Newt's tombstone: "Here lies a dumb person's impression of a 'smart' person"
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He went to my church in Atlanta around 1994. After all of the things he did and said, I used to look at him in the pew and wonder what he prayed for, he the perfect racist, the perfect liar. I remember looking at him one time and wondering if he prayed at all, at least to the same God. It seems fitting the way he's described in this article. Newt Gingrich, the perfect republican.
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Perfect. Another "Family Values" guy whose personal life belies his stated philosophy. The GOP has to do better than this.
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Well maybe there is a certain twisted logic for the GOP to move from Trump (obnoxious and untested in actual governing) to Newt, a proven, obnoxious political failure. If you love phony drama and government shut-downs, Newt's your guy.
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Newt Gingrich = Grifter. What's his occupation? Collecting a lot of money and running for President every four years.
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The full quote by Gingrich about President Obama is instructive: "What if he [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?"
This goes beyond "playing to birther movement sentiments". The term "anti-colonial" was used by Gingrich, Rudy Guiliani, and Mike Huckabee as a dog whistle during the 2012 election. The term had come to mean alignment with the Soviet Union after the Cold War, and the essence of an anti-American capitalist philosophy.
By very intentionally using the term "anti-colonial", Gingrich is alerting us that Obama (regardless of where he was born) thinks and acts in ways that are antithetical to American democracy, stemming from his Kenyan-born father. Gingrich is warning us that Obama has a secret agenda to destroy American values. He is essentially saying that Obama is fundamentally anti-American and a threat to our democracy.
While political vitriol is standard in elections, this kind of theme goes to the heart of delegitimizing a human being. Gingrich played an essential role in the right's strategy to portray Obama as Un-American based on race, ethnicity, with dog whistles to affirmative action and Obama's educational and political success.
Gingrich, Giuliani, Ailes, Bannon, Trump: these are the folks who play to the worst in us and work diligently to undermine the progressive progress that informs the American dream.
This goes beyond "playing to birther movement sentiments". The term "anti-colonial" was used by Gingrich, Rudy Guiliani, and Mike Huckabee as a dog whistle during the 2012 election. The term had come to mean alignment with the Soviet Union after the Cold War, and the essence of an anti-American capitalist philosophy.
By very intentionally using the term "anti-colonial", Gingrich is alerting us that Obama (regardless of where he was born) thinks and acts in ways that are antithetical to American democracy, stemming from his Kenyan-born father. Gingrich is warning us that Obama has a secret agenda to destroy American values. He is essentially saying that Obama is fundamentally anti-American and a threat to our democracy.
While political vitriol is standard in elections, this kind of theme goes to the heart of delegitimizing a human being. Gingrich played an essential role in the right's strategy to portray Obama as Un-American based on race, ethnicity, with dog whistles to affirmative action and Obama's educational and political success.
Gingrich, Giuliani, Ailes, Bannon, Trump: these are the folks who play to the worst in us and work diligently to undermine the progressive progress that informs the American dream.
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Trump, Gingrich, Giuliani and Chrisite- the Mt. Rushmore of political hacks and low loves.
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No no no no............
........go away.
........go away.
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Gingrich wants only to protect his own "legacy" of creating a Repulbican majority in Congress. He clearly doesn't give a fig for the presidency. The cynicism with which Mr. Gingrich approaches this is stomach-turning. I didn't think we would see a politician worse than Trump. Then Christie was exposed, and now Gingrich has created yet another benchmark for low, low venality in our political system. His approach to supporting Trump is going to be 100% dog-whistles and blather, and sadly there are those who will respond like zombies.
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If there's one thing that a Clinton presidency recalls that detracts from what really were the 'good ol days' of the Clinton years, it's Newt Gingrich.
The specter of a Gingrich mouthpiece for the new anti-Clinton Trump-TV is enough reason to flee the USA.
Gingrich is a disease, a pernicious pathogen in American politics.
The specter of a Gingrich mouthpiece for the new anti-Clinton Trump-TV is enough reason to flee the USA.
Gingrich is a disease, a pernicious pathogen in American politics.
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A political party like France's National Front could do well in the U.S. They could peel off followers from both parties. Newt's too stale for that kind of action though. He jumped the shark eons ago.
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Great, an even more reprehensible tool for the troglodytes amongst us.
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Newt Gingrich indeed. Then there are the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie and Roger Ailes. There's no view of America more warped than what you'll find in Donald Trump's inner circle. If there's any "movement" represented here, it's downward and backward. And it deserves to be repudiated Nov. 8.
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I don't think Gingrich "bodes" anything for American politics. He's a has-been with no future. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Ugh, this guy again. Let's leave the 90s behind.
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I thought this was a good start to an article. Where is the meat of this? Tell us why this does not bode well for us. Keep going!! there is a lot to be said here
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Multiple marriages, adultery, and ethics convictions...no wonder Gingrich is attracted to Trump
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GINGRICH? Hello. He plans to run in two years for a Congressional Seat and become Speaker, once again. He has rented a house in Jonesboro, GA and is going after David Scott in the 13th GA district. Trump plans to pay for the effort and Gingrich is all in, determined. Scott is of course a Democrat and African American. Go figure.
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If this depends upon trump keeping his word to pay for something -we can safely forget it
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I am sitting here trying to list the virtues of Newt..........after much thought and many hours, my list is empty.
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Sorry state of affairs when a newt like Gingrich thinks he's the clean-up batter.
Gingrich heads the list of the most irrelevant politicians still breathing right now. That he can keep his "I'm still relevant" fantasy alive proves - yet again - how delusional the GOP remains. That they think they can rehash these old, failed conservatives, whose legacy is failure - shows how the GOP elites and their sycophantic pundits are so NOT getting-it!
The people Trump managed to attract and rally behind him are not going to simply fall in line for a Gingrich - because The Newt is firmly part of the establishment that Trump was not a part of, which made him attractive.
Gingrich is everything old and broken and wrong with the GOP. He's not reinvented himself, or his image, or his conservative ideas. He's not going to help the GOP fix their image and character problems. As he represents the old ways, the sexist, playing on fear and doom and gloom, racially motivated ideas that keep pushing voters, especially independents and the young, away from the GOP.
When Trump loses, those who were his true supporters are not going to eagerly embrace an old, irrelevant and wholly out of touch failed politician like Grngrich. They will mostly likely fade away (not right away, we might see some "stuff" go down) full of blame and hatred towards The System, that they truly and wholeheartedly believe is run by a dozen or more Wizards/men behind the curtains.
Gingrich will not be embraced.
Gingrich heads the list of the most irrelevant politicians still breathing right now. That he can keep his "I'm still relevant" fantasy alive proves - yet again - how delusional the GOP remains. That they think they can rehash these old, failed conservatives, whose legacy is failure - shows how the GOP elites and their sycophantic pundits are so NOT getting-it!
The people Trump managed to attract and rally behind him are not going to simply fall in line for a Gingrich - because The Newt is firmly part of the establishment that Trump was not a part of, which made him attractive.
Gingrich is everything old and broken and wrong with the GOP. He's not reinvented himself, or his image, or his conservative ideas. He's not going to help the GOP fix their image and character problems. As he represents the old ways, the sexist, playing on fear and doom and gloom, racially motivated ideas that keep pushing voters, especially independents and the young, away from the GOP.
When Trump loses, those who were his true supporters are not going to eagerly embrace an old, irrelevant and wholly out of touch failed politician like Grngrich. They will mostly likely fade away (not right away, we might see some "stuff" go down) full of blame and hatred towards The System, that they truly and wholeheartedly believe is run by a dozen or more Wizards/men behind the curtains.
Gingrich will not be embraced.
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I wonder how our spineless Republican establishment types will take to Gingrich. Their cowardly approach to Trump will probably continue with Gingrich. Have to change their nickname - "Not So Grand Old Party" or "Hugely Disappointing Herd of Weasels".
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"bigly"
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True, but unfair to weasels, really
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What little men Trump and Gingrich are.
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I don't think that Trumpism - racist, nativist, resentful, white identity populism - is particularly new to the GOP. Lee Atwater, anyone? Pat Buchanan? Bill Huckabee? Nor would Trumpism be doing any better if Gingrich became its champion. As Gingrich himself demonstrated in his last run for president. The GOP trots out Trumpism every 4 years, and every 4 years it falls short. Thankfully Trumpists have been, and continue to be, a minority. Gingrich the huckster is just looking for his next gig, and demonstrating that there's no level to which he won't stoop.
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" Mr. Gingrich has long espoused political views similar to Donald Trump’s."
They also have same 'family values" but still Gingrich would have had a much better chance this time if he had contested. Majority Trump supporters support Trump for his political views, they do not seem to care about 'family values" , even hard core evangelicals are still supporting Trump not for his family values but for political views. Even after Trump is gone, the movement will go on. it is only question of time, another Trump, this time "a big Trump" will appear on the scene.
They also have same 'family values" but still Gingrich would have had a much better chance this time if he had contested. Majority Trump supporters support Trump for his political views, they do not seem to care about 'family values" , even hard core evangelicals are still supporting Trump not for his family values but for political views. Even after Trump is gone, the movement will go on. it is only question of time, another Trump, this time "a big Trump" will appear on the scene.
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their next trump will be better controlled and smoother - then we're in trouble
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There is some charisma to Donald Trump. This might sound ridiculous, even dis-logical. But it's true and his unshakable 40% support proves it. His rallies won't win him the election but they are real and well attended. He has a base, loyal to him. For his supporters the man and the message are the same.
Gingrich has no charisma. And you need some charisma to sell your product.
What Gingrich calls Big Trump - and others have called Trumpism - has limited appeal, anyway. It's target demographic gets older and sparser by the day. I don't see a lesser salesman - Gingrich - closing a deal that Trump himself could not.
Gingrich has no charisma. And you need some charisma to sell your product.
What Gingrich calls Big Trump - and others have called Trumpism - has limited appeal, anyway. It's target demographic gets older and sparser by the day. I don't see a lesser salesman - Gingrich - closing a deal that Trump himself could not.
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Remember when Newt abandoned his wife, who was fighting breast cancer, for a younger Melania-type mistress (now his wife)? Trump and Newt have many of the same attitudes toward women.
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If Newt Gingrich is the "new face" of Trumpism, I am profoundly relieved. He is 73 years old, is perhaps even more "establishment" than Mrs. Clinton and he's on his requisite third wife for such moral scolds. No, I am not afraid that Mr. Gingrich will assume the mantle from Mr. Trump. I fear an as yet unidentified, charismatic, competent political outsider.
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The ultimate danger that Gingrich poses to the future health and welfare of our democracy makes Trump look like small potatoes.
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Gingrich has gone even wackier in this retirement years.
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Gingrich making the transition from Reagan to Trump is one of the more unpalatable conversions of this campaign season. But then, candidates who hung on to Reagan, from Jeb Bush to John Kasich, were defeated in the primaries. So although Gingrich didn’t run in 2016, he saw the writing on the wall. However, if Trump loses big, the “big Trump” issues may, to quote a Gingrich phrase, “whither on the vine?” It’s hard to imagine a Mike Pence or a Ted Cruz trying to fit in the shoes of “big Trump.”
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Newt would not have enjoyed being Trump's VP candidate, especially when Trump would have "hit" on Callista, Newt's 3rd wife.
Newt, ever the opportunist, is toast, just as is Gov. Pence, who was just a gawd-awful head of IN. Now our Hoosier state is more red-neck, going down since Even Bayh left. Here's to the return of Bayh to DC.
Newt, ever the opportunist, is toast, just as is Gov. Pence, who was just a gawd-awful head of IN. Now our Hoosier state is more red-neck, going down since Even Bayh left. Here's to the return of Bayh to DC.
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The immoral in support of the amoral.
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Works both ways too :)
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“In the 1990s, Mr. Gingrich spearheaded the antigovernment movement.”
If you understand that You are the government then you understand the very essence of Gingrich & the GOP. They want the people out of government so they can do as they please.
If you understand that You are the government then you understand the very essence of Gingrich & the GOP. They want the people out of government so they can do as they please.
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They both want to undo the results of the Civil War?
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Gingrich is yesterday's man. It's time for him to become yesteryear's man.
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If there is a "Sell By" date for politicians, Gingrich's has long expired.
The idea that he can be any kind of Pied Piper for younger Republicans and conservatives is laughable in the extreme. He is stale, stale, stale. There is no "going forward" for Gingrich.
Gingrich's look-alike Stephen Bannon is the new guru of the alt-right, and even he is getting stale. His only plan for America is to arouse more resentment and hatred for anyone not "us."
The idea that he can be any kind of Pied Piper for younger Republicans and conservatives is laughable in the extreme. He is stale, stale, stale. There is no "going forward" for Gingrich.
Gingrich's look-alike Stephen Bannon is the new guru of the alt-right, and even he is getting stale. His only plan for America is to arouse more resentment and hatred for anyone not "us."
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"Who ever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the one who is a companion to fools comes to harm." --Proverbs 13: 20.
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The Big Trumps issues are small, very small indeed. And he's not very historic - demagogues has incited people before in the US and elsewhere. And the people they claim to speak for can rejoice when they are beaten - because democracy must prevail.
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It's saying something that it took Trump to rehabilitate Gingrich...
Something the nation is just not interested in, stark naked Republicanism.
Something the nation is just not interested in, stark naked Republicanism.
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It would appear that there is a Big Tritch and a Little Tritch.
The Little Tritch cherry-picks one comment from Mr. Gingrich about "Kenyan" inclinations of President Obama (without noting the play-on-words with Keynesian by Mr. Gingrich) and ignores anything else Mr. Gingrich has written or said.
The Big Tritch should have noted that, under President Obama, the use of food stamps has exploded.
But, in writing this opinion piece, it would appear that the Big Tritch was taking the day off, leaving the Little Tritch to file this opinion piece.
Maybe, for her next column, Little Tritch can take the day off and Big Tritch can look at the bigger picture of a political elite that has failed the general population, while doing very well for itself over the past 15 years, under both Republican and Democratic regimes.
The Little Tritch cherry-picks one comment from Mr. Gingrich about "Kenyan" inclinations of President Obama (without noting the play-on-words with Keynesian by Mr. Gingrich) and ignores anything else Mr. Gingrich has written or said.
The Big Tritch should have noted that, under President Obama, the use of food stamps has exploded.
But, in writing this opinion piece, it would appear that the Big Tritch was taking the day off, leaving the Little Tritch to file this opinion piece.
Maybe, for her next column, Little Tritch can take the day off and Big Tritch can look at the bigger picture of a political elite that has failed the general population, while doing very well for itself over the past 15 years, under both Republican and Democratic regimes.
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And Newt is certainly the person who will take care of the "general population." Hey, I gotta bridge for sale, you interested?
