As I said, I like the Gingrich we see the post that follows this one, Gingrich's interview on Hannity where he signaled a clear unequivocal declaration that we are in a war against Islamic Supremacy. This is Newt at his best. http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/07/14/gingrich-deport-every-muslim-who-believes-in-sharia-trump-jr-speaks-out-on/
Scott Adams has said the same thing. Trump does it because it works. It is effective.
It is a sign of understanding your subject very well to speak in simple terms.
I used to know somebody who reviewed military instruction manuals. His job was to make sure the reading level...I think they liked to keep it no higher than 7th grade. It just makes sense that if you want to communicate a message clearly.
I used to know somebody who reviewed military instruction manuals. His job was to make sure the reading level...I think they liked to keep it no higher than 7th grade. It just makes sense that if you want to communicate a message clearly.
Newt, like many highly intelligent people, can be blisteringly honest without even trying to wound.
I’ve known people like that. They don’t ALWAYS mean it in a malicious way. They just don’t filter their thoughts through the heavy filter of diplomacy the way most of us think we have to do. Sometimes, they DO mean to strike like a cobra.
Quick and with great precision.
One of the smartest men I’ve ever met spoke in very simple, plain terms. He was a civil trial attorney and he could distill a complicated business dispute to its essence and explain it to a jury in few simple sentences. He was very effective and won most of his cases.
“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.” - Winston Churchill
I admire Gingrich. I like Trump. I don’t see any contradiction.
They both say what they think and let the chips fall. Gingrich does it a bit more gracefully but he is just as frank as Trump. He would make a great advisor to Trump because he’s brilliant, he has a world of political experience, and because he isn’t afraid to tell Trump something he doesn’t want to hear. Trump respects people like that, I believe.
Newt’s a former college professor. An egghead. They get paid to use big words.Republicans think DC is a debating society...sound logic and clear rhetoric will carry the day. Paul Ryan is exhibit A. He makes an argument and stands around waiting for someone to declare him the winner.
When I went into the army, a standing joke was the field manuals were written on a 4th grade level and had a lot of pictures— like comic books. Guys trained on those comic books kicked the crap out an awful lot of bad guys.
Trump knows what he’s doing. The little fairies in DC will fall in line if he has the numbers. And the people behind the numbers aren’t Rhodes scholars. Can’t be. The Pareto Principle has not been repealed, regardless of how much the academic and political left hates it.
Trump to DC GOP (and Newt)— sit down boys, school’s in session.
Boy, the media was ready for a Gingrich pick.
But why are they attacking him now when he’s not VP?
“ProPublica was the brainchild of billionaires and major Democratic donors Herbert and Marion Sandler, the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation, who have committed $10 million a year to the project.[9]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProPublica
Yes, another nice, objective and truly credible piece by the Sandlers’ scribes. Remember how the Sandlers managed to get the SNL skit mocking them and their ripping off of millions upon millions of $$$$ prior to the real estate collapse in 2008?
It depends on what day one hears Newtus Agustus.
It can change like the wind.
I would have loved to have been one of his graduate students or post-docs, apparently he spent a lot of time at bars!
No disrepect intended, but they are 4th grade level speeches. The names he uses are also 4th grade level: “Crooked Hillary”, “Lyin’ Ted”, “Little Marco.” When I first heard this, I thought: “what is this, grade school?”
But it seems to be working for him, or at least it has so far. It doesn’t present a very flattering picture of our voting populace that this is what it takes to win over voters, but it’s not a bad reflection on Trump. Quite the opposite, I think. He’s hit on something that no other candidate has, and that’s marketing your message in language your customers can understand.
Elites (to each other): we need to print money and refinance the debt
Elites (to the public at PhD level): we need quantitative easing
Public: ok
Trump (to the public at 4th grade level:) we need to print money and refinance the debt
Public: printing money is bad
Elites (to each other): The peons aren’t supposed to know what QE is
Elites (to the peons at 4th grade level): Trump’s an idiot. Don’t listen to his 4th grade level crap. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about since he can’t explain it with college level sentences. Beside you already know printing money is bad.
Oh yeah! Pro Publica. /huge eyeroll.
That’s a reliable, unbiased source. /big time sarc.
Newspapers have been written on a 4th grade level for decades.
I’m not a mindless Trump cheerleader, but Donald Trump is doing this right. Cruz made an intellectual but worthless comment about Hillary and Bernie: “That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks”. Nice if you’re in academia, but he lost almost everyone he needed in the audience. Trump uses simple, clear statements, and everyone understands him.