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Gingrich: Adultery Makes Me More Human Than Mitt "Only Sexes Up His Wife" Romney

Danielle Belton — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:14:42 +0000

Can you see past a weakness so hard that it turns into a strength? Presidential wannabe Newt Gingrich tried to pull that off in an interview with CBN's David Brody where Gingrich tried to spin his "past weaknesses" as making him more "human" than everyone's favorite Republican Robot, Mitt Romney.

From Brody's blog:

In a one-on-one interview with The Brody File, Newt Gingrich says that he has “not hidden from the facts of my life, that I have confessed my weaknesses” and he believes that, in part, is a reason why evangelicals are able to get behind his candidacy.

He goes on to say that, “it may make me more normal than somebody who wanders around seeming perfect and maybe not understanding the human condition, and the challenges of life for normal people.”

Yeah! Don't we all repeatedly marry and divorce women, get busted for ethics violations, fined $300,000 for those violations, get forced out of office by our own people, lobby under the table, lie about it, race bait for votes and act like we were the first person in history to ever take a successful dump then insist that this dump be framed and preserved for future generations to see?

What's up with this meet a girl, marry her, have kids with her and stay married, shit? Shady, man. It's like he's actually able to follow through on his commitments in one area of his life. How can anyone trust that?

BP Blog: Beware of the Ego Monster

Danielle Belton — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:09:05 +0000

In today's post for BP Magazine's Bipolar Blog I talk about how remembering the needs of others, even when going through my worst bouts of mania and depression, helped me stay anchored to reality and not the world of negativity in my head. I wrote: "(W)hen my Bipolar Disorder became dramatically worse in my 20s, the world that began and ended inside myself returned. Only instead of the self-centeredness of a child, I had the hyper-focus of someone so in love and in hate with themselves. I could build up and destroy myself all within the same hour with the thoughts in my head, all consuming thoughts that devoured me until all I could see was, 'I'm happy. I'm sad. I hurt. I vent. I have feelings. I need someone to pay attention.'"

Read the full post at BP Hope.

The Return of "When Obama Love Goes Wrong": OBAMA HULK SMASH

Danielle Belton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:53:31 +0000

During the 2008 campaign we were inundated in any and everything Barack Obama. From dolls (both cute and scary) to music (both good and Black Eye Peas bad), to tacky velvet paintings of Obama, MLK and Malcolm X while Jesus looks on them from Civil Rights Heaven. While Obama-mania is unlikely to strike twice, he's still an iconic and historic figure (that's what you get when you're the first of something), worth immortalizing in weird ways. In my first "When Obama Love Goes Wrong/Extreme Obama/LOL Obama" of 2012, I now announce the president's re-election campaign in full swing. I give you -- Obama Hulk. He HULK SMASHES Republicans. You wouldn't like him when he is angry. (Via Animal NY)

GOP Establishment Realizes Hurricane Newt Is Coming For Landfall

Danielle Belton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:12:46 +0000

There's another GOP debate tonight! Batter the hatches!

They thought he was dead. They thought they killed him in Iowa. They thought wrong. Newt Gingrich is back, baby! And like the awful B-Movie he is, he's out for revenge. At first it was just about teaching that damn Mittens a lesson, but the Newtster messed around and race-baited his way into a South Carolina primary win. Then Mittens lost Iowa several weeks after winning it. And now it's all come up Gingrich. Even an old sex scandal couldn't stop him. He just kept swinging and won't go down.

If I didn't find the man completely repugnant I'd almost admire his audacity.

I never thought I'd see anyone run for president out of pure spite, but Newt is doing it and he's not backing down in this game of chicken he's playing with the Republican Party.

Like Sherman's march to the sea, he's burning everything down in sight, and since they don't have government reconstruction programs for severely damaged political parties, the GOP has no choice but to either fight to the last viable candidate standing or accept defeat.

Time to put out the big guns.

From Politico:

Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the “elite media” and liberals don’t read the Drudge Report this morning.

Or the National Review. Or the American Spectator. Or Ann Coulter.

If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud.

