House of Eratosthenes

Americans have already taken a long, hard look at the Wonder of Wasilla. A loud, angry, desperate stream of incendiary rhetoric has emerged that she lacks the requisite brainpower…but “desperate” is the key word there, and the stream of rhetoric is not a consensus, no matter how hard it tries to look like one. The consensus that has emerged is that America would like to keep looking.

But as long as the current leadership offers us all of the pain of having an idiot in charge of things, with none of the benefits — nobody is being eliminated from anything.

Newt Gingrich has seen this, and is considering a run in 2012. A lively discussion ensues over at Daphne’s place, where the hostess is less than enthralled.

I’ve already offered my opinion there.

In a way, it’s useful and helpful when the public clamors to wild-ass nonsensical opinions and declares them to be “moderate”…in this example, the idea that the planet is some kind of danger, and if humanity will only take a proactive stance and bring its fume emissions into check, maybe it can be saved. That is helpful, because the phony thinkers reveal themselves, like poisonous reptiles, arachnids and lizards, slithering out from under the dark spaces under big rocks. They make their big show of reaching across the aisle to the opposition, to showcase their extraordinary harmlessness.

Offering themselves as perfect leaders for a constituency that wants to be governed by Wesley Mouch.

It was not within their method of thinking to know that Wesley Mouch was the zero at the meeting point of forces unleashed in destruction against one another.

Well, we don’t need a Wesley Mouch and we don’t want a Wesley Mouch. What we need and want, is someone who will stand up to the bullshit that is threatening to consume us and annihilate us. On purpose.

As far as I’m concerned, any Gingrich candidacy died right there. In an instant. Like a fly under a swatter.

“As far as I’m concerned, any Gingrich candidacy died right there. In an instant. Like a fly under a swatter.”

I think it was dead before that. He has had high negatives in polls since 94. He’s the liberal boogeyman not unlike Rove. He’s old guard GOP which isn’t all bad but he’s moved to the center on the wrong things and moved right on the wrong things.

The GOP candidates that win in November will be those that rail against big government and not Obama. Those that decry spending and not gay marriage. Those that understand our economy is in free fall and act accordingly. Stop dicking around with political posturing and cut spending and taxes. Repeal this medical mess and un-TARP everything.
- Duffy | 08/13/2010 @ 09:01
Robert,

I would respectfully submit that anyone who shows the slightest hint of working away on that list of yours, will be plagued within two months afterward of this thing you call “high negatives in polls.”

I see the War on Terror as living proof that our liberal establishment has near-complete control over what person, or what thing, is going to have high negatives in polls. They can smear whatever they want, and it is only slightly more difficult or uncertain for them as you turning your car’s steering wheel in one direction or another. You travel back in a time machine to the 1990’s, and you see nobody was using the word “pretext” and nobody had any concerns about wars being “sold” under “false pretenses.” Soros’ money did that. People think they decided Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were evil incarnate, all on their own…but they didn’t.

The terrible thing about a consensus is that when it exists only in appearance, a little while later it is reality as well. It makes its own reality. But there’s always a difference between the fake reality and the real one. I dream of the day when someone, anyone, who is plagued with the albatross of high disapproval numbers upsets the apple cart and wins an election in a rout. And maybe this is terribly optimistic of me, but I hope from that day forward we can tell the “high disapproval numbers” people to go stick it.

I believe my dream is a prerequisite for yours.
- mkfreeberg | 08/13/2010 @ 09:22
That’s a great tape, I hadn’t seen it, or realized that Gingrich was a fool until now. That is a comfort. This is better than seeing him in doggie porn. He done.

Churchill had an opinion about public opinion–there is no such thing. There is only published opinion. Of course, he didn’t mind so much being on the outs for twenty years either.
- jamzw | 08/15/2010 @ 21:17
Let me clarify: The negative polls I’ve seen wrt Newt were among likely GOP voters. I’ll grant that “public opinion” is a slippery if not evanescent thing but there is a kernel of truth in there somewhere. Newt works fine as the elder statesman policy wonk but I don’t think he’s electable anymore.

FWIW; I have full confidence that the GOP will be completely unable to tap into the energy of the Tea Party and will instead run the same slate of boring old guard guys who have “paid their dues” to the party. These self same people will then blow it completely by making noises about smaller government but then really railing against stupid social issues like gay marriage and abortion and whatever. Right now, nobody cares about that. We have a border invasion, a collapsing economy and a war on terror that need tending.
- Duffy | 08/16/2010 @ 07:49

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