This is kind of funny (via email):
Dear Martin,
Apparently, Newt Gingrich loves a good stoning. Because he has joined in the stoning of our campaign. When he saw Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Mike Huckabee casting stones, Gingrich just couldn’t resist.
Huckabee called me a “nutcase.” Gingrich reached for a couple of heavier stones to hurl, calling me “a disgrace,” and “fundamentally dishonorable.”
Please contribute to our “Newt Gingrich, Mind Your Own Business” Fund.
Let’s say that you write a bad check to the IRS for almost $10,000. That seems dishonorable.
I didn’t do that. Newt Gingrich did.
Let’s say that you have an affair while your wife is suffering from cancer, and that you visit your wife in the hospital, while she is recovering from surgery, to discuss a divorce. That seems dishonorable.
I didn’t do that. Newt Gingrich did.
Let’s say that the House of Representatives votes 395 to 28 to reprimand you, and fines you $300,000 for an ethics violation. Now, that’s a disgrace – a public disgrace.
That didn’t happen to me. It happened to Newt Gingrich.
I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of listening to the likes of Newt Gingrich, sitting in judgment of me, telling me and telling us how we should live our lives. If we ever carve a Mt. Rushmore of hypocrites, you’ll see Newt Gingrich’s pasty face chiseled in stone there.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Everyone else on the right wing, MYOB.
Truth,
Alan Grayson
It’s not even shrill. Not really. Not under the circumstances.
Since you mentioned him, can someone point out to me where Grayson was actually wrong about “Taliban” Dan Webster? Because he wasn’t. Democrats were getting their underwear in a twist because they aren’t used to a Democrat like Grayson.
That ad was perfectly accurate and acceptable. If a Republican had made a similar one, no one would have cared even if every line was a lie. Weird how we just expect that from the Republicans, huh? Anderson Cooper asked Grayson if using the word “Taliban” was a bit over the top and possibly weakened his arguments. Grayson acknowledged that may have been a little strong and that the ad had been retired already. More Here
We may be witnessing the genesis of the greatest pugilistic rhetorician in our lifetime – I love his turns of phrase and his willingness to hit his opponents square in the mouth, or in parts south…
Can you imagine if some Democrats group was linked to foreign money like the Chamber of Commerce? It would be full on freak out mode, red siren style, non stop. I hope the Democrats have some outrage freak out in them.
grayson’s the only one I give any money to.
i have a sestak sign in my yard and I’ve ben blogging a lot about what a good candidate he is, but grayson gets my money for fighting.