Maureen Dowd on Newt Gingrich...

[liberal N proud]

Maureen Dowd's Op-Ed in NY Times, Dec 3

He didn’t get whiplash being a serial adulterer while impeaching another serial adulterer, a lobbyist for Freddie Mac while attacking Freddie Mac, a self-professed fiscal conservative with a whopping Tiffany’s credit line, and an anti-Communist Army brat who supported the Vietnam War but dodged it.

“Part of the question I had to ask myself,” he said in a 1985 Wall Street Journal piece about war wimps, “was what difference I would have made.”

Newt swims easily in a sea of duality and byzantine ideas that don’t add up. As The Washington Post reported on Friday, an America under President Gingrich would have two Social Security systems — “one old, one new, running side by side” — two tax systems and two versions of Medicare.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/dowd-out-of-africa-and-into-iowa.html

[tabatha]

1. This is so accurate

NEWT GINGRICH’S mind is in love with itself.

It has persuaded itself that it is brilliant when it is merely promiscuous. This is not a serious mind. Gingrich is not, to put it mildly, a systematic thinker.

His mind is a jumble, an amateurish mess lacking impulse control. He plays air guitar with ideas, producing air ideas. He ejaculates concepts, notions and theories that are as inconsistent as his behavior.

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But I would never have found the words to describe it as well as she has.

[tabatha]

2. And this

This was a typical Newt mental six-car pileup. The man who espouses Christian values being un-Christian in visiting the alleged sins of the father upon the son; the man who reveres the anticolonialism of the founding fathers ranting against the anticolonialism of the father of America’s first African-American president. How do you rail against the Evil Empire and urge overthrowing Saddam and not celebrate liberation in Africa?

[snagglepuss]

3. K & R Brilliant summation of Newt.

[immoderate]

4. Good column. But what's that "tail" behind Newt in the cartoon?

Maureen has really nailed Newt as a politician whose pores ooze racism.

--imm

[tabatha]

5. A roll of ammunition?

[immoderate]

10. Ah, yes. Now I see it.

Ammo in a belt.

Edit to add: Thanks!:hi:

--imm

[high density]

6. So it sounds like Newt wants to double the size of government

Got it.

[liberal N proud]

7. Only the military

I am sure!

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[JNelson6563]

9. Even s broken clock's right twice a day.

No doubt her next column will be full of her usual hackery.

[Enthusiast]

11. Newt is like a more socially acceptable version of Rush Limbaugh.

But hardly acceptable to me. Still at the level of downright disgusting or lower.

[Brigid]

12. I was struck by this quote from Gingrich about the Revolutionary War:

"The British elites believed this was a conflict about money and about minor irritations. They simply could not believe the colonists were serious about their rights as free men and women."

Isn't this pretty much how the 1% view the Occupy?