No surprise: the rubes embrace “The Professor” and his grift…

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No surprise: the rubes embrace “The Professor” and his grift…:

I’ve always thought that when the dust started to settle, Newt would be one of the strongest candidates in the Republican field. Even when folks tried to push him out of the clown car and write his obit earlier this year, I thought Newt would stay in the game for two main reasons.

The first is simple: Newt tells the rubes what they want to hear and makes them feel smart, smug and superior when they embrace his con. For decades, Ginrich has been an exceptional liar, grifter and hack—all qualities honored and celebrated by the modern CONsevative movement. Sure, he comes up with batshit crazy and contradictory ideas that would NEVER work, but these delusions are rhetorical crack for the gullible saps who make up the base of the Party. They love to be bamboozled and Newt is very good at giving them what they want.

The second reason is that Newt represents the last CONservative victory in the current rewrite of recent Wingnut history. It turns out the the years when Tom DeLay ran the Congress and George W. Bush controlled the White House produced a series of major fuck-ups that melted down the global economy, squandered a surplus, produced massive deficits and damaged America’s standing in the world from just about any angle. Once they purge the decade (1998 to 2008) of Republican misrule from their collective memory holes, Newt Gignrich is the last CONservative hero left standing. In their fevered imaginations, he is untainted by the Bush/DeLay years.

These twin delusions almost guaranteed that Newt would rise in the polls and always have a very decent chance of becoming the Republican nominee for President. And now with weeks to go until the voting starts, “The Professor” is on the move.

And I can’t think of a candidate who better represents the Modern Republican Party and Conservative movement. Newt is the corruption, idiocy and self-delusions of the Party, base and movement made flesh. I expect that they will embrace Gingrich with gusto and that poor old Mittens will not know what hit him.

Cheers