Posted on 11/29/2011 7:32:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Perfect description of how Gingrich and Co. squandered the incredible amount of power conservatives gave them.
Newt has one principle, Newt.
Newt Gingrich reminds me of a young married Professional “Yuppie””know-it-all” type couple who has NO kids trying to tell a successful Homeschooling Family how to raise kids or be parents.
Correct. Newt is a narcissist. They are great at sizing people up, figuring out what they want to hear and giving it to them. Anybody who listens to the pitch and believes the narcissist will subsequently stand on principle and follow through, just hasn’t had much experience w these types. They will let you down every single time, no exceptions.
Everything changed on the climate front when the East Anglia fraudulent research was exposed in late 2009.
Everything anyone had suggested prior to that is moot. Some honorable people were operating on trust in some falsified data.
The question is what they did when they found out about the falsified data.
Many refused to continue their support of global climate change. They were the honest ones. Newt Gingrich was one of those. He stopped supporting it.
Others continued as if climate change were real and as if falsified data did not matter. They were the dishonorable ones. They continue to cry “wolf” to the nation.
Yeah, I’m on it. It’s amazing what a simple missed tag can do to a beautiful post.
Bullcrap. We all knew that is was a Marxist wealth distribution scam before then, and Newt did too, or he should have known.
Sorry, no pass for the Newt.
I disagree. We all didn’t “know” it. We believed the minority research. That doesn’t mean those who believed the majority research were lacking in integrity.
It means simply that they were wrong. That is not an ethical issue.
For them NOW to know it and to continue pushing this crap is an ethical issue. They are not to be trusted.
So, Gingrich gets a pass on this one.
It’s deer hunting season in Ohio. I’m a true environmentalist. I will do my small part to help thin the herd. Nor will I dump its carcass into the stream that runs alongside my property.
He reminds me of the t-shirt:” People say I have ADD...Look, a chicken!”
To me [aside from his other failings], Gingrich lacks self-discipline and organizational skill. He IS the ADD candidate.
You maybe right, but what I find striking is that Lindsey Graham was one of the people forcing Newt out. However, he became a US Senator and I recall the people giving the GOP nice new majorities in 2002 so we could get some Judges appointed. I recall that Mr. Graham then became a member of the GANG of 14 to compromise with RATS on which judicial appointees would get the nod. I would say that Graham ultimately squandered way more power than Newt did. We lost some good potential Judges.
The problem was that the falsification claim turned out to be itself falsified.
The list of Republicans who helped squander the power that conservatives gave them is too long to argue over who was the worst.
All politicians are narcissistic. That is what drives them to be politicians. A non-narcissist doesn't stand a chance at being a politician.
are you saying that the east anglia data was correct and good data?
Newt is far beyond the ordinary, garden variety narcissist [which technically isn’t a narcissist at all; the term is overly-broadly applied by people who have no idea what the Personality Disorder associated w it is fundamentally about]. He in part excused his infidelity by citing his ‘passion for the country’. When you are so narcissistic that you can even think of such an excuse, much less utter it in public, your narcissism rises beyond common misconceptions and into the realm of a full blown Personality Disorder.
Let me ask you this. If Weiner had in part blamed the tweeting of his erection on his “passion for the country”, how would you have responded? If you respond w a shrug, then you truly do not grasp this mental disorder.
I don't respond in any way. I have observed that to be a politician one needs to be narcissistic; revel in adulation; take advantage of the position for one's own benefit at the expense of those who are taxed to pay for the situation; make laws that do not apply to them; etc; etc.
I hope you’re not saying it’s normal political behavior to cite ones love for the USA to justify adultery. I know of no politician other than Newt who has used that line.
No doubt about it, Newt is not the only narcissist in congress or in government. But not all pols are narcissists by a long shot. One prime characteristic of a true narcissist is the inability to empathize. Newt has displayed this trait in spades. Even some of our most craven pols can empathize on some level. Those who lack this ability are the ones to really watch out for; they are very bad news for all around them.
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