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Almost all of Newt Gingrich's campaign staff walked off the job yesterday.

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's campaign manager, senior strategists and key aides in early delegate-selection states all resigned on Thursday, a mass exodus that leaves his hopes of winning the Republican nomination in tatters. Rick Tyler, Gingrich's spokesman, said he, campaign manager Rob Johnson and senior strategists had resigned, along with aides in the early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Other officials said Gingrich was informed that his entire high command was quitting in a meeting earlier in the day. They cited differences over the direction of the campaign but were not more specific.

Gingrich, who is on a two week vacation, says he is not dropped out of the race.

Newt Gingrich has recorded the below commercial endorsing the law school at Dead Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, where students are given failing or bad grades if they fail to cite "God's law" as having precedence over American civil laws. Like that one against kidnapping.

SRSLY. That's his ringtone.

Defender of marriage, vicious gay rights opponent, Christian theocracy advocate, and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich will officially announce his run for the GOP nomination this Wednesday.

Fox News has terminated its contracts with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in anticipation of their presidential campaigns. The network had suspended the pair in early March.

Mr. Santorum filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission this week to officially explore a campaign for the nomination. He was set to participate in a debate in Greenville, S.C., Thursday night hosted by Fox News, the first debate of the 2012 election cycle. Mr. Gingrich announced his intention to form an exploratory committee earlier this year and is expected to formally take that step later this month. Both men have traveled extensively this year to meet with potential supporters in the early primary states.

In his warning to an approving church audience, Gingrich doesn't explain how a country can be both atheist and Islamist dominated.

"I challenge that ACLU to explain why children shouldn't be taught what the Founding Fathers meant when they said 'We are endowed by our Creator.'" According to Gingrich, "every state legislature should adopt a law" ordering such lessons.

Just because the AFA has called for criminalizing homosexuality, for banning Muslims from the military and elected office, and has declared that Native Americans shouldn't have the right to own land ....why that's NO reason to call them a hate group. They are decent Christians and totally deserving of all that dough funneled to them by Gingrich! Video and question by Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress.

Major GOP personalities continue to appear on the American Family Association radio show of unrepentant racist Bryan Fischer. Yesterday it was Newt Gingrich, who vowed to "slow down" the "homosexual agenda" and force a return to Christian values if elected president. More clips from the interview are at Right Wing Watch.

No matter what the president does, Gingrich is against it.

According to a "Christian preferences" poll on prospective 2012 GOP candidates, the outlook is bleak for unseating Barack Obama.

Last week the Los Angeles Times revealed that thrice-married serial adulterer Newt Gingrich had arranged for $200K in donations to unseat Iowa's pro-gay state Supreme Court justices. Now it's been learned that Gingrich sent $125K of that money directly to the anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association.

Gingrich, the former U.S. House speaker who has aggressively courted the conservatives who dominate Iowa's lead-off presidential caucuses, raised the money for the political arm of Restoring American Leadership, also known as ReAL. That group then passed $125,000 to American Family Association Action and an additional $25,000 to the Iowa Christian Alliance — two of the groups that spent millions before last November's elections that removed three of the state's seven state Supreme Court justices. The court had unanimously decided a state law restricting marriage to a man and a woman violated Iowa's constitution. The financial transfers, which appear to comply with campaign finance laws, were part of a steady flow of cash into Iowa from conservative groups such as the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Research Council.

Newt Gingrich would like to remind everybody that that marriage is between one man and one woman whom you abandon riddled with cancer on her hospital bed while you fuck the shit out of your mistress whom you later marry and cheat on with a third woman while screaming with Godly moral outrage about the infidelities of the president.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post mistakenly named Focus On The Family as the recipient of Gingrich's efforts. My apologies. That's what I get for working on multiple posts at the same time. /facepalm

What he's really doing, of course, is airing his filthy laundry right now so that it'll all be tired old news come primary season.

Excellent stuff. "Calista and I have a great marriage. Because it started as an extramarital affair. Nothing is hotter than an extramarital affair!"

Former Sen. Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum is a "washed in the blood of lamb" defender of marriage. But thrice-married Newt Gingrich, whose serial fuckery has destroyed marriages of his own? Santorum believes Gingrich is perfectly free to declare what's best for the rest of society.