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04 Apr 2011, 2:22 pm

Well, I do see a business opportunity.



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21 May 2011, 4:15 pm

To answer the question originally posed:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket ... ert-report

And, here is his press statement

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So, yes, Newt Gingrich is stupid, even if he has earned the endorsement of Stephen Colbert.



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03 Oct 2011, 3:49 pm

Orwell wrote:
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He is not stupid. Very few major political players in this country have doctoral degrees. What is your point? That there exist intelligent conservatives?


Well, a lot of them have degrees in law at least.

A JD is on a much lower level than a PhD. Even a PhD in the humanities or social sciences is much more demanding than a law degree. A JD is more comparable to an MS or MA than to a PhD, and the real work and challenge of graduate school does not begin anywhere in the Master's-related coursework.


I've known many people with PhD degrees, of whom some were blithering idiots.

And, Mr. Gingrich's dissertation was on Belgian education policies in its African colonies. Belgium's policy was to keep the native population as ignorant and uneducated as possible. Belgium's African subjects were no better than slaves. That is scarcely worth elaborating into a dissertation. Probably he has similar goals in mind for the US population.



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03 Oct 2011, 4:37 pm

Gingrich is not stupid. But he is churlish.

The same could be said of Bill Clinton. A very bright man, but rather base.

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03 Oct 2011, 4:42 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Gingrich is not stupid. But he is churlish.

The same could be said of Bill Clinton. A very bright man, but rather base.

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The same could be said of Ronald Regan.



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03 Oct 2011, 5:53 pm

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The same could be said of Ronald Regan.


Was Regan a womanizer?

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03 Oct 2011, 6:21 pm

His political acumen, vis-a-vis his attempt to become candidate for president, seems to have been executed roughly as well as Giulianni's failed attempt, except with fewer buzzwords.

The former mayor seemed to believe that if he carried Florida he could win. This only-florida strategy is ponderous at best, and did not work.

Gingrich seemed to want to run a campaign with no money. You could applaud his principles but it doesn't work.



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05 Oct 2011, 8:05 am

ruveyn wrote:
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The same could be said of Ronald Regan.


Was Regan a womanizer?

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He was our only divorced president. Nancy was pregnant when they married.

Obviously, if a man can't take proper charge of his own family, then how can you trust him to run a country? You can't.



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05 Oct 2011, 10:54 am

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His political acumen, vis-a-vis his attempt to become candidate for president, seems to have been executed roughly as well as Giulianni's failed attempt, except with fewer buzzwords.

The former mayor seemed to believe that if he carried Florida he could win. This only-florida strategy is ponderous at best, and did not work.

Gingrich seemed to want to run a campaign with no money. You could applaud his principles but it doesn't work.


Gingrich is relying on the internet which is becoming more and more of an effective medium for campaigns.



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05 Oct 2011, 10:57 am

Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
His political acumen, vis-a-vis his attempt to become candidate for president, seems to have been executed roughly as well as Giulianni's failed attempt, except with fewer buzzwords.

The former mayor seemed to believe that if he carried Florida he could win. This only-florida strategy is ponderous at best, and did not work.

Gingrich seemed to want to run a campaign with no money. You could applaud his principles but it doesn't work.


Gingrich is relying on the internet which is becoming more and more of an effective medium for campaigns.


Only if it fits your base. Gingrich trying to run a campaign over the internet is like advertising a school for the blind on billboards.



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05 Oct 2011, 10:59 am

Obres wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
His political acumen, vis-a-vis his attempt to become candidate for president, seems to have been executed roughly as well as Giulianni's failed attempt, except with fewer buzzwords.

The former mayor seemed to believe that if he carried Florida he could win. This only-florida strategy is ponderous at best, and did not work.

Gingrich seemed to want to run a campaign with no money. You could applaud his principles but it doesn't work.


Gingrich is relying on the internet which is becoming more and more of an effective medium for campaigns.


Only if it fits your base. Gingrich trying to run a campaign over the internet is like advertising a school for the blind on billboards.
You do realize there is a new generation of Republicans that use the internet quite extensively.



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05 Oct 2011, 11:05 am

Inuyasha wrote:
Obres wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
His political acumen, vis-a-vis his attempt to become candidate for president, seems to have been executed roughly as well as Giulianni's failed attempt, except with fewer buzzwords.

The former mayor seemed to believe that if he carried Florida he could win. This only-florida strategy is ponderous at best, and did not work.

Gingrich seemed to want to run a campaign with no money. You could applaud his principles but it doesn't work.


Gingrich is relying on the internet which is becoming more and more of an effective medium for campaigns.


Only if it fits your base. Gingrich trying to run a campaign over the internet is like advertising a school for the blind on billboards.
You do realize there is a new generation of Republicans that use the internet quite extensively.


Yeah, but their base is still made up of guys like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE[/youtube]



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05 Oct 2011, 11:10 am

Obres wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Obres wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
His political acumen, vis-a-vis his attempt to become candidate for president, seems to have been executed roughly as well as Giulianni's failed attempt, except with fewer buzzwords.

The former mayor seemed to believe that if he carried Florida he could win. This only-florida strategy is ponderous at best, and did not work.

Gingrich seemed to want to run a campaign with no money. You could applaud his principles but it doesn't work.


Gingrich is relying on the internet which is becoming more and more of an effective medium for campaigns.


Only if it fits your base. Gingrich trying to run a campaign over the internet is like advertising a school for the blind on billboards.
You do realize there is a new generation of Republicans that use the internet quite extensively.


Yeah, but their base is still made up of guys like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE[/youtube]


The Democrats wish that was the only base the Republicans had.



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05 Oct 2011, 11:12 am

Inuyasha wrote:
Obres wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Obres wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
His political acumen, vis-a-vis his attempt to become candidate for president, seems to have been executed roughly as well as Giulianni's failed attempt, except with fewer buzzwords.

The former mayor seemed to believe that if he carried Florida he could win. This only-florida strategy is ponderous at best, and did not work.

Gingrich seemed to want to run a campaign with no money. You could applaud his principles but it doesn't work.


Gingrich is relying on the internet which is becoming more and more of an effective medium for campaigns.


Only if it fits your base. Gingrich trying to run a campaign over the internet is like advertising a school for the blind on billboards.
You do realize there is a new generation of Republicans that use the internet quite extensively.


Yeah, but their base is still made up of guys like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE[/youtube]


The Democrats wish that was the only base the Republicans had.


Yes, we wish that was their base, but it's much much worse: those are their leaders.



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05 Oct 2011, 3:28 pm

Here is the Republican base

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None of them can spell, and none of them care that they can't spell.



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05 Oct 2011, 3:53 pm

pandabear wrote:
Here is the Republican base

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None of them can spell, and none of them care that they can't spell.


That's totally out of context. It's at an anti-immigration rally. It's cropped out of the picture but next to him a guy's holding a sign that says "Stop taking our jobs! Sanchezes!"