Newt, the Democratic Mole
The New York Times' Bill Keller wants Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden on the Obama re-election ticket, but a better, likelier choice by far is available—one Newton Leroy Gingrich, reputedly a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination but in fact, an Obama surrogate working for Democratic victory in November.
I have proof. That's to say, Gingrich keeps opening his mouth. Aargghhhh. The stuff that spills out!
The terrible, horrible, no good, please-go-away race for the Republican presidential nomination has the potential to deliver President Obama the kind of ringing affirmation that seemed impossible not many months ago. That was before the former Republican speaker of the House of Representatives began shrieking his dislike and contempt for, well, the candidate likeliest to deny him, Newt Gingrich. Can you imagine it for a second?—the right to make over America in his personal and intellectual image.
No one treats Newton Leroy Gingrich like that and gets away with it. No one. If Republican voters are duped somehow into misappraising his genius and they spurn his suit, Gingrich appears to have decided, perhaps after consultation with heaven, that he'll show 'em. He'll pull down the temple, Samson-like. (Newton Gingrich fancies comparison to the strong and the brave.) Beneath the Republican ruins, we'll lie and sigh while the proud van of the Obama campaign sweeps past to victory.
Gingrich as a vice presidential nominee? Why not? Who can fairly be judged at this point to have done more than Newton Gingrich to undermine the Obama resistance movement?
In a New Hampshire debate, the former speaker of the House instructs his main presidential rival, Mitt Romney, to drop the "pious baloney." Nice, high-toned language, don't you agree? Very presidential. But we have to move on quickly, to ingest the news that Newton Leroy Gingrich, with the aid of a gambling baron from Nevada, will be distributing far and wide a 28-minute documentary purporting to expose the seamy side of Mitt Romney—his heartlessness, as head of an investment firm, in trying to restore the fortunes of failed or failing companies. Romney says his stewardship created a net 100,000 jobs, notwithstanding that other jobs were eliminated in the process.
As it happens, the Romney record at Bain Capital (the firm he left in 1999) is a favorite Democratic theme. The day before the New Hampshire primary, the Democratic National Committee released a web video making essentially the same charges as Gingrich. The Democrats—with little to tout in the way of economy-reviving policies—have long promised to throw Bain's "job destruction" record in the face of a GOP ticket headed by Romney. Why wait? the ex-speaker seems to reason. Let's do it now, since nothing else seems to be helping the Gingrich campaign.
The Bain story is complex as all get-out, even for the Wall Street Journal's attempt this week, in a news story, to simplify the matter. This is all the more reason to handle the story gingerly. Ah, but "gingerly" isn't the Gingrich style. Nothing else will do for Gingrich but that Bain Capital's attempts to turn around hard-up companies represent greed and contempt for all but the wealthy. Exactly—as Romney points out—"the type of criticism we've come to expect from President Obama and his left-wing allies at Moveon.org."
Even without Newton Leroy, the GOP presidential quest, with its mostly B-list roster of candidates, would have been less than inspirational. With him, the contest turns potentially fratricidal, just when the party should be starting to consider the healing of wounds, the unification of message, the overdue observance of Ronald Reagan's once-famous 11th Commandment—to speak no ill of a fellow Republican.
Obama-Gingrich—the sound of such a political union has a rich ring, in spite of what one knows already about Barack Obama; namely, he understands the futility of joining forces with a fellow know-it-all. Newton Leroy Gingrich is anything but the easiest man in America to live with—as two ex-wives might some day be induced to explain.
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I haven't read this. But how about field mouse, the democratic field mouse. Look the unseen, pudgy phantom crawl, just now under the door, almost invisible far too small; enough to make an elephant stand on top of a table, Mitt fallen like us all underneath. Where is my Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Saint-Paul?!! There's a telephone call for Ron Saint-Paul, Ron Saint-Paul!?!! ... Those were the days, remember, bell-hops, midgets in Hollywood, before cell phones. Those were the days, before The Beverly Hills Hotel became a welfare hospital. They wouldn't let my sister go to Disneyland with us, because she wasn't potty-trained yet. She was that day, after Mickey Mouse deprivation. Am I off topic? ... Telephone call...
