America No. 45

Has it occurred to you...

...that Rush Limbaugh is a mole of the Democratic Party? Yes, I am sure such is true.  He was chosen by the Democratic State Apparatus (DSA) as a tyke and groomed to be a shameless spouter/spewer of borderline (?) racist and misogynistic drivel, with the intent of undermining and eventually destroying the Republican party.  Democratic operatives, lo these many years ago, were prescient enough to spot the demagogic charm of the young Limbaugh.  Hell, they even anticipated his coming girth and chose a suitable webcam wardrobe.  Yes, the DSA even anticipated neocons (false conservatives) would eventually gain control of the Republican party, and knew it would gravitate to Limbaugh as its leader.  The DSA had it all layed out like a classic backyard B-B-Q wardrobe: The "dittoheads," the "Fem-a-Nazis," the comments about "uppity" Blacks...well, just everything, don't you know.  Let me Blunt about this, it was no Fluke Mr. Limbaugh was chosen.  Indeed, I have read on certain blogs the U.S., under devious Democratic administrations, developed a drug which instills arrogant gravitas in the subject, illusions of grandeur...the whole package.  The DSA was there at the contraceptive-less conception of El Rushbo (Yes, that was the DSA's, too).  Rush Limbaugh is the DSA's Machination Candidate.  Yes, I am sure it is true.  Trust me on this.

NOTE: Please read the newly posted page: "America's wars: A chronological listing." Thanks.

     March 2012.  I have recently posted a page on America's wars, so...

Fear doubles off the wall: Alan Dershowitz goes neocon nutty; Mike Lupica is defiant and incensed.

[Note: The rampant factionalism of America’s political landscape impels me to include the following disclaimer in all my opinion posts: I am not a Republican.  I am not a Democrat.  I am not of the neocon persuasion, who are but false conservatives.  I am not of the progressive persuasion, who are but false liberals.  I am not of the so-called Tea Party movement.  I do not belong to any organized religion.  I loathe all demagogues, thus disdain talk radio and realize our leviathan-dominated media are corrupted by self-interest, profit and all manner of ideology.].

     March 2012.  The 27 February 2012 edition of the New York Daily News supplied two articles which induced this post.  One, by Mike Lupica, sportswriter moonlighting as political insight artist, was entitled “Top cop Kelly, NYPD have kept us all safe.” The second article, by neocon Alan Dershowitz [Bonus question: Who is more annoying-Sharpton or Dershowitz?] was entitled “The odious ‘Israel first’ libel.” I shall consider Mr. Dershowitz’s article first.

[A brief note as regards the label anti-Semitic: This label, as with racist, has been vastly overused.  It has been employed by every two-bit neocon and neoconservatism’s useful idiots on talk radio and cable TV.  Essentially, the label anti-Semitism is used as a neocon dog whistle to identify those ingrates who resist swallowing Israel’s agenda.]

     Mr. Dershowitz’s article appeared in the News’ “Be Our Guest” series.  How, I wonder, did Mr. Dershowitz ever get invited to write about this topic...Just kiddin’  The Daily News is owned by the neocon, Mortimer Zuckerman, who personally and through his editorial page, supported the obscene Iraq venture and the ever-continuing obscene Afghanistan venture.  Both these obscenities have cost America thousands of needless deaths and billions of wasted dollars; victims of the national security lie.  But I digress.
     Mr. Dershowitz, long on the scene as a lawyer, a gadfly and a highly-exercised fellow as regards Israel, used his article to vent his outrage over Media Matters in general and one M.J. Rosenberg in particular.  Mr. Rosenberg, Mr. Dershowit tells us, is the senior foreign policy fellow of Media Matters.  Apparently Media Matters and Mr. Rosenberg do not adhere to the Israel policy line, thus must be publicly disciplined by having Mr. Dershowitz ally same with neo-Nazism; real Nazism; Stalinism; “and other anti-Semitic regimes”; MSNBC (by association), and worst of all, Pat Buchanan (insert GASP! here).
     Mr. Dershowitz specifically and vehemently objects to the use of the “Israel first” label as applied to American Jews and AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee).  Mr. Dershowitz lists a number of offenses by Mr. Rosenberg and links him with all manner of odious persons and groups.  I do not know Mr. Rosenberg and do not frequent Media Matters (anymore than I frequent the FOX agitprop channel.).  What annoys is that Mr. Dershowitz is using a tried and true tactic of demagogues (and three-card monte dealers) everywhere, which is distraction.  Distract and rile up the masses by doing “A” whilst they ignore “B.”  And what is Mr. Dershowitz’s “B?” [Mr. Dershowitz is a lawyer, if it helps.].
      Simply put, Mr. Dershowitz wants to dissuade anyone from questioning Israel’s agenda by threatening such people with the tired label of “anti-Semitic.”  The brutal truth is this: There exists in America a powerful and influential Israel lobby, one which, succinctly, puts Israel first, regardless of who is opposing said agenda.  And over the years many people have been labelled as anti-Semitic for simply and rationally opposing Israel’s agenda.  Mr. Dershowitz knows this.  Indeed, the neocons even attempted to label as anti-Semitic individuals who use the word “neocon.”  Neocons reliably bully Israel’s critics, seek to shut them up. 
     Stop the neocon nonsense, Mr. Dershowitz.

