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1. #1
   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:46 am, spaceycakes said:

   Satire. I like it.

2. #2
   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:48 am, Rjulio said:

   Newt, please go home and stay there. You’re past your time and we don’t want nor need you.

3. #3
   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:50 am, Captain Blasto said:

   Newt who?

4. #4
   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:51 am, letget said:

   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:48 am, Rjulio said:

   I’ll agree with your comment! I sure hope he isn’t what we have to vote for against bho!
   L

5. #5
   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:52 am, Flyoverman said:

   Doug,

   All I did was read the title and I spewed my coffee as I lost it.

   Titles like that need a warning label. SWEEEEET!

6. #6
   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:58 am, SignPainterGuy said:

   Gingrich: Smart as a whip; dumb as a box of rocks !

   Surely Rush is right; Newt must be trolling for a job in academia…..

7. #7
   On May 19th, 2011 at 10:58 am, Flyoverman said:

   This makes you think of Dr. Suess

   The time has come, the time is now, Newton Leroy Gingrich will you please go now……

8. #8
   On May 19th, 2011 at 11:01 am, Iowa Guy said:

   Newt = Pet Rock

9. #9
   On May 19th, 2011 at 11:02 am, mchristian said:

   Half a league, half a league,
   Half a league, onward
   All in the valley of death
   Rode the six hundred Newt Gingrich.

   Apologies to Alfred Tennyson.

10. #10
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:03 am, thejim said:

    Nothing can compare to the one, the only, numb-newts.

11. #11
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:06 am, SpeakEasy said:

    Newt is more useful as a GOP attack dog (assuming he has any teeth left, that sugar-fest with Pelosi may have rotted them all). Just so there is no misunderstanding, I will absolutely, positively NOT vote for Newt for President. The sooner he understands this and drops out, the better for the GOP. I had to hold my nose and vote McCain last time, I will not prostitute myself that way again.

12. #12
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:07 am, RedDog said:

    Aye lads. Beware the Gingrich beast. Like the boreal winds of the North, he blows and he blows. An inexorable onslaught of passion and reason that cannot be denied, cannot be resisted. Aye he comes he comes.

    Apologies to Stephen Crane…

    Black riders came from the sea. by Stephen Crane
    Black riders came from the sea.
    There was clang and clang of spear and shield,
    And clash and clash of hoof and heel,
    Wild shouts and the wave of hair
    In the rush upon the wind:
    Thus the ride of sin.

13. #13
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:10 am, RedDog said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:03 am, thejim said:
    Nothing can compare to the one, the only, numb-newts.

    LOL. Numb Newts very very good with milk and molasses. Try it Mikey. Is good no? mmm tasty, Quiznewts…

14. #14
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:12 am, peteee said:

    newt go home!! no rinos in this election.

15. #15
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:14 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    `God save thee, ancient Mariner Candidate,
    From the fiends that plague thee thus! –
    Why look’st thou so?’ -”With my crossbow press release
    I shot the Albatross.”

16. #16
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:19 am, Gorebot said:

    If — and it’s of course a big “if” — Newt somehow emerges out of the early primaries in a competetive position (they are in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carlolina, after all), then all you opportunistic, cavalier, pilers-on had better be prepared to not only hold your ammo, but start firing it on Newt’s behalf.

    Unless you want Obama back.

17. #17
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:26 am, squeaker1 said:

    Beneath the soaring deficit the village Gingrich stands,
    The Newt a foolish man is he, when he holds Pelosi’s hand.
    The muscles of moving mouth as strong as iron bands.

18. #18
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:27 am, RedDog said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:19 am, Gorebot said: … be prepared to not only hold your ammo, but start firing it on Newt’s behalf. Unless you want Obama back.

    The Gingivitis will not make it much further. If he does, the harpies of the Left will be on him like chickens on a June bug. In three months his dessicated carcass will be roasting in the political desert.

    “Aye lads, thar he be. Not such an imposing lord is he now?”