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If Newt Gingrich is the new leader of Trumpism, the rest of us can breath a big sigh of relief.
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Newtie is only 73 years old. That would make him 77 in 2020. How many 77 year olds run for President?
Newtie is also not a "billionaire businessman", not that Der Fuehrer Drumpf is a successful businessman.
Can he motivate the TrumpBots? Only the intellectual ones. All three of them.
Newtie is also not a "billionaire businessman", not that Der Fuehrer Drumpf is a successful businessman.
Can he motivate the TrumpBots? Only the intellectual ones. All three of them.
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"able to mobilize Trump supporters going forward" Newt and his ilk are after the numbers. He's an opportunist who wants to cash in on the millions who have supported Trump. When Trump exits, Newt want to fill the void with a more consistent message of hatred and bigotry. It's not a majority, but it is a significant movement that Newt hopes will give me a piece of the action and a path to power. In brief, Trumpism will continue to threaten democracy for years to come. Hardly "going forward," it's a movement backward to pre-historic time.
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Our national malignancy is not personified by any single actor and never was. The racism that undergirds the support for figures like Trump and Gingrich has always been part of our history. How sad that the Republican Party - a political entity founded on halting slavery! - has devolved into pandering to the very forces that it first opposed with such moral clarity. Where have you gone, Abraham Lincoln?
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We've overlooked the obvious: The preening factor. Donald, Newt and Hilary all share one thing in common. It's the attention they pay to their hair. I know, I am a chauvanist in this, but please cut me some slack. In virtually every culture it is the women who attend their hair, perhaps a genetic thing. But the first thing we notice about Donald is his hair. Same thing with Newt, but not with Hilary. See what I mean.
There's something unseemly about a man who spends more time on his hair than his wife, or wives, cases in point. While I'm certain there are men out there with calculated coiffures who are down to earth good people who happen to sleep with a hair net, I just haven't met any.
Conversely, Bernies hair is a mess. That's one of the reasons we trusted him. He was just him, which begs the question, who are Donald and Newt?
Beware of men who go to hair salons.
There's something unseemly about a man who spends more time on his hair than his wife, or wives, cases in point. While I'm certain there are men out there with calculated coiffures who are down to earth good people who happen to sleep with a hair net, I just haven't met any.
Conversely, Bernies hair is a mess. That's one of the reasons we trusted him. He was just him, which begs the question, who are Donald and Newt?
Beware of men who go to hair salons.
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It would be good for all decent Americans if Newt Gingrich were to inherit Trump's legionnaires. For one, it would permanently cement the Republicans to their nasty Tea-drinking cousins whom they try to limit to occasional meetings at the country club. The GOP would have to own the racism and raw hate and weird taxation policies they've hidden from view of their working class followers, and they'd lose elections under a Gingrich Regency. Another reason decent Americans needn't fear a Gingrich Redux is his marital history, which will lose him some evangelicals. Plus, he won't appeal a whole lot to millennials. The hair is too much like Trump's and his budgetary policy is Scrooge McDuck's.
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Newt has always aspired to be the Emperor. As Speaker of the House he presided over a totally arbitrary government shut down and declared himself the most powerful man in the United States. He is at least as sociopathic as Donald Trump, but the sad truth is that if Newt is discredited and disqualified, another head will pop up to take his place. As long as a broad swath of Americans are intent on tearing down American democracy in favor of a Burlesconi-esque kleptocracy, the Republican Party will provide an endless supply of fitting candidates for the job.
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I loathe Trump and Gingrich. Ok, also Christie and Guiliani, but I do agree with much of Trump's message. As Gingrich says, the problem is the messenger. Trump is just a despicable person and there's no getting around it. I believe in throwing out the illegals, stop and frisk, extreme policing of the inner cities, keeping Muslims out of the country (look what Muslims have done to the UK and France), 2nd amendment rights, abolishing unfair trade agreements, making members of NATO pay their bills. All of these would benefit the U.S., but so will strong unions, a higher minimum wage, a strengthened social security, and a 50% tax on all income, earnings, dividends, interest, carried interest, rental income,any source of money above 250K for an individual, no more free ride for business, for GE and Apple, no more 2nd home mortgage deductions (I can hear the realtor's screaming now), no more college tuition deductions for the wealthy. Of course I'll vote for Hillary but she's such a flawed candidate I would actually have voted for Romney had he chosen to run.
Trump is the class clown, the bully in a china shop, bomb thrower of perceived rules of decorum. Gingrich philosophically is cut from the same cloth, but his gimmick is to give his notions the veneer of intellectual heft. Within the 90's GOP, he was the Paul Ryan of his day, a guy with a big brain, and big ideas on conservatism and other grand schemes.
But Gingrich and Ryan are not really very bright bulbs. Their ideas sound smart to those who don't have a clue. When put to the test of bona fide scholars they fall far short. When Speaker Gingrich finally engaged in battle with a worthy competitor, President B. Clinton, he met his match. Initially Gingrich was a success, bringing a Republican majority to Congress. But it wasn't long before the glory of Gingrich took a tumble. Shortly after. plagued in scandal, he had to resign, while his rival Bill weathered impeachment, and later saw his popularity and influence rise.
Such is the scenario for Trump. He started off winning most of the primary battles against a varied and experienced Republican field. But then came no pivot from this neophyte. Trump believed in the power of himself over all others. He insisted on following his winning formula. Trump is all about winning. Like Gingrich and Bill, so it is with Trump and Hillary. As we approach two weeks till E-Day, Trump like Gingrich self-destructed. He's in meltdown mode. This time dispatched by another Clinton, and another Clinton presidency.
DD
Manhattan
But Gingrich and Ryan are not really very bright bulbs. Their ideas sound smart to those who don't have a clue. When put to the test of bona fide scholars they fall far short. When Speaker Gingrich finally engaged in battle with a worthy competitor, President B. Clinton, he met his match. Initially Gingrich was a success, bringing a Republican majority to Congress. But it wasn't long before the glory of Gingrich took a tumble. Shortly after. plagued in scandal, he had to resign, while his rival Bill weathered impeachment, and later saw his popularity and influence rise.
Such is the scenario for Trump. He started off winning most of the primary battles against a varied and experienced Republican field. But then came no pivot from this neophyte. Trump believed in the power of himself over all others. He insisted on following his winning formula. Trump is all about winning. Like Gingrich and Bill, so it is with Trump and Hillary. As we approach two weeks till E-Day, Trump like Gingrich self-destructed. He's in meltdown mode. This time dispatched by another Clinton, and another Clinton presidency.
DD
Manhattan
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These dinosaurs will be fossilized before long and belong to the past. It can't happen to a nicer bunch of old farts.
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I guess then that if Trump were elected we'd have a Big President and a Little President. How would Gingrich propose we go about keeping Little President away form the nuclear codes? Would he be comfortable with Little President appointing Supreme Court justices, conducting foreign policy, etc.? I didn't think so.
Trump's enablers (Ryan, McConnell, Gingrich, Giuliani, Christie, and numerous other cowards in the house and senate) have taken a huge gamble placing party above country, and in doing so have risked putting a grossly inexperienced, psychologically imbalanced man with a miserable business track record (the man's supposed area of expertise) in charge of our country. They have exposed themselves as political hacks and will carry the indelible stain of Donald Trump for the rest of their lives.
Trump's enablers (Ryan, McConnell, Gingrich, Giuliani, Christie, and numerous other cowards in the house and senate) have taken a huge gamble placing party above country, and in doing so have risked putting a grossly inexperienced, psychologically imbalanced man with a miserable business track record (the man's supposed area of expertise) in charge of our country. They have exposed themselves as political hacks and will carry the indelible stain of Donald Trump for the rest of their lives.
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If trump gets really drubbed - I wonder how Newt will react to that. It would be beautiful to see the dems get control of the senate.
Newt has always figured out which way the wind is blowing - betcha he will slink back into the shadows if the dems get the senate.
Newt has always figured out which way the wind is blowing - betcha he will slink back into the shadows if the dems get the senate.
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Newt Gingrich, let's see ... Uh, 1st speaker of the house to be charged with ethics violations. Fined $300,000 and ejected from the house, eighty-five accusations but only reprimanded for one. After everyone forgets about his indiscretions, he comes back to become a powerful lobbyist and news commentator.
Just the guy we need formulating policy for our next big leader.
Why can't we send these misfits, irrespective of political alignment, into obscurity. The list of these guys who do bad things, while in positions of trust and power, and then come back to advise our potential next leaders just keeps growing.
We get the government we deserve.
Just the guy we need formulating policy for our next big leader.
Why can't we send these misfits, irrespective of political alignment, into obscurity. The list of these guys who do bad things, while in positions of trust and power, and then come back to advise our potential next leaders just keeps growing.
We get the government we deserve.
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Donald Trump is a narcissistic ignoramus who is out to promote his brand during and after the campaign.
Newt Gingrich is very schooled in American history, though he did his Ph.D. dissertation on Belgian colonial history in Africa. He is no ignoramus.
Is he a narcissist?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Gingrich is a narcissist of the sort that is not uncommon for someone who initially wanted to be in academia, but was denied tenure and so decided to go into another field rather than be an itinerant adjunct faculty member for the rest of his life.
In Gingrich case he was denied tenure at, um, top ranked West Georgia College.
Is Gingrich hanging around politics to return to political office or rather to use politics as a cover for promoting his brand and make money on the book and hack movie circuit?
See the Pope question above.
But unlike Trump, who is a guileless sociopath, Gingrich is a cynical sociopath.
Much more dangerous -- and smarmy.
Newt Gingrich is very schooled in American history, though he did his Ph.D. dissertation on Belgian colonial history in Africa. He is no ignoramus.
Is he a narcissist?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Gingrich is a narcissist of the sort that is not uncommon for someone who initially wanted to be in academia, but was denied tenure and so decided to go into another field rather than be an itinerant adjunct faculty member for the rest of his life.
In Gingrich case he was denied tenure at, um, top ranked West Georgia College.
Is Gingrich hanging around politics to return to political office or rather to use politics as a cover for promoting his brand and make money on the book and hack movie circuit?
See the Pope question above.
But unlike Trump, who is a guileless sociopath, Gingrich is a cynical sociopath.
Much more dangerous -- and smarmy.
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Newt Gingrich in a nutshell;
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070309_gingrich_had_affair...
Note the last line of his defense of attacking Clinton and then consider as if he actually were an honest man the amount of dissociation one would have to be suffering from to have said it;
”Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials.”
The “left wife on her deathbed” scandal explained; He still looks as bad as that sounds.
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingrich_divorce_hospital_cancer/
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/12/the-gingrich-divorce-myth/
look up the Burns and Haberman blog 1-17-12
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070309_gingrich_had_affair...
Note the last line of his defense of attacking Clinton and then consider as if he actually were an honest man the amount of dissociation one would have to be suffering from to have said it;
”Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials.”
The “left wife on her deathbed” scandal explained; He still looks as bad as that sounds.
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingrich_divorce_hospital_cancer/
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/12/the-gingrich-divorce-myth/
look up the Burns and Haberman blog 1-17-12
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This article highlights a danger that we may face. The 40% Americans that support Trump are not just going away. Further if indeed Trump had staid on message and had abandoned the self destructing behavior there may be more than 50% that are supporting him.
Indeed if somebody emerges, be it Gingrich or not, that can package the Trump populism with an sympathetic wrapper and ribbon, America may well be headed that direction. That is what I learned from this election cycle.
In the mean time, lets not take a Clinton victory take for granted.
Indeed if somebody emerges, be it Gingrich or not, that can package the Trump populism with an sympathetic wrapper and ribbon, America may well be headed that direction. That is what I learned from this election cycle.
In the mean time, lets not take a Clinton victory take for granted.
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Gingrich showed his leadership abilities in the '90s when he pioneered the toxic politics that gave us the government shutdown and the Clinton impeachment. At the end of that glorious run he was booted out of Congress in disgrace. Since then, he has distinguished himself as a pilot fish. In his mind he still fancies himself a statesman, and the press abets his fantasy. The public's taste for him was made clear in the primary season of 2012. I would say he's a joke, except there's nothing about him that's funny. He is a persistent boil on the backside of the body politic.
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Newt's always been a nut. That's why he's attracted to Trump. He's got a lot of the same personal issues as Trump, which would be a tough pill to swallow for the Evangelicals, now that some of the younger ones are starting to find and vote their conscience.
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Gingrich and Trump are kindred souls. They are two huge, overweight egos who will say just about anything for attention. Millennials don't like ugly, fat, white racist men. Gingrich and Trump continue to ignore that memo, because they are addicted to the camera lights.
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It's sad, so sad, to watch someone who has slipped into professional oblivion (as we all have or will), still cling to the faded memory of being "a player."
Newt is so in the rear view mirror, and he has not the sense to get out of the street.
As my dear deceased great aunt would have said 'that boy is more to be pitied than scorned."
Newt is so in the rear view mirror, and he has not the sense to get out of the street.
As my dear deceased great aunt would have said 'that boy is more to be pitied than scorned."
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The media might try to redeem themselves after this election is over, by refusing to report on every outlandish statement by has-beens like Newt, Rudy, Christie,
Trump, et al. Don't give them any importance - we don't want to hear it anymore!
Trump, et al. Don't give them any importance - we don't want to hear it anymore!
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Trump and Newt know how to find a group who can become prey.
Demagogues prey upon human nature.
Notice how Trump and Gingrich are not seen in a black church group or organization or in a poor neighborhood talking with community leaders. Never. They are always riding around the herd hurling warnings with their lassos.
There are weak politicians and leaders who can't operate across the spectrum which is what national politics is all about.
Demagogues prey upon human nature.
Notice how Trump and Gingrich are not seen in a black church group or organization or in a poor neighborhood talking with community leaders. Never. They are always riding around the herd hurling warnings with their lassos.
There are weak politicians and leaders who can't operate across the spectrum which is what national politics is all about.
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Trump and Gingrich, a match made in sleaze.
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NYT, explain how "going forward" has crept into nearly every news story throughout the media. "... Gingrich is positioning himself as …the politician best able to mobilize Trump supporters going forward." Those two words have become as pervasive as the sentence ending “you know” in the odd vocabulary of American English. Frequently I have heard news people ask the simple question: “What are your plans going forward?”. The last time I checked “plans” imply going forward. For journalists to follow a high school habit is disappointing. And it is a shining example of Gene McCarthy’s observation that the media are like birds on a wire. When one flies off to another wire the others eagerly follow. Help me with your reasoning, NYT.
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While it has been standard usage for some time, it is indeed a slovenly - could I say deplorable - expression.
But what is most stark is that Mr. Gingrich does not plan to "go forward" but rather to take us backwards to the power politics of robber barons.
But what is most stark is that Mr. Gingrich does not plan to "go forward" but rather to take us backwards to the power politics of robber barons.