     Before I consider Mr. Lupica’s piece allow me to note I lived and worked in NYC for twenty-five years including 9/11.  I knew one firemen who was murdered in the Towers.
     Absent Mr. Lupica’s article, in recent days there has been much discussion as regards the surveilling of Muslims hither and yon by the NYPD, headed by one Ray Kelly.  Specifically, the state of New Jersey and certain cities therein are angry the NYPD has been surveilling Muslim student groups, et al.  Certain swaggering elements of NYC [Nappy Bloomberg, NYPD, the Daily News and the New York Post, owned by the odious Rupert “Hack Attack” Murdoch] have been defiant as regards the NYPD’s activities.  Say, do we not have an FBI, a CIA and a massive Homeland Security surveillance entity, all funded by taxpayer dollars? I think so.
     During World War II America sent to camps thousands of Japanese who were viewed as a traitorous lot.  They were racially identifiable thus could be easily identified and rounded up.  To the camps! Today, Bloomberg, Zuckerman, Murdoch, Kelly, Lupica, et al cannot call for Muslims to be rounded up and sent to camps.  Ah, but today we have something better than camps-high tech Big Brother surveillance technology.  With today’s ever-evolving technology we are able to create electronic/virtual camps and No-fly lists and the like.  And all in the name of fighting terrorism, the war that shall never end.  A telescreen in every flat! A drone over every neighborhood! A bank of cameras on every block!
     Do terrorists exist? Of course they do.  Should we be vigilant on an hourly basis? Of course.  However, where do we stop? How dismissive of constitutional protections should we be in the face of hunting terrorists? When does a War on Terror become an exercise in domestic tyranny?
     The tenor of Mr. Lupica’s article is one of defiance, one of critics be damned.  It is one of New York knows best, of the noted New Yorker cover showing American civilization ending at the Hudson.  New York is superior; New York can go anywhere, look in anyone’s closet. 
     How would all the aforementioned react if, say, Gov. Jan Brewer of AZ was found to have ordered her state’s law enforcement to clandestinely probe certain enclaves of NYC? Oh, yeah! Can you say OUTRAGE?
     Mr. Lupica in his article employs the same tactic of distraction as Mr. Dershowitz.  Mr. Lupica begins his piece by invoking memories of WTC, 1993 (If only we had got them stinkin’ Muslims in ‘93!) he builds on the memory by linking ‘93 with 9/11 with NOW.  Hey, it’s all linked, thus it’s all justified, you know, like type.
     It should be noted Mr. Lupica has long been an enabler of the media thug, Don Imus.  Imus, as with the demagogue Limbaugh, the talk radio and cable TV demagogues have all spread the poison of hate while enriching themselves, enriching themselves by appealing to the worst aspects of human nature.  A pox on all.
     Mr. Lupica, if you truly wish to protect America, expose the disastrous neocons who have lured America into obscene wars, wars prosecuted on lies and on ideological drivel.  You know, wars supported by neocons like your boss, Mortimer Zuckerman, the Murdoch mini me.

     I close by asking several questions:
     Do those people who today support the micro-surveillance of Muslims retroactively defend the rounding up and forced internment of Japanese during World War II? If not, why not? After all, both groups are racially identifiable.  And do they retroactively defend Joseph McCarthy as an American hero?
     If NYPD’s anti-terror apparatus is equal, or superior, to the Feds, why do NYC’s political and media entities always whine for more fed HOMESEC funds? Why do they always cry NYC is being short-changed?
     If Islam was a Christian sect and Muslims were white and had white, middle class white names-say, like Timothy McVeigh-and all other variables were equal, would they be subjected to micro-surveillance?
     If a handful of Jews had been responsible for 9/11, would American Jews now be under the same surveillance as are American Muslims?

