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Newt Gingrich will never be president; I will never stop loving this video

by David Roberts.

Remember Al Gore’s “We” campaign on climate change? Boy that was a game-changer, wasn’t it? Sigh.

However, it did leave us with at least one delightful cultural curio, namely this commercial with Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich sitting on a couch, talking nice about climate change:

I never get tired of it!

Newt Gingrich will never be president, of course. His run has always been about getting attention and being seen as an Important Person—that reputation is the currency he has used to build his financial empire of books, movies, and “consulting.” It’s been a while since anyone has given a crap about him, so he needs to thrust himself back into the spotlight to rev the old money-grubbing engine up again.

So Newt Gingrich’s actual position on climate change—if there is such a thing—is irrelevant. Still, the video is hilarious. Almost as hilarious as Newt’s attempts to explain it away. Here he is defending the commercial, saying he’d do it again, and pretending that conservatives have a solution to climate change even though climate change isn’t actually a crisis:

Here he is saying that, no, actually making the commercial was a mistake, even though *mumble* all the scientists saying climate change is real *mumble* and also blah blah taxes:

That is some fancy footwork.

I’m sure if he stays in the race for a while longer, he’ll have a few more positions on the ad. But sooner or later, Romney will be the nominee and Gingrich will go back to scamming gullible right-wingers for money.

I, however, will never abandon my love of his Pelosi commercial, which more than anything else highlights Newt’s utterly egotistical, opportunistic, self-serving core.

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