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Allow me to add "on the ground" to the list of inanities.
At least "counterintuitive" seems to have ended its run. Now, if only some ideas espoused by the subjects of the article would end theirs.
At least "counterintuitive" seems to have ended its run. Now, if only some ideas espoused by the subjects of the article would end theirs.
Moving forward and going forward, I will also not use the following overused, meaningless words and phrases that plague public discourse:
- robust (the new ubiquitous adjective)
- the "double d" quartet: drill down; dive deeper; double down; document driven
- enthuse (not even a word, let alone a verb);
- known commodity (unless in reference to futures trading)
- finalize (just finish it already)
Thanks (or should I say "thnx!" for "flagging" this )
- robust (the new ubiquitous adjective)
- the "double d" quartet: drill down; dive deeper; double down; document driven
- enthuse (not even a word, let alone a verb);
- known commodity (unless in reference to futures trading)
- finalize (just finish it already)
Thanks (or should I say "thnx!" for "flagging" this )
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who cares about the Newtster, what is more troublesome is talk like Mr. Updegrove (Nixon's Civic Lesson) which mixes apples with historical oranges. Nixon was not slimed with personal sex based attack. The smackdown then was limited to the political arena. Indeed JFK, and LBJ after were not slimed either with sex-capades.
Mr. Trump's business brand, and personal life were viciously, repeatedly attacked. Maybe destroyed. Were I he I would already have lined up a legal teams with PI beagles to go after the "conspiracy" that did that. Starting with Billy, making out that his contacts tried to elicit blackmail money when he had already sold the tape to AMERICAN BRIDGE. (Those women making statements should have plane stubs and bar tabs, for themselves and Trump, to substantiate the possibility of meetings.)
As far as his threat to challenge, it shores up vote turn out. He will make sure "your vote is counted". If he turns out just what the past two GOP candidates did the GOP will hold the Hill. In fact odds are he will hold all they got, and add IA & OH, perhaps a couple more (NV).
But, what is the big problem Dems, since HIllary is going to win in a landslide, with coattails galore?
Or do your real polls, not the public propaganda ones, show a closer end?
Mr. Trump's business brand, and personal life were viciously, repeatedly attacked. Maybe destroyed. Were I he I would already have lined up a legal teams with PI beagles to go after the "conspiracy" that did that. Starting with Billy, making out that his contacts tried to elicit blackmail money when he had already sold the tape to AMERICAN BRIDGE. (Those women making statements should have plane stubs and bar tabs, for themselves and Trump, to substantiate the possibility of meetings.)
As far as his threat to challenge, it shores up vote turn out. He will make sure "your vote is counted". If he turns out just what the past two GOP candidates did the GOP will hold the Hill. In fact odds are he will hold all they got, and add IA & OH, perhaps a couple more (NV).
But, what is the big problem Dems, since HIllary is going to win in a landslide, with coattails galore?
Or do your real polls, not the public propaganda ones, show a closer end?
Do people imitate when they possess no original thoughts?
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*Yawn* Grinch has been failing for 2 decades at this game and the prognosis has not gotten any better.
Kudos for the NYT making this a very short article - the last paragraph could have been eliminated.
Kudos for the NYT making this a very short article - the last paragraph could have been eliminated.
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One "Nasty" man.
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How Newt got to be considered the "serious, intellectual historian" figure some make him out to be is beyond me.
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Gingrich took courses in history and even got degrees. He taught in the department of history and geography at the University of West Georgia but was not up to their standards and was denied tenure. And of course he has never been shy about proclaiming himself an intellectual, which many who are not intellectuals find impressive.
This article and the comments are in the right spirit but fall far short of doing Gingrich justice. If you want to see the depths of his intellectual depravity you should look at the short speeches which he gave over a hundred of, before the House fully convened for the day's business. Among many other lies, he repeatedly accused the Clintons of murders. Literally every airplane crash in the United States during the Clinton presidency was claimed to be the Clintons having the plane shot down, because one of the passengers had proof of their evil deeds. This pleased his fellow Republicans and earned him the Speakership.
This article and the comments are in the right spirit but fall far short of doing Gingrich justice. If you want to see the depths of his intellectual depravity you should look at the short speeches which he gave over a hundred of, before the House fully convened for the day's business. Among many other lies, he repeatedly accused the Clintons of murders. Literally every airplane crash in the United States during the Clinton presidency was claimed to be the Clintons having the plane shot down, because one of the passengers had proof of their evil deeds. This pleased his fellow Republicans and earned him the Speakership.
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There is no magic solution to rid our country of the Gingrich-types. There is, though, a long-term solution: work tirelessly to elect representatives who genuinely advocate for the best interests of their constituents. This is the hard work that is the duty of a good citizen. Ever wonder why the Democratic party seems in such disarray when it comes to big-ticket issues? It is precisely because it tries its best to represent the interests of the people. It manifestly does not dictate a lock-step response on the part of its members, nor spend its energy vigorously selling its own self-serving program as best for all. Understanding what is best for all, and acting on that understanding represents the work for which it makes it worth paying our representatives. Failing this, they ought to be fired and replaced by those who will, and do. The successful result of this work seldom wholly pleases anyone; we are, after all, a diverse country. But this hard work, when done well, produces, in the long-run, a satisfaction that we find it unthinkable to yield. Who would now willingly give up the rights to universal education or a secure retirement in old age? Neither program works perfectly, but each serves us all. We compromised and won. When this kind of progress becomes the political norm, the likes of Gingrich will be condemned to remain tiny figures, squeaking their stupidities at the margins of our united states, their only audience being David Underwood's soap-eating imbeciles.
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Gingrich is happy that his legacy of racism, and scorched earth Democracy isn't dead with the least educated, most easily manipulated citizens. Hitler relied on these types, as do people who wish to rule others in a dictatorial fashion. No surprises here.
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It's a measure of the brokenness of our politics that we are still afflicted by the vile Newt Gingrich.
But his day has come and thankfully, gone.
He has been rejected by Americans again and again, run out of Congress on a rail, hasn't won an election in some 20 years, tarred with a tawdry personal life,
and as Bob Schieffer so memorably noted, is given to opening charge accounts at a jewelry store while lecturing Americans on the evils of debt.
Besides, he's 70ish and obese.
Not to worry.
But his day has come and thankfully, gone.
He has been rejected by Americans again and again, run out of Congress on a rail, hasn't won an election in some 20 years, tarred with a tawdry personal life,
and as Bob Schieffer so memorably noted, is given to opening charge accounts at a jewelry store while lecturing Americans on the evils of debt.
Besides, he's 70ish and obese.
Not to worry.
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Like Cheney has has enough of our millions to extend his life well beyond what one might expect an average fat git to get.
Do ya ever wonder who his newest mistress is? He's gotta have one he's never been without one as far as I can tell from the public info about him since he first got married to his geometry teacher at 19. How's that tidbit been ignored for so long?
Do ya ever wonder who his newest mistress is? He's gotta have one he's never been without one as far as I can tell from the public info about him since he first got married to his geometry teacher at 19. How's that tidbit been ignored for so long?
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There was another revolting, hypocritical Republican that positioned himself in the Trump tailwind with the cynical notion of vacuuming up the Trump supporters should Trump fail. That one ended up reading Green Eggs and Ham in a useless filibuster in the senate chambers and fecklessly shutting down the government, costing the American taxpayer about 21 million dollars. His name is Cruz and he sold Donald Trump short. It sounds like Gingrich is doing the same.
Gingrich may think that he is smarter, smoother and more preferable than Trump, and that Trump supporters will naturally gravitate towards him after Trump loses the election. Gingrich will meet the same fate as Cruz. Trump is likely going nowhere. He is a megalonarcissist who has found his audience and his niche. And if Trump, unlikley as is, steps away, Gingrich will not find the road clear, the going easy nor his past forgotten.
Gingrich may think that he is smarter, smoother and more preferable than Trump, and that Trump supporters will naturally gravitate towards him after Trump loses the election. Gingrich will meet the same fate as Cruz. Trump is likely going nowhere. He is a megalonarcissist who has found his audience and his niche. And if Trump, unlikley as is, steps away, Gingrich will not find the road clear, the going easy nor his past forgotten.
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Gingrich was a creep 20 years ago, and he is a creep now. Gingrich, Rove, Cheney and people of their ilk are people more concerned with power than they are doing what's is right for most Americans.
Say whatever nasty thing you want about HRC, but she has devoted her life to making things better. Has she made money over the years, yes she has. But it appears it's only a sin when the Clintons make money and not Cheney for example with his connection to Halliburton, which made millions as a result of the Iraq invasion perpetrated in no small part by Cheney.
Gingrich, Giuliani, Christie, Ryan, McConnell....the list goes on. Bullies all of them more concerned about themselves than the welfare of the country.
Say whatever nasty thing you want about HRC, but she has devoted her life to making things better. Has she made money over the years, yes she has. But it appears it's only a sin when the Clintons make money and not Cheney for example with his connection to Halliburton, which made millions as a result of the Iraq invasion perpetrated in no small part by Cheney.
Gingrich, Giuliani, Christie, Ryan, McConnell....the list goes on. Bullies all of them more concerned about themselves than the welfare of the country.
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Mr. Gingrich is so done in by Mr. Trump. He has been reduced to a shadow of a man. Were Newt dog whistles, Donald spews it out in the open for everyone to see exactly what they mean. So how is Newt going to talk to them people? How can he go back to the wink and the nod about the other? Maybe he will just fade away.
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No one cares about Gingrich. He's the new Santorum, no where to go, hanging out and milking the 90s endlessly.
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We can't forget Newt's success as a lobbyist for big pharma. Medicare is prohibited from negotiating drug prices. Thank Newt for that! The one word to describe him: Slime!
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If enabling disgusting people is what Trumpism is about, Gingrich is a viable alternative to Trump.
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"Dear God," I pray as a Democrat, "may Newt be the GOP nominee against Hillary in 2020, and may Sheldon Adelson go bankrupt funding his doomed campaign."
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Newt Gingrich is like Mike Huckabee: just a craven, opportunistic, political gadfly, who will latch on to any person or thing (other than the inconvenient remarks by Jesus) what will get his mug on TV.
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Would that this article was about up and coming young political leaders who embrace public service with their intelligence and are willing to fight for the common person- there's got to be someone out there- Bueller? Bueller?
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When he said, "There's a big Trump and there's a little Trump..." I thought he was going in a completely different direction.
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The newt will fade away.
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The womens' vote will be Newt's undoing if he thinks he is going to be part of a 2020 ticket.
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"The Newtster" ain't going nowhere.
Just falling down the same sewer as Porky the Governor, Rudy the Nasty, Cruz The Lose(er) and of course Traitor Trump aka "The Dumpster."
Newt lost his moment 20 years ago and is never going to be a real factor.
Just falling down the same sewer as Porky the Governor, Rudy the Nasty, Cruz The Lose(er) and of course Traitor Trump aka "The Dumpster."
Newt lost his moment 20 years ago and is never going to be a real factor.
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Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani are moral degenerate serial adulterer cowardly draft dodging stooges.
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blackmamba is too kind.
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Gingrich is the man Bad Lip Reading exposes him to be.
Trump and his coterie of advisor/sycophants are among the worst the America has to offer. A meeting of this group is like a casting call for Jabba the Hut.
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Newt Gingrich is in a certain type of demagogue. He uses clever but incendiary language to put some idea, person or group down when there is always more to the issue than he will discuss. He always seeks to demean and published a famous memo on how to use combative language against any opponent. Search for it under:
"Language: A Key Mechanism of Control"
Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo
Trump's "Crooked Hillary," "Barack and Michelle are babies," and "Little Marco" are attack language right out of Gingrich's play book. When you see this kind of language usage it's a a preying upon human nature. All demagogues prey on human nature
This is why There is a mutual bond between Newt and Donald Trump.
Beneath it all Newt Gingrich is a smooth political sociopath because he has no empathy for his victims. That's a trademark of Trump and his cabal of advisors and campaign managers. You simply don't become a member unless you have passed Trump's litmus test.
And beneath it all is the fact that Trump has aligned with the culture and story lines that are the daily drum beats on FOX News. This culture and the daily reinforcement by the Anne Coulters and Sheriff David Clark's comments, and those of FOX's paid pundits are are then spread across the alt universe land in talk radio and whacko blogs.
These are Trump's influences. Gingrich is in this cabal.
We all just hope that common sense and better messengers stay out there to beat down these harmful minds and mouths.
"Language: A Key Mechanism of Control"
Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo
Trump's "Crooked Hillary," "Barack and Michelle are babies," and "Little Marco" are attack language right out of Gingrich's play book. When you see this kind of language usage it's a a preying upon human nature. All demagogues prey on human nature
This is why There is a mutual bond between Newt and Donald Trump.
Beneath it all Newt Gingrich is a smooth political sociopath because he has no empathy for his victims. That's a trademark of Trump and his cabal of advisors and campaign managers. You simply don't become a member unless you have passed Trump's litmus test.
And beneath it all is the fact that Trump has aligned with the culture and story lines that are the daily drum beats on FOX News. This culture and the daily reinforcement by the Anne Coulters and Sheriff David Clark's comments, and those of FOX's paid pundits are are then spread across the alt universe land in talk radio and whacko blogs.
These are Trump's influences. Gingrich is in this cabal.
We all just hope that common sense and better messengers stay out there to beat down these harmful minds and mouths.
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Well, someone may lead the Trump voters (personally I think the Trump "movement" will shatter into a variety of movements with different agendas) but it won't be Newt. He'll be 77 in four years; his time has passed. He was hoping for a cabinet position with Trump, but that's passed too.
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I'm sorry, but nobody should be rooting for a civil war within the Republican Party. Herr Trump maxes out at 40 percent. Take away the misogyny, tax games, history of bankruptcies and inability to form a coherent sentence, and he could get a lot closer to 50 percent. Even if Hillary wins in an electoral college landslide, the Bannon/Alex Jones types, and those even farther right, will be watching the popular vote and licking their lips thinking about the future. It is the crazies who will benefit from the chaos within the GOP that will result. Nobody - not Dems and not Republicans - will benefit. We all need the GOP to come up with a credible, consensus mainstream candidate for 2020. And, please, let's all forget about Bernie Sanders and Gary Johnson and any other protest candidate. Children can afford to be petulant but not the rest of us. Trump can't prevent an orderly transition from the current Administration to the next one. Only an incumbent can do that. If a crazy gets in, we may never get him out.
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Gingrinch is an opportunist who crawls out from his lair everytime he sniffs the scent of a conservative extremist. May this be the last we ever hear of him.
