Yes. Simply regurgitating the same, over-used stump talking points doesn’t do any good, or change many minds.
What we need to do is reclaim some of the empty space between many people’s ears. Reintroduce some of the ideas, principles, history, civility, morality, loss for many of self-reliance that has been so lacking in much of our educational institutions, and, too often, from one generation teaching the next.
Simply hurling out our position and then arguing about it does not serve the larger and necessary requirements of redirecting this country back toward our formative values.
We need people who understand our past greatness to teach those principles to ensuing generations. Otherwise, all we have is a bickering, downward-spiraling, uncivil society bent on each component getting what it can at the expense of someone else.
We need people who understand our past greatness to teach those principles to ensuing generations.
Exactly! That's why Newt is the man of our time right now. His intelligence, historical perspective, and ability to articulate dynamically makes him the perfect bulldog.