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Gingrich is the man who ruin
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WHO IS THE REAL NEWT GINGRICH?
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ed Washington, destroyed it more surely than an invading outer space alien in a si-fi movie. He invented, anew, the politics of take down, then successively took down as many as he could, all the while teaching his minions the new religion of not getting along, ever, with the sole purpose of taking over. Trouble was, there was no ultimate goal to seizing power, other than having power for its own sake.
Those minions spread, cancer like, up to the Senate, out to the governorships and, through imitation, into the halls of state legislatures where, at one time, no Republican in the California legislature would even speak to a Democrat unless another Republican were present. Newt made us permanent enemies of each other where, at one time, people could actually reach agreements, compromise on key points and get something done, occasionally for the common good. Those were the old days, before Gingrich.
Gingrich is a dangerous man in love with his own ego, which is a kind of duplicative narcissistic disorder. He is not merely in love with himself, he is in love with being in love with himself. He wants all of us to share the joy and to be amazed that he found such a love for himself, the scholar/politician/teacher, transforming the world through blinding insight and multiple, actual love type alliances with women drawn to his circle of the self (he has said that he has asked god for forgiveness in the latter case).
His most clever act, alluded to in a column by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, is to have created a disaster the American government so intense that only he can be seen as the logical person to repair it. With his scorched earth plans for opponents, however, there is no going back. To suppose that he could actually concern himself with governing would be to imagine that Atilla the Hun would have one day worked to improve housing and health care.
Doug Terry, 11/30.11
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