Bookworm on Jan 24 2012 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
Oratory died with Leftism, which hides, rather than reveals, truth; and with MTV, which brought America’s attention span down to 15 seconds. This is the sad result. No wonder Newt is popular right now. Whether he’s a snake oil salesman or the real deal, and regardless of staggering baggage, he might just go down as [...]
Bookworm on Jan 23 2012 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
One of the things my parents always told me was that there is no one more fired with zealotry than a convert. Paul of Tarsus is, of course, the perfect example of the truth behind that statement. One doesn’t have to look so far field, though, in time at space. Just consider the fact that [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2012 | Filed under: Media matters, Newt Gingrich
We all know the philosophical question that asks, “If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The media is trying a variation on this question by asking, “If we completely ignore a fact, so that no one hears about it, does the fact [...]
Bookworm on Jan 17 2012 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
When Newt does things like this, I like him so very much:
Bookworm on Jan 10 2012 | Filed under: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
Yes, Nietzsche ended up insane, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t occasionally hit the nail on the head. Although it isn’t true in all cases that “what does not destroy me makes me stronger,” it is true in many cases. In the case of Newt Gingrich’s most recent attack against Romney, James Taranto says that [...]
Bookworm on Dec 16 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
We all grew up being taught that FDR was the nation’s savior. He wasn’t. He was a Progressive who prolonged the depression by an extra seven or eight years, inflicting tremendous damage on the nation. The fact that Newt finds FDR an effective leader is somewhat worrying.
Bookworm on Dec 08 2011 | Filed under: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
Why, oh why, oh why can’t I get more excited about Mitt? On paper, he’s a very good candidate. Yes, there have been flips and flops, but it’s naive to expect perfect political purity from any candidate. Aside from that, he’s straight out of Hollywood’s central casting, circa 1944: well-educated, handsome, wholesome, loyal, intelligent, efficient, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
Newt made a very good point about his earlier support for an individual mandate when it came to health care: The Heritage Foundation, as reputable a conservative think tank as one can find, actually thought the idea was a good one. Then, as Newt did, it backed off when it realized the ramifications: Scott Pruitt, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
Since at least Reagan, the standard liberal trope is that Republicans, both voters and politicians, are stupid. That trope has, of course, emerged again this year. The joker in the deck is Newt Gingrich, a PhD and author who spokes with incredible fluency and has a masterful grasp of facts. With Newt as the frontrunner, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
One of the reasons a lot of people, myself included, like Newt is because he says politically incorrect things that ordinary people think. In other words, his politically correct utterances aren’t out of the KKK playbook, they’re out of “the reasonable common-sense before 1960s Leftist education took over” playbook. A week ago, he said that [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2011 | Filed under: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
Back in 1987, when he was campaigning for President, one of George H. W. Bush’s advisers suggested that he back off from spouting minutiae to the electorate and spend some time focusing on the big picture, So that he could better sell himself to Americans. According to contemporaneous reports, Bush, Sr., was not impressed: “Oh,” [...]
Bookworm on Nov 29 2011 | Filed under: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
The alternative title for this post is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Scott Galupo is no Newt Gingrich fan, but he genuinely hates Mitt Romney, whom he describes in the same terms once used to describe Tom Cruise: “I don’t sense a man there. I sense a bristling mass of ambition.” He [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2011 | Filed under: Morality, Newt Gingrich
America’s First Sergeant put up a post that perfectly addresses my last two attempts to figure out Mike McQueary’s inaction. The first post I wrote looked at McQueary’s alleged youth, which I contrasted with the even youthier youth of a few Medal of Honor recipients who didn’t hesitate to act. The second (with lots of [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
Why you should vote for Newt. Why you shouldn’t vote for Newt. What do you say?
Bookworm on Nov 14 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
Hold onto your hats, folks, because this is a BIG ONE. I mean, this is the kind of thing that can make or break elections. Are you ready? NEWT IS AN ABBA FAN (although he loses points for liking it as presented in the movie, which is lousy, rather than appreciating it as sung by [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
I can’t decide if Rich Lowry is praising Newt with faint damns or damning him with faint praise, but it’s still an excellent précis of the candidate that is Newt: In many ways, Gingrich would be better-suited as an intellectual ombudsman of the GOP race than as a candidate himself; he has more baggage than [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2011 | Filed under: Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich
This is what passes for humor on the Left: Get a “celebrity” who’s been in prison for rape, has bitten off people’s ears, kicked strangers in the groin, is a high school drop-out and — oh, yes — happens to be black, and have him pretend to be Herman Cain in a parody that calls [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
Dorothy Rabinowitz thinks that Newt’s slow but steady race, one that focuses on beautifully articulated ideas, will win the day. She points to this speech as evidence of Gingrich’s intellectual strength: (Or view it here.) What do you think? As for me, the more I see of the others, the more I like Newt, and [...]
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