[cripplecreek]

The quote.

Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reasons for workers to organize together, and there is a strong need for a healthy, competitive, union, movement that helps improve the lives of its members and the competitiveness of our country.

Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct minority among union leaders.

[Nervous Tick]

>> The quote.

Yes, I know. You posted it to me on that other thread too.

But I’m a thinking man, CC. I like to go *beyond* HuffPo pull quotes and understand the context (and the candidate) from a deeper perspective. So I read not just the silly quote you shove in my face but the considerable material around it that explains where Gingrich is *really* coming from.

I realize that thinking and understanding are foreign concepts to you and I apologize for jarring your tidy dogmatic world. But it’s just how I’m wired.

Thanks anyhow.