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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewt Gingrich is the phoniest presidential candidate ever
After having affairs and dropping two wives, he had gall to attack Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky
It is not so much that Newt Gingrich, one of the great phonies in the history of presidential politics, acts as if he is smarter than everybody else. You get a lot of that from guys like Gingrich, who want to speak for the common man from behind a line of credit at Tiffany and Co., and speak about God and faith after an adult life that calls to mind a horny frat boy.
No, it gets even better with Gingrich. Its not enough for him to sell himself as the world's smartest man, he thinks he gets to treat the rest of us like were dumber than dishwater.
So at the same time that Gingrich tries to make Mitt Romney sound like the closest thing on the stage to Bernie Madoff because of his business career at Bain Capital, somehow turning Romneys character as a venture capitalist into the central issue of this campaign, Gingrich apparently thinks his own personal character or lack thereof is somehow irrelevant.
In a pigs eyes it is.
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LynneSin
(95,337 posts)How do you think phonies feel being compared to someone like Newt Gingrich
Newt has always lived a life that he is above the law whether it the laws are those created by our government (like when he said he would ignore Supreme Court rulings) or those made by religion (you know those pesky 10 commandments that says thou shall not commit adultery).
Newt lives in his own lil private world where he sets the rules that he can live by but god forbid anyone else tries to live that same life.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)Raven
(13,877 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)It flows out of every pore.
FSogol
(45,446 posts)izquierdista
(11,689 posts)Because large portions of the American electorate ARE dumber than dishwater.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Mitt Romney is a phony because he tries to act like he can relate to the working class people even though he's filthy rich thru dubious investments that impacted the working class people.
Rick Santorum is a phony because he hides behind a so-called 'Jesus' based on everything in the bible except the 4 books that are attributed to the word of Jesus (the gospels). If Rick was truly a CHristian he'd be progressive.
Ron Paul is a phony too because he tries to claim he's got progressive support because he's anti-war and tries to connect to the 99% but the guy is a racist, sexist, homophobic man - how can you support the 99% if it's white men only?
Newt though is the biggest phony because he lives by one set of laws but would rule by another conflicting set.
They are all phonies.
And yes Obama has his phony moments too but of the 5 candidates he is the best chance of moving our country forward.
cilla4progress
(24,717 posts)fawned over Rumsfeld. I think these people have deep-seated psychological problems, that they like and respond to being insulted and talked down to like this.
It's a bullying thing. Eventually, it catches up with the bully, but until then, we see this very sick adoration and rallying around him.
Sado-masochism, at its most obvious.
spanone
(135,791 posts)newt attacks the media and they love him for it
cilla4progress
(24,717 posts)safeinOhio
(32,641 posts)It's a great day to be a Democratic supporter of Obama. After years of the idiots in this town talking crap about the President, I now get to throw a news tidbit about Newt & Mitt at them every day. They tend to look at the floor and shake their heads.