From one angle, I might question whether the GOP had undergone a revolution if Gingrinch is its standard-bearer in 08. Seeing as how Newt was the first leader of the New Right, it'd be more of an internal purge and retrenchment than true reform. Still, I'd concede that his successors have surpassed him in ruthlessness, bile, viciousness, and corruption, so rewinding to a more respectable Newt Rightist would be better than the status quo. (Was that a mini-masterpiece of damning with faint praise, or what? ;-) )
My opinion of Gingrinch isn't uniformly one of revulsion. On the humbler issues he occasionally offered a glimpse of intelligence, such as his suggestion to provide laptop computers to schoolkids (so common sensical as to induce concussion in 9 out of 10 listeners). But then he had to go and float a brainstorm for "educational camps" for African-African kids, and wasn't that creepy?
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Ahh, the Newt
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- Military publications: "Rumsfeld must go"
- Department of Defense responds:
- Wasting a reply on the homegrown insurgency
- No reaction from the Right?
- re: No reaction from the Right?
- "The opinion of the mainstream military"
- re: No reaction from the Right?
- Looks as if the only True Believers left are in the WH and here.
- LOL, good one Bowser (n/t)
- The editorial