Rush Limbaugh is but a talking shadow.

[Note: The rampant factionalism of America’s political landscape impels me to include the following disclaimer in all my opinion posts: I am not a Republican.  I am not a Democrat.  I am not of the neocon persuasion, who are but false conservatives.  I am not of the  progressive persuasion, who are but false liberals.  I am not of the so-called Tea Party movement.  I do not belong to any organized religion.  I loathe all demagogues, thus disdain talk radio and realize our leviathan-dominated media are corrupted by self-interest profit and all manner of ideology.].
   
“Demagogues succeed for the same reason as confidence tricksters-because they have a gift of gab, charm, and an intuitive knowledge of human nature, because their personality is magnetic, and their manner is open and affable.  Men and women are so easily gulled, that a talented swindler can always be certain of making a handsome living.”  - Aldous Huxley’s Proper Studies (1927).    

[First, a general word about talk radio and cable TV demagogues.  All the  members of this loathsome lot are self-absorbed, self-promoting exploiters.  Their primary concerns are self-promotion and personal wealth.  Demagogues accomplish this by wrapping themselves in God and country and then exploiting an audience which is largely ignorant and/or overcome by hate or anger.  What else should we know about today’s media demagogues?...Oh, they are all ideological bullies and cowards, as they all attack from the safety of their cubicles and well-guarded sets on TV.  Further, none of them have any connection to you, their audience, as all media demagogues are wealthy, are of the top ten percent of earners (They earn, do not create.).  Many demagogues are multi-millionaires.  Demagogues cite the lower class, the middle and working classes, however, they shall never be caught dead among these classes..]

     Rush Limbaugh is, to reference the Bard, “but a walking shadow; a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” (From Macbeth)

     February 2012.  In current America, where every nobody receives his or her fifteen minutes, no one has received a longer fifteen minutes than Rush Limbaugh, demagogue.  Why?
     A few years back, Al Franken, comedian, wrote a book entitled “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.”  Franken, still a comedian, though now appearing in the U.S. Senate, a club given more to dark humor than slapstick.
     In the summer of 2010, Chris Matthews, a demagogue in the employ of MSNBC, issued a challenge to any Republican politician to come on his show, Hardball, and repudiate Rush Limbaugh.  Yet MSNBC’s own lineup of demagogues seemingly cannot go through one evening without referencing Limbaugh.
     As regards Franken, the MSNBC demagogues, and the Republicans, the question is: Why mention Limbaugh at all? Why genuflect to, or be cowed by, Rush Limbaugh?
     Allow me to suggest reasons.  To the MSNBC crowd  (the so-called progressives), Limbaugh represents their vision of Emmanuel Goldstein, but they have extended their Two Minutes Hate to 24/7.
     As regards the Republicans, they are cowed by Limbaugh because the noxious neocons who took control of the party under Dub-ya Bush long ago began mining the vein of the loony, which travels back to the Birchers, who believed Ike to be a commie (Ike a commie? Really?).  Today, the Birchers have been replaced by the Birthers and the Tea Potshot party, Donny Trump et al.  Thus Republicans are cowed by the size of Limbaugh’s largely ignorant and/or hate-filled “Dittohead” legion.
     America has created a new genre of bottom feeders, demagogues who employ an ever-evolving technology to exploit their ever-dumbing down bases.  Thus America has been subjected to burgeoning factionalism. 
     Should one be surprised Rush Limbaugh is a multi-gazillionaire?  Hell, in 2008 the American people threatened to elect a presidential ticket which featured an addle-brained dolt as Veep, a ticket millions ultimately voted for.
     The bottom line is Rush Limbaugh is no intellectual.  He is, however, a self-driven blowhard, a cynical, conscience-free individual who fits perfectly within the confines of Huxley’s definition at the head of this piece.  Bottom line: Rush Limbaugh is not a big, fat idiot, but a bottom feeder-a talented swindler with the gift of gab.  But in the end, a bottom feeder.

The perpetually offended: A chink in America's armor.

 “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” - Syme from Orwell’s 1984.

