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charlesoakwood

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Gingrich for President
« on: May 14, 2011, 12:49:48 PM »
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/welcome_to_the_newt_show_e0wlaLnGNaN3cyLLC8loVN


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I had never before met an educated person who was so determined to make reference to how educated he was.

Then, Gingrich said something unusual for a self-proclaimed educator-historian-PhD. The thinker who meant the most to him, he declared, was Alvin Toffler, author of the 1970 pop bestseller "Future Shock."

Not Aristotle; not Plato; not Edward Gibbon, the greatest historian in the English language; not Shakespeare or Tolstoy or John Locke. Alvin Toffler.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
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This is too good not to read.

Also, gNewt, for those not involved at the time, was always referring to the Tofflers and some other pop book as guide posts for us to the future.  It was like, WTF?


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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 01:56:16 PM »
FOX had the picture of him with Pelosi and that pretty much took care of that.
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2011, 02:15:54 PM »
Quote from: John Florida on May 14, 2011, 01:56:16 PM
FOX had the picture of him with Pelosi and that pretty much took care of that.

Nuck Fewt.
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 03:44:36 PM »
Poor newt.....So many opportunities to use his talents to defeat liberals....But he chooses the path of ruin. Shame.
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2011, 05:36:30 PM »
Quote from: Predator Don on May 14, 2011, 03:44:36 PM
Poor newt.....So many opportunities to use his talents to defeat liberals....But he chooses the path of ruin. Shame.

 No he chose the path to money!! He got paid to sit with that Skank and money was more important then. Now he's got a problem on his hands.
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2011, 06:28:00 PM »
Newt  ::hysterical::
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« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2011, 08:10:15 PM »
I've been reading the Huckabee thread at Ace's, and he's apparently announced that he's not running.  Whew!  We dodged a bullet there.
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2011, 08:12:06 PM »
Wow, over 1 1/2 hours between comments here on a Saturday night.  Everyone else must have a more active social life than I do, or else there must be something good on TV.
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2011, 08:40:36 PM »
Quote from: rickl on May 14, 2011, 08:12:06 PM
Wow, over 1 1/2 hours between comments here on a Saturday night.  Everyone else must have a more active social life than I do, or else there must be something good on TV.

 Nope you're not alone I was just watching a movie with the wife and going over what's left to do before out trip next Friday.
 
Huck not running isn't any big deal. Just another distraction we don't have to deal with.
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« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2011, 07:28:37 AM »
The republicans are becoming the recycle kings of the political scene.
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2011, 08:55:47 AM »
Quote from: rickl on May 14, 2011, 08:12:06 PM
Wow, over 1 1/2 hours between comments here on a Saturday night.  Everyone else must have a more active social life than I do, or else there must be something good on TV.

Took family to see Thor.
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2011, 10:16:32 AM »
"Took family to see Thor."

What did you think of it?
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« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2011, 06:18:08 AM »
This, and him, we don't need:

Gingrich Slams Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Radical” Plan to Reform Medicare

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“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering… I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”

He also restated his belief in the individual mandate in Obamacare.  (Vid at link.)

So, according to him, "radical" in the context of Ryan's plan for Medicare is bad because it's "right-wing social engineering", but he gives no hint that without a reform along the order of Ryan's idea, "radical" will be an abrupt end to Medicare altogether.

This guy is another of Sowell's "Anointed" with his unconstrained vision of his type of social engineering.

I began disliking him when he started pushing electronic medical records (part of Hillarycare) via Federal mandates, believing instant widespread access to everybody's personal medical history by medical practitioners as one panacea for what ails "healthcare" today, without ever acknowledging the GIGO principle.
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2011, 07:24:31 AM »
Newt is our  "Political Gadfly In The Ointment" ... He never make it through the primaries .
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Re: Gingrich for President
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2011, 07:42:13 AM »
Quote from: hemm on May 14, 2011, 02:15:54 PM
Quote from: John Florida on May 14, 2011, 01:56:16 PM
FOX had the picture of him with Pelosi and that pretty much took care of that.

Nuck Fewt.

 ::hysterical::

I have to concur!

Frankly, I hope he fades quickly, I don't need to hear him pontificate about the "art of the possible" more than once and experience a desire to beat him senseless!
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