OK, so it's been only 3 days since I backed off the fun of ridiculing individual GOP candidates. This one will be very brief. Just two zingers fired off on yesterday's tv news program "This Week With Christine Amanpour," referring to Newt Gingrich:
George Will: Responding to Newt's saying he only gave advice to Freddie Mac "as a historian," George Will (conservative pundit) snapped, "He's no historian !" And then he added that Gingrich is guilty of "absurd rhetorical grandiosity."
Paul Krugman (liberal pundit) was even more scathing: "Somebody said he's a stupid man's idea of what a smart man sounds like." Still, Krugman, conceded, he is more plausible than the other alternatives to Romney.
Ralph
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Voters are not known for following the wisdom of pundits, however. Perhaps we have to rely on Newt's tendency to over-reach and self-destruct.
ReplyDeleteJust today, he made news on 2 counts:
1. He announced his plan for Social Security, which gives younger people the option of investing their share of the payroll taxes in private investments instead of Social Security. This sounds like the Bush plan that died a natural death when people didn't like it.
2. He announced with his "rhetorical grandiosity" that "child labor laws are stupid." We should let children do the janitorial work at their schools for pay.
See what I mean?