Posted on 07/16/2016 10:44:19 AM PDT by Jim W N
He speaks at a 4th grade level to attract democrats
The thing I focus on re Trump: He has been talking about running for years but he never pushed all of his chips to the center of the table until last year...and he’s done nothing but win since then. This may tell you all you need to know about Trump and his judgment.
And the fancier the language the less the writer knows of the subject.
What Gingrich is saying is the simple truth.
Approximately half the population has a two-digit IQ score.
You don’t think Newt’s intelligence is superior to that of a good number of Americans?
When being educated I was trained to use 16,000 words to describe a statue.
In real life, my VP told me put everything on the first page. “I don’t read past page 1.”
Sometimes in order to bag a fox, you need your own fox.
I do door-to-door for the campaign. For the most part, lofty ideas and deep, nuancy thoughts are a waste of breath and counterproductive. We have 20 seconds to work with. Short words and get to the point, pronto.
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Newt may be an intelligent man, but he probably should have read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. He's just not very appealing at times.
Probably, but that’s kind of beside the point here. The “Ruling Elite” mentality which has been around since Fabian socialism in the the late 1800’s, dominates D.C. and justifies their tyranny in their own mind. The fact is politicians, most of whom do not have Newt’s level of intelligence, are not endowed from on high with the anointing of ruling your life and mine. Intelligence does not justify tyranny.
And the fact is you and I are smarter and better at running our own lives with much happier outcomes, than any distant bureaucrat or politician in D.C. be it Newt or anyone else. That is the point here, and it is the battle we the people and the states now face against the $4 trillion most unconstitutional mostly despotic central government in D.C. To the degree Newt aligns with ruling elitism, to that degree he is part of the problem.
The “Ruling Elite” mentality which has been around since Fabian socialism in the the late 1800’s, dominates D.C. and justifies their tyranny in their own mind. The fact is politicians, most of whom do not have Newt’s level of intelligence, are not endowed from on high with the anointing of ruling your life and mine. Intelligence does not justify tyranny.
And the fact is you and I are smarter and better at running our own lives with much happier outcomes, than any distant bureaucrat or politician in D.C. be it Newt or anyone else. That is the point here, and it is the battle we the people and the states now face against the $4 trillion most unconstitutional mostly despotic central government in D.C. To the degree Newt aligns with ruling elitism, to that degree he is part of the problem.
I think your point is lost by trying to force falsehoods.
Whether or not we are individually better at running our own lives, it is our God-given right to do so—until, of course, we start traipsing on someone else’s rights.
Yes, that is the point, but the fact is we are also better at it than some distant self-appoint bureaucrat no matter how intelligent he thinks he is.
Not sure what "forced falsehoods" you're talking about.
Most ads that we are bombarded with are sophomoric if not insultingly stupid. Yet they work or they wouldn’t run them. So there’s no risk in dumbing down messages targeted at the general populace. Advertisers have proven that.
The risk would be just the opposite: trying to present a fact filled, coherent argument would get you nowhere. lol
Your apparent demand that Newt pretend that nobody is any more intelligent than anyone else.
No, that wasn’t my point although I can see how it could get lost in the shuffle here because several things are going on. My point was that regardless of intelligence, no one has the right to run someone else’s life. The ruling elite argue that because they, the politicians and Fabian Socialists, are more intelligent than the rest of us, they know better how to run our lives. I didn’t like the tone of Newt’s “forth-grade” remarks because IMO it smacked of elitism especially coming from a D.C. politician.
What I’m saying is 1) they do not have the right to run our lives regardless of intelligence, 2) most are in fact NOT more intelligent than the rest of us, and 3) regardless of comparative intelligence, each individual is better equipped to run his own life than some distant bureaucrat.
Sure, those are good points. But you tried to pin them on Newt’s comments. Newt’s comments were based on actually measure of the presidential candidates’ speaking levels—by which Trump came in significantly below his competitors in the grade level of the language used.
He could have used terms like “simple explanations” or “boiled down for clear understanding”. “Forth grade” coming from a D.C. politician smacks of elitism and Newt should know that.
This is what he was referring to:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a39031/trump-fourth-grade-level/
If you really like him, listen to him often enough and he'll give you reasons to not...And he's too stupid to know he does it.
If Trump would have picked Newt, Newt would have been the poison pill that killed Trump...once again too stupid to know it simply because he likes to hear himself pretending to be smart.
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