As Trump mulls over Newt as VP, let's relive this golden oldie from Gingich's past.

[Miles Archer]

Newt Gingrich, crybaby: The famous Daily News cover explained
BY Alexander Nazaryan
Updated: Friday, January 6, 2012, 6:15 PM

Here was Newt Gingrich, leader of the Republican Revolution and defender of civilization on this planet, forced to sit for 25 hours in the back of Air Force One, waiting for President Clinton to stop by and negotiate a budget deal. But Clinton never came back. So Gingrich, in his rage, drafted two resolutions that forced Clinton to bring the federal government to a grinding halt.

***

Gingrich had been invited aboard Air Force One last week to fly to the funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. With a budget crisis pending, he expected Clinton would take time out during the flight to talk about a possible solution. But Clinton, who seemed to be genuinely grieving over Rabin's death, stayed up front in a cabin with former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush on both the outward-bound and return trips.

Then, when the plane landed at Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole were asked to deplane by gasp! the rear door.

"This is petty," Gingrich confessed. "I'm going to say up front it's petty, but I think it's human. When you land at Andrews and you've been on the plane for 25 hours and nobody has talked to you and they ask you to get off by the back ramp . . . you just wonder, where is their sense of manners, where is their sense of courtesy?"

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/newt-gingrich-crybaby-famous-daily-news-cover-explained-blog-entry-1.1637386

[yellowcanine]

1. My all time favorite Newt quote........

A quote from Newt Gingrich:
"If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength. I mean, some do, but they're relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn't matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes."

-- Adjunct Professor Newt Gingrich, Reinhardt College, January 7, 1995, "Renewing American Civilization."

Read more: http://www.joketribe.com/96/June/Newt%20&%20the%20Giraffe.html#ixzz48GRe4grb

Only Newt could manage to get vaginal yeast infections and giraffe hunting into the same quote.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. Here is at least one recommendation...

I wonder why there aren't more recs for this good Opening Post

[Bucky]

2. I still think Trump has to pick "impeachment insurance" for his VP

The trouble is finding anyone who's worse than Trump. It ain't easy.

[hamsterjill]

4. Gingrich the Newt by Austin Lounge Lizards

Since we're reflecting...