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

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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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[fightinJAG]

Somehow this reminded me of when Newt wanted to give a laptop computer, paid for by federal tax dollars, of course, to every school child in America. And that was back when laptops cost like $5,000 each!

Then in the next minute he was talking about how desperately the country needed to cut massive social programs.

It was a trip if you were there.

[newzjunkey]

Rick Perry was a top supporter and campaign organizer for Al Gore’s presidential campaign back in 1988.

That stretches all credibility to the breaking point. He was one Democrat legislator who endorsed Gore in the Texas Democrat primary. It is very well document as denied by Gore's then campaign people that Perry had any active or substantial role in the campaign.

Coulter using John Birch Society talking points to puff up her guy Romney is unimaginable when thinking of the impeachment era Ann Coulter. To me, something shifted with her after W was elected and she'd never really returned to the reservation.

[rashley]

“Libertine?” I don’t think so. Try Constitutionalist or Libertarian.

[rashley]

I apologize for not including this in my earlier reply, but FDR was doing everything short of invading Japan to provoke the Japanese. It is absurd to claim that “we” were ignoring “the rest of the planet.”

[TomasUSMC]

I like Coulter too. But it seems that Rush is not happy with her attacks on Newt.

I am leaning to Paul. I don’t want the other Conservatives to keep US proping up Countries that mandate in their Constitutions, “NO LAW SHALL CONTRADICT ISLAM”.

[Syncro]

... it seems that Rush is not happy with her attacks on Newt.

Wait until he sees this weeks column!

Ann Coulter: NEWT: SPEAK BOMBASTICALLY AND CARRY A TINY STICK (ROMNEY: CHRISTIE STICK)

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:18:34 PM · by Syncro · 6 replies

AnnCoulter.Com ^ | December 14, 2011 | Ann Coulter

ANNCOULTER.COM NEWT: SPEAK BOMBASTICALLY AND CARRY A TINY STICK December 14, 2011Fellow right-wingers: Is our objective to taunt Obama by accusing him of "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior," of being "authentically dishonest" and a "wonderful con" -- and then lose the election -- or is it to defeat Obama, repeal Obamacare, secure the borders, enforce e-verify, reform entitlement programs, reduce the size of government and save the country? If all you want is to lob rhetorical bombs at Obama and then lose, Newt Gingrich -- like recent favorite Donald Trump -- is your candidate. But if you want to save the country,...