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Let Gingrich, Pence, Walker, Cruz, Ryan and Rubio duke it out for the soul, such as it is, of the Republican party. The party will continue to splinter. It may not be good for American politics to not have a viable 2nd party, but the Republican party has failed to govern during the Obama years. It needs to die and be replaced by a moderate, inclusive party that is willing to do its job - compromise, and put the needs of the country first.
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Newt is an overblown gasbag who hasn't had a new idea since the 90's. He constantly seeks new way to feed his ever growing over blown ego. It's no wonder he sees himself as the natural inheritor to the Trump legacy and speaks to his pomposity that he would try and harness the message for himself. Where are the serous Republicans that believe in a functioning two party system and are willing to work for the betterment of the country and it's people?
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Frankly speaking, the country needs the aura of Newt Gingrich like I need a hole in the head. He is a knowledgeable but discredited politician. He was Speaker of the House once under Republican rule but Bob Dole, the former Republican Senate Majority leader saw fit to denounce him in no uncertain terms. Need I say more!
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Something is terribly wrong here. This is the Opinion Page's `big flop'. I got to the bottom of this article and my first reaction was, `That's it?' The explanation of Mr. Gingrich's checked past was perfunctory at best. The intern-like article anoints Mr. Gingrich the likely heir to Mr. Trump's grotesque carnival, failing to mention that Mr. Gingrich himself was rejected by the American people and resigned from the highest office he ever achieved, the Speakership, in disgrace. At the very least, the article could have mentioned the bond that really holds these two together: They're both serial adulterers with a history of contempt for women.
What we have seen over the years is that Little Newt is as nasty and racist as Little Trump, and that Big Newt is constantly side-tracked by the autodidact's nutty, futurist fantasies.
To the extent that he can control the discourse in the GOP, he will keep it small-minded and nasty. Also out of the White House.
To the extent that he can control the discourse in the GOP, he will keep it small-minded and nasty. Also out of the White House.
It is disturbingly apt that the father of paralytic government obstruction and false ethics should carry the mantle of the first major party presidential candidate who seeks to obstruct the entire process of our democracy while embodying false ethics morphed into chronic falsehoods, tax evasion, charity-fraud and self-identified sexual assault.
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That GOP moral standard bearer Newt Gingrich who was having a torrid affair while his wife was in the hospital during the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Yes. Newt Gingrich, the ideal leader of a Republican Party fed by racism, bigotry, and misogyny...the life blood of little Trump. Newt Gingrich who crucified the Clintons for trying to bring us single payer health care, yes, welcome back as a leading Republican spokesperson filling the void left by Trump, Ryan and McConnell. Nature abhors a vacuum but voters abhor Gingrich even more.
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How old is the Grinch? 73. He will soon (?) be talked about in the past tense. He is now!
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I think Newt on some level would like to revive his antiClinton agenda from the 90's. That was a battle he lost - maybe his fantasy is to take on Hillary instead of Bill and see how much obstruction and chaos he can create.
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One of the few bright spots in the last few election cycle was Gingrich's inability to carry more than one state in the last Republican primary, despite the millions of dollars he spent. Apparently even Republicans can't stomach the idea of Gingrich writing up impeachment proceedings over Bill Clinton's having sex with an intern while Gingrich himself was having sex with one of his own interns. He's the perfect figurehead for the front of a sinking ship.
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Newt Gingrich is simply a smarter, more insidious, more articulate version of Donald Trump-----and consequently far more frightful than the Donald himself.
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We must not forget that Mr. Gingrich himself significantly vandalized our system of government, and is responsible in large part for the dysfunctionality we cope with today. He has always had a very skewed vision of America, which prevents him from seeing that neither Mr. Trump nor his message are resonating with a majority of Americans.
Indeed, Mr. Trump and his message have horrified the majority of Americans!
Indeed, Mr. Trump and his message have horrified the majority of Americans!
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Gingrich and Trump are peas in a pod.
Racism will haunt American politics and society for many decades to come, at least one if not two generations or more after I'm no longer on the green side of the sod and eligible to vote. That won't stop the Republican party from worrying about me, which amuses me no end. That's about the only thing amusing where today's Republican party is concerned.
Racism will haunt American politics and society for many decades to come, at least one if not two generations or more after I'm no longer on the green side of the sod and eligible to vote. That won't stop the Republican party from worrying about me, which amuses me no end. That's about the only thing amusing where today's Republican party is concerned.
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If there is any banner that Gingrich carries it is the banner of the worst kind of intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, and hate that has been among the foundations of the American journey ever since ever since slave owning Jefferson wrote that "all men are created" and then followed it up with making slavery and discrimination an integral part of the Constitution.
Gingrich cares as much about what is best for America or its people as the head of a tobacco company cares about people getting lung cancer. Like Trump, he is a compete fraud.
Gingrich cares as much about what is best for America or its people as the head of a tobacco company cares about people getting lung cancer. Like Trump, he is a compete fraud.
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There is indeed a pattern here- but it includes the American public rejecting, ultimately, the ugly divisiveness of Trump/Gingrich.
Gingrich was the one who launched the "Up-Yours" school of Congressional interaction, now culminating in a completely grid-locked legislative branch.
His own party tossed him out- after losing elections. And clearly - he has learned nothing from that experience. We can hope, however, that those who "cannot be fooled all of the time" - may have learned.
Gingrich was the one who launched the "Up-Yours" school of Congressional interaction, now culminating in a completely grid-locked legislative branch.
His own party tossed him out- after losing elections. And clearly - he has learned nothing from that experience. We can hope, however, that those who "cannot be fooled all of the time" - may have learned.
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That's exactly what the country needs, right? Another slime ball, but one who thinks he is a moral arbiter and with perhaps less authenticity and more snake oil than Mr. Trump?
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Yeah? That's great news. Newt Gingrich is the person singularly responsible for the shutdown of Congress beginning in 1996. His Republican accomplices have been intractable and immovable since Newt spewed forth. Please, no more Newt.
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One of the many evils of Trump's campaign has been seeing Gingrich crawling out from under his rock.
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I was always taught that you judge someone by the company he or she keeps. If Trump meets the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder as some say, then Gingrich falls squarely in the realm of a sociopath. Trump appears easily wounded and strikes back when he perceives a slight, however big. Gingrich doesn't care what other people think or feel about him, rather he appears to be motivated by the need to overpower and manipulate people because no one else is as clever as him. He is the quintessential opportunist - that is his sole reason for latching on to Trump. I don't remember him carrying the torch for Romney or McCain.
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Gingrich is another ego-driven discriminator, his supporting a vulgar bully like Trump comes with his territory; both are hypocrites hoping to reap personal gains by confusing an already misinformed eletorate...and fanning their inadequacies and, even, prejudices against gender, ethnicity, origin or religion. Gingrich is an old failed politician seeking redemption, not realizing that his support for unbearable Trump is like adding to his own political coffin.
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Gingrich, Guiliani, Christie, Trump are the four faces of the least and worst of American politics. Ryan, McConnell, Cruz and Rubio bring up the second team. There's no way to explain them or understand how they became so morally corrupt.
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He is an opportunist of a first order, or correctly defined as a true politician.
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Gingrich is a gasbag stuck in another century. He would have no chance.
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Oh yes, Mr. anti-"anti-Colonial" Gingrich. Just what "colonies" does Gingrich favor gaining, or keeping? Is he aware we Americans sprang from anti-Colonial roots, and that anyone attempting to colonize us afresh is no friend of our nation or our dearest principles of self-rule? But it does explain a lot about the voter-suppression, buying of state houses, forming of "super-pac" proxies by the rich, and other efforts to push ordinary citizens under their power are so popular with Gingrich et al. Yes, Trumpland America would be pro-colonial, I'm sure, and Gingrich the first to strut around in a white suit with a riding crop in his pudgy little hand.
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The Newt like The Donald represents a pattern of bloviators who have filled the GOP with sound and fury and nuttin' else. Newt not unlike Dubya's feller Karl Rove comes with brains, so their masters say. Rove, Newt, The Donald are all inheritors of the Lee Atwater nasty biz of politics, the very nasty, able to cast spurious tales of the opposing party to smear, smack down, lie...anything to win. John Kerry was swiftboated away under this type of politics. He is a big boy: after war, is anything really comparable? It is a joke to see Newt yes he of teling the wife in the cancer ward he was leaving for another woman he'd met at US Congress; when her time ran out b/c he'd found what's her name, that was that. To state these facts about these guys does not in any way mean the Clintons or others don't find ways to get ahead. Maybe I don't loathe them as much because I think they are smarter and less hypocritical, or have paid a heavy price for their sins. Yup, Newt left office under a cloud, but heck now he's a good boy, a Catholic, too, and has been forgiven.
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A famous Gingrich quote that might help explain his tolerance of Mr. T:
“If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.”
http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q42011/memorable-and-frightening-n...
“If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.”
http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q42011/memorable-and-frightening-n...
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Another rat departs the ship. Donald and Rudy going to be alone together standing on the deck as she sinks below the waves.
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A washed-up, pseudo intellect has been. Newt is about as smart as a 10 pound bag of fertilizer- and I am sorry to disparage fertilizer.
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"A washed-up, pseudo intellect has been."
"Another rat departs the ship."
"A big blowhard signifying the end of himself . . . "
And these are comments from Progressives, one assumes! This election has compelled even those who should know better to reach for the non-existent bottom of rhetoric: a daily New Low.
"Another rat departs the ship."
"A big blowhard signifying the end of himself . . . "
And these are comments from Progressives, one assumes! This election has compelled even those who should know better to reach for the non-existent bottom of rhetoric: a daily New Low.
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Wonderful. Newt is coming back. I can't wait to see who Trump surrounds himself with in the Oval Office. IF that should be possible, we are in a heap of trouble and despair.
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Newt Gingrich is the Sta-Puff monster from Ghostbusters, a big blowhard signifying the end of himself, just like Trump's other aide-de-campe (camp in the gay sense of the word!), Mr. Giuliani. Gingrich is the voice of the 1980s, Giuliani is the voice of bigotry and malice toward all. Two snakes in search of a victim.
Incidentally, wasn't Mr. Gingrich quoted in the TImes recently, stating that "no white person [himself included] could understand what black people go through every day" or something close to that? Wow, that has a lot of meaning, doesn't it, considering his atrocious comments about welfare queens and Obama's skin color.
Trump, Gingrich, Giuliani: The Three Deplorables, destined for infamy!!
Incidentally, wasn't Mr. Gingrich quoted in the TImes recently, stating that "no white person [himself included] could understand what black people go through every day" or something close to that? Wow, that has a lot of meaning, doesn't it, considering his atrocious comments about welfare queens and Obama's skin color.
Trump, Gingrich, Giuliani: The Three Deplorables, destined for infamy!!
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America desperately needs new leadership... if one listens to speeches given by leaders of other countries, such as Merkel of Germany, the PM of Britain, or even Putin of Russia it becomes obvious that American leaders, such as Clinton, Trump, Obama, whoever are vastly outmatched and outwitted by leaders of other countries who are chosen for their abilities rather than by deep pocketed money donors, and who are better educated, have broad knowledge of other countries and often speak several languages.
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How well educated is Trump, how much knowledge does he have of other countries and how many languages does he speak?
For the body politic, the ultimate outcome from anyone serving as keeper of the flame of Trumpism "going forward"(?) would only be self-immolation. That flame needs to be extinguished, and until it is, there can be no healing.
Much like McCarthyism or Wallace-ism, Trumpism is a sickness, and the ideals set forth by the Founders are the cure. Which means it's up to the voters -- the larger the turnout, the better.
Much like McCarthyism or Wallace-ism, Trumpism is a sickness, and the ideals set forth by the Founders are the cure. Which means it's up to the voters -- the larger the turnout, the better.
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I watched Gingrich debate at the Monk Debates in Toronto. Gingrich is a clever man in his own way. How is it that such a clever man can be such a fool? Or maybe he's a knave.
There is no "big Trump" the only Trump I have seen on display over the past year bigoted halfwit who doesn't know anything.
The truth is Trump is a thumb-sucking baby who has indicated he will wail "its not fair" when Hillary totally humiliates him in the general election.
There is no "big Trump" the only Trump I have seen on display over the past year bigoted halfwit who doesn't know anything.
The truth is Trump is a thumb-sucking baby who has indicated he will wail "its not fair" when Hillary totally humiliates him in the general election.
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Richard--And, it's hard to get that tiny little thumb to stay in his big ugly face hole. I think he may need a pacifier.
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A professional toady, not worth a second sentence.
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Yup, married how many times, loud mouthed, no viable policies. I'd say he's a good match for them.
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Gingrich stepped down from his Speakership in some disgrace, as I recall, and then faiiled miserably in several efforts to run for President. Without even getting to his age, the idea he will rise to some kind of leadership position after a Trump self-immolation of the Republican Party seems a bit of a stretch.
Let's instead look at the underlying problems: 1) the discord and anger that fuels Trumpism, in all of its various dimensions with all of its varied roots, and 2) what a President Clinton could possibly do to dis-arm this discord and anger, and also to reshape and realign American political culture in a good way.
Some of Clinton's proposals would, if enacted, provide some benefits for some people whose economic troubles stoked their turn to Trumpism (e.g., raising the minimum wage, increasing jobs through infrastructure, and more). But none of those are overtly addressed to the populace that turned to Trumpism. Programs and projects can't be tailored to people based on their votes, but they can be developed with geographic focus so as to revive the economy in rust belt and rural regions.
Clinton has given some lip service to programs for the coal belt, but it is pretty thin gruel made of the same old bromides about education and so on.
A bigger project is needed. The Tennessee Valley Authority might provide one general model for a region project. Rust Belt redevelopment incentives for abandoned factories might be a new idea.
It needs to be bold and visible.
Let's instead look at the underlying problems: 1) the discord and anger that fuels Trumpism, in all of its various dimensions with all of its varied roots, and 2) what a President Clinton could possibly do to dis-arm this discord and anger, and also to reshape and realign American political culture in a good way.
Some of Clinton's proposals would, if enacted, provide some benefits for some people whose economic troubles stoked their turn to Trumpism (e.g., raising the minimum wage, increasing jobs through infrastructure, and more). But none of those are overtly addressed to the populace that turned to Trumpism. Programs and projects can't be tailored to people based on their votes, but they can be developed with geographic focus so as to revive the economy in rust belt and rural regions.
Clinton has given some lip service to programs for the coal belt, but it is pretty thin gruel made of the same old bromides about education and so on.
A bigger project is needed. The Tennessee Valley Authority might provide one general model for a region project. Rust Belt redevelopment incentives for abandoned factories might be a new idea.
It needs to be bold and visible.
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She would have to promote racist policies and back off of support for civil rights, e.g. For LGBT, to satisfy many of these voters, which she won't do.
I appreciate the recognition that government has the capability to enact change through large scale socio-technical projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA was a radical idea born out of an understanding that government can think at a grand scale and positively transform lives and landscapes.
