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Re: You didn't ask a question. You ventured an opinion.

EDITED: I don't have to answer your questions, Tom. And I don't need to justify my opinions. However...

A few months back, when Huckabee was spouting off about how Obama had learned to "hate America" from his Kenyan father, Gingrich piped in about how the only way you could really understand Obama was by taking into account the anti-British and anti-imperialist views he had picked up from his father in Kenya. Obama was a Mau-mau.

Now I can understand that kind of puerile nonsense from a drooling imbecile like Huckabee or Trump, or the rest of that crowd at Fox. But Gingrich is an intelligent man, he knew better. He knew perfectly well Obama barely knew his father and had never been to Kenya, much less been raised there. He just didn't talk without thinking, or repeat a canned Conservative meme or myth automatically--he KNEW he was lying. He knew that was exactly what his Neanderthal audience wanted to hear. And he served it right up to them.

That Gingrich is an unprincipled, opportunistic and divisive figure is my opinion, and I'm convinced of it. I am not alone in this opinion, many of his fellow Republicans and Conservatives loathe him for the very same reason. It is the nature of opinion that it cannot be proven, especially to those determined not to accept it. If that's not good enough for you, then look it up.

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