Bucks County billboard praises Gingrich -- for adultery!
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Bucks County billboard praises Gingrich -- for adultery!
If Mitt Romney digs himself out of his current hole and somehow wins the GOP nomination, maybe he should pick Ashley Madison as his running mate.
Never heard of Ashley Madison? Me neither, but according to my email in box, AshleyMadison.com (Link? Are you serious?) is, ahem, "the world's premier extra-marital dating site with over 12 million members in 17 countries." And here you were bemoaning the lack of entrepreneurship in America. Anyway, the other claim to fame at Ashleymadison.com is that they're big fans of current Republican 2012 frontrunner Newt Gingrich.
How big? They've erected (where are Beavis and Butthead when you need them?) a giant billboard monment to fhe former house speaker which is located, for reasons known only to them, on Route 1 in Bucks County in what their e-mail release calls the "sleepy town" (Blogger's note: Ouch!) of Morrisville, just across the Delaware River from Trenton.
If you can't read the signage above, it says "Faithful Republican...Unfaithful Husband."
Says the news release from a company CEO that I don't feel like naming: "Gingrich proves that marital fidelity has no bearing on someone's ability to do a job. Rather than judge him, Americans have finally embraced the reality that affairs are commonplace, and perhaps paradoxically, might be an indication of great leadership to come. He is not the first nor last politician who will step outside of their marriage.”
Of course, this billboard is going to be subjected to the Cialis effect: Call your lawyer immediately if it stays up longer than four hours. And when the inevitable attorney for the Gingrich campaign makes the inevitable phone call and the billboard comes down, the good-or-whatever people at Ashleymadison.com will benefit from another round of news coverage. What a cheap publicity stunt! What kind of journalistic sap might fall for this?
Oops, as Rick Perry is fond of saying.
Well, OK, there is actually a broader point here. On the same day this billboard appeared, the venerable conservative publication National Review put out an editorial begging Republicans NOT to rally around Gingrich, and it hammered him hard for his three marriages and two known affairs. When the National Review and an online cheating site are going in the same direction, that's what we nowadays call a meme. Gingrich had been getting a fairly easy ride -- just two months ago the mild joke on "SNL" was that Newt didn't really want to be running for the White House -- but that's officially over as of today. From here on out, it's "Hardball."
OK, maybe that wasn't the best choice of words, either.
- brains aren't located between the left and right testicle.
— selophane43 - Such a clever post.
— gatethree - Newt is easily the most moderate of the crowd...including Obama. Libs are afraid that Newt is going to swipe those middle voters who swing elections.— kelprod2
- Think again (yes, "again" ... I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt) ..... http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5437 ..... Not only does Gingrich poll far lower than Romney in a head-to-head with Obama. He fares worse against Romney when independents (i.e. "those middle voters who swing elections") are factored in. The GOP's circular firing squad of candidates is a weak incumbent's dream come true. Even I am amazed by the Obama's good (dumb?) luck. — defeNEstrati
Comment removed.- Funny considering G. W. Bush spent 1/3 of his entire Presidency on vacation. That includes 77 trips to his Crawford, TX ranch.
487 days at Camp David
490 days at Crawford Ranch
43 days at Kennebunkport Compound
Total: 1020 days, more than 1/3rd of his presidency. Bush set the record for most vacation time taken by president.— bushmciworlcomenron - You can't bring bushie up to the repubs, they think he is in NO way responsible for the economic mess we are in. However, they still bring up Cliinton every chance they get. You know, Clinton, the last president to have a balanced budget. (But, they'll distort history and try to take credit for that as well) — NO1PHILZPHAN
- seems you on the left were hypocrites. defending bill for 8 years now thumping newt for the same thing. maybe you should just be quiet— rysagr
- "maybe you should just be quiet" . . . . . Yeah, only Republicans can be hypocrites. How dare we point that out.
- This has got to be a new low. Whether a man keeps vows he makes is irrelevant? If I were Callista I'd definitely be worried, except that this bag of air is now so aged.— farhorizons
- you may have missed it, but in 1992, the American people decided that character (in this case marital fidelity) was no longer important when it came to electing a president.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/flowers012792.htm— ekw555 - Anyone who believes that Gingrich has Obama and the Democrats scared might want to look at the reaction of leading conservative writers and former Gingrich allies, who are terrified at the prospect of Gingrich at the top of the ticket, not only because the Republicans would not gain the White House but becuase they would also lose Congress. He is kryptonite and they know it. Romney would give Obama the most trouble and eventually the Republican primary voters will come to their senses or will see their party go down in flames in 2012.— chuckw
- Clinton was shacking up with everyone but his wife since he became governor but that's ok for a Demcorat. The word Democrat is synonymous with the word hypocrite. The sad thing in this whole presidential election is that no matter who wins, the American people lose. Obama is without a doubt THE worst POTUS in our history. Another four years of his mismanagement of the coutry is something that we cannot afford. Only slightly better but not by much is the ragtag group of Republicans running. The only good thing I can see coming out of having any of these Republicans winning is them stemming the tide of blind liberalism furthered by Obama and his administration.— psyrus
- "The sad thing in this whole presidential election is that no matter who wins, the American people lose." . . . . .Thanks for being honest. I tend to agree. But if you can prove to me Obama's really a "liberal" I just might change my mind.
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