Seriously, Newt? Seriously?

[DeistPaladin]

My jaw hit the floor.

Newt's 21st Century Contract With America

"21st Century Contract With America"



Seriously?

SERIOUSLY?

I haven't read anything else but the re-use of the exact same brand name of what was the greatest disaster of his entire political career has floored me.

This is the exact same guy who rode into the position of Speaker of the House on this brand. And this is the same brand that proved such a disaster that it got Clinton re-elected in 1996. Same guy, same brand, let's try it again and see how it works this time?

Regardless of your political views, this is just laughable stupidity.

It's like Nixon running for office promising "21st Century Watergate"
Or McCarthy promising "21st Century Committee on Unamerican Activites"
Or LBJ running on "21st Century Vietnam War"

He's the latest frontrunner, ladies and gentlemen. It's getting to be like a clown car, one after the next.

[paintpooper]

I'm ashamed to be an American in these times

[Doubting Thomas]

Yeah good luck with that.

[Faith No More]

I know he's just the newest flavor of the month, but the fact that anyone even takes this guy seriously(fake twitter followers and cheating on your cancer ridden wife, seriously?) makes me want to move to Canada. Another thing that scares the shit out of me is the fact that the sanest Repub. in the race(Hunstman) is a Mormon!

[Minimalist]

I'm ashamed to be an American in these times

I'd be more ashamed to be a republican.

[DeistPaladin]

I know he's just the newest flavor of the month, but the fact that anyone even takes this guy seriously(fake twitter followers and cheating on your cancer ridden wife, seriously?) makes me want to move to Canada. Another thing that scares the shit out of me is the fact that the sanest Repub. in the race(Hunstman) is a Mormon!

Agreed. It frankly seems like a substantial portion of our population, roughly 40% or so if the 2008 election is any indication, is living in an alternate reality. I mean, how else can you describe it? I'm not even talking about subjective political differences or even religious beliefs concerning "spiritual" matters but hard, verifiable facts about things happening in this physical world we all supposedly live in.

As I've said before, I was once a Reaganian conservative and had a lot of ill-informed beliefs about a lot of things. However, times seemed different back then. When I argued politics or economics with liberals, I spent 10% of the time debating what the facts were and 90% of the time what to make of them or how to fix our problems. I also never accused liberals of being "traitors" or "against America" or any of that other crap that's so common today. And "socialist" was an economic ideology used to describe those who embraced that label, not a pejorative hurled at anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh.

Today, the situation is reversed. We spend 90% of our time just nailing down what the facts are and frequently not succeeding. They live in a world where black is white, night is day and Obama is a socialist. It should be no surprise that in the party that represents them, the inmates have come to be in charge of the asylum.