It’s as if the conservative media over the past 24 hours decided Gingrich is for real, and they need to come clean about the man they really know before it’s too late.

Even former GOP presidential nominee (and eventual loser to the slickest of all Willies) Bob Dole is putting up the dukes:

“I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late,” Dole said. “If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.”

Got Newt beef? Thy name is Conservative performance artist Ann Coulter:

"Re-elect Obama: Vote Newt!"

Convicted criminal and former GOP mob enforcer Tom DeLay:

“He’s not really a conservative. I mean, he’ll tell you what you want to hear. He has an uncanny ability, sort of like Clinton, to feel your pain and know his audience and speak to his audience and fire them up. But when he was speaker, he was erratic, undisciplined.”

EVERYBODY (in the GOP) PANIC!

“It could happen, and it would be a disaster,” said the conservative, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect private conversations. “All of us who were around and saw how he operated as speaker — there’s no one who’s not appalled by the prospect of what could happen. He thinks he embodies conservatism and if he wakes up one day and has a grandiose thought, he is going to expect all of us to fall in line behind him.

“There’s just so much risk on so many levels,” the official continued. “Everyone’s thinking, ‘It could really happen.’ He could win the presidency if there’s a way to win with 45 percent — a second recession or a third-party candidate. The immediate worry is him winning the nomination and losing the election, tanking candidates down-ballot. In a worst-case scenario, you could see unified Democratic governance, and we’d be back where we were in ’09 and ’10. It’s insane.”

Think the media is over-hyping all this dissatisfaction in the professional conservative ranks? FOX News Senior Negro Correspondent Juan Williams says the media is only reflecting the reality that GOP voters don't like this batch of heated up leftovers the Republicans are offering up as Obama opponents this year. When a discussion on FOX News lead to folks belly-aching that the primary fight between then Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was covered very differently from this Gingrich-Romney bust-up, Williams pointed out the obvious.

From Mediaite:

Juan Williams agreed that the (mainstream) media characterized tension between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton differently, but pointed out a notable distinction: “You didn’t have a majority of Democrats saying ‘Gee, we wish someone would enter this contest like a magical man or woman on a carpet and come and rescue us all,’” but “most Republicans feel that way because it’s such a mediocre field.”

And it isn’t just the mainstream (aka left-leaning) media, he argued. Conservative publications are also echoing Mitchell’s narrative. The fact is, he continued, that Republicans aren’t rallying around Romney, and they have questions about Gingrich. That’s what’s going on right now, he said, rather than some sort of “grand conspiracy” among branches of the MSM.

True. Obama or Clinton was the most wonderful situation for Democratic voters. Even at its most vitrolic, with charges of sexism and racism a-flying, I was going to happily back whoever became the nominee. Everyone likes AWESOME choices! Our Republican voter breathern have the opposite problem. They have what we had in 2004 ... or worse, 1988. I feel for you. It's tough when it keeps coming up "Dukakis In A Tank."

I just wonder though what exactly the "establishment" hopes to accomplish by bouncing Newt from the race ... if there's still enough time to stop him. GOP voters are still only about as excited about Mitt Romney as they are over a discounted brick of expired Velveeta food product pushed to the front shelf in the Wal-Mart Super Center.

What do you do when no one will do?

From Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post:

There is no shame in backing a candidate who eventually loses, The shame is in doing nothing while privately fretting that conservative ideals and the GOP may be irreparably harmed by Gingrich’s nomination.

Yeah! Defeat's not so bad! So you couldn't come up with someone who could beat Obama when he was actually beatable! It's a two-party system. GOP ain't going nowhere. Have some integrety and get out there and fight for what you believe in GOPers! Which is for Newt to not be your nominee. If you don't do it and get him out the race now, Obama will just do all the things you didn't do, and get himself re-elected come fall.

The choice is yours.

Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer's Finger Remains Unbitten In President Obama Confrontation

Danielle Belton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:40:04 +0000

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's finger found her way into President Obama's face Wednesday when he stopped in the great state of sunning seniors and low allergens to do "presidential stuff." But another day, another indignity from people who act like it's the hardest thing ever to respect the office even if you don't like the man.

