The essence of Newt

[fightingquaker13]

I have rarely read a quote that so catured a politician in my life, but then, Maureen Dowd makes the big bucks for a reason. Love Newt or hate him, she is not wrong.

"As one commentator astutely noted, Gingrich is a historian and a futurist who can’t seem to handle the present. He has more exploding cigars in his pocket than the president with whom he had the volatile bromance: Bill Clinton."
M. Dowd 

Here is the whole column from the NYT 11/30/11.  It really is a must read on Newt. It is devestating, and every word true. Funny, but true. Of course I'll stil vote for him, but its a lot of reasons to beat your head against the wall while doing so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/opinion/my-man-newt.html?_r=1&hp

[Pathfinder]

Dowd and truth have very little in common. When she hits on something, think "Broken Clock Syndrome".

And she makes big bucks from the uber-liberal NYT cuz she so willingly strokes the uber-liberal mindset so well. Nothing more.

Stop making it so easy, FQ. Time was, you actually used to make us think. Now? Not so much?

[fightingquaker13]

Dowd and truth have very little in common. When she hits on something, think "Broken Clock Syndrome".

She's not running for President. He is, and she is not wrong about a word in that article. The only difference between her and us is that she is laughing  because its true, and we are crying in our beer for the same reason.
FQ13

[Timothy]

Maureen Dowd is an extremely bright twit and the NYT hasn't printed the truth about anything in some time!

[JC5123]

Maureen Dowd is an extremely bright twit and the NYT hasn't printed the truth about anything in some time!

That was just giving her too much credit.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

The fact that FQ rads this leftist rag explains a lot about some of his dumber political opinions.

[fightingquaker13]

You know what I find amusing? Its the fact that four of you have offered an ad hominem attack on either myself, Maureen Dowd or the New York Times. Yet not a single one of you has refuted, much less disagreed with a single word she wrote. That seems rather telling. It should also scare the crap out of you if Newt becomes the noinee, because if you guys are any indication of how conservatives will respond to people saying true things about Newt, eg trying to smear them rather than offering arguments or refutations, then we have a problem in November. Seriously guys, shouting "She's a LIBERAL!" or yelling "MAINSTREAM MEDIA" just doesn't cut it with anyone anymore. We need to better. Step one is finding a real candidate.
FQ13

[santahog]

It sounds like you just found your new set of gloves.. You sound pretty comfortable slipping your hands in Maureen Dowd's bucket of slime du jour..

It's a shame that bunch you seem so loyal to isn't half as loyal to you..

November 27, 2011, 11:34 pm
The Future of the Obama Coalition
 
By THOMAS B. EDSALL


For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.

All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/

I know how you feel.. Ann Coulter talks about 2A rights and then screams for Chris Christie to run for Pres.. We lost Jesse Helms on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and South Carolina replaces him with Gomer Pyle.. We've got some knuckleheads on the right, to be sure.
I'd like to leave you with a thought though..
When you go "Rah Rah" for Dowd for hoping to stick Gingrich's nose in it.
You go "Rah Rah" just as loudly for Edsall too..
Kinda seems like between the two, it kinda sucks to be you..
When the left rears up and says "Screw You!" to the conservatives of the nation, just remember that they're saying "Screw You" too..

Joe

[Timothy]

Maureen Dowd or the New York Times. Yet not a single one of you has refuted, much less disagreed with a single word she wrote. That seems rather telling.
FQ13

It's because I didn't read it FQ.  I used to listen to her ridiculous diatribe every morning going to work on Imus.  As I said, she writes well but her opinions are meaningless to me.  I've never in my life read the NYT and haven't read a newspaper in thirty years.  I make all my news up in my head, it's more believable that way!

You still consider Politics as a Science!  I consider it bullshit covered in chocolate with jimmies and sprinkles...

[fightingquaker13]

Santahog, I'm not cheering her, much less edall (either Edsall). I'm just saying she is right, and you take truth where you find it. Don't lump me in with an agenda because you don't like what you hear. And by the way, you're the fifth guy with an ad hominem attack, and not a word of refutation.
FQ13 who is getting worried about November if this is the best conservatives can do