... A REALITY TV SERIES.

About a cowboy who rides around the west doing nothing but making strange remarks and his trusty black slave Hermie Cain...

Ah, nothing better than homemade pizza fresh from the fire on the range.

Hi-ho Silver, AWAY!

[xbjllb]

"“I am for 100 percent,” he said. “I think this idea of 99 percent and 1 percent is grotesque European socialist class warfare baloney.” - Newt via Gringowhore

You didn't print the rest of it, you cagey bastard!!!

"...as long as I'm in the 1% with half a million in Tiffany's bills, hehe".

Diamonds ARE a golddiggers' BEST friend... and a politicians' WORST enemy.

[xbjllb]

"It's just an act of violence. See, moron?" - Gringowhore

You'll get it. When God gives you an asshole the size of a 10 year old's and Lucifer rams it up between your eyeballs.

Every day for eternity.

Violence? No, honey, just rough sex. Just the way you like it.

Asshole.

[gringoman]

RICH GALEN////Looking back four years it is easy to see why Newt feels this is a very fluid situation. According to RealClearPolitics.com this week in 2007 Rudy Giuliani was sitting atop the GOP field at 30%. Behind him - well behind him were Fred Thompson (16% and John McCain 15%). Romney was just behind them at 12%, Mike Huckabee was at 9 and Ron Paul was at 4 percent.

The Iowa results just six weeks later Giuliani got the support of only three percent of the caucus-goers (although he had announced he would not campaign there) and Mike Huckabee won with 34 percent.

On the other side of the aisle at this point in the proceeding four years ago Hillary Clinton had an insurmountable lead over Barack Obama of 48 - 21. John Edwards was third with 12 percent.
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NEWT GINGRICH/////“I am for 100 percent,” he said. “I think this idea of 99 percent and 1 percent is grotesque European socialist class warfare baloney.”

[xbjllb]

"Please do not feed the trolls.

It's best to completely ignore them." - DJ

...because we have no possible argument left against them. They're far too smart for us. They've poked holes in our best bullshit.

Capitulate. Let their truth stand on its own. Our only hope is to convince our idiot viewers to ignore them.

It's not censorship, but censorship is not open to us.

[xbjllb]

"“I am for 100 percent,” he said. “I think this idea of 99 percent and 1 percent is grotesque European socialist class warfare baloney.” - Newt via Gringowhore

You didn't print the rest of it, you cagey bastard!!!

"...as long as I'm in the 1% with half a million in Tiffany's bills, hehe".

Diamonds ARE a golddiggers' BEST friend... and a politicians' WORST enemy.

[gringoman]

Yes, Rick Perry is done, done, done, but....

NEWSMAX////Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's disastrous debate performance last week has hurt his campaign, but may not be fatal, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
After watching a video of the Texas governor stumbling while trying to name three government agencies he would eliminate if elected, 48 percent of registered Republicans thought less favorably of him, the poll found.

But while 31 percent of Republicans said Perry should drop out of the race, many more -- 52 percent -- said he should stay in.

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Kathryn of Wyoming
I’m done if the Republican candidate is Mitt Romney and I’m sick of these articles telling us that it’s a done deal. It had better not be or I can promise you that this Republic will not stand. I really believe that it may be too late anyway.

November 11, 2011 -

[xbjllb]

Perry is more done than Cain, and Cain is DONE.

Get over it.

[Rafe]

There is no credible GOP candidate. It's over.

[xbjllb]

"Kathryn of Wyoming
I’m done if the Republican candidate is Mitt Romney and I’m sick of these articles telling us that it’s a done deal. It had better not be or I can promise you that this Republic will not stand. I really believe that it may be too late anyway." - Gringowhore

Fantastic. Here's some advice: PerryVotersForObama.com is available.

So is CainVotersForObama.com. Ditto NewtVotersForObama.com

And good luck to you too. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

[xbjllb]

"There is no credible GOP candidate. It's over." - rafe

I have to disagree. I really think Romney/Christie can win Obama/Biden in a squeaker.

However, they would lose to Obama/Clinton by at least 10 points.

