degsme
Council Member
One of the curious aspects of Newt's "best defense is a good offense" attack response to the quesiton about his proposing an "open marriage" to his ex is that the very thing Gingrich claimed to decry in saying
"I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate with a topic like that,"
Is the irony that one of the people MOST responsible for the "viscious, negative nature of much of the "political discourse in the nation is directly attributable to Newt himself.
Not only did he write the infamous GOPAc Memo
http://www.thenextright.com/data-driven-politics/newt-gingrichs-1996-gopac-memo
in which he tells his conservative brethren to call their opponents:
But he also achieved his speakership in no small part by going after then Speaker James Wright for selling copies of his book as a way of getting around campaign finance limits http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/jim-wright and Hnoraria limits (sound familiar again? Rhymes with Rain http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/10/herman-cain-books-campaign-funds-/1 )
Now of course Gingrich can count on the ignorance of folks like those of our posters who don't seem to be able to source any of their claims in INDEPENDENTLY VERFIABLE sources to cheer him in this early part of the election. And beating up on the media does have some traction in the General election.
But what Gingrich doesn't quite yet fully seem to get is how this sort of hypocrisy can be exploited by SuperPAC's against him.
Consider this sort of video - Opening shot through the back window of a luxoury car. Shows a silver headed man in the driver's seat on a cell phone saying
"Well he lied to the public about his affair"
Meanwhile the back of a woman's head is seen bobbing up and down in the lap of the driver periodically.
"I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate with a topic like that,"
Not only did he write the infamous GOPAc Memo
http://www.thenextright.com/data-driven-politics/newt-gingrichs-1996-gopac-memo
in which he tells his conservative brethren to call their opponents:
- Corrupt
- Intolerant
- destructive
- radical
- incompetant
- self-serving
- disgrace
- Traitors
- Shameful
- Hmm starts to sound like a post by some of our posters here doesn't it?
- etc
But he also achieved his speakership in no small part by going after then Speaker James Wright for selling copies of his book as a way of getting around campaign finance limits http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/jim-wright and Hnoraria limits (sound familiar again? Rhymes with Rain http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/10/herman-cain-books-campaign-funds-/1 )
Now of course Gingrich can count on the ignorance of folks like those of our posters who don't seem to be able to source any of their claims in INDEPENDENTLY VERFIABLE sources to cheer him in this early part of the election. And beating up on the media does have some traction in the General election.
But what Gingrich doesn't quite yet fully seem to get is how this sort of hypocrisy can be exploited by SuperPAC's against him.
Consider this sort of video - Opening shot through the back window of a luxoury car. Shows a silver headed man in the driver's seat on a cell phone saying
"Well he lied to the public about his affair"
Meanwhile the back of a woman's head is seen bobbing up and down in the lap of the driver periodically.