19. #19
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:31 am, RedDog said:

    In all fairness, Newt has probably been trying to do the Clinton triangulation thing but does not know how to make it work, consequently it blew up in his face. Rule #1 is that you need to work it from a position of power or stealth. He posesses neither.

20. #20
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:36 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Picking nits: Shouldn’t it be Gingra Dim
    or Gingra Dem?

21. #21
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:40 am, semper fi said:

    Newt is a perfect example of what happens to one who has spent too many years in the beltway. It creeps into your mind and body and sole and changes you into a “go along to get along” squish that will attack your own party just to be liked by the media and be on the “A” list to the cocktail parties. Too bad as I truly feel sorry for him. At one time he was a winner, but his time has passed. Perhaps if he is put on the sidelines, he will still be able to contribute something good from time to time ..good bye Newt Jerry USMC (Ret)

22. #22
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:41 am, mchristian said:

    Edgar Allan Poe, El Dorado

    “Over the mountains
    Of the Moon,
    Down the Valley of the Shadow,
    Ride Lie, boldly ride lie,”
    The shade replied -
    “If you seek for Eldorado!”

23. #23
    On May 19th, 2011 at 11:43 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Newt isn’t satire. He is a farce.
    
    Go away before you make an even bigger fool of yourself…

24. #24
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:00 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Newt isn’t satire. He is a farce.

    Go away before you make an even bigger fool of yourself…

    Yes indeed, borrowing from American Specator’s “Eye of Newt, Butt of Donkey” article, I think I’ll start referring to Newt as “Old Donkeybutt” because he’s excelled at making an *ss of himself.

25. #25
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:12 pm, right_on said:

    Is this a day for the classics?

    “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
    The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely arrogance,
    The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
    The insolence insultingly contemptuous conduct of office and the spurns
    That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
    When he himself might his quietus make
    With a bare bodkin Spartan adieus make?”

    Adieu, sweet Prince…parting is such sweet sorrow.
    I thought I knew ye, Newticus,
    but alas, thy intrepid adjuration provoketh much scorn against thee,
    compelling a once sanguine vision of leadership,
    to metamorphose into a pointless contest for the hearts and souls of thy erstwhile paracletes.

    …or, something like that.

26. #26
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:19 pm, cabrerski said:

    I prefer Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

    Half a chance, half a brain,
    Half a clue onward,
    All in the limelight of the press
    Newt Gingrich blundered.
    “Forward, my trusty campaign!
    “Charge to the middle!” he said:
    Into the lair of the press
    Newt Gingrich blundered.

    “Forward, my trusty aide!”
    Now there’s a man dismay’d
    At once the aide knew
    His boss had blunder’d:
    His not to make reply,
    His not to reason why,
    His but to spin or die:
    Into the lair of the press
    Newt Gingrich blundered.

    Camera to right of him,
    Camera to left of him,
    Camera in front of him
    Question’d and thunder’d;
    Storm’d at loud as a bell,
    He did not fare so well,
    Confused, he attacked all,
    Tried to weather the Hell
    Newt Gingrich blundered.

    Flash’d all his values bare,
    Flopp’d as he turn’d in air,
    Spinning the answers there,
    Charging his own base, while
    All the world wonder’d:
    Why did his ideas he revoke?
    What weed could he have toke?
    Leftist and Right wing
    Reel’d from the verbal stroke
    Shatter’d and sunder’d.
    Then the aide had realized,
    Newt Gingrich blundered.

    Camera to right of him,
    Camera to left of him,
    Camera behind him,
    Volley’d and thunder’d;
    Back on the campaign trail,
    Into Dubuque, a quaint town,
    Guy spoke up to give blame
    Don’t try to share our name
    Others should play this game,
    Wilted under the shame,
    For Newt Gingrich blundered.

    When can his glory fade?
    O the history he had made!
    All the world wondered.
    O his words if he could trade,
    But now the price must be paid
    The dipsh*t blundered.

