Well PeePee, that is my point...we have allowed them to become stupid, brainwashed, complacent and uninformed because we STOPPED informing them for eight long years under Bush and Rove’s guidance - and that continued with the McCain campaign and also the Romney campaign. In 2010, we informed, and we won. Newt would have run a campaign of informing. And he is brilliant at it, for all of his other faults (and yes, there are many...yada yada...)
And FTR, there’s no one named Ed here. Chuck, if you must go informal.
Newt could not have "educated" the electorate because the electorate would not listen to him. The electorate has been convinced that conservatism is racist and sexist and pure evil.
No, I am convinced at this point that the only way the US Electorate will be convinced of their folly is if the entire structure of American society collapses under the weight of liberal idiocy. Until then no conservative or Republican can get elected to a national office. We have reached that point.
Romney was a liberal, but the mere fact that he was a Republican was enough to scare the living daylights out of the liberal drones and uninformed masses. Newt would have spoken the truth, but the masses would not have heard it.
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
Paul Simon