Newt Gingrich sells donor list to ... identity protection racket

Newt Gingrich's campaign is having some financial problems, as detailed in this excellent piece at Politico. Elsewhere, Molly Ball at the Atlantic reveals that the information was purchased by LifeLock, an identity protection company, which sent Newt's supporters an email trumpeting "A Special Offer for Newt Gingrich Fans!"

This is brilliant marketing. I can't think of any better way to promote identity-protection services then an unsolicited email from a company that you've never heard of saying, in effect, "you don't know us, but we know you." This really puts the protection into the identity-protection racket.

Newt Gingrich is a Survivor

UPDATE:

See below for my original post on 80s-band Survivor's lawsuit against Newt Gingrich. Last Friday, the judge ruled on Survivor's motion to strike the affirmative defenses:

Plaintiff's motion to strike affirmative defenses [24] is granted in part and denied in part. Affirmative defenses 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 in the amended answer are stricken because they consist only of bare legal conclusions. Plaintiff's motion is denied as to affirmative defense 3, which is better dealt with based on a more complete factual record, and as to affirmative defense 13, which may be duplicative of defense 12, but if so plaintiff is not unduly prejudiced by that.

And the show goes on. However, now that Gingrich's campaign is more or less over, I suspect that the lawsuit will settle soon.

ORIGINAL POST (3/7/2012):

Mr. Gillette recently noted that Newt Gingrich is running for president but will never be president. Last night, however, Gingrich won the Republican primary in his home state of Georgia. Take that, Mr. Gillette!

Mr. Gillette also noted that 80s "one-hit wonder" band Survivor has sued the Gingrich campaign for copyright infringement for using "Eye of the Tiger" at campaign events. Usually, the candidates just roll over in these disputes and promise not to do it again. For example, former Florida Governor Charlie Crist practically got down on his knees to apologize to the Talking Heads' David Byrne for using "Road to Nowhere" without explicit permission.

Newt Gingrich has a pretty bad day.

As part of our continuing series on people who will never be president but are running for president, we should point out that things are not going well for Newt Gingrich. Mitt Romney has already claimed victory in today's Florida primary. Also, 80s one-hit wonder Survivor is suing Mr. Gingrich because he has been using "Eye of the Tiger" at his campaign stops without their permission. Maybe Mr. Gingrich can settle with the band by getting them something from Tiffany's.

In August, I noted that Herman Cain, Thaddeus McCotter, and Newt Gingrich would "never, ever, ever be the GOP nominee for president in 2012." I was asked over the weekend whether Mr. Gingrich's recent surge has caused me to reconsider this statement. It has not. One need look no further than this article to see why he won't be president.

While I doubt the judiciary is any more "arrogant" now than it has been in the past, does it not occur to Mr. Gingrich, that the majority of federal court judges were appointed by Republicans? By way of example, President George W. Bush appointed a total of 325 judges. President Obama has appointed 123.

I have a lot more I could say about Mr. Gingrich's utterly insane proposals concerning the judiciary but since he will never be president, I will simply point out that his beliefs about a rogue judiciary sound to me a lot like the complaints raised by these two lawyers.