Yesterday, the Daily Caller reported that a liberal group which owns NewtGingrich.com is trying to sell the domain for $1 million or to the highest bidder.

If anyone aside from Newt Gingrich’s campaign is interested, they’d be wise not spend any money on that domain, as virtually the same thing happened to Hillary Clinton back in 2005.

[…] Mrs. Clinton’s staff wrested hillaryclinton.com from an Italian woman who had registered it in October 2001. An arbitrator at the United Nations agency ruled that Mrs. Clinton had a common law right to the trademark of her own name because of her public activities, even though she had never filed for a trademark. The arbitrator also found that the woman had registered the domain in bad faith with the intent to use Mrs. Clinton’s fame to direct traffic to unrelated matters.

With this precedent, Newt Gingrich’s campaign clearly has the right to the domain, and any group that attempts to buy it will likely find that they’ve wasted a lot of money.

UPDATE: The Lanham (Tradmark) Act.

And, believe it or not, he’s right.

Newt Gingrich told a gay man and longtime resident of Oskaloosa here today that he should vote for President Obama.

“I asked him if he’s elected, how does he plan to engage gay Americans. How are we to support him? And he told me to support Obama,” said Scott Arnold, an adjunct professor of writing at William Penn University.”

Arnold, a Democrat, said he came to the event at Smokey Row coffee house with an open mind. But he wanted to ask Gingrich about how he would represent him as president after reading past comments the former U.S. House Speaker has made about gay and lesbians.

If the most important issue(s) to this man are gay issues, then quite frankly, any candidate concerned with getting the country’s economy back on track, or restoring our country’s respect around the world, has bigger fish to fry than “engaging gay Americans.”  The issues that affect all Americans are the issues that should matter to a president or a presidential candidate. Questions about taxes, jobs, health care, national security, etc. are far more important to the 2012 campaign than how one will “engage gay Americans” as if it’s the job of a president.

The President of the United States is the president of all Americans, and no president should strive to pander to a particular group, but rather to represent the whole population. If this man wanted to use his opportunity to ask a presidential candidate one question, and that’s the one he chose to ask, than clearly Newt was never going to get his vote anyway, which Newt was clearly well aware of.

Anyone who thinks a president should pander to specific groups and ignore the majority of the population should vote for Obama, they’ll be far less disappointed.

UPDATE: GayPatriot has a lot more on this story, including important context not provided in the original story I quoted. Here is Newt’s full quote:

I think for those for whom the only issue that really matters is the definition of marriage, I won’t get their support and I accept that that’s the reality. On the other hand for those for whom it’s not the central issue in their lives, if they care about job creation, if they care about national security, if they care about a better future for the country at large, then I think I’ll get their support. [emphasis GayPatriot’s]

The chief strategist of GOPProud even commended Newt’s handling of the question.

Despite my nearly hour-long commute to work and then again back home, cars with “Obama 2012” sticker are extremely rare… even in my part of the blue state of New York. They are rare, but they do exist. And each time I see one, I am tempted to follow the car, wait for them to park somewhere, and ask them, “Really? You are so motivated to not only vote for this moron, but to put a fresh bumper sticker on your car, despite his record?”

I can almost excuse the people who have stickers from 2008, they are just too lazy to put a new one on their car, and that is merely an extension of them being too lazy to think about who they are voting for. But, how people in the past few months or the past year, can look at Obama’s record, and not only say “Hell yeah, I want four more years of this!” but also want to show the whole world their ignorance. Really, I just don’t get it.

Of course there are people who will vote for Obama. They’re liberals who find it easier to blame everyone but Obama for his policy failures. I get that. But really, Obama’s popularity has become worse than Carter’s and it’s actually quite rare to find someone who genuinely believes Obama has done a good job. Why promote incompetence with an Obama 2012 sticker on your car. In 2008 you could just say you were fooled by his empty promises. This year, there is no excuse.