The challenge, however, is creating programs with significant scope and reach that are enabled by federal programs, yet are enacted and managed at local levels. There remains too great a stigma against "big government." TVA could serve as an aspirational model, but also one that failed to navigate the different scales in which it operated. Despite the rhetoric of being a grass-roots process, it remained very much a top-down organization that some viewed negatively for its quasi government-corporate structure and programs that imposed a viewpoint, rather than cultivated inclusive strategies.
We have become a polarized nation afraid to make decisions that have too many risks. We won't evolve if we continue to fear failure and if we continue to reject ideas before we even discuss them.
The challenge, however, is creating programs with significant scope and reach that are enabled by federal programs, yet are enacted and managed at local levels. There remains too great a stigma against "big government." TVA could serve as an aspirational model, but also one that failed to navigate the different scales in which it operated. Despite the rhetoric of being a grass-roots process, it remained very much a top-down organization that some viewed negatively for its quasi government-corporate structure and programs that imposed a viewpoint, rather than cultivated inclusive strategies.
We have become a polarized nation afraid to make decisions that have too many risks. We won't evolve if we continue to fear failure and if we continue to reject ideas before we even discuss them.
Gingrich will make America stagnant, again! He forced the Government shut-down in a temper tantrum, and advocates the same, from another child masquerading in an adult body.
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"Mr. Gingrich understands that Mr. Trump appears to be losing not because his message has failed to resonate with Americans but because he is a poor messenger."
Seriously?
Most Americans find Trump's messages of hate and exclusion to be vile. Most Americans won't find those messages palatable whether they come out of Trump's mouth, or Pence's, or Gingrich's.
Every time the Republicans lose a presidential election, they say the exact same thing: "It ain't the message, it's the messenger." And so they double down, triple down, and quadruple down. They are as clueless as the day is long.
I hope they keep singing the same song, because it's not going to get them anywhere with a majority of American voters.
Seriously?
Most Americans find Trump's messages of hate and exclusion to be vile. Most Americans won't find those messages palatable whether they come out of Trump's mouth, or Pence's, or Gingrich's.
Every time the Republicans lose a presidential election, they say the exact same thing: "It ain't the message, it's the messenger." And so they double down, triple down, and quadruple down. They are as clueless as the day is long.
I hope they keep singing the same song, because it's not going to get them anywhere with a majority of American voters.
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Of course Newt Has only one wife. His first two marriages have been declared null and void by the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
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Yeah, it sort of makes sense that a man of his " stature" found a home ,(hit rock bottom?) sitting cheek by jowl next to that other hate filled lying machine , Sean Hannity.Its funny how those two criticize Hillary for being so wealthy.Whenever I turn off Fox "News" I always feel the need to go wash myself .
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Mr. Gingrich is a demented, hypocritical evil man possessed by poisonous thoughts.
Obviously, he would align himself with Donald Trump.
Obviously, he would align himself with Donald Trump.
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It is hard to think of anyone who has done more to debase American democracy over the past quarter century than Mr. Gingrich.
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And ..... Where the heck did this come from? This is what this whole presidential campaign and, before that, the Republican primary is all about. Ya have news coverage before something is news worthy.
Bottom feeder extraordinaire. Pete McGuire, Atlanta
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Just curious-- between Trump and Gingrich, how many times have they been married? I ask because the Republican party still insists it is the party of "Family Values." This democrat has been married to the same man for 28 years. Perhaps if you add up all the years and all the wives, they'd reach that but I don't know. Both men are hypocritical narcissists who need to slither away in order for our country to move forward.
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Gingrich is s want-to-be that will never be. His glory years have passed.
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No, Newt. There's no "Big Trump". There's the sociopath: "Little Trump", and then there's "Sniveling Teeny Trump". Both are pathetic. Take your pick.
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Gingrich's message may be more clearly stated by the chief executive of Trump's campaign Stephen Bannon, formerly executive director of Brietbart.com.
Ronald Radosh, writing in "The Daily Beast" August 22nd of 2016, reported:
“I’m a Leninist," Bannon proudly proclaimed." When asked what he meant by that, Bannon said, “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-to...
Gingrich has been working for quite awhile to "bring everything crashing down." We should be wary of Gingrich and his ilk.
Ronald Radosh, writing in "The Daily Beast" August 22nd of 2016, reported:
“I’m a Leninist," Bannon proudly proclaimed." When asked what he meant by that, Bannon said, “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-to...
Gingrich has been working for quite awhile to "bring everything crashing down." We should be wary of Gingrich and his ilk.
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Trump, who by every behavior and manifestation of lazily fitful aggression reminds a naturalist of no other creature so much as a Komodo Dragon, who relies on the sepsis toxicity of their bite to poison and ultimately dispatch their prey, is aptly extolled by a fellow who goes by the Shakespearean moniker of "Newt."
Denials of allegations of sexual predatory abuse that have come in media swells as testimony and tape emerges in the post-Billy-Bushgate Boys on the Bus Pepsi Challenge put forward by Trump are now relegated for response to a deputy press-aide for Trump incredibly named, "Jessica Ditto." As in: ''Mr. Trump denies these allegations that MSM is promoting in their attempt to fix this election.'' Or, ''Ditto.''
Petty venality and plenary indulgence with his Amex at Tiffany's is about Newt Gingrich's speed and velocity as an overrated and overachieving hack eighth grade history teacher mediocrity. Newt shares Trump's small minded vindictiveness personality based view of history parading as patriotism and pragmatism. It is simply venality and greed tilted toward their self-promotion.
Denials of allegations of sexual predatory abuse that have come in media swells as testimony and tape emerges in the post-Billy-Bushgate Boys on the Bus Pepsi Challenge put forward by Trump are now relegated for response to a deputy press-aide for Trump incredibly named, "Jessica Ditto." As in: ''Mr. Trump denies these allegations that MSM is promoting in their attempt to fix this election.'' Or, ''Ditto.''
Petty venality and plenary indulgence with his Amex at Tiffany's is about Newt Gingrich's speed and velocity as an overrated and overachieving hack eighth grade history teacher mediocrity. Newt shares Trump's small minded vindictiveness personality based view of history parading as patriotism and pragmatism. It is simply venality and greed tilted toward their self-promotion.
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Wow. Gingrich continues to be consistently disgusting and without conscience. He truly epitomizes the phrase (from another era), "Have you no sense of decency, sir"?
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The Gincrich that stole America, well he is trying to help Trump do it!
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The only way Trump will be an "historic figure" is if he hastens the break up of the Republican Party. If the "Tea Party" pulls out, and takes the South and Plains states with it, this country and the planet will be much better off.
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The best Newt can hope for it to be bloviator in chief.
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The only "Ghosts of Republicans Past" that hasn't resurrected itself in this campaign (Giuliani and Gingrich grasping whatever "relevancy" they can before completely fading into obscurity) seems the oracle in his cave, Dick Cheney.
I assume he's smarter than the other two realizing quite early on in the going that it doesn't pay to hitch your wagon to a star that's about to collide with a very hard ground this November.
Leaving all of us to ponder just whom the GOP/TP/KOCH AFFILIATE will nominate in 2020? I'm assuming that this cast of miscreants will fade as quickly as the "Trumpster", leaving the field wide open for some new form of Republican fool.
I can hardly wait....
I assume he's smarter than the other two realizing quite early on in the going that it doesn't pay to hitch your wagon to a star that's about to collide with a very hard ground this November.
Leaving all of us to ponder just whom the GOP/TP/KOCH AFFILIATE will nominate in 2020? I'm assuming that this cast of miscreants will fade as quickly as the "Trumpster", leaving the field wide open for some new form of Republican fool.
I can hardly wait....
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Has Newt ever gotten over being delegated to the back of Air Force One?
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Newt is just another bomb-throwing, narcissistic, megalomaniac! He has been wrong on almost everything from the Clinton impeachment forward and because he has so much cheating and double dealing in his background he doesn't have any moral ground to stand on.
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Come on, this isn't serious...Newt is just auditioning for the Ed McMahon role on Trump/Breitbart talking tough TV
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Gingerich can retire now. He's proven what a worthless humbug he is and will always be known as.
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I find the "Big Trump -- Little Trump" dichotomy interesting. We essentially hear this expressed by every Trump surrogate. We hear Boris Epshteyn, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Cortez,et al. tell us that what we heard Trump say wasn't really what he meant, that he was really a different person in private, yada, yada, yada.
But the American President acts as a PUBLIC person even in private settings. Why is it that in his public presentations we, the American People, only get to see "Little Trump?" More importantly, why is "Little Trump" the Trump that his die-hard supporters want him to be?
But the American President acts as a PUBLIC person even in private settings. Why is it that in his public presentations we, the American People, only get to see "Little Trump?" More importantly, why is "Little Trump" the Trump that his die-hard supporters want him to be?
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He will go nowhere. He was rejected by his own people then and has well since expired his use-by-date. Perhaps he can partner with Guiliani and have Donald making the occasional cameo perfomance when time permits from real estate capers and "reality" TV. Grand Old Hacks – ra-ra-ra.
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Mr. Gingrich is the proud heir to the philosophies that begat George Wallace, Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and others. He is also a contemporary government anarchist who believes in paralyzing government functioning if he cannot have his way. His hypocritical pur
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And Mr. Gingrich also would be heir to Donald's woman problem. Perhaps more polished in his tactics, his own history with women earns him a spot on the bench in Trump's locker room. Perhaps the open mic would here these boys discussing when and how to dump your wife. In the hospital, right after her surgery would be one answer. Just boy talk, right Melania?
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Your assuming this really fat old white guy is healthy enough to lead a movement. The great irony for Trump and his basket of deplorables is after questioning Clinton's health and stamina for a year, Trump looks like he will be lucky to make it to election day.
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Gingrich has done more to create and spread poison and dysfunction in our public life than any American of the last half century. Of course he's with Trump.
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Donald Trump should have requested the final debate was a tag team event. He could have tapped-in Newt Gingrich to remind voters that the great statesman and Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who valiantly held Mrs. Clinton senate seat before her, supported the ban on late-term abortion. Senator Moynihan said, "I think this is just too close to infanticide. What on earth is this procedure?"
Newt Gingrich - like Donald Trump - has a myopic, micro-minded, backwards-focused political point of view that will always attract a certain disgruntled portion of the electorate. The notion that he will ever be president of the United States is just that - a notion. A preposterous one at that.
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Mr. Gingrich doesn't want to "mobilize Trump supporters," he want to "monetize" Trump supporters. Time has passed Mr. Gingrich by. He's too old to run for President. He didn't get far then, and he won't get far in 2020; however, he does want to sell books and give as many paid speeches as possible! Trump's supporters are exactly the kind of people Gingrich is capable of reaching: old, white, angry government haters. Gingrich has done a lot of harm to our democracy, and he may stir up more trouble; but, he has far more "yesterdays than tomorrows," as President Clinton said not long ago.
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Dear Ms. Tritch,
Thank you for shining a light on Newt Gingrich's role in the state of American politics we are living in today and the divisiveness and rancor that has taken hold of the American populous. If Trump is the Republican's Frankenstein monster, Newt is his Dr. Frankenstein. And instead of being taken back and aghast by the "thing" that he has brought upon us all, he seems to be clapping and dancing over his role as its creator. I am not sure what ends he hopes to achieve by his means, other that the destruction and denigration of our American political institutions - and I think he does this for no other reason than he can. He is worse than deplorable and dwells now squarely in the realm of despicable.
Thank you for shining a light on Newt Gingrich's role in the state of American politics we are living in today and the divisiveness and rancor that has taken hold of the American populous. If Trump is the Republican's Frankenstein monster, Newt is his Dr. Frankenstein. And instead of being taken back and aghast by the "thing" that he has brought upon us all, he seems to be clapping and dancing over his role as its creator. I am not sure what ends he hopes to achieve by his means, other that the destruction and denigration of our American political institutions - and I think he does this for no other reason than he can. He is worse than deplorable and dwells now squarely in the realm of despicable.
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Gingrich with his 3-wife history would be a lovely opponent for Hillary in 2020. Come on, Make it easier for us. The nasty women of America are ready for him! He could make it even easier by asking Rudy G with his 3-wife history to be his running mate. Men of the past from a GOP party of the past. Sweet.
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I respect many politicians with a variety of views that I don't share (not Trump however, but he's not even a politician), but Newt Gangrene is not one, he's a disturbing wart grown out of the side of American politics. That anyone considers him or his view important enough to print or post always surprises me given he is out of office and completely unimportant.
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Gingrich is as much of a con artist as Trump. Whether dealing with the women in their lives or their supporters - it's always been only about themselves and always will be.
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The insufferable blowhard Gingrich is the guy at the end of the Trump parade who thinks he can make a go of polishing and re-selling Trump's elephantine droppings of lies and divisiveness to the next town of rubes on the GOP's parade route.
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The Newt is a half rate historian and was an even worse politician who led a government shutdown and a Cinton impeachment that ultimately ended his career in politics. And he wants people to listen to him again why?
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We need three or four Clinton SCOTUS appointments to protect us from the tsunami of reaction that is rolling across the Atlantic and bubbling up from every Republican cesspool within our borders. I don't wish death to any sitting justice but I'll gladly wish them early retirement and I won't begrudge them their fine retirement benefits.
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Mr. Gingrich has never earned a penny of his income as an adult in the private sector. He is welfare gaming personified.
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I've always thought Gingrich's status as an "intellectual" within the Republican party says more about how low the bar is within that party than it says about the caliber of Gingrich's thinking. Maybe Trump's inevitable (at this point) loss will put Gingrich to rest forever.
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Odious Gingrich might want to pick up the mantle of Trump, gather the disillusioned around him and run (yet again) in 2020. Let him waste more Republican money. He'll blend right in with all the other virulent Right Wingers currently looking ahead. Gingrich has always considered himself an intellectual and therefore smarter than everyone else - his mantra: the Professor who will explain things to you. HA!
Unfortunately (for him) Gingrich seems to have grown into the face and figure he deserves. His repellent character is revealed in his physiognomy. He is nothing but a charmless old reprobate with little to offer but more of the same ugliness he spewed in the 90's. Looking at him for more than a few seconds convinces you that you're staring into an abyss.
Unfortunately (for him) Gingrich seems to have grown into the face and figure he deserves. His repellent character is revealed in his physiognomy. He is nothing but a charmless old reprobate with little to offer but more of the same ugliness he spewed in the 90's. Looking at him for more than a few seconds convinces you that you're staring into an abyss.
Let's hope Gingrich's so-called "big Trump" does become historic: the voters are so disenchanted they vote out of office every single Republican, as a collective "thank you" for putting Trump up as a candidate in the first place, and diverting vitally necessary public discourse on real issues.