From The Los Angeles Times:

President Obama's warm reception in sunny Arizona on Wednesday lasted about as long as it took him to step off Air Force One and greet Gov. Jan Brewer.

Brewer, champion of her state's controversial anti-immigration law, welcomed Obama on the tarmac with a handwritten letter and an intense conversation in which, at one point, she pointed her finger at him.

Brewer used this opportunity to plug her book, the same book where she claimed Obama once was patronizing and condenscending to her, a description the president allegeldy took exception to.

Apparently Brewer and Obama, shortly after greeting each other on the tarmac, started talking at the same time, not really listening to each other, and at one point Brewer's finger felt like it had a point to make and rudely jumped all up in the conversation. (Her finger is such a douche. What office did it get elected too?) Then the President, like many a person who realizes arguing with an idiot while Associated Press cameras are present only benefits said idiot, channeled some classic Luda* in his mind and walked off mid-Brewer-berating.

From The Chicago Sun-Times, Brewer's take:

She also described meeting the president at the White House in 2010 to talk about immigration. “I felt a little bit like I was being lectured to, and I was a little kid in a classroom, if you will, and he was this wise professor and I was this little kid, and this little kid knows what the problem is and I felt minimized to say the least.”

On the tarmac Wednesday, Brewer handed Obama an envelope with a handwritten invitation to return to Arizona to meet her for lunch and to join her for a visit to the border.

“I said to him, you know, I have always respected the office of the president and that the book is what the book is,” she told reporters Wednesday. She said Obama complained that she described him as not treating her cordially.

“I said that I was sorry that he felt that way. Anyway, we’re glad he’s here, and we’ll regroup.”

And the White House's take?

"The governor handed the president a letter and said she was inviting him to meet with her. The president said he'd be glad to meet with her again, but did note that after their last meeting, a cordial discussion in the Oval Office, the governor inaccurately described the meeting in her book."

I just want to know how Obama resisted the urge to bite off that awful acrylic French manicure nightmare she has going on there. Who's Brewer been taking fashion tips from? Michele Bachmann?

*Posted this instead of the original Luda video because, I dunno. The language? Yeah. The language. I always liked the song, but the original song is just soooo offensive. Even to the Jan Brewers of the world who probably deserve it. But, honestly, it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the photo. But maybe you're at work? Hope you like ponies.

President Obama's Approval Ratings Up Post-SOTU (Photo Gallery)

Danielle Belton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:03:49 +0000

President Barack Obama hugs Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., on the floor of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before delivering the State of the Union address, Jan. 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows President Barack Obama's approval numbers are on an upswing. For the first time in six months, the presidents' approval rating (48 percent) exceeds his disapproval rating (46 percent). The president's numbers have been on the rise since the economic picture started to brighten a bit late last year. In December, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that while Obama still had a low approval rating on his handling of jobs and the economy, his overall approval rating numbers had improved with certain segments of the population, including young adults, seniors and independent voters. The narrowing of the approval and disapproval ratings can be seen in the latest Gallup Daily Poll, but Gallup still has the president's disapproval rating high at 49 percent, compared to a 43 percent approval.

President Barack Obama greets Members of Congress as he arrives in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., to deliver the State of the Union address, Jan. 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)First Lady Michelle Obama and guests seated in the First Lady's box applaud as President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012. Joining Mrs. Obama in the front row, from left, are: Bryan Ritterby; Admiral William McRaven; Jackie Bray; Cpt. Mark Kelly; Dr. Jill Biden; and Sgt. Ashleigh Berg. Pictured in the back row, from left, are: Juan Jose Redín; Debbie Bosanek; Laurene Powell Jobs; Alicia Boler-Davis; and Colonel Ginger Wallace. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)In a phone call from the U.S. Capitol immediately after the State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama informs John Buchanan that his daughter Jessica was rescued by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia, Jan. 24, 2012. First Lady Michelle Obama stands behind the President. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Clutch Magazine: Two Ex-Wives Don't Make the Third One Right, Newt

Danielle Belton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:43:54 +0000

For Clutch Magazine this week I tackle the complicated path the third wife of Newt Gingrich must walk. Last week, Gingrich's second wife spoke to ABC News about how she got dealt dirty by former Speaker of the House... just like his first wife. And the story of Gingrich's past loves is a series of other women becoming "Mrs. Other Woman." But can you cry victim in a relationship (as Marianne, wife No. 2 has done), when you knew he abandoned his first wife after she got cancer? Can wife No. 3 Callista Gingrich ever feel secure when she's married to an impulsive serial adulterer?

