Comments | jesus_h_biscuit: Stupid Ass Of The Week: Newt Gingrich

jesus_h_biscuit

Stupid Ass Of The Week: Newt Gingrich

Mar 24, 2007 10:34

Pot, kettle: Gingrich bemoans "attack politics"
Posted at Facing South

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stupid ass of the week, republican incompetence, republican hypocrisy

Comments 13

gairid March 24 2007, 14:55:52 UTC

Hypocrisy among the rethugs has become what I expect of them, but when it comes barreling out at you in the form of asswipe 'I-left-my-wife-who-was- suffering-with-cancer-to-bang-someone-else' Gingrich who is so furiously trying to act like the offended party. it really takes the cake ( ... )

rpeate March 24 2007, 16:08:06 UTC

I thought it was that decent persons are opposed to ad hominem attacks such as that "ad" implying Hillary Clinton is a totalitarian.

gairid March 24 2007, 16:11:56 UTC

As I said, one does not have to agree with the ad (or whatever it would be called). My point was that I didn't think Gingrish opposed the ad because of any sense of know what decency was, but rather, he (and others) would prefer that people keep their opinions to themselves unless it coincides with whatever their agenda might be.

rpeate March 24 2007, 16:15:57 UTC

You may be right. He certainly didn't mind demonising Bill Clinton.

rpeate March 24 2007, 16:05:28 UTC

Correct me if I'm wrong: the point of this article is to attack Gingrich for actually making sense?

jesus_h_biscuit March 24 2007, 16:08:37 UTC

If you're a complete hypocrite who is guilty of the things you're espousing as correct, then it's not really making sense as much as saying "You're a jackass".

rpeate March 24 2007, 16:14:43 UTC

Oh, I agree that Gingrich is a jackass and worse. I just think the point is not made clearly enough in the article, if it is as you say.

jesus_h_biscuit March 24 2007, 16:22:42 UTC

Follow the links, there's a lot more there. ;-)

envirobear March 24 2007, 16:12:34 UTC

I remember very clearly how The Bomb used to take to the floor of the House during pre-1994 special order speeches and proceed to rip Bill Clinton and the Democrats up one side and down the other without worrying about "playing nice". He took that attitude with him when he became Speaker, and it has been festering like a huge carbuncle for the Republics ever since. You reap what you sow...and it's starting to look like the crop is infected so badly that the American public is deciding that it's unsalvagable and must be thrown out. The 2006 elections lanced the carbuncle, but it's still festering and will probably burst once and for all in a year and a half. Painfully, for the Republic Party. Good...feel the pain, Newt...he and his cronies have inflicted it upon the rest of us long enough, and it's time to let them share in what they've wrought ( ... )

jesus_h_biscuit March 24 2007, 16:14:41 UTC

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envirobear March 24 2007, 16:20:46 UTC

You know, I have visions of Satanists making offerings to that picture of him!

rpeate March 24 2007, 16:19:05 UTC

They believe their message is God's gift, unfortunately. In their minds, what else could failure mean but "inarticulation"?

"You just don't understand, because we haven't beaten our message into you hard enough yet."

xanath March 24 2007, 21:57:24 UTC

Because we have no habits anymore of serious dialogue, we have no habits of serious citizenship. Everything is reduced to gossip, attack, whose consultant is cleverer. And it's really, very destructive.

"Hello, Pot? Yeah. This is Kettle, I'm at the beach . . . just wanted to tell you, man: you're so black, the sun fights to escape your orbit. Buh-bye!"

--Kris