will the nightmare ever end?

[spanone]

The Return of Newt Gingrich


www.nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/magazine/01republicans-t.html?_r=1&hp

[That Is Quite Enough]

1. It's like an 80s slasher film they just keep making sequels to.

[SoCalDem]

2. Republicans are tenacious. That's the difference between them and us..

When a dem runs, and loses or is booted out. that's IT for them..Republicans know no shame, and never believe that they are wrong. They keep coming back and back and back.. or they never quit..

Look at Nixon..look at Ted Stevens..Larry Craig..David Vitter..

and their "spokespeople".. they've been speaking for no more than 30% of "the people" FOR-EVAH...and yet they assumed the mantle of majority, and because no media disputed itm they ran with it..

they CONTROL the media..even today, and they are just miffed that they are out of office 'for now"..but like the zombies they are, they WILL be back..and back and back..

why?

because people forget, and people like fairy tales

[Two Americas]

6. also...

They know whose interests they represent, they know what the battle is about and where the battle lines are. They relentlessly work to advance the needs and desires of the wealthy and powerful few.

If the Democrats worked half as hard for the working people as the Republicans do for the few, we would not be having all of the problems we are having.

"But the resolute enemy within our gates is ever ready to beat down our words unless in greater courage we will fight for them." - FDR

However, we cannot unambiguously fight for the working people, because the conservatives among us are battling night and day as hard as they can to prevent people from seeing where the battle lines are and what the battle is about, to disrupt any constructive discussions, and to block the building of any consensus and solidarity. They are successfully pushing the party to the right, and the activist community is now far to the right of the general public and represents perhaps the most stubborn and effective bulwark for the status quo anywhere now.

[Deja Q]

3. Looks like 'John' from the 1983 miniseries 'V' (w/pic)

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[rurallib]

4. I think of Newt as a muppet - sort of a cross between Grover and Elmo

And suddenly he seems sooo comical
Thanks to Stephanie Miller.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Oh, man...........

I just started reading the blessed Molly Ivins' "Who Let The Dogs In?" and one of her pieces in the early part of the book, back during the early Clinton years, is about what a scumbucket (my word, not Molly's) Newt Gingrich is.

She really had his number, Molly did.

He needs to rot away somewhere, that vile, vile thing.

[spanone]

7. a friend of mine met gingrich and his description was 'slimy'

[SheilaT]

8. In about 1993, when he was just

beginning to show up on the national radar, someone commented that the name Newt Gingrich sounded like a skin disease, as in "My newt gingrich seems to be getting worse these days," said while poking at his arm.

[spanone]

9. cry baby