From Clutch:

I can almost (emphasis on “almost”) understand how someone falls into this trap. Love being blind isn’t a cliché. Many of us have made past bad choices in the dating department. And it’s pretty typical for those with cheating hearts to say all those sweet nothings about you being “special” and “different” and that their former partner just can’t make them feel the way they feel about you.

And maybe, for some, that’s true. Maybe some do get that Hollywood ending. Some marriages and relationships run their course or go bad. Unexpected things do happen.

But twice? And in the same “Now that you’re in the hospital you’re out of my life manner?”

Flags have never been so red.

Read the rest at Clutch Magazine here.

The Snob On NPR, Talking SOTU, WaPo's Look At Black Women, and Heidi & Seal's Break-up

Danielle Belton — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:41:15 +0000

On Wednesday, The Snob returned to the Beauty Shop segment of NPR's "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin. We talked about President Obama's State of the Union address, the GOP response (Ugh, Herman Cain ...), The Washington Post's recent survey on Black American women, and the end of Victoria's Secret model Heidi Klum and "Kiss From A Rose" singer Seal. Normally Michel can count on me to make fun of celebrities because 90 percent of the time I'm the "Who cares?" girl. But it was about divorce. Divorce sucks no matter who you are. Best of luck Heidi n' Seal.

President Obama To Give State of the Union Tonight

Danielle Belton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:24:49 +0000

President Barack Obama talks with Jon Favreau, Director of Speechwriting, in the Oval Office, Jan. 23, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

State of the Union is tonight! It's time for the president to tell us what's what! (And to unofficially kick off his 2012 re-election by reminding you of what is at stake, making his case on why he should get another term.) If we get lucky, maybe he'll finish singing that Al Green song so we can get a proper assessment of the tonal quality of his crooning.

Mitt Romney Wants You To Know How Awful Newt Gingrich Is

Danielle Belton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:50:31 +0000

Newt Gingrich. Did you know that he's an awful old curr who gets run out of Congress by his own party, took a whole lot of money to become an ... ahem ... "influence peddler" and is probably eye-balling wife No. 4 somewhere in the crowd? What? You already knew that? Hmmm. What if Mitt Romney shouts that a little louder? Does that help? Will that make people stop voting for Newt, who recently creamed Romney, beating him by double-digits in the racially tinged, bitter South Carolina primary?

Hahaha. No. Because the problem many GOP voters are having is that while Newt Gingrich is a duplicitous character, Romney isn't exactly "Dream Date" material either.

As I tweeted during the most recent GOP debate when Ron Paul was talking about electability:

"Now, now, Ron. None of you are electable."

The other folks running for president not named Romney and Gingrich were reduced to a not-so-colorful sideshow, as Rick and Ron barely got a word in and were positioned in the periphery of the Mitt and Newt showdown. No one really "won" and the debate was slightly boring as Newt couldn't feed like the energy vampire he is, off the hype of a bloodthirsty crowd. With a disciplined, subdued audience, Gingrich lost all of his mojo and Romney was able to Gil Gunderson his way through a stuttering, stammering but somewhat effective attack.

It even made him momentarily go speechless. But that was really the only interesting moment of the debate.

It was like a greatest hits of why no one really likes Newt.

1. He was reprimanded and run out of D.C. by his own people.

2. He came back as a "not" lobbyist who lobbied Congress Critters.

3. He eats babies.

4. He was once nice to Nancy Pelosi.

5. He had an extra-marital threesome with these Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac chicks.

Yadda. Yadda. Yadda.

But if you hate yourself for any reason, you can watch the full chatfest below: