How Long Before Gingrich Implodes?
By Larry Johnson on January 23, 2012 at 10:37 PM in Current Affairs
This ain’t a matter of if, but when. Newt Gingrich will metaphorically shoot himself in the head with a 50 caliber sniper rifle. And when it happens it will dirty up the rest of the Republican field. Most Americans despise Newt Gingrich. He mistakes his grandiosity for brilliance. He thinks that talking equals action. But the evidence of the toxicity of Gingrich is clear:
I don’t have a problem with Newt whoring around. Other Presidents have done so. But Newt moralized like an old testament prophet against the sins of Bill Clinton. If you are blasting Bill Clinton for getting his knob polished in the Oval Office while nailing one of your female staffers in your wife’s bed, that’s not just a lapse in judgement. That is not, as Newt claimed, a weakness created by working too hard on behalf of the United States. It is audacity in its purest form.
Newt is an ideological cross-dresser. Right now he is pretending to be a conservative (whatever that is). But instead of a limited, shrinking government, he ends up expanding government. How so? He’s proposing in Florida, out on the space coast, to get government back in the business of spending big bucks on the space program. Now, I’m not against the space program, but in a time of fiscal crisis spending money we don’t have on space is crazy.
This is typical pandering of Newt. Remember Iowa? Newt was insisting the government needed to keep giving Iowa farmers money to produce ethanol and taking money from those who benefited financially from this:
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich counts the world’s largest ethanol producer as a top donor to his presidential campaign, underscoring the Republican’s deep ties to an industry whose government subsidies he has steadfastly defended even while running as a fiscal conservative.
All you conservatives thinking about voting for Newt, is that your idea of a conservative?
How about Newt shitting all over Paul Ryan? Paul Ryan proposes a visionary plan to attack the deficit and Newt savages Ryan for “conservative social engineering.” That was not the reaction of some rookie legislator. That was pure Gingrich. He can’t stand not being the center of attention. He needs it psychologically.
We got a hint of Gingrich’s coming meltdown at tonight’s debate (Monday night) when Romney laid into him for taking money from health care companies while lobbying Congress on Medicare spending. Gingrich sincerely did not even comprehend the concept of “conflict of interest.” That’s part of the reason he got into trouble as Speaker.
by Ronald Scott
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