27. #27
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:21 pm, rightisright said:

    how do we have this record breaking election last Nov. and clowns like Newt and most of the other hopefuls are actually believing they have a chance with reaching across the aisle crap? How is it Ohbarry is predicted to repeat with the shellacking he took in Nov. along with destroying what’s left of this once great country?

28. #28
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:25 pm, John Deaux said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:21 pm, rightisright said:
    how do we have this record breaking election last Nov. and clowns like Newt and most of the other hopefuls are actually believing they have a chance with reaching across the aisle crap?

    Because the Tea Party protests have stopped. They forget that we’re the silent majority.

    Of course, I’d rather have them expose their true selves than run as a conservative and govern otherwise.

29. #29
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:34 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    how do we have this record breaking election last Nov. and despite clowns like Newt endorsing Liberals like Scuzzyfavor…

    It was always going to be tough for Newt to get any traction when he’s got albatrosses like that (and making out with Pelosi on the couch) around his neck.

30. #30
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:36 pm, GladzKravtz said:

    Spokesman Rick Tyler’s defense:

    “Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”

    Obviously not a wordsmith but I had fun changing it around:

    Elite Washington cannot tolerate threats from conservatives and Tea Partiers who might disrupt their comfortable world.
    The firefight started when Gingrich sat on the couch with Pelosi. Conservatives were fired up at first, then when it appeared that Newt had broken Reagan’s 11th, the TP and conservatives unloaded their entire clip, firing at what they saw as an attack on their own. Now they are left angry and confused by the Newt of the 80s and 90s and the Newt of today. No matter, they will kill him off at the ballot box. This is the way it worked in 2010. A less egotistical person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught from talk radio and the blogs. But out of the billowing smoke emerged Gingrich, apologetic to Ryan yet still defiant as he explains in different words that he is ready to take on the challenges America faces.

31. #31
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:40 pm, spaceycakes said:

    ot, but not really…

    “It turns out that people place more emphasis on finding a mate who is a kindred spirit with regard to politics, religion and social activity than they do on finding someone of like physique or personality,” John Alford, associate professor of political science at Rice University

32. #32
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:58 pm, BK said:

    Newt is what they call a slimy lizard creature.

    Perfect for Gingrich.

33. #33
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:58 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of
    

    Canterbury

    Sir Newt.
    Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
    The droghte of March Mid-terms hath perced to the roote
    And bathed every veyne in swich licour stripper glitter,
    Of which vertu engendred is the flour rino photo op;
    Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth

    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
    The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
    And smale foweles maken melodye LSM press release,
    That slepen al the nyght with open eye- ( have you seen the polls? )

    So priketh hem Nature in hir corages- ( middle English for Chickenheart )
    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
    And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
    To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
    And specially, from every shires Primary’s ende

    I’d apologize to Chaucer but he dead.

34. #34
    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:58 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:40 pm, spaceycakes said:
    “It turns out that people place more emphasis on finding a mate who is a kindred spirit with regard to politics, religion and social activity than they do on finding someone of like physique or personality…

    Yes, well, I’d go one further and say I’m GLAD my wife is not ‘of like physique’!

35. #35
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:03 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    cabrerski said:
    I prefer Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

    Half a chance, half a brain,
    Half a clue onward,

    Doug..? The Ceremonial PIE please? I think we have a WINNER! Good one ski, lol

36. #36
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:04 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:40 pm, spaceycakes said:
    ot, but not really…

    “It turns out that people place more emphasis on finding a mate who is a kindred spirit with regard to politics, religion and social activity than they do on finding someone of like physique or personality,” John Alford, associate professor of political science at Rice University

    A big rack and a penchant for cooking don’t hurt either. Just sayin is all.

37. #37
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:10 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Note to Gingrich: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Just go home.

38. #38
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:11 pm, right_on said:

    A big rack and a penchant for cooking don’t hurt either.

    …and, you have a dear that cooks? Heh…

39. #39
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:12 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 12:40 pm, spaceycakes said:
    ot, but not really…

    “It turns out that people place more emphasis on finding a mate who is a kindred spirit with regard to politics, religion and social activity than they do on finding someone of like physique or personality,” John Alford, associate professor of political science at Rice University

    A big rack and a penchant for cooking don’t hurt either. Just sayin is all.

