Newt Gingrich’s new Iowa ad has everything. And nothing.

[dtotire]

Newt Gingrich’s new Iowa ad has everything. And nothing.

There are picket fences, purple mountains, amber waves of grain and a (fruited?) plain. Office workers, blue-collar workers and cowboys. Small businesses, the state capitol and the Statue of Liberty. Beaming little boys, a young woman with flowers and soldiers in full dress.

It’s as light as a confection — six inches of meringue and half an inch of filling. That’s the new Newt, banking on amnesia and nostalgia. He wants the world to forget who he was (and is) and pine for what America was (and can be).

Gingrich milked his insider status like a two-uddered cow, but now he acts as if he was never in the barn. He profited in cash from Congressional connections, but now he positions himself as the prophet of wisdom from beyond the beltway.

For those of us with memories longer than an election cycle and eyes not blinded by Obama hatred, this is laughable — the charade of a charlatan. But there must not be many like us among the Republican ranks, particularly in Iowa, because Gingrich is surging in the polls.


http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/newts-nostalgia-and-amnesia/?nl=opinion&emc=tya1

[DCKit]

1. Needs more whores. And cute little boys.

But only if he really wants to appeal to the base.