[gringoman]

Jeff Medcalf
....If Romney is the nominee, the Tea Party and the Blue Dog Democrats could easily find common ground in forming a new party based on fiscal responsibility, foreign policy pragmatism (not my preference, but oh well), and domestic policy federalism. Such a party would probably have enough of the electorate behind it from the start that the entire focus of both the Republican and Democratic campaigns would shift to neutralizing that threat. I don’t think that the Republican party could survive that, just as the Whigs and the Federalists were themselves destroyed when they reached similar moments of crises of purity, and responded by sticking with a formula 20 years out of date.

November 13, 2011
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PENN STATE///Speaking of NAMBLA ( North American Man Boy Love Association), the Prog Corps and its troll rabble blather that there's nothing homosexual about man-boy pedophiles. In that case, why is there a NAMBLA but not a NAMGLA (North American Man Girl Love Association?

[xbjllb]

" In that case, why is there a NAMBLA but not a NAMGLA (North American Man Girl Love Association?" - Gringowhore

It's been explained to you over and over again, and one conversation with any pedophile in prison would quickly clear it up.

RAPED GIRLS TALK 100 to 1 over RAPED BOYS.

And you tell ME the difference between a 10 year old male or female anus or anything else on their body save a three inch square area on the reverse side?

You're not just a moron; you're an asshole with an agenda to destroy everything gay in yourself by destroying everything gay in the universe.

Good luck with that. God made gay. Get over it.

[DJ]

@ Posted by: Nyforcain | November 15, 2011 at 09:16 AM

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Agree.

The new found awe and admiration over Newt's intellectual prowess will be short lived, I suspect. The rejuvenation of Newt, I beleive, is temporary and will surely dissipate amongst the conservative wing of the electorate shortly after a critical reexamining of Newt's past behavior. When it all boils down, Newt is just another big-government liberal Republican.

Newt may be able to crush Obama in a head-to-head debate, but can he win against the Obama SUCK Media (OSM) AND Obama in a series of debates concomitant with a long campaign?

[xbjllb]

"Newt may be able to crush Obama in a head-to-head debate" - DJ

That's QUITE an assumption. Assholes ALWAYS lose.

NAZI assholes, on the other hand? Lose even WORSE.

[DJ]

Please do not feed the trolls.

[xbjllb]

"Please do not feed the trolls.

It's best to completely ignore them." - DJ

...because we have no possible argument left against them. They're far too smart for us. They've poked holes in our best bullshit.

Capitulate. Let their truth stand on its own. Our only hope is to convince our idiot viewers to ignore them.

It's not censorship, but censorship is not open to us.

[gringoman]

DJ, you are definitely spot-on in relating homosexuality and child molestation.

Exhibit A: NAMBLA

Posted by: Ummahgummah | November 12, 2011

The homophiliac sees everything in terms of itself, homosexual. Art, culture. Men who marry women are just making believe, you see. Got it? Anyone who rejects their line is a 'homophobe' which itself, you see, is a 'latent homosexual.' Got it? The homophiliac "reasons' in a perfect circle. But now the homophiliac, in light of Penn State, is making an exception: Men fondling and abusing boys--homosexual? Oh, no, how could you think that? That's just a 'pedophile,' That's just 'violence.' That's not homosexual. Get it? Everything else in his world is 'gay' (a word stolen from English literature)---everything except men violating boys. What, you disagree? How could you disagree? You're really a homo, why not admit it?....The circle goes round and round in their heads.

[Rafe]

Unhinged from reality. That's what that is, man...

[A Twitter User]

Ah, don't you just love the hate? It's what keeps America, America!

[Dgscol]

The Pelosi VISA conflict of interest (COI) is interesting because of lobbying details in it. VISA got an associate of Pelosi to join their lobby effort. This resulted in campaign contribution and an offer to her husband to attend an exclusive IPO offering of VISA shares. I am assuming that other sorts of offers and deals are possible to influence a Congressperson - including real estate deals, special loans, gifts, vacations, offers to relatives, etc.

Pelosi detaches herself from involvement in VISA shares by saying her husband and she have totally separate finances. This is in her mind a legality. In our minds it is just an evasion of responsibility.

The essential conflict of interest is Pelosi's politics- against VISA's swipe fees, but for Paul to show up at the exclusive offering, making other buyers think they knew Nancy's real political position,so they would go in.

WE have seen many other conflicts in Nancy, her relatives showing up all over - in Solyndra and Countrywide. Nancy's right arm does not know what her left arm is doing.

