GOP Gubernatorial candidate says porn causes school shootings

[zinfamous]

Not a surprise that you like Newt Gingrich: scumbag supreme.

I often go on about thought leaders and how the useful idiots get triggered by the phrases they hear their thought leaders repeat ad nauseam.

Gingrich, in government, and Limbaugh/Jones/O'Reilly/Hannity, on-air, repeat and repeat and repeat and get the useful idiots to follow. Right over a cliff. Over and over again.

Here is Gingrich's GOPAC memo from 1996. An actual written-down map on how to get useful idiots to be especially useful idiots.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130902053532/http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/GopacMemo.html (nice and clear-cut)

In case you're just going to conjuring word away the criticism because of the source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOPAC#GOPAC_memo_of_1990

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...-political-action-committee-gingrich-pamphlet

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/20/opinion/the-politics-of-slash-and-burn.html

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-23/news/mn-171_1_doublespeak-award-for-war

http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/454/gopac.html


So, yeah. What a smart guy.

Gingrich and friends have trained modern US conservatives to scream and yell and get triggered by conjuring words.

Brilliant.

Newt: "Everything I have tried has always been a catastrophic failure, but hey, I sound smart so let's try it again."

republicans: /swoon

 

[Greenman]

Ah. so, you're just an ignorant fool. Damn, I thought you might be one of the useful ones.

That's sad.

lol, Newt. He "speaks all good," therefore he is considered the braintrust of the modern conservative. No, I'm not repeating you--that is literally his title. He earned it decades ago. He misread some history books, convinced enough idiots that he was brilliant, and then you have the Newtists. The Newtered. The end of rational politics...and it was a strategy. Newt is a successful human, but he knows his limits, he knows his tiny mind, but he well knows he only needs to command those far, far less gifted than him. Those wholly incapable of calling him out for the drooling dilettante that he is.

"The smartest man in the room"...never a phrase more apropos of the modern conservative movement. By all accounts, Newt was a super smart-sounding guy in a room of wonks. There is something to be said for that. But of course, being super smart-sounding doesn't always translate to knowing a fucking thing. Harding was that sort of person: Super smart sounding, tall and handsome, caused an entire party to swoon....quickly become the most incompetent, corrupt, useless president until G Dubs showed up.

Then there is Rumsfeld. Also "Smartest guy in the room." By all accounts, really is a smart dude. He actually reads books, which is totally cool. A strange thing, really, for the people that call this guy a member, but he does it. He reads a lot. ...so did Kissinger, and so did Nixon. Super smart folks--but vile, vindictive, incompetent folks. For Rumsfeld, it was always "Hey, maybe this is a great idea...it sounds good...but oh, shit it doesn't actually work. 500k people. Dead. Well, whatever. Do-over, anyone?"

You can sound smart and actually even be smart, but if your ideas in practice are toxic, and wholly unsuccessful (everything that Newt is, by any metric), then you are useless. Prop him up, though: He sounds like, smart and stuff. Whatever makes you feel goods.

It's not the least bit sad. It's simply a fact. You fellows have a mindset that doesn't allow other opinions, I understand that. I accept it or I wouldn't hang around here. I don't find it any different than the thinking of religious fundamentalists, and I accept those folks for who they are as well. I'm tolerant. I don't need to vilify people I disagree with, and I can like and even respect someone whose politics I disagree with. Though I do occasionally sneer at folks who think themselves superior because of the bandwagon they're riding.

 

[hal2kilo]

Pretty stupid thing to say and it makes no sense at all but its also pretty stupid how the gun control thugs attack the guns and the 2nd Amendment

Plaques should be made of your posts.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Plaques should be made of your posts.

Won't someone think of the poor defenseless guns?!? It is horrible how all those people are attacking the heavily armed gun owners with their mean words. What did they ever do to you, besides all the killing of people that is?