I think the role Santorum, Ron Paul and Leroy Gingrich are supposed to play is to stay in through South Carolina and Florida to break up the coalition of conservatives until Mr. Romney has secured the nomination and then rally to the sound of the guns behind him against Obama. Sure Newt is resentful the GOP didn't pick him over Romney, but in the end he will be a team player because like the rest of us, we all look like Don Quixote or Sanch Ponzas riding a cavalry of horses all named Rocinantes. I wish I could take it all more seriously but 2 billion dollars will be spent in the coming months talking about supply and demand and creating jobs for people who in the words of Wendell Berry have forgotten SPRAWL-MART: ALWAYS has lower prices and LOW WAGES because even rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. But once upon a time it was the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
- Wendell Berry
Who is the Nevada gambling barron behind Newt? Does anyone know?
Mr. Bailey,
His name is Sheldon Adelson. There is a blurb about him on Wikipedia.
To echo Dr. Fleming's recent remarks, the sooner the corrupt nightmare known as Gingrich is hauled off of the national stage the better for everyone. His ties to this dubious Vegas plutocrat is only the latest illustration of his character. He's like a bad meal that keeps coming back at you all through the night.
Mr. Colin,
I don't mind Newt getting kicked around after all his years of kicking others in the teeth but the national debate is almost as thin as it can get right now. Heck Pat Buchanan has been recently decommisioned from the national audience for writing :
For what is a nation?
Is it not a people of a common ancestry, culture, and language who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays, share the same music, poetry, art, literature, held together, in Lincoln’s words, by “bonds of affection ... mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone”?
If that is what a nation is, can we truly say America is still a nation? The European and Christian core of our country is shrinking. The birth rate of our native born has been below replacement level for decades. By 2020, deaths among white Americans will exceed births, while mass immigration is altering forever the face of America."
I guess T.S. Eliot's "Notes Towards a Possible Definition of Culture" needs to be banned too. Heck, Chronicles needs to be banned. I have been saying for a long time that once the contemplative aspect of life has been annihilated from man and culture, the only thing left is carnal man. As Aristotle and St Thomas both knew, man cannot live long without delight and when he loses his power to enjoy those delights of the spirit, he will turn solely to those of the flesh. "We are simply eating husks that the swine eat." At this point it doesn't matter who the candidate is, the choice is the same --- you can have a job, a tax cut, another war, more license to live like an animal, or a new candidate; but you can't choose a leader from that kind of mob.
"SPRAWL-MART: ALWAYS has lower prices and LOW WAGES because even rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand."
Excellent.
In spite of the risk of exposing myself to the ridicule and reproach of the Chronicles public by declaring an opinion contrary to the prevailing tenor here, I must express how awed and titillated I have been by the GOP Beauty Pageant thus far. Mr Murchison's well-founded misgivings and disapproving judgment notwithstanding, I think we cannot but agree that Miss Georgia - the subject of this article and whose lovely portrait is adjoined to it - looks very good for a contestant of her years lived, travails suffered, and many, many sins done. That Miss Georgia, in vying for the crown of Miss Republican Party, has attained prominence and relative popularity with the pageant patrons, and yet has publicly acknowledged her sorry history of coquetry, dissipation, bawdry, and working flat-out on her back at the bagnio is striking testimony to her innate charms and winning manner. Such a remarkable woman.
I need not remind you that Miss Massachusetts, a polished and prim conventional beauty, well-versed in the essential outward forms and usages of this grand old pageant tradition, is still the likely queen, but Miss Pennsylvania's unrivalled dramatic skill in the talent exhibition stage of the contest where she marvellously aped an old wailing and keening Irish maid in her humourless priggery, Grundyism, and Zionist busybody evangelism, did wonders for that contestant's fortunes in the Iowa ballot. Junior Miss Texas has yet to retire from the competition, disregarding her abysmal finishing position in the pageant tests and votes to this point; but her sister Texan - my undoubted favourite and looked-to star - Senior Miss Texas has shown what a modest decorum, probity, nobility of mien and conduct, and a gloriously unblotched reputation, I mean unblotched complexion!, can add to a lady's chances even negating the disadvantage in these beauty pageants which naturally is incurred by old age, and achieving this in the teeth of the New York critics whose Old Testament-like wrath and envy against this innocent lass they have exercised to a frenzy.
