Poor Newt Gingrich! Periodically, he starts feeling neglected. So he begins making noise about running for president, in order to drum up media attention. <\/p>\n
This usually turns out to be more about peddling books than making it into the Oval Office. But this time Pat Buchanan thinks Newt is serious. Unfortunately for Newt, Buchanan also thinks Newt’s gone off the deep end with his so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” remarks:<\/a> <\/p>\n This week, disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R), hoping to make the case against the proposed Park51 community center, compared Muslim Americans to Nazis. On MSNBC yesterday, Pat Buchanan — yes Pat Buchanan — said Gingrich went too far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now being too wingnutty for Pat Buchanan<\/a> is no mean feat:<\/p>\n It’s “absurd,” said Buchanan. “There is no valid comparison there.”<\/p>\n Buchanan also called Gingrich a “political opportunist” who’s trying to be “more controversial than Sarah Palin,” who would be his potential primary challenger in the 2012 presidential election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n The ambitious Republican Newt Related Posts: Newt\u2019s Bilingual Newspeak,<\/a> Hark! The Disgraced Former Speaker Speaks,<\/a> and Refudiating Sarah<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poor Newt Gingrich! Periodically, he starts feeling neglected. So he begins making noise about running for president, in order to drum up media attention. This usually turns out to be more about peddling books than making it into the Oval Office. But this time Pat Buchanan thinks Newt is serious. Unfortunately for Newt, Buchanan also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,519,6,7,3,1551,9,176,17,69],"tags":[192,194,275,729,1389,240,2820,1391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOnce was Speaker, but then got the boot.
\nHe so longs to be Prez
\nThat he willingly says
\nStuff Buchanan thinks mad. What a hoot!<\/p>\n