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The pattern is clear, Gingrich has not changed his spots.
Gingrich is once again in it for himself, it's no different from the 90's. Just like Trump, he's mean and negative and is better at destruction and blaming than actually proposing agendas which truly help people, which truly show one's makeup and caliber as a person. Perhaps ask all of their past wives? These both are losers, and they're both dangerous for America.
Gingrich is once again in it for himself, it's no different from the 90's. Just like Trump, he's mean and negative and is better at destruction and blaming than actually proposing agendas which truly help people, which truly show one's makeup and caliber as a person. Perhaps ask all of their past wives? These both are losers, and they're both dangerous for America.
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Trump and Newt are two two sides of the same coin -- narcissists, misogynists, serial adulterers, pathological liars, money-grubbing schemers, fact-free blowhards...
They deserve each other. America deserves never to hear from either one of them again.
They deserve each other. America deserves never to hear from either one of them again.
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When it comes to political smarts Gingrich has it all over Trump. Mr Trump, a novice in political dealings, moved through the landscape like a blundering ox setting off land-mines on a regular basis. Gingrich the Wiley veteran would traverse the same territory with the cunning of a fox. He would like Trump go after the media in a far more skilled and lethal way. A loss by Trump would still leave a treasure trove of unquenched and unrelenting anger to be harvested by a more skillful tactician.
While Gingrich is repulsive for his deceitful, manipulative, self-serving ways it's important to recognize that he is a master of the tools in his tool box. He truly understands how words, phrases, and imagery can be used to incite anger and fear. He is far more dangerous than Trump could ever be.
The big Trump I suspect is in the early stages of dementia, hence no medical report. I'd not be surprised if I'm right about this. He shows every symptom. The little Trump is an ill mannered, spiteful, petty, vapid, mendacious, spoiled, self centered, greedy person....with all due respect.
Gingrich is almost worse as he's actually really intelligent. He spreads false information not to rally crowds in one political sway or another, but for his own anger at truncated ambitions. He's not the hero South Carolinians cheer. Though that state has a strange habit of causing trouble and putting forth ideas that don't work out....the bloodiest of American wars, was started by them with a grand idea to secede. They and now many other Red States simply don't care about facts, they want their guy to win. He no longer has to say anything truthful or what he will do to help them. Simply stick it to the other guy and win their vote. We wonder why the country is divided. How can we unite with a celebrated mentality such as this. They love division.
Gingrich is almost worse as he's actually really intelligent. He spreads false information not to rally crowds in one political sway or another, but for his own anger at truncated ambitions. He's not the hero South Carolinians cheer. Though that state has a strange habit of causing trouble and putting forth ideas that don't work out....the bloodiest of American wars, was started by them with a grand idea to secede. They and now many other Red States simply don't care about facts, they want their guy to win. He no longer has to say anything truthful or what he will do to help them. Simply stick it to the other guy and win their vote. We wonder why the country is divided. How can we unite with a celebrated mentality such as this. They love division.
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Creepy clowns are rumored to be menacing children and susceptible adults. Gingrich and Trump are their leaders and they have very creepy plans. Children find Gnewt Gingrich self evidently creepy. His name is creepy, his voice is creepy, his ideas are just a series of incantations. Gingrich is strangely immortal and with each new appearance zombies emerge to chorus: "he is so smart" despite the gibberish and senselessness that he always spews from his wherever.
There are some creepy persons who should not be allowed to appear in public. Like sex offenders, these individuals are so twisted that their presence is a danger to etiquette and the social fabric. Gingrich's personality and Trump's personality should be assigned an ICD-10-CM CODE as they constitute a pathology that is anti-humanity and anti-democracy. That smiling face that they both display is the origin of creepy clown hysteria. Stopping them from harming our children and grandchildren must be a priority.
There are some creepy persons who should not be allowed to appear in public. Like sex offenders, these individuals are so twisted that their presence is a danger to etiquette and the social fabric. Gingrich's personality and Trump's personality should be assigned an ICD-10-CM CODE as they constitute a pathology that is anti-humanity and anti-democracy. That smiling face that they both display is the origin of creepy clown hysteria. Stopping them from harming our children and grandchildren must be a priority.
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The Grand Old Party long ago lost it's moorings. It is now drowning in a sea of lies, conspiracy theories and outright bigotry. Perhaps the Mormons can save the soul of the Republican party. Sadly Evangelicals like Gingrich have show themselves to be craven opportunists who put piety to Conservative politics above their faith and patriotism to our great nation.
And another similarity. Let us not forget that he said women cannot serve in the military in combat for biological reasons for 30 days. And like all true Republican chicken hawks (and Trump) he had his own biological reasons for avoiding Vietnam, flat feet.
The current state of our mean spirited, petty, sclerotic Congress has its genesis with Newt Gingrich in the early 1990s.
It's difficult to decide who's been more destructive to our country in the last 45 years -- Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich.
It's difficult to decide who's been more destructive to our country in the last 45 years -- Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich.
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I'd add Grover Norquist to the mix.
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Mr. Gingrich is a worn out political hack and supplicant. He will hang on with pandering ideas such as his famous moon colony proposal in 2012 and as long as the cash flows from his Oligarchic Vegas sponsors such as Sheldon Adelson. I am sure this political malingerer enjoys the free rides in private jets of others and will continue to swill at the free lunch counters offered him forever as that is what he does best, and why not? The press keeps him stage right for intermittent slow news periods.
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There are two words that Gingrich and Trump share: Flim Flam. Granted, the Gingrich con is a smoother ride, but comparing con-men as presidential candidates is like comparing $2 bottles of wine. The human-interest story here is the greedier con-man pretending to help the more self-destructive con-man...
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Consider trump and his three stooges. Wait three is too small. It's more like trump and his pathetic posse of stooges including gingrich who is a legend in his own mind. I'd list them all but there aren't enough characters in a post to cover them all.
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Newt Gingrich is largely responsible for much damage to our political discourse, beginning from the time as a back-bench member of the US House of Representatives he declared open warfare on government itself. Much of the craziness embodied in Trump, especially the racism at its core, is the responsibility of Newt and like-minded GOP pols.
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Gingrich is not the first, but certainly one of the worst examples of Right Wing Extremism that has led to the Trump meltdown of the GOP, so--bring it on.
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Are we in a time-warp? Clinton, Gingrich etc al. What's next, Trent Lott? That's the biggest disappointment: even if you think HRC is OK, it's hard to get over the unfortunate reality that in this diverse and vibrant nation of more than 330 million, even if only 2% were remotely qualified for the presidency, we couldn't find candidates who weren't part of the same old dynasties - political and I guess casino - that we've had to endure for the past 30 years. I'm sure HRC will do fine, but the electorate will continue to seethe. I hope we do better in four years.
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It's worse than just the disco-era cast of characters. In my 57 years almost nothing has changed to improve the well-being of the People. There's the Civil Rights Act, the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts. And Medicare. That's about it.
Meanwhile the rest of the post-industrial world has left us in the dust.
It's a crying shame.
Meanwhile the rest of the post-industrial world has left us in the dust.
It's a crying shame.
Gingrich is a smart man that conveys Trump's position very well. The challenge is to listen to his arguments without judging his or Trump's persona, in the process. Personally, I find them both pretty vile. But there's this little issue of reality that keeps me listening. As a scientist, I was trained to recognize bias and seek the truth. Unfortunately, the truth seems to lie with Trump this time around. If you want to get close to the truth, get your news from as many primary, online sources as possible - and then try to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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It's obvious that the next line of republican politicians will take note of the rampant rise of populism under Trump. I absolutely do not think Gingrich is the model, though. Younger, clean-cut politicians such as Scott Walker and Tom Cotton are what scare me the most. Trump is obviously a buffoon, but Cotton and Walker have actually passed legislation that harms this country. Trump gave populism a voice, but a young, ivy-grad, military-experienced politician such as Tom Cotton not only gives populism a voice, but legitimacy.
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The yahooism that is the current Republican Party sparked into life as Newt's 'moral majority' that routed the Dems in the mid-term elections of Bill Clinton's first term -- largely catalyzed by Hillary Clinton's complete botching of health care reform, which they correctly characterized as a socialist take-over.
The revolt of the revolting to continue? A sincere Thank God for moderate, prudent and level-head Hillary and the thoughtful citizens who support her.
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Trump is the monstrosity du jour, but it's really Gingrich who is the malignant heart of the Republican Party. He and Ryan are what pass for intellectuals in the Republican firmament. Those of us with long memories know the great danger Gingrich in particular poses to the health of the republic.
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Newt is one person who has succinctly put the issues on a proper perspective. Liberals don't like that. On welfare, he was and still is absolutely right on. The majority of out of work Americans want to work but jobs have gotten scarcer thanks to the tax and regulation policies of the Obama administration. We know there is rampant abuse of the welfare system in the inner cities. Much of the problems are self inflicted. It is an environment that has festered under the decades old auspices of Democratic "leadership".
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The presidential election is going to be a lot closer than you all think. Probably a 2 point spread. Unless both the house and senate go democrat which, is unlikely, Hillary will not be able to push any of her legislative objectives. If the Senate does not go democrat, then she will not be able to rule by fiat (illegal executive order). All this with as flawed a candidate as Donald Trump. And that's the way it is. The question for democrats is how they will control a corrupt president.
Gingrich is excited by someone who makes him look moral and reasonable by comparison. Also, a chance to glom onto a base of massive uncontrolled rage and unbelievable credulity must be almost too exciting for the old philanderer to bear. His troll-under-the-bridge smirk in the photograph bears witness to his glee.
The large and growing ranks of the disaffected on the left and right will eventually have a champion that can seriously challenge for high office as they will be fully one-third of the electorate. In the meantime, we on the left and those on the right will make the clinton regime a mere caretaker graft machine. This will once more point out to America the utter bankruptcy of the major parties and set the stage for the takeover of the electoral process. This is the great fear of the elite - a huge cohort of unwilling participants. We love chaos - witness our recent internet stunt - and we have the know-how to flip switches all over your complacent landscape. When your refrigerator starts broadcasting our newsfeed instead of temperature and ice tray status, you'll know we're in your house.
Interesting that "Newterd" Gingrich is a die hard supporter of Trump. Me thinks his motive is financial, in that he will become a star on a future Trump network and probably have his cake and eating it too, while still cashing in from continued Fox (non) News appearances. It is all only a business deal from his eyes, as he knows that this is the only path he can take to secure his financial and publicity hungry future.
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Losers gravitate to one another. There is no bigger loser in modern American politics than Newt Gingrich, but apparently he can't get enough of it. Anyone lining up to be the next standard bearer for Trump's base has either lost all sense of direction or never had any to begin with. There are simply no "issues" created by Trump other than the pile of issues related to his unfitness. Gingrich spent the '90s as the Trojan Horse for the racism and class war Republicans keep trying to unleash. Now that Trump has taken off the wraps, America is going to reject this filth once and for all November 8. So let Little Newt try to do something with the fallout going forward. It's a project he and he alone deserves.
angry white men. Gingrich is one of them, Trump and Kurt Schilling.
When Gingrich moved down here from PA, he lived in a rural area and ran against the white male incumbent for years. Never beat him. Then the guy retired and Gingrich beat a white woman. Then his district got gerrymandered to a middle class white county, the home of the president of the John Birch Society who had been the US representative over there till Korean flight 007 got shot down. Gingrich was at home with the bigots and racists in that then white area of yankees who worked in Atlanta but wouldn't live there.
Gingrich is awful. One more racist, sexist man who left wife #2 when she had cancer; and left his older teacher wife #1 for wife #2. Now let's see how long he keeps wife #3, but she's got money.
When Gingrich moved down here from PA, he lived in a rural area and ran against the white male incumbent for years. Never beat him. Then the guy retired and Gingrich beat a white woman. Then his district got gerrymandered to a middle class white county, the home of the president of the John Birch Society who had been the US representative over there till Korean flight 007 got shot down. Gingrich was at home with the bigots and racists in that then white area of yankees who worked in Atlanta but wouldn't live there.
Gingrich is awful. One more racist, sexist man who left wife #2 when she had cancer; and left his older teacher wife #1 for wife #2. Now let's see how long he keeps wife #3, but she's got money.
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Trump and Gingrich toss grenades as a way to be center stage. Gingrich has been able to pop into media view periodically since being deposed as Speaker and run out of town, with the occasional grenade toss that gets brief notice. In the end Gingrich and Trump have nothing else to offer, and 'The Donald' is soon to join 'The Newt' on some media side street of spectacular political failures.
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Gingrich began his nefarious rise to power by exploiting C-SPAN cameras in the House. Gingrich speechified with fire, taunting the Democrats (out of shot) and demanding answers. No answers came, showing the Democrats to be craven idiots. But, thing is, there were no Democrats on the benches for those end of the day privileged speeches. Eventually, Gingrich's foul tactics drove Speaker O'Neill to distraction. And the effect was more publicity for Gingrich. That became part of the Trump play-book. Outrageous behavior is reported and saves money for TV ads.
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When given the chance to lead his party, Gingrich failed miserably. His political style of destroying everyone who opposes him is the precursor of Trump's methods, though Trump is also acting out his own infantile fantasies of vengeance against those who do not adore him. Look at Trump's leading spokespersons: Rudy, a sad shell of a once decent human being, Christie, a thug who is liklely going to be charged with criminal behavior in office, the Trump boys whose idea of how to be manly is to kill wild animals and mock those not to the manor born, and Newt. No wonder even the dead will be voting for the other team.
Being aware of Newt Gingrich's personal and professional and political history, it's not surprising that he hitched his horse to Trump's ambitions. It's a way of coming from wealth (usually not earned, but feeding at the public trough) while maintaining, through speech and blunder, lies, their hard-won American value of Independence. Gingrich is a slime bucket. He's educated and experienced, but he's still an immoral leech who lies almost as much as Trump.
Well said, TT. It's always amazed me that commentators refer to Gingrich as a man of ideas. Ideas, maybe, in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Gingrich walked on many faces on his way to his top: Bob Michel and Jim Wright come to mind. Wright was ousted as Speaker because of a book-deal. Shortly after his own election as Speaker, Gingrich was censured by a large majority of the House for a book-deal that made Wright look like an amateur.
In one sense, Gingrich and his ilk (e.g., Delay) in the GOP planned well and followed the lead given by Reagan in 1964. They took over Congress and many governors' mansions, State Assemblies, the White House, and the Supreme Court. They did this with hot button issues and trivia, but while absorbed in that major campaign, missed the real events of the world. Those events, runaway globalization of corporations, gave Trump his issue, although there is no evidence that he of Gingrich understand what has happened and is happening. Certainly Trump's supporters don't understand it having been taught to blame Obama and Clinton.
