Posted on 11/17/2011 10:04:39 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Andy Ferguson, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and arguably the most dazzling writer on the right, has been a one-man killing machine. In a series of pieces on Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Jon Huntsman, he has systematically done in (or helped to do in) more Republican candidates than Think Progress, the New York Times and George Soros ever could.....
But none is so devastating as his literary journey through Newt Gingrich’s books. All of them. Twenty-one of them. In doing so he exposes what too few recognize: the vacuity of Gingrich’s ludicrously exaggerated intellect. Gingrich posits himself as a sort of Alvin Toffler meets Allan Bloom. Ferguson’s skewers it all......
There is the over-the-top Gingrich.......
There is Gingrich the lover of technology by way of the Jetsons.......
And there is Gingrich the liberal.......
Finally, there is Gingrich the disorganized. “Gingrich’s vagueness was always a problem, but the books show something more: a near-total lack of interest in the political implementation of his grand ideas — a lack of interest, finally, in politics at its most mundane and consequential level. Gingrich’s inattention to detail is one reason his speakership was so chaotic, as readers of a certain age will recall, and the primary reason he was shunned by his own party after four years with the gavel.”
When many in the mainstream media and far too many conservatives who should know better swoon over his pronouncements, the cannier on the right and left justifiably roll their eyes in disgust. Gingrich’s mind is an attic of throwaway, unusable and downright goofy ideas, piled high like newspapers in the room of a troubled subject on “Hoarders.”...........
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If Israel attacks Iran, it’s “Nevermind that s—t, here comes Mongo!”
Especially when all they have to do is post Newt in his own words.
After two short exchanges in a debate, Mitt had Newt admitting to lauding the individual mandate.
No doubt Obama will also credit Newt for thinking that up.
But Jennifer Rubin says Rick Perry is a “buffoon”. She hates him. Why would champion her crap?
Did earning a Ph.D. in History from Tulane University turn his intellect to goo, or was it too many beignets at the Cafe du Monde?
Some people understand those words; others are predisposed to misinterpret them.
yeh, Newt only writes history books.....
What planet have you been living on since the mid 70s?
GFY. The question who wrote this referred to ANDY whoever the hell he is, not Rubin. Hence, my question “WHO WROTE THIS, ANDY’S MOM?
Try some reading comprehension classes and thinking a little before you start calling people ignorant you GD moron.
LOLOL. Yes!
June 29, 2011 Andrew Ferguson on Newt Gingrich ….” When his top campaign staff abandoned him not long ago, Newt Gingrich didn’t seem terribly surprised. “Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians,” he said. “We have big ideas.”…. Within the politico-journalistic combine, Gingrich’s status as an intellectual is accepted as an article of faith — something that everybody just assumes to be true, like man-made climate change or Barack Obama’s stratospheric I.Q. Senator Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican, says Gingrich is “undoubtedly the smartest man I’ve ever met.” Cokie Roberts calls him “a big thinker.” Without irony the Democratic consultant Paul Begala praises his “intellectual heft” and Howard Dean his “intellectual leadership.” Ted Nugent says Gingrich is probably the “smartest guy out there.” So that settles that… Or does it?”……..
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Then there is an interesting remark Ferguson makes about Rick Perry:
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August 29, 2011 Andrew Ferguson on Rick Perry…… “The Texas Miracle that Perry embraces and Democrats say they loathe would make a presidential contest between the governor and President Obama more interesting than these things usually are. Voters could at last confront the tradeoff they’ve been trying to avoid since the Great Society, maybe since the New Deal. On the one hand, we might have job-generating economic growth with all its necessary disruptions and uncertainties and stark inequalities of income and living standards; on the other, free health insurance, generous labor guarantees, greater income equality, a pristinely regulated natural environment, high unemployment, and declining national wealth.
A majority of American voters may reject the first for the second, as voters have in Europe for half a century. At least in Perry vs. Obama, the choice would be clear. We can be France or we can be Texas.”…..
“Sounds like a line all of us should pay attention to. “
Never heard of the mutt.
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“Rush transcript supporting Newt is excellent..http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/11/16/smear_machine_shifts_to_newt";
Great Transcript!
Gingrich: The phony intellectual
I prefer “Gingrich: The phony Conservative”
GFY Carraway. The question "who wrote this" referred to the author she was praising (which, considering your praise of HER puts you in a dim light) ANDY whoever the hell he is, not Rubin. Hence, my question “WHO WROTE THIS, ANDY’S MOM?"
Try some reading comprehension classes and thinking a little before you start calling people ignorant, you GD moron.
I await your apology. As if...
It’s fashionable but Perry is going to grow (in a good way!) on the voters.
Reduced to repeating the liberal lie about Clinton's impeachment, CW - that it was about sex?
Clinton wasn't impeached for his dalliances with Monica, he was impeached for lying under oath about them.
Shameless, CW. You should pay more attention to those asking why the heck you are using this particular hatchet instead of trying this particular line of liberal spin.
Don’t bother. Some posters, when they pick up the bloody hatchet, could care less that some of the old blood on it is from their own candidate.
No, you need book smarts to come up with an insurance mandate. Who was the real author again?
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