Come clean, Nancy! Tell them, well.... maybe we need to reform Lobbying- which had been a discussion in a hallway. Now it is a fishing expedition by an associate who fulfills your Christmas wish list.

[Ummahgummah]

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Some of us remember and I was on active duty during the budget battle with Clinton and the government shut down. When the kitchen got too hot, Newt folded like a cheap suit and out the window went the contract with America.

- NYFORCAIN

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HELL-LLOOO!!!!!

Then who could forget his commercial with Nancy Pelosi pimping for global warming, to me this was unforgivable. In May 2011 he was on meet the press pushing for an individual mandate for healthcare coverage. He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing!

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Yup!!! His job in this pre-Primaries Season is to make the non-Mittens look bad and to sound out how much Goopering the electorate is willing to swallow in light of the fact that the Bama is hated by vast swaths of "flyover" America and the GOP knows they can possibly get away with a very milquetoast muppet muffin like Mittens just because the enraged Middle Class/Tea Party wants the Marxists out of the White House.

In other words, the Goopers are testing the waters to see how far they can go.

The neut is a nice fat doughy trial balloon.

POOF!

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[Ummahgummah]

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Sad to see a self-proclaimed "Warrior Princess" shilling so openly for the Republistablishment.

FOR SHAME!

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[gringoman]

An editorial from www.militarycorruption.com on Congressman Allen West's reaction to the Jill Metzger Air Force scandal. Not politically correct.

http://www.militarycorruption.com/HOS-alanwest.htm

[Rafe]

Ah, don't you just love the hate? It's what keeps America, America!

Posted by: Bruce Feher | November 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM

I'm sure you are referring to the hate put forth by the extremists that contribute to this site. It's pretty clear who they are.

Rise above the hate is what our new mantra should be.

[gringoman]

Question: What will end first. Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Monicamemo?

It looked like the answer came today. Mayor Nannyberg acted! They cleaned out the lice-and-virus infested Zucotti Park!
Mayor Nannyberg beat Mayor Monica!

But wait. Looks like they are allowing the Prog Corps back in after cleaning up for the riff-raff.

Sorry. Looks like I mis=stated. Mayor Nannyberg did not really beat Mayor Monica.

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GRINGO DICTIONARY.....PROGASITE, a noun.

1. a troll, a progressive parasite.

2. the Internet form of Marxist/Union Obamavilles, such as the Occupy Wall Street example of urban blight.

3. a progasite feeds 24/7 on a conservative host. When this species of troll finds a conservative host with weakened or non-existent immune system,(as in no adult supervision) such as Monicamemo (an Internet equivalent of Obamaville Occupying Wall Street, with Zucotti Lung etc) the progasite feeds voraciously. Inadvertently, the progasite shows the true nature of socialism beneath the sanctimony and prog platitudes and "compassion" cliches. It is vicious and Marx/union/fascist to the core, i.e. progasitic, a system that invades and feeds on others, hoping to render the host captive, if not lifeless. (Another example of how the Socialist Jihad parallels the radical Islamic one.) Monicamemo's "Open House" for progasite life forms reinforces the progasitic credo. In fact it makes the infestation very revealing. These life forms demonstrate the Prog March on America, as they arrogantly squat, just like fascist thugs, in conservative living room. .

[xbjllb]

"You're really a homo, why not admit it?." - Gringowhore

Gringowhore. Everyone in the world ISN'T homosexual. Apart from the 10% which exist throughout nature and are fully accepting of themselves, then there's only the latent homos threatened by homosexuality the most, who have to destroy it the most.

Like you.

Heterosexual men could care less.

[xbjllb]

"Ah, don't you just love the hate? It's what keeps America, America!" Cousin Brucie

No, I don't. Christians are to love our enemies. And try to save them from the Hell they're going to, and the hell they're trying to make here on earth.

Hate doesn't keep America America. Hate is what keeps America Nazi.

[gringoman]

imo, new generations tend to be lazy, entitled, & have little or no knowledge of anything, much less history, which will make us all obsolete.

Posted by: SYBIL | November 14, 2011 at 04:47 PM

The young don't know history, but history knows them. They'll grow old---whether or not they grow up.

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My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.

Joan Rivers