Posted on 07/03/2011 7:00:37 PM PDT by Minn
Let’s consult the literature — all 21 books by the self-proclaimed ideas man of politics. (Gingrich cites 23 books on his Web site. We are not counting the Contract With America or the coffee-table book “Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous With Destiny.”)
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.”
The “we,” as Gingrich uses it here, is akin to the royal we — it’s what might be called the professorial we, employed when the intellectual and the ideas he generates merge to create an entity too large for a singular personal pronoun. “Over my years in public life,” he writes in his latest book about how to save America, “I have become known as an ‘ideas man.’ ” And we shouldn’t doubt it. As I write, a stack of books tilts Pisa-like on my desk, each volume written by Gingrich and various co-authors. I got out my tape measure the other day and discovered that the stack is precisely 15¼ inches high — a figure that does not include the various revised and expanded editions that I have had Whispernetted into my Kindle, along with the historical novels that Gingrich has published with a co-writer named William R. Forstchen: three fat books on the Civil War, three on World War II and a pair on the Revolutionary War. If I added these to my stack, it would be taller than the mayor of Munchkinland and much heavier.
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i’m tired of seeing this guy as a candidate guest on every fox news program. come on fox you can do better than that.
He’s a very smart man. BUT NOT PRESIDENTIAL.
He should stick to writing books.
Which is more despicable?
Gingrich or NYT, Gingrich or NYT?
Actually, I think equally of both...I despise them.
Let me be the third. Screw Newt.
Let me be the third. Screw Newt.
Hey Newt: If you’re so smart and all knowing, why didn’t you expose 0bama for what he is and prevent him from becoming POTUS? Same goes for George Bush and many others.
... and when does he know it?
Gingrich was a great man once, but when push came to shove he quit, and his day in the sun is long over. Besides, he’s changed since 1994. He is not the same man, and he is not a viable candidate. I don’t hate him, but I have no use for him either, and neither does conservative politics.
Callista is unavoidable in all of Gingrich’s current endeavors. Having married a powerful man and suddenly blossomed in fields in which she earlier showed seemingly no interest or professional skill — writing books, taking photographs, making movies, overseeing her husband’s not-for-profit company — Callista has emerged as the Linda McCartney of the conservative movement.
We have big ideas
He does not know enough to stay away from the phony Global Warming hoax.
I know that he won’t be president and he takes his foreign-affairs policy from the Pratt Building in NYC, the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization where Hillary stated she gets most of her foreign policy information.
Go to 1:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-sUywS0FJ4
Nothing!
"Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians," he said. "We have big ideas."He's had two -- one was the Contract With America, the other one was planning all along to not deliver on the Contract With America, i.e., stabbing us in the back. Naturally I've forgiven him for it -- but I'm not forgetful, either. Fool me once...
Gingrich pi**e* me off, but the Times pi**e* me off more.
How to put Republican smiley faces on liberalism, mainly.
Only thing is, once that mask slips, the jig's up.
And the jig has been up for a very long time for Mr. Gingrich.
Newt is intellectually dishonest.
Newt is personally dishonest.
Newt is rotten to the core.
Newt is overdone and overexposed.
Anyone who thinks Newt is running to win and not simply running to further his own personal agenda is gullible and naive.
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