In one sense, Gingrich and his ilk (e.g., Delay) in the GOP planned well and followed the lead given by Reagan in 1964. They took over Congress and many governors' mansions, State Assemblies, the White House, and the Supreme Court. They did this with hot button issues and trivia, but while absorbed in that major campaign, missed the real events of the world. Those events, runaway globalization of corporations, gave Trump his issue, although there is no evidence that he of Gingrich understand what has happened and is happening. Certainly Trump's supporters don't understand it having been taught to blame Obama and Clinton.
It is all about money. Mr. Gingrich is a very smart strategist and I think he is positioning himself to have a very high income role in the new Trump/Ailes network. He would fit right in to the strategy and could keep Big Money in line. With this new power perch he can both manipulate public opinion and elected officials of Federal, State, and Local governments.
I can say for certain, with plenty of evidence to support my position, that Mr. Trump would not be the nominee without the help of the media/press/social media community. The debates and the last couple of months have clearly shown that Mr. Trump is not of substance and his personal mindset do is not acceptable in society.
So, Mr. Gingrich thinks highly of his skills, intelligence and background & is confident that he can make real money on the Trump/Ailes network. You never know, there will be a new media big dog in the future, and I suspect that the NYTimes is on the target list of acquisitions.
The Clinton's have an uphill battle, and she knows how to win. Whatever, she does in the first 200 days must include actions to control monopoly formations, access of Big Money in public policy, and fair, fair tax reform. My suggestion: eliminate the income cap on Social Security and Health insurance, don't just raise the cap. Eliminate tax on "Corporate" earnings (you can't put a corporation in jail) and tax only individual incomes with all incomes treated equally. That should return flush times to everyone.
I can say for certain, with plenty of evidence to support my position, that Mr. Trump would not be the nominee without the help of the media/press/social media community. The debates and the last couple of months have clearly shown that Mr. Trump is not of substance and his personal mindset do is not acceptable in society.
So, Mr. Gingrich thinks highly of his skills, intelligence and background & is confident that he can make real money on the Trump/Ailes network. You never know, there will be a new media big dog in the future, and I suspect that the NYTimes is on the target list of acquisitions.
The Clinton's have an uphill battle, and she knows how to win. Whatever, she does in the first 200 days must include actions to control monopoly formations, access of Big Money in public policy, and fair, fair tax reform. My suggestion: eliminate the income cap on Social Security and Health insurance, don't just raise the cap. Eliminate tax on "Corporate" earnings (you can't put a corporation in jail) and tax only individual incomes with all incomes treated equally. That should return flush times to everyone.
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To get paid, Newt better sent in Barney Fife:
Donald Trump in face of his perverted ways being subject to rejection by the American electorate excuses himself as being victim of our democratic elections being rigged by everyone against him. Most pointedly in the last debate Trump displayed a total lack of decency, concern for the welfare of anyone but himself, and a willingness to reject the will of we people expressed through our right to vote in secret ballot. Such leaves all with justifiable concern for our lives, that of those we care for most deeply, and the places we call home getting painted in a post-election stench of Trump having gained total power over us all.
What is to stop him when all the Federal agencies of law, order and national defense of the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, ATF, Armed Forces are in the hands of loyalists beholding to him, and standing ever armed and vigilant for him with no need of beckoning call are NRA storm troopers and scattered county mountie militia?
In the afternoon on Public Radio prior to the last debate Ralph Nader dismissed any need for any concern by contending that a Republican led Congress would impeach Trump. Given that by the time of the launching of any such impeachment proceedings the enforcing powers of all of the foregoing agencies are through Trump appointment in the hands of his loyalists, who in a snowball’s chance in the bonfire of the vanities are they going to send to bring Donald in, Barney Fife?
Donald Trump in face of his perverted ways being subject to rejection by the American electorate excuses himself as being victim of our democratic elections being rigged by everyone against him. Most pointedly in the last debate Trump displayed a total lack of decency, concern for the welfare of anyone but himself, and a willingness to reject the will of we people expressed through our right to vote in secret ballot. Such leaves all with justifiable concern for our lives, that of those we care for most deeply, and the places we call home getting painted in a post-election stench of Trump having gained total power over us all.
What is to stop him when all the Federal agencies of law, order and national defense of the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, ATF, Armed Forces are in the hands of loyalists beholding to him, and standing ever armed and vigilant for him with no need of beckoning call are NRA storm troopers and scattered county mountie militia?
In the afternoon on Public Radio prior to the last debate Ralph Nader dismissed any need for any concern by contending that a Republican led Congress would impeach Trump. Given that by the time of the launching of any such impeachment proceedings the enforcing powers of all of the foregoing agencies are through Trump appointment in the hands of his loyalists, who in a snowball’s chance in the bonfire of the vanities are they going to send to bring Donald in, Barney Fife?
Quite frankly, the "establishment" should be made to feel uncomfortable. It has transformed itself from a Democratic Republic into an oligarchy, quite deliberately, with the collusion of both major political parties.
And yes, there is an emerging pattern here that will make the establishment vulnerable to a future candidate with the same message, presented in a more professional and polished manner.
The good news for the establishment, of course, is that it can head the next "Big Trump" off at the pass. How? By actually following the Constitution and making the government work for all of us, as that document says it should.
And yes, there is an emerging pattern here that will make the establishment vulnerable to a future candidate with the same message, presented in a more professional and polished manner.
The good news for the establishment, of course, is that it can head the next "Big Trump" off at the pass. How? By actually following the Constitution and making the government work for all of us, as that document says it should.
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Newt is the author of the present state of the republican party. Everything that has gone sour with the republicans can be traced back to his actions during his tenure as Speaker of the House in 1994. He forbade contact between his House republicans and democrats. He held indoctrination classes on communications which dealt with focus group chosen words that would best demonize the other side. He is the first Speaker to shut down the government (over a spending bill which President Bill Clinton vetoed). Newt is the political father of Donald Trump and the present level of divisiveness in the United States. He should take his place on the ash heap of history sooner rather than later.
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These guys are not the problem they are just the tip of it. Without support of the great disgruntled mass for whom they act as mouthpieces their voices would be lost in the wilderness, but thanks to little or in some cases no water there are a great many unbathed among us, not to mention those affected by lead in the pipes.
I was raised a Democrat and held that registration until Bill Clinton's second term at which point I realized only the most obvious greed separated the two parties.
My intent is to vote for Ms Clinton with the hope she will, as a woman and mother, exercise the wisdom she and all women must in order to survive the brutality of our long in the tooth men's world.
Ms Clinton it is claimed, will pursue the policies labeled neo-con and possibly plunge the world into an even more chaotic mess than now exists and while that among myriad others is possible, I just don't think she will. This judgement, If I may label it as such, is based entirely on the fact she will be accountable to all of the women of our nation and not just the men who only think of themselves
She is first of all a woman who like every other woman in any culture has felt the wrath of some, and perhaps more than a few men, for no other reason than they are generally physically weaker and therefore safer targets.
The virtues of "big Trump" only exist in the narrow minds of simpletons like Gingrich who have little use, beyond exploitation for their fellow man and (s)exploitation of women
I was raised a Democrat and held that registration until Bill Clinton's second term at which point I realized only the most obvious greed separated the two parties.
My intent is to vote for Ms Clinton with the hope she will, as a woman and mother, exercise the wisdom she and all women must in order to survive the brutality of our long in the tooth men's world.
Ms Clinton it is claimed, will pursue the policies labeled neo-con and possibly plunge the world into an even more chaotic mess than now exists and while that among myriad others is possible, I just don't think she will. This judgement, If I may label it as such, is based entirely on the fact she will be accountable to all of the women of our nation and not just the men who only think of themselves
She is first of all a woman who like every other woman in any culture has felt the wrath of some, and perhaps more than a few men, for no other reason than they are generally physically weaker and therefore safer targets.
The virtues of "big Trump" only exist in the narrow minds of simpletons like Gingrich who have little use, beyond exploitation for their fellow man and (s)exploitation of women
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A proper response to this small-government for the rich movement would involve some positive steps to improve the opportunities for average folks. That involves proper use of big government to build education, reign in predatory banking and brokerage, build infrastructure so workers can live within easy reach of work in good housing, good healthcare, less stupid news and TV and more actual useful information, and on, and on.
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There is a significant difference between Trump and Gingrich.
Trump supporters are inextricably attached to his mainstream media persona of being a successful rule breaker outside of government. Gingrich is just the opposite, a failed and unlikable Washington politician who has never been able to build much of a media persona on Fox News, let alone a mainstream reality show.
I would suspect that if the Machiavellian Gingrich wasn't attached to the Trump campaign, Trump could easily put Gingrich in his ignoble basket of Washington "losers" and his followers would unconsciously and happily embrace the label.
Trump supporters are inextricably attached to his mainstream media persona of being a successful rule breaker outside of government. Gingrich is just the opposite, a failed and unlikable Washington politician who has never been able to build much of a media persona on Fox News, let alone a mainstream reality show.
I would suspect that if the Machiavellian Gingrich wasn't attached to the Trump campaign, Trump could easily put Gingrich in his ignoble basket of Washington "losers" and his followers would unconsciously and happily embrace the label.
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There is an obvious pattern here. Trump and Gingrich are two peas in the same pod. And it's this very segregationist/obstructionist philosophy that has defined the GOP for decades. The Gingrich of the 1990s has morphed into the Trumpty Dumpty of today. And still Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are looking the other way.
Good Lord, can't we be rid of this odious man. It would be one thing if espoused conservative principles without all the moral judgment, but that's not the case, even tough he is devoid of all morals and ethics himself.
Then again, he is old and looking pretty overweight so maybe nature will take its course. Have fun in hades Newt.
Then again, he is old and looking pretty overweight so maybe nature will take its course. Have fun in hades Newt.
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Newt, Rudy, an Chris, opportunists all, hitched their wagons to the Trump train in the hope of an appointment in Donald's administration; each miscalculated and none will ever be politically powerful again. The first two are serial adulterers, thrice married, ethically challenged, and very unpleasant men who we can expect to see regularly interviewed by Fox conspirator-in-chief Sean Hannity. The last is about to find out how the American system of justice deals with elected officials who abuse their power, lie to their constituents, and cover up their crimes. Thank goodness prison stripes are vertical.....
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Newt Gingrich - ick. Ick, ick, ick. The original Republican Family Values hypocrite. Isn't it about time that BOTH parties brought some fresh blood to the fore? Or, after the last couple of campaigns, is that even possible? Who in their right mind would want to get involved in the creepy carnival American politics has devolved into? Just as with capitalism, the American model of government is a relatively fine thing in theory. The problem arises when its participants mess with its basic precepts over time in order to gain one sort of advantage or another, eventually sending the whole system spinning off the rails. That's clearly where we are right now; unfortunately, it doesn't appear that anyone involved in this trainwreck has the fortitude to do anything about it - there's probably too much in personal profit at stake. The placing of the individual before country will be the death of the United States of America as we have known it.
DJ, I agree w you, but I dont understand why citizens smear Hillary Clinton as being complicit in Trumps degradation of American Democracy and politics. This to me is the real media bias, perhaps the results of a successful and well funded (Koch donor network) republican strategy.
There is no doubt that the foundation of Trump support, (and I will not use any of the adjectives normally associated with that support) is a message that resonates with racists, homophobes and bigots. That message will go forward and continue to be embraced by certain extremist republican officials. Ginghrich, however, may wish to be the leader but he will not succeed. Someone will step forward, younger, more appealing and not out of the traditional Washington elite. It still remains to be seen who.
Mr. Gingrich is a truly awful person, devoid of humanity, deeply ambitious on behalf of wealth, privilege, and power, and ignorance of the plight of the common man and woman, also known as working stiffs, the people who actually, you know, pay the bills.
Among other things, he is interested in re-establishing the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) of Joseph McCarthy fame, to use "loyalty" (as defined by him and his friends, that would be to the church of material gain, less taxes for the rich, and deregulation to help billionaires make more billions, and the Koch government designed by and for extreme wealth) to define who doesn't go to prison.
If you are of a different racial makeup than white male European and their fans (yes, women and people of color seem silly enough to vote against their best interests), you are toast in his world.
Evil he who evil does, and Gingrich's Contract on American has done untold harm.
Among these harms has been forcing Democrats, if they want to get anything done, to go along to get along. This means "purity" advocates, the radical left as well, blame their own - Democrats - for what Republicans have done.
Vote, all the way down to your local schoolboard, and throw the bums out!
ref: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-term
"Gingrich ... pioneered many of the tactics that have come to define partisan warfare ... ending lifetime tenure for federal employees." Chaos!
Among other things, he is interested in re-establishing the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) of Joseph McCarthy fame, to use "loyalty" (as defined by him and his friends, that would be to the church of material gain, less taxes for the rich, and deregulation to help billionaires make more billions, and the Koch government designed by and for extreme wealth) to define who doesn't go to prison.
If you are of a different racial makeup than white male European and their fans (yes, women and people of color seem silly enough to vote against their best interests), you are toast in his world.
Evil he who evil does, and Gingrich's Contract on American has done untold harm.
Among these harms has been forcing Democrats, if they want to get anything done, to go along to get along. This means "purity" advocates, the radical left as well, blame their own - Democrats - for what Republicans have done.
Vote, all the way down to your local schoolboard, and throw the bums out!
ref: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-term
"Gingrich ... pioneered many of the tactics that have come to define partisan warfare ... ending lifetime tenure for federal employees." Chaos!
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We need to end lifetime tenure for Congress people. Vote for term limits and no pensions. Just like the presidency, a maximum of 8 years and they have to obey the same laws as everyone else. No getting rich off of insider trading as many of them do now.
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Gingrich is one of a pack of Republican has-beens eager for a second act. Assuming Trump departs from the scene (a debatable assumption), some of them might have an opportunity. But, they would have to get backing from one of the GOP sugar daddies, like the Kochs or Adelson, to keep the spotlight.
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Thank you. Between his obvious moral hypocrisy, his policy failings, his personal financial failings and his long-past sell-by date, it's also a failing of the American news media that this birther still gets attention. Like Trump, attention is a sugar high. And it shows.
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What Republicans need understand and be held accountable for is the it was Gingrich and his ilk that laid the foundation for the accent of Donald Trump. The Republican pandering to racism and bigotry, the tolerance of ugly accusations, the promotion of conspiracy ideas, has been going on for some time. It should be no surprise when you tacitly support and encourage this kind of dark behavior among your base, that in time it would devour and consume the Republican Party.
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You are correct. I think this is it for the Republicans - they either disavow their lunatic fringe or fade into obscurity and watch as the country turns more and more toward Europeanized government.
You mean "ascent" not accent, I believe, though some people have also complained about Mr. Trump's New York accent.
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Oh dear, I thought we pushed Gingrich into the shadows long ago. Is he going to bring out Sarah Palin again, too? At least that will provide a bit of levity.
