Newt Gingrich may have inadvertently made the very point that many critics of the current Republican candidates, liberal and conservative, have been making for months; that many of the candidates delight in their ignorance of governance, history, geography, world events and even economics to the detriment of their candidacy, their party and the country.
Here is what former Speaker and Professor Gingrich said recently during a recent interview with CBN's political correspondent David Brody.
"One of the Republican weaknesses is that we rely too much on consultants and too much on talking points, and we don't rely enough on actually knowing things. If you're going to lead the country and change history, you better know a heck of a lot before you start because there's not much time for learning on the job. As Obama has proven — youth and inexperience are interesting, but they can also be a disaster."
The irony is that just yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel released video of Herman Cain struggling to answer a question to the paper's editorial board on whether or not he agrees with President Obama's decision to send military force over Libya in conjunction with, instead of leading, several European nations.
After an uncomfortable 65 seconds, Cain begins to dance around the question. He finally succumbed and ended by telling the board "People think the President needs to know everything, He doesn't."
The ignorance goes beyond foreign policy and history. Almost all of the candidates are guilty of promising sweeping changes they would make their first day in office, completely ignoring that they wouldn't have the sole power to make such decisions because the Constitution doesn't give that sort of power to the Executive branch of Government, The office of the President. (For example, Rep. Michele Bachmann's immediate decision to Repeal of "ObamaCare" on her first day or Gov. Rick Perry's promise to eliminate Departments of the Government.)
Even Mitt Romney has twisted himself into a pretzel on repealing the Health Care Reform act. He now says he would use an Executive Order to help states and government departments ignore the statute. An executive order to by-pass a congressional act? No matter who's in the White House Congress will love that.
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Every now and then, even a t*rd like Gingrinch gets something right. Too bad he learned all the wrong lessons from the events he sort of knows something about. Sort of.
Newt Gingrich? President of these here United States of America? Alternate after the Donald, the Michelle, the Herman? Republicans must be smoking wacky weed without a pipe, short on memory and hard up for a smack down! QUICO!
Rich Galen, on The Last Word last night defending Gingrinch's and other corrupt operators' right to take "lobby" money after leaving government service (I would love if someone paid me 25K, I would lobby the hell out of them), defended corruption using the first amendment was just sickening. If this philosophy stands for much longer we will not have a country of the people, by the people and for the people but robber barons and their lackeys suppressing the 99% . He is a disgrace. Doesn't he know that there is real suffering in the land? People, the old, the young, formerly middle class are homeless, jobless, without health care, and hopeless. If the beltway and many "public servants" around the country don't start changing their ways and work with the people to come to some resolutions to the many pressing problems we will have revolution. They don't seem to understand the road they are on. For the 99% take to the streets now before it is to late to get on the path to peaceful resolutions that will work fairly for all the people. The only alternative is social upheaval which will bring only more suffering to more and more people. If you want peace (and prosperity) work for justice!