    Rogue, You’re so easy.

40. #40
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:15 pm, spaceycakes said:

    A big rack and a penchant for cooking don’t hurt either. Just sayin is all.

    well, that’s settled.

    at 5’3″, it’s a wonder I don’t fall into the gravy.

41. #41
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:16 pm, Misscheryl said:

    I see sapceycakes and Rougue are still teasing each other from a distance…man I’ve missed this place!

42. #42
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:18 pm, Misscheryl said:

    ooopss I mean “spaceycakes” sorry – somethings never change like my lack of attention to detail.

43. #43
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:26 pm, right_on said:

    Sirs, how like you this play?

    The Gingrich doth protest too much, methinks.

    Gotta love Hamlet! He had the correct take on politics, and the corruption it breeds. Oh, how it plays out…it never changes…power…absolute power…corruption…and, the absolute power striven for by despotism under other names: liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism, unionism, and dare I say, bi-partisanism?

    Party purity, or, here we go again!

    We, at least have a good idea who the quasi-progressives are in the GOP. Who? Any Republican who is touted as a “uniter“, or “moderate.” These are not so subtle monikers for the modern RINO.

    Vote Conservative…or die in poverty and slavery…

44. #44
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:34 pm, swede said:

    Doug Powers – Kipling

    cabrerski said:
    I prefer Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

    I prefer Dr. Seuss:

    And the Gingrinch, with his gingrinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
    Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?
    It came without debates! It came without PACS!
    “It came without primaries, or partisan attacks!”
    And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler was sore.
    Then the Gingrinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
    “Maybe character,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.
    “Maybe character…perhaps…means a little bit more!”

45. #45
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:44 pm, Misscheryl said:

    1:34 pm, swede said:
    I prefer Dr. Seuss:

    And the Gingrinch, with his gingrinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
    Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?
    It came without debates! It came without PACS!
    “It came without primaries, or partisan attacks!”
    And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler was sore.
    Then the Gingrinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
    “Maybe character,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.
    “Maybe character…perhaps…means a little bit more!”

    My favorite.

46. #46
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:52 pm, Hiraghm said:

    I love Kipling. He should be required reading in school…

    The Old Issue

    He shall take a tribute; toll of all our ware;
    He shall change our gold for arms–arms we may not bear.

    He shall break his Judges if they cross his word;
    He shall rule above the Law calling on the Lord.

    He shall peep and mutter; and the night shall bring
    Watchers ‘neath our windows, lest we mock the King–

    Hate and all divisions; hosts of hurrying spies;
    Money poured in secret; carrion breeding flies.

    Strangers of his counsel, hirelings of his pay,
    These shall deal our Justice: sell–deny–delay.

    We shall drink dishonour, we shall eat abuse,
    For the Land we look to–for the Tongue we use.

    We shall take our station, dirt beneath his feet,
    while his hired captains jeer us in the street.

    Cruel in the shadow, crafty in the sun,
    Far beyond his borders shall his teachings run.

    Sloven, sullen, savage, secret, uncontrolled,
    Laying on a new land evil of the old–

    Long-forgotten bondage, dwarfing heart and brain–
    All our fathers died to loose he shall bind again.

47. #47
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:55 pm, Hiraghm said:

    Macdonough’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
    “As easy as A B C”–A Diversity of Creatures”
    Whether the State can loose and bind
    In Heaven as well as on Earth:
    If it be wiser to kill mankind
    Before or after the birth–
    These are matters of high concern
    Where State-kept schoolmen are;
    But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
    Endeth in Holy War.

    Whether The People be led by The Lord,
    Or lured by the loudest throat:
    If it be quicker to die by the sword
    Or cheaper to die by vote–
    These are things we have dealt with once,
    (And they will not rise from their grave)
    For Holy People, however it runs,
    Endeth in wholly Slave.