     February 2012.  Recently, there was much huffing and puffing and faux outrage over the phrase “chink in the armor,” as applied to a story regarding Jeremy Lin, a member of the New York Knicks pro-basketball enterprise, and the latest over-hyped product of the American hype machine.  The perpetually offended, an ever-growing demographic in modern American society, were outraged (I is shocked, I tells ya, shocked.). The phrase had been posted as a headline on an ESPN website and then issued verbally by an ESPN on-air anchor.  The headline writer was fired and the on-air anchor was suspended.
     The phrase a “chink in the armor” is oft-used in various contexts, and means a weakness in an aspect of one’s character, game, etc.
     A “Chink” is a racial slur directed at Asians.  Jeremy Lin is an Asian.  Are you following the LIN-ear LIN of thought here? [And don’t you dare use the word “niggardly” in a story as regards Afro-Americans or Rev. “Outraged” Sharpton shall have at you-he needs the publicity, don’t you know.)].
     The perpetually offended, the perpetually outraged need their fix.  Talk radio and cable TV demagogues egg on the perpetually dyspeptic members of their audiences.  But, of course, just who is outraged at whom is a matter of perspective.  For example, remember when Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), hero of the progressives and Democrats, called a female flight attendant a bitch? One heard nothing of that on MSNBC.  It was swept under the demagogic rug.  An interesting seat mate sidebar to the Schumer slur was NY’s junior Senator, the annoying and squeaky-voiced Kirsten Gillebrand, was sitting right (Or was it left?) next to Schumer and failed to utter a peep.
     America has been rendered impotent by a lack of governance; by the aforementioned perpetually offended/outraged; by the talk radio/cable TV demagogues; by noxious pollsters; by the ideologues of the Left and Right...Hell, by the never-ending hypocrisy which infects all strata of society.  All of the aforementioned are a collective chink in America’s armor.

UPDATE, 23 February: Already? Yes, well, I neglected to note Spero Dedes, a New York Knicks radio announcer, also used the suddenly offensive phrase “chink in the armor,” but was not executed.  Too, in the 23 February issue of the Daily News, there ran a “Be Our Guest” column by one Deanna Fei and entitled “Why ‘chink’ comes all too easily.” Sorry, but I lived in NYC for years and I can honestly not remember anyone using the word ‘chink.’  Now, the so-called “n” word I heard virtually every day, almost all spoken by young Black males.  Again, many people have joined the ranks of the perpetually offended/outraged.  Say, remember when the neocons were screaming the use of the word “neocon” was an anti-Semitic slur?  It does not take much to turn the waggling finger of disapproval into the Nazi salute.

UPDATE #2: What, again with the updates...Sorry, but I have just read that Mr. Lin, the subject of this alleged slur outrage, has re-upped with Nike.  So? So, Nike, a truly sleazy entity, has achieved billions in profit due largely to it cheap ASIAN work force.  Thus, Mr. Lin, why are you contributing to the exploitation of other [non-Harvard eduacted] Asians? Just thought I's ask.

Purple Death in the Foamposite Galaxy

     February 2012.  On 21 February the Daily News, one of NYC's two celebrity-sodden tabloids, ran a photo and an article on the fools who were lining up/camping out to purchase Nike's new $220 sneaker (How long has this LIN-sanity been going on, anyway?).  Well, should we be surprised, as we have long been told fools rush in...This silliness as regards lining up/camping out to buy the latest techno gadget, Gaga tickets, sneakers, which Americans have embraced is just that-silliness.  And, of course, our alleged media loves this, as it gives them an excuse to send out a crew for "breaking news."

Question: How many youths (predominantly minority) shall end up committing crime, and becoming the the victim of same, because of Gangsta Nike's latest offering?

Just askin,' you understand.

How alike are Rush Limbaugh and Nicki Minaj?

     February 2012.  Okay, allow me to begin with the obvious differences: Mr. Limbaugh is a middle aged white male, while Ms. Minaj is a young, Afro-American female.  Now for the similarities:
1.- Both Limbaugh and Minaj are “rappers,” as they employ various media to disseminate their messages, such as they are.

2.- As regards those messages, both Limbaugh and Minaj are vulgar [Please note Minaj’s recent Grammy performance.].  Of course, Limbaugh disguises his vulgarity with greater aplomb, as he is a practiced demagogue, while Minaj is but a generic vulgar rappette.

3.- Both lowbrows, Limbaugh and Minaj, are sold/forced upon the American consciousness by cynical corporate entities seeking profit and profit only.  Social grace and class do not come into play here.  And in so selling Limbaugh and Minaj, these corporate entities employ a hype apparatus which hypes its products to a point where other corporate entities and the NAPs (New American Proles) are likewise induced to throw money at Limbaugh and Minaj (Along with countless other bottom feeders and vulgarians.).

