What? We’re supposed to feel sorry for Newt Gingrich? Oh, please.
The wondrously clueless Sarah Palin sees Gingrich being victimized by a “Stalinist” attack because his opponents accurately point out what a toxic, horrid human being he is. Anyone with even the vaguest sense of the terrible, monstrous, maniacal crimes of the demon Josef Stalin would be little likely to play loose with comparisons to a trifling politician getting called a few accurate names. Rush Limbaugh, who pioneered the slippery comparison game with likening people to Nazis, bleeds for us over poor old Newt being manhandled. Dear me.
Newt Gingrich himself is in full whine about how he is soooooo badly treated — this from a guy who pioneered the politics of slander and wild-eyed hatred which so defines the Republican party, lock, stock and gun barrel, today. Totally intemperate, a hater of Himalayan proportions, a man for whom the truth and society’s and religion’s rules are to pissed upon, Newt Gingrich complains because it is pointed out that he was caught out and punished as a crook? That he is a total nut job? That he is a dark and malevolent force depised most by those who know him best?
We’re supposed to feel sorry for him?
I don’t think so. He is a boil on the rear end of a party that is only that these days. He wrote the rules for the kidney-punch campaign style that has turned upon him. He is a man who boasted of his rage — theatrical and even occasionally real — of those who differ from him. He is selfish. Immoral. Greedy. Dishonest. Standing for nothing, he loathes anyone who stands for something.
And he is a victim — of the truth?
Daddy Warbucks Romney may be a hollow, Tin Man shell but he is exactly right in assailing Gingrich, who now assails him with the volcanic language that he pretends to be offended by when it rains in on himself.
Newt says he will carry on until the convention. For what? To spread more pain and harm. That’s what he does.
Better he should just go away and leave the contest, the party, the campaign and the country to better people. He’s a bum and a cry-baby; we’ll be well rid of him.
I wonder how you set up a Swiss bank account. More, I wonder why you set up a Swiss bank account.
Actually, since there is absolutely no good or honest reason why anyone on the straight and narrow would have a Swiss bank account except to hide money, the “why” is actually easy enough. There was something fishy going on. Having a Swiss bank account as did Mitt Romney is as crooked a project as having one in the Cayman Islands, with the drug money launderers, organized criminals and their disorganized cousins at the top of Republican Party political spectrum.
The question isn’t even how much do you have to invest to make $20 million a year so much as where that orginal money-bloat came from. Bain and its predatory zombie capitalism. Invested in George Bush’s shriveled capital gains tax giveaway scam for the very, very, very rich, Romney doesn’t have to pay much at all compared to honest working people, and does that legally enough.
So why the Swiss bank account? Can you come up with a reason why a zillionaire rolling in gargantuan amounts of money who doesn’t even have to pay much taxes on it then needs to join the slippery types — the oily sheiks, the tottering dictators, the druglords — in Zurich? Or the Caymans?
If he were being taxed fairly, you might imagine he would be offended and might slyly try to slip some of his boodle out of sight; but he was not taxed at anything near the rate as a taxi driver or teacher or soldier — or an “historian” or President of the United States. If his money was all on the up-and-up, why hide it? Is he some wild, romantic, sparky sort of guy given to the flashy gesture? Mitt Romney? Come on.
Because he is rich, the Republicans will not raise even an eyebrow at his money hijinks — even his competitors. When the Grand Old Party is reduced to Daddy Warbucks, Boss Tweed, Torquemada and Daffy Uncle Charlie, you could hardly expect any more than that.
But maybe the rest of us might wonder why Mitt Romney needs to park his money secretly offshore. If it walks like a duck …
How apt that Rand Paul picks and chooses the laws and regulations he chooses to follow. Of course, he is above all that trifling stuff.
Let’s see what’d happened to any of the rest of us who refused a security procedure at the airport. But with the arrogance of his ego and the disdain of the rules we all follow to keep the system safe, Paul gives the senatorial finger to the mere riffraff who might object to the TSA wanting to know whether something fishy was a problem or not but go along with the harmless process because it makes sense.
Paul, like his father, already says that he thinks laws like the Civil Rights Act are terrible invasions of the individual’s “right” to impose racism and discrimination on black people. Anthing that infringes on such loathsome ”rights” is flat wrong and unworthy, the Pauls tell us. For such, they are stars in the cheapskate Tea Party heavens.
Well, I don’t like the idea of paying taxes, but do so because that’s what you do in a democracy. I wasn’t crazy about going into the military in wartime, but did because that’s part of the handshake societies make to preserve themselves. I don’t like the mild TSA searches but strongly believe that we all need to “sacrifice” to contribute the system’s safety. That’s what responsible people do.
Not Rand Paul. He’s too good to do what the common herd has to do. While you and I might think that makes him a punk, his gang thinks that makes him a hero. For avoiding the rules we all follow.
Nice job, being a senator. You can get away with anything.
“I sometimes wonder if the Republican Party has become the receding roar of white America as it pines for a way of life that will never return,” writes David Brooks, who pines for a party that will never return — and who has raiseed his 12-year-old son, he tells us, to count John Boehner among his heroes. Twelve years old. Jayzus.
How did this ever happen, that a plastic Ken Doll , an acrylic chameleon, is nearly the least crazed choice among Republicans?
Newt Gingrich is GOP-assailed for telling the truth about the gorging Romney world of ghoulish capitalism and cheered and praised for his pure racism, his des[icable contempt for real working people, his big moneyed elitism and his scorn for the poor, the black and the unemployed. Rick “Call Me Sarah” Perry imagines that our strongest ally in the Muslim world is a band of terrorists, that our friends the rich Turks who get no aid should not get the aid he says they get, but which they do not. This from a dolt who can’t remember the three little things that he is basing his entire political worthiness upon. The other Rick, Santorum, will have the police checking between our sheets to make sure no one is using contraceptives while spreading hatred and bile on people who’s lifestyles he chooses to loathe — all in the name of Love, theocracy and small government big enough to spy on us all. Ron Paul believes in the law of the jungle when that very jungle would eat up a scrawny old fool like him in an instant, as much as he might not be swallowed easily for all his angry geezer rantings about banks and people of different color and different nationalities.
Racists. Ayatollahs. Plunderers. Hypocrites. Panderers. Blinded by hate, above all else.
In this menagerie alone, Mitt Romney, programmed and packaged even to the orchestrated wisp of hair that is lacquered “free” from the glisten, looks good. A total fraud by most Republican measures, he towers over his dismal competition. There’s a lot to fault him for but it is not his fault that one chump after another is spawned as opposition by the party of rage and obstruction, the people-hating oligarchs of the Grand Old Party.
This is the best they’ve got.
Racism. Ayatollahing. Plunder. Hypocrisy. Panderering. The blinded of hate, above all else.
Thanks to the Mark Twain House and Museum for the generous write-up:
http://writingatthemarktwainhouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/denis-horgan-speaks-here-february-8.html
