Why Gingrich is Bad (and Romney is Awesome): A Politico Megathread Spectacular

[Bacon King]

Trying to argue that Gingrich supplied the stories to the media is hilarious because it implies that he's running anything resembling a serious political operation and isn't just "campaigning" by roaming the country speaking into any microphone he can find.

Honestly, if you make the assumption that another candidate was pushing these stories, I don't see how you could point your finger at anyone besides Romney. He's the only candidate who's built up more than the barest semblance of a campaign infrastructure; so far in this campaign, nobody besides Romney's team has even once exhibited the degree of professionalism it would require to accomplish this sort of thing.

[Bacon King]

Actually there was a big Romney donor who had worked for the National Restaurant Association and there was speculation about him being the leak.

Well, if you're the type to be entertained by silly conspiracy theories, note that the son of the guy that Mitt Romney was named after was serving on the National Restaurant Association's board of directors during Cain's entire tenure there.

[Bacon King]

Wait. You're bringing up who he supported for President over four decades ago, and disengenuously claiming he supported a "RINO over Reagan" even though at that point Reagan was a pretty liberal first-term governor running as a favorite son for California... are you really so worried about Gingrich beating Romney that you'll make such a silly argument?

[Bacon King]

This attack is especially weak, actually, because six months before 9/11 Newt Gingrich was publicly calling for the establishment of a Homeland Security Department to prevent potential terrorist attacks from happening.

[Bacon King]

Isn't forgiveness a pretty big Christian value?

[Bacon King]

Here we go. Every Politico thread from the last two weeks, all in one convenient location! Politico, post your new threads here, unless they have nothing to do with Romney and/or Gingrich. Also, feel free to change the thread title if you want.

(PROTIP: if you're reading back through this thread, and get confused, just look at the subject of each post to see which thread it was posted in)

[Bacon King]

Folks, you cannot make this up: The Gingrich Doodles:

http://www.slate.com/slideshows/news_and_politics/gingrichs-doodles.html

Look at those doodles and tell me that man belongs anywhere near the White House...

Oh, God. I think my favorite one is "NEWT ACTION"

[Bacon King]

A few things to say here.

This has been reported and I think it comes very close to crossing the line. I want to delete this. However, I guess there's a bit of precedent regarding politicians and psychiatric disorders, such as Thomas Eagleton, and Politico did cite legitimate news organizations here when asking his questions. However, this really should belong in the megathread; after all, it was created for a reason. I'd rather not see half of the front page devolve into a bunch of Politico threads again, with each one making one specific accusation.

Also, for the record, "manic depression" hasn't medically been a thing for 32 years now; the term was changed to "bipolar disorder" by the DSM III in 1980. If you're going to be making borderline-trollish accusations, at least get your facts right plz.

But yeah, moving this thread to the megathread.

[Bacon King]

A few things to say here.

This has been reported and I think it comes very close to crossing the line. I want to delete this. However, I guess there's a bit of precedent regarding politicians and psychiatric disorders, such as Thomas Eagleton, and Politico did cite legitimate news organizations here when asking his questions. However, this really should belong in the megathread; after all, it was created for a reason. I'd rather not see half of the front page devolve into a bunch of Politico threads again, with each one making one specific accusation.

Also, for the record, "manic depression" hasn't medically been a thing for 32 years now; the term was changed to "bipolar disorder" by the DSM III in 1980. If you're going to be making borderline-trollish accusations, at least get your facts right plz.

But yeah, moving this thread to the megathread.

Serious question, can you point me to some standard that is used on the board for acceptable discourse, or is this a "you know it when you see it" pornography definition?

"You know it when you see it"; different mods have different standards, but I usually try to err on the side of leniency unless something is way over the line.

[Bacon King]

Has Romney (or any other candidate, for that matter) released their medical records?

[Bacon King]

The Republican base loves them some Limbaugh/Hannity, though.