Newt Gingrich
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{{cquote|''It doesn't matter what I do... People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.''|||Newt Gingrich (according to Marianne Gingrich)<ref>[http://gawker.com/5609446/newt-gingrichs-ex-speaks-out-and-its-ugly Newt Gingrich's Ex Speaks Out and Its Ugly]</ref>}} | {{cquote|''It doesn't matter what I do... People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.''|||Newt Gingrich (according to Marianne Gingrich)<ref>[http://gawker.com/5609446/newt-gingrichs-ex-speaks-out-and-its-ugly Newt Gingrich's Ex Speaks Out and Its Ugly]</ref>}} | ||
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'''Newt Gingrich''' (pronounced Ging-Grinch) is a well known American politician and paragon of [[family values]], who once presented one of his wives with divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from a mastectomy. | '''Newt Gingrich''' (pronounced Ging-Grinch) is a well known American politician and paragon of [[family values]], who once presented one of his wives with divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from a mastectomy. | ||
Revision as of 08:21, 23 November 2011
“”It doesn't matter what I do... People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.
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| —Newt Gingrich (according to Marianne Gingrich)[1] |
“”"[S]omebody said 'he's a stupid man’s idea of what a smart person sounds like,' but he is more plausible than the other guys they’ve been pushing up."
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| —Paul Krugman on This Week with Christiane Amanpour (20 November 2011) regarding Newt's rise to the top of the woeful field of 2012 Republican presidential candidates.[2] |
Newt Gingrich (pronounced Ging-Grinch) is a well known American politician and paragon of family values, who once presented one of his wives with divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from a mastectomy.
He is famous for leading the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton (for adultery), while concurrently having an affair.[3]
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Contract With America
Newt Gingrich rose to the position of Speaker of the House after successfully building a movement which groomed up-and-coming Republican politicians, preparing them to run for the House of Representatives. In the 1994 midterm election, he and his ragtag army managed to win a majority of the seats, running on his ten-point "Contract On With America".
However, his skills as a combative back-bencher did not translate to the ability to ride herd on the GOP House members, and he was eventually ousted by his own party.
He started working for Fox News and is a heavy promoter of the Tea Party, the ideological successors to his reign of demagogy and Dominionism as Speaker, a group where he fits right in.
He has talked before about shredding the Constitution.
Comeback?
In May 2011, Gingrich officially announced his candidacy for the 2012 Republican nomination for President. He was off to a rocky start, first daring to criticize new GOP darling Paul Ryan's deficit reduction plan and catching massive flak from his party colleagues as a result. Next came the revelation that he had run up a tab of half a million dollars at luxury jeweler Tiffany's.[4] Gingrich proceeded to take a two-week vacation to the Mediterranean while the other contenders were busy barnstorming and fundraising. Upon his return, he had to learn that most of his senior campaign staffers were fed up with his half-assed approach and decided to desert the sinking ship.[5]
Newt!
Why anyone with the forenames Newton Leroy would willingly acknowledge an apparent relation to a cold blooded semi-aquatic animal is a question that only he can answer. [6]
Flip-Flopping
In 2011, Gingrich accused Obama of "flip-flopping" on the Libyan uprising, but should have learned that throwing stones when living in a glass house isn't a good idea.
Compare[7]
| There's almost a conspiracy of silence, if it's an anti-American government. If you're the Iranians, if you are the Libyans, for that matter, if you're the Chinese, you are able to suppress your people and the American government stays quiet. |
To
| Prior to March 3, I would have strongly recommended an Eisenhower-Reagan model... you should have said nothing. Be very quiet. Condemn the violence. Do everything you can covertly. |
Or how about[8]
| Exercise a no-fly zone this evening, communicate to the Libyan military that Gadhafi was gone and that the sooner they switch sides, the more like they were to survive, provided help to the rebels to replace him. I mean, the idea that we're confused about a man who has been an anti-American dictator since 1969 just tells you how inept this administration is. |
and
| Let me draw the distinction. I would not have intervened. I think there were a lot of other ways to affect Qaddafi. I think there are a lot of other allies in the region we could have worked with. I would not have used American and European forces. |
Secular-socialist machine
Newt's new favorite catchphrase is "secular-socialist machine," which comes from the subtitle of his book To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine. According to Newt, Barack Obama is the most radical president in US history and is using Saul Alinsky tactics and Chicago politics to refashion the US into a dreaded "high-tax low-growth" European state. Apparently, "the secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union did."[9]
Quotes
“”I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.[11]
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“”A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport [but] in the Olympics. ... And there's a whole new world of opportunity opening up that didn't even exist 30 years ago or 40 years ago, and no bureaucrat would have invented it. And that's what freedom is all about.[12]
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“”The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.
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| —PR release from Gingrich's press secretary Rick Tyler[13] |
External links
- Newt in His Own Words: 33 Years of Bomb-Throwing (collection of quotes and incidents), Mother Jones, May 2011
Footnotes
- ↑ Newt Gingrich's Ex Speaks Out and Its Ugly
- ↑ Crugnale, James. "Paul Krugman: Newt Gingrich Is ‘A Stupid Man’s Idea Of What A Smart Person Sounds Like’", Mediaite website, 20 November 2011
- ↑ Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Acknowledges Having Affair During Clinton Impeachment
- ↑ Slate: Gingrich Had Six-Figure Tab at Tiffany’s
- ↑ Newt Gingrich Advisers Resign En Masse Politico
- ↑ Or perhaps the well known UK newt fancier & one-time Labour luminary Ken Livingstone might have some sympathy
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37064
- ↑ http://www.quotesandpoem.com/quotes/showquotes/author/newt-gingrich/120470
- ↑ http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/what.php
- ↑ http://www.slate.com/id/1880/
- ↑ Be sure to check out John Lithgow's performance of this gem.