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.
Gingrich is crazy, but his wife is psycho. They are just plain scary
I think she may have spent too many years singing in that choir.
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.
Newt is such a pro-establishment neocon that he makes John McCain look like Thomas Jefferson.
Excellent analogy! Or metaphor, or whatever.
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
Thanks. Glitch corrected. It was more a problem of trusting decaf instead of trusting the spellchecker.
The newsmedia is the cohort of big unlimited govt.