Now that Newt Gingrich has dropped the dead weight of the six staffers who resigned a few weeks ago, he's lean and mean and ready to prove to you that he's the man who can beat Barry in 2012. He's so confident that you'll join him in "imposing" his just-crazy-enough-to-work solutions on the American people, he'll even admit to having a second line of credit at Tiffany's that extended to $1 million, as the Washington Post reports. Gingrich's people told the paper that "it has a zero balance, and it has been closed,"
Why does Newt Gingrich need two lines of credit at a jewelry store totaling $1.5 million? Shut up, that's why. What's important are the issues facing this country, which Newt will tackle with the help of the "half a dozen people" he still has working the phones for him. If a man needs a $1.5 million tab at a jewelry store, or say, Build A Bear, to cheer up his lady who's been feeling queasy since that cruise of the Greek islands, then that's his business. As he's said in the past, they live a "very frugal" lifestyle, especially compared to a member of the Saudi royal family.
According to Politico, while other less fashionable candidates crisscross the country campaigning, Newt "has just a handful of scheduled events this week," proving that he's making good on his frugality pledge. He's so serious about it that the departure of his two top fundraisers, "two very talented women who are very well known in Republican fundraising circles," does not bother him at all. Sure his former aide may think that "if they couldn't get the job done, the job won't get done," but that's where he's wrong. If we've learned anything about Newt Gingrich so far, is that the man is full of skeletons surprises.
