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The picture was something I

Elusive Trope — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:16:58 +0000

In reply to That picture, who I at first

The picture was something I also came across recently. Haunting in some undefined way is one way to describe it. But also in some undefined way fascinating. The mind tries to reconcile the image with facts about the man and it is frustrated. What lurks beneath surface? What unknown traumatic experience(s) set him down the path to his current place in the world? Or was Newt always the Newt we love and adore? Who is it really staring back at us through those glasses?

I can't stop laughing with

tmccarthy0 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:16:52 +0000

In reply to I can't believe you threw

I can't stop laughing with that one! Hahahaha.

I can't believe you threw

Verified Atheist — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:08:08 +0000

In reply to A Newt Burns White Hot

I can't believe you threw your grandpa Joe under the bus like that!

That picture, who I at first

tmccarthy0 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:23:48 +0000

In reply to One facet to this election

That picture, who I at first thought was Dave Weigel with glasses, then it hit me, that's Newt.. yuck, is gonna haunt me for life.

One facet to this election

Elusive Trope — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:52:27 +0000

In reply to A Newt Burns White Hot

One facet to this election cycle (and others to come?) is the hardcore base on both sides increasingly see this contest as one of an epic battle royale. It doesn't take long (or even from the get-go) before one or other begins discussing the nature of this battle as one between good or evil. The survival of the middle class, our "way of life," and the country itself is at stake.

In such a mindset, one doesn't care too much or not at all about one's champion or leader's more softer qualities as a human being when it comes time to lead the troops. The soldiers who followed Patton didn't worry their minds about whether he was nice to his assistants or cheated on his wife (was he married?). This is at the heart of Mitt's problem, why people make such an issue of his particular style of flip-flopping. The base of the conservative movement feel they cannot trust him - either he won't give the command to charge or if he does, half way through he will surrender or capitulate to the enemy. The same criticism Obama receives from the Left.

They don't entirely trust Newt either. But they trust him more. He may flip-flop, but it is more often than not a strategic flip-flop style whose purpose is to achieve, in the end, conservative objectives. Or so it seems to them. Whether he used his daughter is almost irrelevant if he able to defeat the forces of socialism and liberal decadence. It just this kind of thinking on their part that makes Newt's statement to that gay man in Iowa a wise strategic move in terms of achieving the objective of winning the nomination (not so much in winning the general election).

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. ~ George S. Patton

Don't hold back, TMac!

Donal — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:36:10 +0000

In reply to A Newt Burns White Hot

Don't hold back, TMac!

Oh I read this at Paradigm

Richard Day — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:08:25 +0000

In reply to A Newt Burns White Hot

Oh I read this at Paradigm and commented. ha

People say we lack forgiveness.

Americans forgive anything. hahahahahaha

You just need enough money to purchase the forgiveness. hahahahahahahahaha