Any presidential candidate who proposes an elaborate space program when the entire world faces a big ass financial crisis should be thrown into a funny farm.
Will Gingrich found the UFP?
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QFT!
I've been listening to the debates and interviews (including the Sunday Morning programs where no politician seems to ever be forced to answer any tough question) because I know how clips on most news programs don't make the time to tell the whole story and clips on partisan talk shows (on both sides) intentionally selectively cherry pick the phrases out of context that allow them to demonize whoever the host dislikes. You can listen to clips, but you should realize that you need to do your homework and devote some time to hearing the whole story.
I watched the interview with Newt yesterday on ABC where he played the wounded victim, accusing Romney of telling half truths and lies (A few weeks ago, Newt was keeping his own message on the high road until he realized that this strategy was leading to a slide in the polls, so he started in with his own attacks on Romney using lies and half-truths). So he started to attack Romney. Later in the interview, Newt started in with attacks on Obama.... tossing out (surprise!) more lies and half-truths.
It is the half-lies that get me. A half-lie is like one of those dehydrated sponges. When a politician tells a half-lie (which leaves out the half of the information that would put the statement in context and would thus deflate the politician's own shaky assertion), a careless (or blindly supportive) listener will take the half-lie and will believe it fully, inflating the half-truth in that person's mind into a full-blown wrong belief.
Newt's own Republican colleagues from the House do not have good things to say about him, calling him erratic- someone who is indeed full of ideas, but someone who has trouble discerning the difference between good and ridiculous ideas. Bob Dole says he feels that choosing Gingrich as the nominee would lead to an Obama landslide. Newt was leading the charge to impeach Clinton while he was having his own 5 year affair with a younger staffer. He is someone who -I feel- helped turn the political debate into a coarse and derisive unproductive battle- and he is now wailing about being attacked in this caustic environment.
Too bad the far right did not appreciate Huntsman. Huntsman would have been a more reasonable choice for reaching moderate Republicans, moderate Democrats, and Independents, but he was apparently too sensible and not sufficiently extreme for them.
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Ummm, no. No he wouldn't.
He was one of the instigators of the "Contract with America", in the ninties, which I have always called "The Contract ON America". As in, "Those crooks have a contract out on you."
Lunar-tic.
^ In a similar vein, there is an image/poster making the rounds online showing a laughing, jolly Newt accompanied by the caption:
"Gingrich Family Values:
Using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife."
Anyone who supports Gingrich should never, ever use "Family Values" issues again as a criticism of a candidate that they oppose.
"Gingrich Family Values:
Using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife."
Anyone who supports Gingrich should never, ever use "Family Values" issues again as a criticism of a candidate that they oppose.
I think this thread has run its course. The finer points of Newt Gingrich's candidacy are better discussed in Miscellaneous or in The Neutral Zone.
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