    Whatsoever, for any cause,
    Seeketh to take or give
    Power above or beyond the Laws,
    Suffer it not to live!
    Holy State or Holy King–
    Or Holy People’s Will–
    Have no truck with the senseless thing.
    Order the guns and kill!
    Saying –after–me:–

    Once there was The People–Terror gave it birth;
    Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth
    Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, 0 ye slain!
    Once there was The People–it shall never be again!

48. #48
    On May 19th, 2011 at 1:57 pm, Hiraghm said:

    The Hyenas

    After the burial-parties leave
    And the baffled kites have fled;
    The wise hyaenas come out at eve
    To take account of our dead.

    How he died and why he died
    Troubles them not a whit.
    They snout the bushes and stones aside
    And dig till they come to it.

    They are only resolute they shall eat
    That they and their mates may thrive,
    And they know that the dead are safer meat
    Than the weakest thing alive.

    (For a goat may butt, and a worm may sting,
    And a child will sometimes stand;
    But a poor dead soldier of the King
    Can never lift a hand.)

    They whoop and halloo and scatter the dirt
    Until their tushes white
    Take good hold of the army shirt,
    And tug the corpse to light,

    And the pitiful face is shewn again
    For an instant ere they close;
    But it is not discovered to living men –
    Only to God and to those

    Who, being soulless, are free from shame,
    Whatever meat they may find.
    Nor do they defile the dead man’s name –
    That is reserved for his kind.

49. #49
    On May 19th, 2011 at 2:01 pm, swede said:

    Misscheryl said:
    My favorite.

    Thank you ma’am. Just a rather obvious notion.

50. #50
    On May 19th, 2011 at 2:04 pm, Hiraghm said:

    Okay, I’ll stop… but this Kipling poem should be recited to Congressional Republicans for hours on end until they “get-it”…

    The Truce of the Bear

    “Two long marches to northward, at the fall of the second night,
    I came on mine enemy Adam-zad all panting from his flight.
    There was a charge in the musket — pricked and primed was the pan –
    My finger crooked on the trigger — when he reared up like a man.

    “Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer,
    Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear!
    I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch’s swag and swing,
    And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.

    “Touched witth pity and wonder, I did not fire then . . .
    I have looked no more on women — I have walked no more with men.
    Nearer he tottered and nearer, with paws like hands that pray –
    From brow to jaw that steel-shod paw, it ripped my face away!

    “When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer
    That is the time of peril — the time of the Truce of the Bear!”

    Eyeless, noseless, and lipless, asking a dole at the door,
    Matun, the old blind beggar, he tells it o’er and o’er;
    Fumbling and feeling the rifles, warming his hands at the flame,
    Hearing our careless white men talk of the morrow’s game;

    Over and over the story, ending as he began: –
    “There is no truce with Adam-zad a Democrat, the Bear communist that looks like a Man!”

51. #51
    On May 19th, 2011 at 2:42 pm, rambler said:

    It has become apparent that no one in DC knows or can identify who is smart, brilliant or intelligent. People get that label in an effort to convince the rest of us that they have a clue what they are doing. No wonder they have all those closed door meetings. If we saw what they were really doing, they would never be re-elected. Everyone calling Newt smart is IQ challenged.

52. #52
    On May 19th, 2011 at 2:54 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Excellent poetry, Swede.
    Dr. Seuss:
    And the Gingrinch, with his gingrinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
    Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?
    It came without debates! It came without PACS!
    “It came without primaries, or partisan attacks!”
    And he puzzled three hours, `till his puzzler was sore.
    Then the Gingrinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
    “Maybe character,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.
    “Maybe character…perhaps…means a little bit more!”

    couldn’t find the quote button just now!!!

53. #53
    On May 19th, 2011 at 2:55 pm, DanMan said:

    O/T for Texans. Perry held a press that was at the invitation of the Houston Police Department prior to the current session. They did it to show their steadfast support to eliminate sanctuary city policies (after having 3 or 4 officers killed by illegals under Bill White’s tenure as mayor).