P.S. I'm sure we're commonly glad to observe the departure of that loathsome drag-queen contestant, 'Miss' Minnesota! Who did that transvestite think he was fooling by impersonating a beauty pageant contestant? A Mr Minnesota in the GOP Beauty Pageant? Mrs Graham of South Carolina, chief choreographer, expert make-up artiste and chaperone to the GOP Pageant girls was surely appalled by the grotesque intrusion!
Carl Rove couldn't have said this better: "With him, the contest turns potentially fratricidal, just when the party should be starting to consider the healing of wounds, the unification of message, the overdue observance of Ronald Reagan's once-famous 11th Commandment—to speak no ill of a fellow Republican."
Murchison could add: And get back the foreign policy team of the Bush administration, such as John Bolton.
He says this just when Newt Gringrich finally adds some value to our national political discourse by calling out Mitt Romney for the fraud he is. Calling that an attack on capitalism is like saying Bernie Madoff was only prosecuted because of class warfare. Newt's video has been great in demonstrating what Corporativism and parasitical capitalism is. You know it's on point because of how angry it made Rush Limbaugh. That's why the corporativist alliance of Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex are so successful at co-opting any rebellion against their exploitation of Middle America; there's always useful idiots or worse amongst conservatives to assist them. Gingrich, of course, is one of the main ones but everyone of the candidates has done their utmost to destroy Ron Paul and marginalize his ideas. Yet there will be morons that say what great ideas he has but then support some other Republican who is his antithesis.
It never did matter much to me who the Republican nominee should be, since here in Illinois, not all the money in Vegas combined with all the money in Wall Street would purchase the state's electoral votes from the current owners. The Democrats view their choke hold on power as priceless and it is simply not for sale. I was marginally interested in Paul, until I heard that he cowardly retracted the truth he once spoke about MLK, a man who did so much to spur the growth of immorality in his people, and their subsequent destruction of cities across the land. The following words seem to me to apply accurately enough to Paul: "For he was not unaware that his assailants were thoroughly bad men, but he was unaware how high a pitch of infatuation and of general wickedness and greed they had reached."
Gilbert,
" "For he was not unaware that his assailants were thoroughly bad men, but he was unaware how high a pitch of infatuation and of general wickedness and greed they had reached."
Yes, I would say this is spot on. I knew better than to waste time watching the GOP debates but last night I succumbed since some of my acquaintances had been trying to convince me that "Romney really might have a chance." Well, enough of that nonsense. The neo-cons, since taking over the GOP foreign policy debate, have the party faithful so whipped up for more war it will be a no brainer for Obama to win another term. As easy as shooting fish in a barrell or more accurately, Persians in the Persian Gulf. All Obama needs to do is take a play from Bill Clinton and Karl Rove's playbook and escalate the war talk before the election, maybe launch a few cruise missals at key Iranian nuclear installations or sink a few of those Iranian speed-boats and presto, the country rallies to its leader and he should be in for another four years. The one GOP card that may have saved them--- have congress declare the next war before firing a shot --- was a nonstarter for all the candidates of the stupid party except of course the cantankerous irrelevant Ron Paul, and he was practically booed off stage.
Robert,
I was just reading Clyde Wilson's article on Calhoun's foreign policy and learned that we never even declared war on Mexico in that war. Even back then, at the height of American bellicosity, the congress-creatures bore a striking resemblance to weasels.
And since our present congress is "Isreali-occupied territory", in Pat Buchanan's words, and since the Mossad apparently has carte blanche, up to impersonating American CIA agents to instigate anti-Iran terrorist strikes, so that the blame should fall on the U.S. when the story comes out, thereby upping the tension between us and Iran even further - since all of this, Obama may not have to do anything to get his war. He doesn't have to get his hands dirty digging for a war pretext, the Israelis will do it for him. We can call it another job American's don't want to do: foreign policy.