Why GOP embraces simpletons and how it hurts America

I guess Newt knew all the right angles.

 

I think it's awesome that Romney has been married for 42 years. He should be applauded for that.

I just think that with everything going on in this country right now the last thing anybody is going to care about is who may or may not have been blowing Gingrich in the hospital parking lot in 1980.

The thing with Clinton bothers me a bit, because it shows him to be a hypocrite.

 

Completely agree.

 

I doubt Obama will bring up the hospital incident, or even the family values stuff. I would think one effective tactic would be one similar to what he could use on Romeny: How come you keep changing your mind? After all, the current health reform looks a lot more like what Newt proposed, rather than what Clinton proposed. Make him justify not the things he did (though you could do that, too), but portray him as a guy talking out of both sides of his mouth. Like, how can on one hand Newt say Barney Frank should go to jail for what happened at Fannie Mae, while he also took $1.6 million from Fannie Mae?

Now, as the Politico article pointed out, the one who is going to hammer Newt on family values is Romney. At this point, he almost has to, if he's going to finally, in his mind, get rid of all these clowns and get the nomination that is so rightfully his.

 

Oh, yeah, sure . . . given who W was, there's no way a school was going to derail him . . .

 

I don't recall seeing a single thing in any book stating that anyone (including his opponents) ever thought Richard Nixon was unintelligent.

And Gingrich was denied tenure for the same reason in just about all tenure-denial cases: he didn't publish enough scholarly work. I read an interview where he stated he was more interested in running for Congress.

 

The Grand Old Party will undo Newt long before he ever gets anywhere near the general election. All the parking lot blow jobbery and deathbed divorce nonsense mentioned above will be deployed by his Republican competitors months before the President ever needs it.

Everyone on the GOP stage has had their turn at the top of the Ferris Wheel. This week it's Newt - as Herman Cain slowly sinks into irrelevance. A month from now, who knows?

But once the primaries start in earnest, it's Romney.

 

She is just a gift of stupidity that keeps on giving.

 

Hey, it works for her, doesn't it?

 

At the rate it's going, someday a GOP candidate will find a following with a "Get off my Lawn!" platform.

 

I am interesting in subscribing to that man's newsletter already. Finally, someone who understands.

 

This response does not make her a simpleton. Everyone knows what she's saying - that gay people can marry members of the opposite sex - and a good chunk of the population simply doesn't agree. It seems unfair to them. Whether or it is or it isn't fair - it's not a "simple" position.