Ann Coulter: NEWT PRESENTS A FRESH NEW VIRTUAL FACE [Oops!]

AnnCoulter.Com ^ | December 7, 2011 | Ann Coulter/OR'eilly

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NEWT PRESENTS A FRESH NEW VIRTUAL FACE

December 3, 2011

Before you newly active Republicans commit to Newt Gingrich as your presidential nominee on the basis of the recent debates, here's a bit of Newt history you ought to know. I promise you, it's going to come up if he's the candidate.

The day after the Republicans' historic takeover of the House of Representatives in the 1994 election, Newt was off and running, giving a series of Fidel Castro-style speeches about "the Third Wave information revolution." It had the unmistakable ring of lingo from his new-age gurus, Alvin and Heidi Toffler.

(Newt, who was married at the time, also began dating again.)

A few weeks later, when Newt was elected House speaker by the incoming Republican conference, there was a small elderly couple standing by his side as he gave a one-hour acceptance speech. It soon became clear who they were, when he issued a reading list to the Republican legislators. At the top of the list was a book by the Tofflers.

Hadn't Republicans just won on a platform of smaller government? Instead of a Republican victory, the '94 election seemed to be a victory for the Tofflers' cyber-babble about "social wavefront analysis," "anticipatory democracy," "de-massification," "materialismo," "the Third Wave" and "decision loads."

Then, in his first week as speaker, Gingrich was again promoting the Tofflers around town, introducing them at a technology conference and giving a speech titled "From Virtuality to Reality."

How about a speech on Republican plans to reform entitlement programs?

Gingrich soon announced that all legislation passed by the new Congress would have to pass a test: Will it help move America into the Tofflers' vision of a "Third Wave"?

If this guy ever became president, he could end up foisting EST on the nation.

It was also a Toffler-inspired idea that led Gingrich to propose giving poor families a tax credit to buy computers -- an idea he called "dumb" just one week later.

(Newt's denouncing Paul Ryan's Social Security reform as "right-wing social engineering" and then apologizing a week later -- and then retracting his apology -- was not uncharacteristic.)

The Tofflers were a couple of old folks who couldn't figure out how to program their VCRs, so they began writing about the "shock" of technology and how we needed government planning to deal with technological overload.

Their big idea was that the world was about to change faster than it ever had before, creating a technological explosion that would frighten and baffle the masses -- much like the bewildering VCR clock. The government would have to have advisers and committees in order to ease the transition.

The facts are nearly the exact opposite. In the first half of the 20th century, we got widespread use of the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, electricity, radio and television, indoor plumbing, air conditioning and refrigeration, the computer, nuclear power and rockets.

All we got in the second half of the 20th century were some improvements on one of those inventions -- the computer -- with the personal computer, the Internet and the iPhone. (Boomers were more focused on acid trips than space trips and dropped the ball on the hard work of pushing scientific progress forward.)

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The Tofflers were a couple of old folks who couldn't figure out how to program their VCRs, so they began writing about the "shock" of technology and how we needed government planning to deal with technological overload.

Their big idea was that the world was about to change faster than it ever had before, creating a technological explosion that would frighten and baffle the masses -- much like the bewildering VCR clock. The government would have to have advisers and committees in order to ease the transition.

Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com

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Hmmm, Coulter must have written this last Saturday:

NEWT PRESENTS A FRESH NEW VIRTUAL FACE

December 3, 2011

[Tribune7]

Pretty good Ann.

But I'm still not voting for Romney.

[BfloGuy]

Yeah, we know. Ann likes Mitt. She’s right about Newt, though. And don’t give me any false choice between Newt, Mitt and Obama. There are others.

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Har, SECOND! to that

[Berlin_Freeper]

Mitting Image

[Berlin_Freeper]

Newt: I'd Nominate John Bolton For Secretary of State

[Syncro]

Very good video, Romney describes himself very well!

[BerryDingle]

But I'm still not voting for Romney.

Same here, although I like Ann. Strange how hit pieces are never written on the Sears model.

[Joe 6-pack]

Ann’s not going to persuade me to go Romney, but the JBS was pointing out Gingrich’s associations with the Toffler’s well over a decade ago.

[Gator113]

In years past I would have read any article by Coulter, but she no longer has any credibility with me.

Once she came out in support for Romney, she lost me, completely.

I’m not sure that she isn’t crazy, heck, I’m no longer sure that she isn’t a man.

Vote for Newt.......

[Graewoulf]

” - - - It was also a Toffler-inspired idea that led Gingrich to propose giving poor families a tax credit to buy computers - - - “

In my book, Nanny-Newt is a Nanny-State True Believer, RINO, Rockefeller-Republican, TR Progressive, the-State-is-infallible, professional politician.

BTW, who are you cheering on to victory? Hope it is not someone who believes in the failed fantasy of “Nannyism.”

[DoughtyOne]

I believe that this is only the tip of the iceberg with Newt too. Like I have said, he can rattle off some great sound-bytes in support of the Constitution. Then he turns around and goes postal against it. Beats anything I’ve ever seen.

I wish I could support him, but I’m not about to.

[bksanders]

Ann Coulter. Warding off her irrelevance at every turn.

[Da Coyote]

Anne, I love you, but I’ll never vote for RINOmney.

Not now.

Not evah!

Get over him, he’ll just fail you. (He has a long and enviable record of doing just that.)

[fso301]

The Tofflers' recommendation that children be eased into the coming technological revolution with adult mentors sounds like the proposal of Clinton's surgeon general, Joycelyn Elders, that schools teach teenagers to masturbate. In both subject areas, the children can teach their elders a few tricks.

ROTFL!

[cblue55]

No way will I support Newt. He’s a republican megalomaniac.

[icwhatudo]

Complaining about paling around with Al Sharpton?

Hows that gig on the homo logo channel going Ann?

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I'd rather read about it on Free Republic:

Gingrich: I’ll make John Bolton Secretary of State

Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:07:50 PM · by Nachum · 16 replies

Hot Air ^ | 12/7/11 | Allahpundit

Via Mediaite, how much redder could this red meat be? The answer is none. None more red. Who cares if it’s kinda sorta illegal to promise appointments as a candidate? Bolton’s a rock star among righty hawks and Newt knows it only too well. Dude, I think he might have just sealed the deal. Just one question: Would a Secretary of State Bolton get confirmed by the Senate? Granted, the GOP will probably have control next year, but the Democrats fought Bolton’s UN appointment under Bush tooth and nail. Their base would go berserk if they didn’t filibuster. And they...