King of Weasels Enters Prez Race
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No matter what I could write about Newt Gingrich, it would not be snarky enough.
The Washington Post notes today: “Gingrich is an idea-spewing machine, unlike anyone else in the Republican Party. But does America want a one-man think tank , particularly one with his history, as its president?”
The Post was right about the spewing, but everything else in that quote is a farce.
The fact that Gingrich passes as a man of ideas is one of the most damning indictments possible of American politics.
I have been amazed at how the mainstream media insists on treating him like the contemporary version of Rousseau - or maybe Hegel.
Gingrich has championed Leviathan in many ways - which is why the Wash. Post labels Gingrich - and not Ron Paul - as the candidate of ideas. The Post despises most of RPaul’s ideas, so they aren’t real ideas.
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Tom Blanton
Comment on Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 12:11 am
Gingrich is crazy, but his wife is psycho. They are just plain scary
Jim
Comment on Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 7:54 am
I think she may have spent too many years singing in that choir.
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 8:56 am
Bear in mind that yer averij boobus americanus does not have ANY ideas, other than what are fed to him by others, and so anybody who has ideas is QED a “man of ideas.”
Of course, if those ideas are ones like “responsibility,” “individual rights,” “self reliance” and “leave me the heck alone,” then the thinker is obviously a deranged crackpot, clearly out of step with modern times.
Rob
Comment on Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 4:31 pm
Newt is such a pro-establishment neocon that he makes John McCain look like Thomas Jefferson.
Jim
Comment on Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 5:25 pm
Excellent analogy! Or metaphor, or whatever.
Chris
Comment on Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 6:13 pm
Sir, I could not agree with you more, but please do not trust your spell checker any more than you can throw it:
“… but everything else *is* the quote is a farce.”
Best regards
Jim
Comment on Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 6:21 pm
Thanks. Glitch corrected. It was more a problem of trusting decaf instead of trusting the spellchecker.
Tory II
Comment on Saturday 14th May 2011 @ 5:45 am
The newsmedia is the cohort of big unlimited govt.
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