Newt Gingrich: "Republicans have to turn out more votes than Stacey Abrams can steal"

[cannibalpeas]

Gingrich is the ur-McConnell. He was pulling this shit 25 years ago and acting like a godless, philandering monster before trump even heard of Obama.

[dreamofthedarkstar]

@generic_name

And anyway this idea that Democrats are committing massive voter fraud has been part of the GOP playbook for several years now. It’s yet another one of these wild cards they can pull out to explain away their dwindling relevance and fire up their increasingly gullible base.

They fundamentally do not believe that minorities, working class people, or women deserve to be citizens who are allowed to vote. Only rich white male landowners are proper citizens in their eyes, and the constitutional amendments which granted voting rights to those other classes of people were fraudulent. So, naturally, every vote by a member of one of those groups must, by [their] definition, be fraudulent. They simply do not believe in democracy for everyone, only for themselves and people like them.

[ejeffrey]

@Ratel

@Mangochin

Public figure + “political trash talk”.

The bar for defamation is pretty high for someone in the public eye.

So, the people whose lies do the most damage are protected by their elite status. American law in a nutshell.

Not because Gingrich is a public figure, because Stacey Abrams is. The bar for defamation against a public figure is incredibly high.

[milliefink]

OMG. . . that was my childhood nightmare!

[nixiebunny]

@jono

Actually, on listening to the video, I think the correct transcription is “The objective fact is, I believe, Trump probably did actually carry Georgia”.

The fact that a person believes something is an objective fact, even when the belief itself is false.

[brant]

I have to thank Newt Gingrich because he made my parents who were Eisenhower Republicans change parties and become Democrats who loved both Obama and Hillary.

[Mangochin]

Correctamundo!

[Brainspore]

@WoolyBugger

I didn’t think it was possible for Gingrich to stoop lower.

I remember thinking decades ago “surely this thrice-married serial philanderer will eventually wear out his welcome as the spokesperson of the ‘Family Values’ movement.” How young and naive I was back then.

[IronEdithKidd]

Walking the walk on Family ValuesTM is for the plebes, not for their “leaders”.

[Mangochin]

You made the big mistake of forgetting that consistency, morals, and honesty are for people who aren’t sociopaths, not “Family Values” Fundies.

[Michael_R_Smith]

Its so hard to avoid the uncanny valley.

[exuma]

And, naturally, she’s the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

Opinion | Callista Gingrich’s nomination to the Vatican stinks to high heaven

[Brainspore]

Every time I see that face I imagine her regurgitating an owl pellet.

[Gyrofrog]

@jono

He only claims to believe Trump “probably” won.

I don’t believe he is even telling the truth about that. Which, somehow, seems worse: he’s lying and he’s mealymouthed.

And here I am talking about a public figure who’s famous for a job he hasn’t had in almost 22 years. Dammit…

@KingGhidorah

And they promote Gingrich as the “intelligent” wing of the party

They’re not wrong, y’know…

@IronEdithKidd

Walking the walk on Family ValuesTM is for the plebes, not for their “leaders”.

See also:

• Paying income taxes
• Adhering to the restrictions of one’s security clearance
• Hatch Act
• Holding in one’s flatulence at a public gathering
• Etc.

[anothernewbbaccount]

You may have failed to read @jono’s first post before the one you quote.

[Slant]

GODDAMN! my middle finger is really getting a workout in 2020. FUCK YOU, Newt!

[teknocholer]

Do all Republicans buy their wives in the same shop?

[Ratel]

Stepford Inc.? But I think they all look alike because they have the same brain-worm that causes their eyes to spin counterclockwise.

[FSogol]

A very scary Proto-Karen. She’s gonna sneak into your bedroom, count your cavities, and then ask to speak to the manager!

[longtimelurker]

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