In Which Newt Listens To Me

Okay, okay, so maybe my diatribe from the other day had nothing to do with Newt's decision to not run for President, but you never know. We get traffic from all over, but on Friday we had a definite uptick in hits from Crazytown in Bizarro County.

The real story is that someone figured out that he can't run a PAC and also form a presidential exploratory committee.

"Newt is not running," spokesman Rick Tyler said. "It is legally impermissible for him to continue on as chairman of American Solutions (for Winning the Future) and to explore a campaign for president."

You'd think someone would have figured that sort of thing out before he went all out with his late October pledge deadline. His PAC, American Solutions, has a parenthetical part of its name, like a rock song. The first part is "American Solutions" and then, in parentheses, it says (for How I Want To Rock Your Body.)

No wait, I'm being told that's incorrect. The real name is American Solutions (for Winning the Future). (Til the Break of Dawn.) Anyways, Newt isn't running, so I guess we can all go back to doing what we were doing before Friday, which for me, included a whole lot of not thinking about Newt.