4.- Because of similarity #3, both Limbaugh and Minaj are wealthy, which reflects just how out of sorts our society has become.

5.- Both Limbaugh and Minaj dress in a garish manner, though Limbaugh’s style may be described as a quasi-middle class family webcam/backyard BBQ garishness.

6.- Both Limbaugh and Minaj could wear the clothes of the other-especially the pants.

7.- Both of these individuals are way too highly regarded by society in general and the media in particular.  Both Limbaugh and Minaj are representative of how celebs have been sold to the NAPs.
   
   

4 July 1776: What was the point?

“A lust of domination is more or less natural to all parties; and hence the stupidity of entrusting any set of people with more power than necessity requires.  Ambition and a thirst for sway are so deeply implanted in the human mind that one degree of elevation serves only as a step by which to ascend the next; nor can they ever mount the ladder so high as not to find the top still equally remote.” - Writer to the New York Mercury, 1755 as found in Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.”; page 61 footnote in the Harvard paperback).

     Ask yourself: Indeed, what was the point? Why was the Declaration of Independence, our seminal document, drafted? Our Constitution? The Federalist written? Why tease us with the concept of federalism? Why go through all the sacrifice and the spilling of blood to form the Republic if only to squander our inheritance to the shallow, the cynical and to the insidious, to whom the collectivization of power and wealth is the ultimate goal? One must ask: Has “the Consent of the Governed” eroded to a point where We the People are resigned to being indentured to a centralized leviathan? Should we have just kept George? (George III, not Dubya.).
     Humankind’s struggle is embodied in a basic equation:  Freedom of the individual versus the power of the State.  And has not humankind’s history always been one of the individual versus the feudal lord; the warlord; the monarch; the Crown; the oligarchy; the Star Chamber; the inquisitor; the theocrat; the Pope; the committee; the zealot; the authoritarian; the totalitarian; the corporate state...And in the history of humankind’s oppression, were not America’s Framers among the lamentable few who devised a system which shifted the odds in favor of We the People in opposition to the State?
     However, time is  a corrosive element; We the People have forgotten, have become lax as regards the maintenance of that wonderful gift left us by the Framers.  The more advanced a society becomes, the more distracted it becomes.  Doubt me? Consider: Given an option would a current youth prefer reading history, or say, Orwell’s 1984, or watching Gaga or Idol? Or standing in line for hours to purchase the latest over-hyped gadget?
     We the People are being sold many false versions of America; a cheap kaleidoscope filled with false and fractured images.  And the projected image depends on whatever group is seeking to manipulate the field: Politicians; corporations; media demagogues (Limbaugh, FOX, MSNBC, et al); the military-industrial complex; organized religion...
     Yes, politicians and citizens in every American era have viewed their era as The Age of Doom, but since the ink dried on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the template our Framers left us has been subjected to a process of relentless sociopolitical erosion.  And this erosion may be attributed in part to the collective actions (or inaction) of the following: 1.- The ignorant and/or apathetic; 2.- Government and its public sector industry;  3.- The Republicans and Democrats, as both parties covet BIG government, but only when they are in power; 4.- The corporate bloc;  5.- Ideological identity thieves, that is the neoconservatives (the false conservatives) and the progressives (the false liberals); 6.- The demagogue demimonde.  The talk radio and cable TV demagogues. Demagogues are self-promoting financial entities, who exist to incite and exploit their audiences; 7.- The fringes, Left and Right, have long entertained loons, and, oh, let’s not forget 8.- The asinine polling industry.
     Thus we arrive at 2012 America, no longer a Republic but an oligarchy, an oligarchy which comprises elements corrupted by money, by ideology and by factionalism.  Our three branches and our spirit of laws have all been corrupted.  It is a dumbed down and distracted America, in which celebrities and demagogues are given massive amounts of publicity.  It is an America which has become prey for what Madison called plans of oppression.
     The Republicans and their neocon masters, and the Democrats and their progressive masters scream of their noble ventures, their noble wars and their noble government creations via noble bits of one thousand plus pages of stupefacient, head-lolling legislation.  But is there nobility in tightening the noose when the condemned is innocent?
     The template left America by our Framers has been distorted both by the well-meaning and the insidious.  Government should be a solid frame, not a foreboding web, not a warren of administration.  Government and its component support pillars have all succumbed to the lures of power and wealth, thus have become industries unto themselves (See education).  In America, the public sector was never intended to trump the private one.  But it has.  Ironically, our non-federal central government has become America’s ultimate too big to fail corporation.
     How shall America be spared further dismantling? It shall not be spared by placard-waving, epithet-hurling mobs disguised as populists (See Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street).  It shall not be spared by well-dressed-albeit vacuous-politicians.  It shall not be spared by cynical and exploitative talk radio and cable TV demagogues.  And it shall certainly not be spared by a citizenry which relentlessly welcomes being dumbed down, which fans the flames of factionalism.
     But America can be spared by responsible citizens who take the time to actually read their history and prioritize their thinking, and contest the nonsense being fed them under the guises of reason and quality.  Ordered and rational thought? What a novel concept!

