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She Turned Him into a
Newt
By John Ransom
The biggest problem with Newt Gingrich has always been that he’s Newt
Gingrich. And, as the Monty Python joke goes, he hasn’t gotten better
yet.
He‘s the Republican ying to Bill Clinton’s Democrat yang.
Both have the massive egos and the big intellects. The combination
tricked them into the conclusion that most problems have sophisticated
solutions that only their minds could bring to bear.
When Newt gave us a negative appraisal of the Ryan budget by tossing
off “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable
than left-wing social engineering” his mistake wasn’t in saying it.
It was in believing it.
For Gingrich, social engineering is supposed to be non-partisan.
For Newt, any solution is OK as long as it’s Newtonian, as much as Bill
Clinton relied upon only solutions that were Clintonian.
Don’t like Big Labor? Let’s give free trade a try.
Don’t like Obamcare? Let’s give individual mandates a try.
In gauging their support for an idea is the important thing is whether
or not they can exploit the idea themselves.
There’s a certain consistency, though, in their inconsistency, which
can only be measured by the size- or lack there of- of their own egos.
As Richard Cohen accurately notes: “There is more than a little Richard
Nixon in Gingrich - the same lack of place, the same keen intellect,
the same petty fights and imaginary enemies, the same hallucinatory
grievances, the same willingness to lie, exaggerate and smear. On a
given day, Gingrich could be a brilliant President. On any night, he
could be a monster.”
Today the monster says that he’s reaching out to Paul Ryan to try to
make amends with him about the budget fracas.
But it won’t be flowers in Gingrich’s hand, but rather a pitchfork and
maybe a torch.
Who said monsters can’t learn new tricks?
Populist exploiters like Newt would be nothing without the torches and
pitchforks.
“I have since signed a pledge…pledging to repeal ObamaCare,” he added.
“I am reaching out to Paul Ryan. My hope is to find a way to work with
the House Republicans,” says Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller.
So Newt was against ObamaCare before he was for ObamaCare before he was
against ObamaCare?
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