    Perry responded by declaring the effort to win that legislation a high profile fast track status. Last night a senate committee of 5 repubs and 4 dems stopped the legislation. I have called three of the five repub senators on the committee including the chairman Tommy Williams. They won’t say who caved.

    There is a pretty solid media black out in Houston but the sources in Dallas, Austin and San Antonio that do report it all state the police were against it.

    Calling all Texans. Get after your state senator now!

54. #54
    On May 19th, 2011 at 3:00 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    DanMan said:

    O/T for Texans.

    DanMan, it is sad that the center of Leftist Texas is Austin, and it is soooo liberal.

    Everywhere else, the conservatives have a good strong-hold. I hope the good people of Texas let their state senators have an earful.

55. #55
    On May 19th, 2011 at 3:06 pm, mchristian said:

    More turgid poetry.

    Invictus

    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.

    William Earnest Henley

    That one doesn’t even have to be, um, improved. Mr.Tyler could have cadged it without changing a word.

56. #56
    On May 19th, 2011 at 3:17 pm, DanMan said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 3:00 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    I think the new redistricting map cuts Travis County into four segments. Buh bye Lloyd Doggett.

    okay, back to the literary foray!

57. #57
    On May 19th, 2011 at 3:20 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    I suspect the eventual winner of the GOP presidential nomination has not entered the contest yet.

    I suspect Newt doesn’t realize this yet…

58. #58
    On May 19th, 2011 at 4:05 pm, thefoundingfathers said:

    I prefer a simplier poem:

    Roses are red.
    Violets are blue.
    Newt get out of the race,
    Because you don’t have a clue.

    Violets are blue.
    Roses are yellow.
    Newt there is no way you should run,
    Because you haven’t been a nice fellow.

59. #59
    On May 19th, 2011 at 4:26 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    the founding fathers said #57 — very pretty poem.

    …However,

    Let me put it another way:
    Get the f-out, Newtie hearts Pelosi-and go to your RINO farm

60. #60
    On May 19th, 2011 at 4:40 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Doug Powers- Poet Laureate of Right Wing Smart Alecs everywhere–thank you good sir!

    Gingra Din:

    But surely they had killed him off.
    This is the way it always worked.
    A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught.
    But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich…

    is to be learned by school children for generations to come
    (small tear –>here<–)

    Fuzzy-Wuzzy also by Rudyard Kipling to follow

61. #61
    On May 19th, 2011 at 4:41 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Okay…so there’s no hint of Shakespeare in my little ditty…so sue me.

62. #62
    On May 19th, 2011 at 6:05 pm, Hiraghm said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 3:06 pm, mchristian said:

    Invictus is kind of verboten here in Oklahoma, mchristian…

    It was Tim McVeigh’s final statement.

63. #63
    On May 19th, 2011 at 7:21 pm, swede said:

    FirstSkirt said:
    Okay…so there’s no hint of Shakespeare in my little ditty…so sue me.

    Got ya covered:

    Newtie’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    And then is heard no more: it is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing. – Macbeth

64. #64
    On May 20th, 2011 at 9:29 am, EROWMER said:

    I’ll say it again. Not Newt, no Rove, and ixnay on Graham and McCain, or any rino. We need to get Obama out of the White House and take control of the Senate. Putting rinos in office won’t help America. We need constitutional conservatives.

65. #65
    On May 20th, 2011 at 9:48 am, mchristian said:

    Hiraghm said:

    On May 19th, 2011 at 3:06 pm, mchristian said:

    Invictus is kind of verboten here in Oklahoma, mchristian…

    It was Tim McVeigh’s final statement.

    Yes, I know. But I learned the poem long before McVeigh came along.

66. #66
    On May 20th, 2011 at 11:58 am, spaceycakes said:

    – Macbeth

    swede–did you touch wood?

67. #67
    On May 21st, 2011 at 12:36 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    A “Newt 2012″ email message just now appeared in my inbox. I unsubscribed and it felt good.