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Gingrich is every bit as clueless as Trump when it comes to governance. He considers himself an intellectual, when he's nothing but a perpetrator of nonsense disguised as "fact," making him Trump's equal in that regard. The two of them are more like Big Dumb and Little Dumb, although it's impossible to ever know which is which. They are both certified members of the conservative clown car and deserve to be ignored...the ultimate punishment for narcissists.
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Much is made of Trump supporters and who will take up the mantle after Trump sinks from view. That Gingrich is seen as a possible leader shows that this "revolt" against the establishment has no future. It is distressing that at this time so many will be voting for such an obviously pathetic figure as Trump but it is also an indication that these voters have no coherent vision that could feed a powerful anti-establishment movement. I see Trump as the apotheosis of the Tea Party which will fizzle during the Clinton presidency just like other know-nothing nativist movements of the past. Disgruntled voters will not disappear but a leader cannot emerge from incoherent unhappiness.
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A less obviously offensive successor to Trump is greatly to be feared. It will probably not be Gingrich, who has a disqualifying history of his own. It may be someone who is almost completely obscure now. Many unsavory leaders have emerged from "incoherent unhappiness" when those in power ignore it.
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Gingrich will be "paid" well with a lucrative "consultancy" as a commentator on Trump's Network post election.
Unsavory leaders can only succeed when distress is such that most of the country is in turmoil. The Trump supporters are not just a minority, they are a minority which cannot grow as long as the country's economy does not deteriorate to the point that a majority fears falling into dire straights. It would be a mistake for the governing classes to ignore that minority, but it would be an even worse a mistake to placate it by going after scapegoats. Cries for help should be listened to, cries for putting others down should be forcefully rejected.
Gingrich although quite as vile as Trump at the personal and political level is way past his sell by date. Hopefully he will help ignite the civil war in the Republican party that is implicit in the scenario being outlined here. But it doesn't seem very likely.
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Gingrich is at the front of a growing list of past sale date Republicans. Crowding in behind are Giuliani, Christi, Huckabee, Santorum, now McCain and more.
The Republican party could use a decent roll model, but that doesn't seem very likely either.
The Republican party could use a decent roll model, but that doesn't seem very likely either.
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"And now, he is extolling the virtues of “big Trump.” There is a pattern here, and it does not bode well for American politics."
A lot doesn't bode well for American politics. The next President will be a cold, calculating interventionist, someone who will continue demonizing and provoking Russia and then expressing outrage at the Bear's reaction. She will boost military spending, thereby increasing budget deficits and the National Debt that is the subject of an excellent, parallel Op-Ed and, lastly, she will protect the Kingdom of Wahhabi Arabia which just happens to be the biggest benefactor of the Clinton Foundation.
Things don't bode well for either the U.S. or the rest of the globe post-Nov. 8th.
A lot doesn't bode well for American politics. The next President will be a cold, calculating interventionist, someone who will continue demonizing and provoking Russia and then expressing outrage at the Bear's reaction. She will boost military spending, thereby increasing budget deficits and the National Debt that is the subject of an excellent, parallel Op-Ed and, lastly, she will protect the Kingdom of Wahhabi Arabia which just happens to be the biggest benefactor of the Clinton Foundation.
Things don't bode well for either the U.S. or the rest of the globe post-Nov. 8th.
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Hamid Varzi
Spain
The US provoked Russia into invading the Crimea, starting an irredentist insurrection on the borders of Ukraine using disguised elements of its own armed forces, and shooting down that airliner. Really?
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The US provoked Russia into invading the Crimea, starting an irredentist insurrection on the borders of Ukraine using disguised elements of its own armed forces, and shooting down that airliner. Really?
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Yes, the world is a mess and Hillary will certainly fall short at times. With her we might end up in a clinic, nursing some bruises. However, with Donald, there is a greater chance we will end up in the morgue.
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Mr. Varzi, With all due respect, I hope you are completely wrong in your assessment of President Clinton. I hope that with her win she will take back the Senate and then the House...with a unified government she will one able to direct the government to great things. I'm hoping she will be the greatest President in modern history. Then we will all wonder what took us so long?
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I think big cheaters is a better description of these two.
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What can you say? It is a fitting legacy for that smirking demagogue to be indelibly tied to that nasty, vulgar, misogynous bigot.
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I'd love to see an age-progression drawing of Gingrich.
Gingrich is all used up, and at age 73 will never reach the presidency. Like that other has-been, Rudy Giuliani (age 72), these aging vaudeville clowns get one last chance to tumble out on stage and dance their outdated routines. But as far as the general public is concerned they are already dead and buried. They are like ghosts attending their own funeral.
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You are absolutely correct. They just WILL not go away. And while they are scratching & clawing hard to hang on, they manage to always hurt or destroy so many in their path.
Trump won't go away quietly. We are going to have to listen to his vile garbage for sometime. But then again - it's our own fault for following these blowhards & reading the news outlets that feature them.
Trump won't go away quietly. We are going to have to listen to his vile garbage for sometime. But then again - it's our own fault for following these blowhards & reading the news outlets that feature them.
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However one looks at it, Mr. Gingrich is a sore loser. The man says anything, right or wrong, so long as he benefits from it.
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Future policy wonk on the Trump Network joining Ben Carson, Allen West, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Giuliani, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon among others. They are going to the big grifter cash in party. Roger Ailes will run the whole thing. With Ivanka and Melania hosting their own shows. Yummy.
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Ms. Tritch, you must consider what Newt and so many other current Republican "leaders" are actually up to. The current GOP offers not a basket of deplorables, but rather an entire pantheon of deplorables with various current figures vying for the role of Jupiter-Zeus on any given day. Who of the following will take the laurels?
Donald Trump
Chris Christie
Rudy Giuliani
Newt Gingrich
Mitch McConnell
Paul Ryan
Jeff Sessions
Trey Gowdy
Jason Chaffetz
Please feel free to add your own favorite idols with feet of clay to the foregoing list. Remember, the demi-gods must be presently active, not those whose shadows alone dim the present. Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, et al., are no longer in contention.
Donald Trump
Chris Christie
Rudy Giuliani
Newt Gingrich
Mitch McConnell
Paul Ryan
Jeff Sessions
Trey Gowdy
Jason Chaffetz
Please feel free to add your own favorite idols with feet of clay to the foregoing list. Remember, the demi-gods must be presently active, not those whose shadows alone dim the present. Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, et al., are no longer in contention.
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I like "pantheon of deplorables". And referring to the leadership, not the followers who are further alienated by being labeled.
#nastywoman
#nastywoman
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The main character you've left out is the supporter who was the last to support Trump, Senator Cruz. That calculating politician who in a panic, forgot about his anger towards Trump dumping on his wife, forgot about being called Lying Ted, and who left his honor at the feet of the Donald so Cruz could still hope for running in 2020 with Trumps supporters as his base. What a piece of work he is.
Oh, and let's include the Arizona Sheriff Arpaio
Oh, and let's include the Arizona Sheriff Arpaio
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Add Tom Cotton to the list.
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Beginning on November 9th, the two of them should have lots of free time. Perhaps these two paragons of "Republican Family Values" can work together on a project cherished by many in the GOP: Defense of Marriage. Given that they have six between them, they've certainly got the requisite experience.
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And with Giuliani, they have nine! I remember seeing pictures of Calista Gingrich singing in the choir during the Popes visit. I guess she and Newtie are regular attenders at Mass, but evidently haven't learned much.
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Work with Donald and bring the total up to 9 (so far).
Mr. Gingrich is 73 years old. He should really give up the "I'm going to be President one day!" shtick.
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Almost human would be an accomplishment.
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Newt Gingrich wants to believe he is some sort of professorial conservative, when in truth, he is a power hungry hypocrite who has done awful things to both the people in his life and to the people in this country.
Good to see him backing another awful human being. Fitting.
Good to see him backing another awful human being. Fitting.
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Uh yeah. Presumably you are saying this, given Mr. Gingrich's history, to keep flogging the Republicans on the women's issue after the election. A little long in the tooth to be a viable presidential candidate in 2020 should Mr. Trump lose, I suspect.
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He he finds silver linings. Love in the parking lot before going home to his wife.makes the boring commute happy.
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The trophy wives of Newt and Donald are frighteningly similar as well, and I consider them among the primary enablers of such men.
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This guy ...
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Mr. Gingrich already was thrown out of the big pond. He now is parlaying what little credibility he has left to become the big fish in in a mere puddle. The electorate he is wooing cannot propel him into a position of prominence and would not do so if it could. Perhaps he and Mr. Trump can reminisce together about what might have been after this election.
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There's a big Newt and a liittle Newt; both are banal.
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There's only a little Newt and a littler Newt. But even a little is too much.
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And all newts are lizards.
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Pence & Gingrich 2020. Two smoothies with whip cream toppings. If Madam Secretary becomes Madam President but doesn't have the support she needs to get the economy really moving....look for that ticket. And it will be viable because four years is not long enough to forget the horror that is Trump so they will seem reasonable and sane.
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Fortunately they will probably age out.
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All you have to do is look hard at Gingrich, if you want to find someone who's even worse than Trump. Gingrich is the guy who left one wife when she was hospitalized for cancer, and another because she was diagnosed with MS, all the while giving speeches about family values.
He admits to having smoked pot, but nonetheless, sponsored legislation requiring a mandatory death penalty for people caught with as little as 2 ounces.
His personality and morals are similar to Trump's, and his history is equally revolting. It's kind of reassuring, actually--we already dealt with one of these.
He admits to having smoked pot, but nonetheless, sponsored legislation requiring a mandatory death penalty for people caught with as little as 2 ounces.
His personality and morals are similar to Trump's, and his history is equally revolting. It's kind of reassuring, actually--we already dealt with one of these.
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Gingrich and Trump have built on the vitriol and bigotry of Pat Buchanan along with a very large helping of Roy Cohn. Trump has done great harm to the entire concept of a presidential campaign. His influence, I fear will be seen in years to come. Gingrich, were he younger, would pick up from here and hope to deliver the same message with greater discipline. To quote Trump, "Sad"
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And as the House he led. impeached the President because of Monica, Gingrich was having an affair with his soon to be third wife. More like Trump than the article states.
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You forgot the part about having an affair with a staffer (who later became wife #3) while impeaching Clinton for his affair with Lewinsky. The ultimate in hypocrisy!
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Democracy brings freedom and progress but brings also the worst of us.Trump and Gingrich are the example of the worst of us.They clarify the venue how dictatorship have been born.Gingrich though is what we call call a parasite living from the system and basically not adding any value to the society but supporting himself by being as nasty as he can be and against the same system that keeps him alive.
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Reading this piece I got a small knot in my stomach. We are all wondering what November 9th will look like. Whether Trump goes quietly or not, his supporters will be ready for the next person who can tap their feelings and gain their support. Newt should not be discounted. The Trump base clearly does not care much about the messenger, but with an equally cynical Trump successor who actually has the talent to stay on message and not stray into the personal, Newt is the one to watch, worriedly.
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To quiet the beast, we as a nation will have to address the real - but not the racist - grievances of the political base of these debased. White privilege is nothing to be mourned, but the new uncertainties of social status and income many in these demographics suffer is not to be dismissed. Think back to the New Deal, which played a role in quieting radical social unrest. While it will be a pleasure finally to let the curtain fall on the bawling brat who is Trump, it is both wrong and futile to turn our backs on the fellow Americans who form his constituency.
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Newt Gingrich is just a Donald Trump windup toy with a better command of the English language and a few more factoids at his disposal. Always has been. The fact that he has become part of our political discourse again is just a barometer reading to show how low we have fallen.
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When Gingrich referred to himself as a "historian" and "academic," he was perverting the meaning of those two words. He's an "academic" like Dr. Goebbels was. Since we have forgotten the lessons of the Third Reich, we have given it a posthumous victory some 70 years later with the candidacy of Trump, who never denied that his bedtime reading was a book of Hitler's speeches.
What was even more hubristic at the Smith Dinner was Trump's comparison of himself to another carpenter, Jesus Christ. It was an exploding turd of a joke.
Those who don't learn history's lessons get to relive them. I guess the GOP base to totally gullible and so blindered that it cannot see that it is the GOP--people like Gingrich, et al.--who are gaming them and removing their opportunities for a decent life and, instead, feed them a diet of hate and fear.
What was even more hubristic at the Smith Dinner was Trump's comparison of himself to another carpenter, Jesus Christ. It was an exploding turd of a joke.
Those who don't learn history's lessons get to relive them. I guess the GOP base to totally gullible and so blindered that it cannot see that it is the GOP--people like Gingrich, et al.--who are gaming them and removing their opportunities for a decent life and, instead, feed them a diet of hate and fear.
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About Newt there's little dispute
Take his advice and you will rue't
A bull blithering blighter
Antiworker righter
For wee Trump adviser to suit.
Take his advice and you will rue't
A bull blithering blighter
Antiworker righter
For wee Trump adviser to suit.
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I doubt it.
Newt is one of the few people with even more personal problems than Donald Trump. He was already run out of Congress on ethics violations, driven from the Speaker's chair right out of the place despite being king of the campaign contributions (GOPAC).
The guy makes Trump look good. If someone like Newt could do this, then Trump could do it himself -- and he can't.
Newt is one of the few people with even more personal problems than Donald Trump. He was already run out of Congress on ethics violations, driven from the Speaker's chair right out of the place despite being king of the campaign contributions (GOPAC).
The guy makes Trump look good. If someone like Newt could do this, then Trump could do it himself -- and he can't.
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Newt Gingrich should be ignored. He has done enough to try to destroy democracy in America. He thinks it's some kind of a joke or game. It is not. Time for him to go away - far away - and take The Con Don and friends with him. Russia would welcome them I'm sure.
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You can include Rudy in that bunch.
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Yes, you are correct, Gingrich is a joke. The republican party, at the present, is joke to allow this 1980 car crash to enter in his vapid narcissistic rhetoric to speak for them after what they offered up to the American public in the form of a trump, a soon to be punchline on so many levels. Looking forward to Nov. 9th, going forward an hopefully some sort of restored sanity, Nationally.
Yes, you are correct, Gingrich is a joke. The republican party, at the present, is joke to allow this 1980 car crash to enter in his vapid narcissistic rhetoric to speak for them after what they offered up to the American public in the form of a trump, a soon to be punchline on so many levels. Looking forward to Nov. 9th, going forward an hopefully some sort of restored sanity, Nationally.
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All the more reason a Republican sweep-off from Congress, to match the Great Trump Shellacking, is so very necessary.
It needs to be a big enough sweep and margin that not even TLC would consider them for a "reality" show.
It needs to be a big enough sweep and margin that not even TLC would consider them for a "reality" show.
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