Romney/Trump/Limbaugh and the Republican party: Can this party be considered plausible?

     On 2 February 2012 Donald Trump endorsed one Willard “Soggy Mitt” Romney...in Las Vegas, no less.  The endorsement was more reflective  of a an unveiling in a wax museum, an unveiling a scant number of hours after Mr. Romney said he was not terribly exercised about the plight of the poor.  True, Mr. Romney’s statement was taken out of context and blown up by those demagogue shills in the service of progressivism (See MSNBC), the false liberalism.  But beyond this particular distortion, the fact (Did I say fact?) remains that the presumptive nominee, Mr. Romney, is but one of many tone-deaf members of today’s sad Republican party.
     The Republican party has become a protracted death scene as acted by a collection of ideological and demagogic hams (Dude, EMOTE!). 
     Quick, who is the most prominent member of today’s Republican party? Romney, the buttoned-down, pseudo-capitalist/predator? Uncle Newty Gingrich? Trump, the birther buffoon? Limbaugh, the demagogue? Palin, the publicity/moolah gl;ommer? Batty Bachmann? Cain, the less than able? The party’s sad contingent of inner sanctum neocons, the false conservatives, at National Review and other points Right? Kristol and Krauthammer? Rupe “The Media Raj” Murdoch and his sickly-pelted FOX, the attack/smear wing of neoconism? One is reminded of Kremlin bosses, arranged in a strict May Day pecking order.
Question: In a reasonable world why would anyone desire Trump’s endorsement? More to the point, why is Trump viewed as someone worth being endorsed by?

Question: In a reasonable world, why would anyone listen to, or, worse, covet the opinion of transparently shallow and self-absorbed demagogues, such as Rush Limbaugh?

Question: Does there exist an individual on a white horse, a sane pilot, capable of pulling the Republican party out of its death spiral?

NOTE: I am not a Democrat or Obama supporter, nor do I care anymore about the demagogues and frauds on MSNBC than I care about the frauds and demagogues on FOX, and on the vile enterprise known as talk radio.

Newt Gingrich: Scary movie ad nauseam.

      January 2012.  The reliably reprehensible Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina primary thus exposing the Republican party and its hypocritical religious wing.  Too, Gingrich has provided a clue to the primary (No pun intended) reason why Congress is so loathed, but why nothing is almost never done to transform this corrupt body.
     Mr. Gingrich is a long time wheeler-dealer and holder of carcinogenic principles.  In a past life he served as Speaker of the House, but was essentially propelled out of said position by ethics violations and recidivistic shadiness.  But Newt lingers on, acting in a melodramatic and protracted death scene.  Newt Gingrich is like the evil character in a horror movie who, assumed dead, keeps popping up to make one last run at the good guys.
     Yes, despite his multiple marital infidelities; his ethics violations; his political dealings with Billy Bob Clinton (Remember NAFTA?); his hypocritical attack on the same Billy Bob Clinton as regards adultery; his tours with Nancy Pelosi and Al Sharpton; his Tiffany account; his history professorship at Freddie Mac U.; his being counted out on several occasions...well, he keeps popping up, hurling himself at the electorate with his maniacal grin.  And it is disheartening to listen to voters issue reasons why mad Newt should be allowed to slice and dice them.  Most recently, the religious phonies of South Carolina, who thump their bibles while ignoring basic morals and ethics...Let's see, marriage is sacred, except, of course for Gays...and Newt.
     Those who vote for mad Newt are under the false impression that he shall slay the Big Government dragon, but Newt is an inveterate Beltway insider, one who has been lining his pockets for years.  Newt has no problem with Big Daddy Government on a hospital bed (or wives), as long as he knows he is to get his cut of the inheritance.