Friday, December 9, 2011

Iowa Debate Preview: A Playing Field Made of Gingrichism - Esquire

Iowa Debate Preview: A Playing Field Made of Gingrichism - Esquire:

"Willard knows how to win the Republican nomination. He needs to unleash his inner Newt — a critter which, I suspect, is even slimier than most people's inner Newts. The nomination and the election will be conducted on a field of Newt Gingrich's construction because that is the only field on which Republicans know how to play anymore.

The problem, of course, is that, if they nominate Newt, they might wind up with Barack Obama as president for another term. They think Newt will lose. Period. All the rest is the tattered filigree of a hundred cheap alibis. For example, if George W. Bush's march through Babylon had been the triumph that his paid liars told the country it would be, then David Frum would still be writing books with that thooleramawn Richard Perle, and Andrew would still be calling people like me "fifth-columnists." You know when these guys decided there was a problem with C-Plus Augustus? When their pet war went bad, that's when, and the termites began rooting in whatever consciences they had left."

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