notes today<\/strong>:<\/a> “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?”<\/p>\nThe Post was right about the spewing, but everything else in that quote is a farce.<\/p>\n
The fact that Gingrich passes as a man of ideas is one of the most damning indictments possible of American politics. <\/p>\n
I have been amazed at how the mainstream media insists on treating him like the contemporary version of Rousseau – or maybe Hegel. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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