Posted on 07/19/2005 8:33:24 PM PDT by CHARLITE
In Washington, old politicians don't even fade away.
Even professional pundits can sometimes be wrong in predicting the future. For example, I thought that when he slunk out of Congress in 1998, we had heard the last of Newt Gingrich. And he did lie low for a while. But now he's back, big-time. Just Google him up. He's the man to go to for a quote about anything relating to the Republican Party or the universe generally. He is hitting the talk shows a lot and graduating from the role of guest interviewee to that of a full-fledged know-it-all sitting at the big round table with chairs that tilt back.
Gingrich recently co-chaired a congressionally sponsored commission on the future of the United Nations — could there be a more numbingly high-minded topic? — along with former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, a man so respectable that he makes a good living at it. And then there's Gingrich's enormously publicized mutual embrace (intellectual, not physical) with Hillary Clinton. They agree about something to do with health care, which would seem more amazing if the subtext weren't so obvious: He helps her to seem moderate; she helps him to seem legitimate.
What does it take in Washington to be so thoroughly discredited that nobody cares what you think? Gingrich is far from the worst miscreant ever to be rehabilitated. By the time he died, even Richard Nixon was regarded as a major foreign policy guru. But Gingrich may hold the record for being discredited in so many ways.
He's been out of office for years. Who is Newt Gingrich to lend luster to Hillary Clinton? Answer: He's a celebrity. In the famous definition of that term, he's famous for being famous.
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Which George Mitchell is he talking about?
George Mitchel is as slimey a pol as you can get. That twink Kinsley is such a hack!
I don't know. You need to ask somebody like Michael Kinsley (I think that was his name).
Whenever he shows up on Fox he gets my undivided attention.
What was his big scandal, I forget, something like congressional postal abuse, or some minor BS?
Same with Bill Bennett. So what if he gambles?
At least neither of them are letting a homo-boy-toy run a male prostitution ring out of his Georgetown townhouse like our queen freak Bawnehy from MA.
I'll trust Newt's choices of political (temporary) alliances.
Never been in that sleazy world, but I'm thinking you gotta do what you gotta do to get face time on the toob, then kill your opponent. It's what Hitlery would do.
Learn from you enemy.
Isn't Kinsley the guy with the palsied/ pastey face?
Yea, he's a dishonest twerp. A real hand wringing, limp wristed liberal. (On a good day, that is)
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