Beautiful, brilliant AND you can cook?
What you say about Gingrich is obviously true. Newt thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, and if one could put walls around the universe, that “room” couldn’t contain his bloated ego.
We have a malignant narcissist in the White House, who rarely listens to his own generals, certainly not his most recent Chief of Staff, doesn’t listen to the governors of border states, his own blue ribbon committees on fixing the economy, certainly not the voters, the framers of the Constitution, the Supreme Court or anyone who doesn’t meekly bow down at his Greek-columned altar.
These types of men will throw anyone and anything under the bus, from their own white grandmothers, to the free market, to lifelong “dear friends” and “mentors”, if it suits their desperate needs to constantly throw logs on an out of control blazing ego.
And, they often make wild, sometimes bizarre pronouncements about how they are going to “lower the seas” or “transform America” or would love to build a Jurassic Park or colonize the moon in eight years. It’s like listening to a 6 year old talk about being “the gweatest superman in the history of the whole wide world!”
Goethe said “dream no small dreams” and to an extent that’s true. There is a line between fantasy and reality, however. Having six year olds draping a pillowcase as a cape around their shoulders and jumping off the roof because they are dreaming of beings Superman, results in a trip to the emergency room, where the X-ray is not superhuman vision, it’s a machine to detect broken bones.
Newt, unlike Mitt…is not a compromiser by nature. In fact, he is the polar opposite. Disagree with him and he will make it a petty and personal vendetta, he will smear you, slander you, …whether you are Ronald Reagan taking on the Soviet Union or Mitt Romney making money at Bain Capital.
And, Newt will slalom the slippery slopes of global warming hoaxes, amnesty, the healthcare mandate, Fannie and Freddie’s public relations cover up, and assaults on the free market…petty envies and class warfare like a rotund Jean Claude Killy. In fact, if he had to Killy the free market to feed his gargantuan ego, he would not hesitate.
The propaganda machine has never had to face down a man who has no fear of them, however. And…if ever there was an enemy of truth that needed a beat down, it is those co-conspirators in our polluted and toxic information stream.
Newt being Newt…he takes no backward steps from enemies, real or imagined. The visceral and cathartic nature of watching those beat downs cannot be overstated. I see his weaknesses and don’t back down from vocally pointing them out…but I could kiss him square on his jowly jaw every time he lays into one of these professional liars and distortionists.
Alas, it’s a limited engagement booking. In the general election, THAT game would be so severely rigged against him, it won’t carry the day for him.
Worse, Newt will pivot and slalom in any direction…left, right or center. Some say that is “smart politics”. I strongly disagree.
His assault on the free market and cheap pandering to the petty envy crowd is beneath contempt for someone who needs to lead the charge against the ongoing attempted overthrow of captialism by the Marxists.
Newt is a man who really, in the final analysis, doesn’t give a damn about whether the Marxists win or the capitalists win, he just wants to sit on the throne and be fed grapes at the Bacchanalian feast to his ego.
His unworkable and often bizarre grandiosity is NOT what we need, in the dire and near paralyzing economic threat we are facing. We need not a schemer, but a systematic, wonkish, detail oriented, SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE. A steward to steer the ship out of the Marxist storm, not for his own vainglory, but because his countrymen need it, his country needs it, the world needs it.
Newt is erratic, unstable, distracted, and his polarizing smug and pedantic nature is off-putting to his own staff, those who work with him…and most certainly…swing voters.
There is much to enjoy in the adventure of a Gingrich candidacy. Wild and crazy ideas, beat downs of the propaganda machine, snappy debate performances. If Newt were a movie, he would be Mission Impossible. Lots of gadgets and gimmickry, hanging off the ledge on a skyscraper, shooting poisoned darts at the bad guys. And, for those willing to suspend disbelief, it’s great escapism.
Unfortunately, when that movie ends…reality begins again. And that’s simply not a place where Gingrich’s mind resides. He’s the wrong guy at the wrong time, too easily willing to throw the free market under the bus and play to class, ethnic and racial warfare for his own vainglory. He’s an enormous mistake for what we need. Unfortunately, everyone else currently running…is worse.
