Newt Gingrich has made the news again, this time by "fearing" that secular atheists would cause the United States to fall under control of radical Islam. Most reasonable, rational - sane - people find this outrageous.
I, however, do not.
This is classic Newt. He isn't trying to piss off the left, atheists, secular humanists, or even Democrat voters. He knows he'll never win over the independent thinkers, or people who know their history at least a tiny bit. On the contrary, Newt is vying for the "stupid angry white" and radical Christian vote. This is his bold move into the territory of Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and the other pretenders to the throne of stupidity and hatred, that he, Newt Gingrich, intends to garner the Republican Party nomination in 2012. During the campaign he may indeed "amend" his statement, but only after he has repeated it sufficiently for the bottom feeders to take the bait.
Don't get me wrong, I think Newt Gingrich is a lying demagogue. He certainly is a liar, just ask his former spouses. Oh, maybe that's not fair? After all according to Newt, he committed adultry (on each of his ex-wives) out of his deep commitment to the nation and its values. Values? Maybe you can figure that one out.
Anyway, Gingrich is a hypocrite and a liar. But he's nonetheless very intelligent, and he doesn't make any political move without having thought about it very clearly, weighing his options, and understanding exactly what reactions his move might elicit. After his latest statement attracted the expected indignant responses, his public relations secretary issued the standard retraction, claiming that Newt had intended to include the word "or" as if that would have made any difference. Semantically speaking, yes. But this isn't George W. Bush speaking, it's Newt Gingrich, who is a very articulate, intelligent and calculating speaker. He doesn't garble his metaphors like the aforementioned dumbass. The comment was most certainly intentional.
The United States has always been at war with itself in one form or another, mostly with hateful, spiteful racist demagogues against reasonable, tolerant people who value the Constitution and human rights. Whether it be the witch hunts against anti-war activists during the World War I era, suffragists, unions during the 30s-40s, non-conformists during the 50s, or anti-war activists (yet again) during the 60s, these alleged "Americans" have done their damnedest to destroy the US Constitution, to destroy civil liberties for anyone who doesn't look like them, and to especially destroy those who refuse to think or pray like them. The GOP is the party of hatred.
That's right, I said it. Those who claim to support the Republican Party are stupid, hateful, racist demagogues.
It is to these idiots that Newt is appealing because he is keenly aware that stupidity, hatred and demagoguery are selling BIG TIME in America. It doesn't matter that not one of their arguments holds water, it doesn't matter that they feed on the slough of lies from Fox, CNN, Limbaugh, Beck et al. It matters not one iota that evidence to the contrary can be presented to them to prove that they are being used as pawns for the benefit of the thieving class. They don't care because they are STUPID.
They actually believe that secular leftists support radical Islam, that Obama is a Socialist, or that they even understand what Socialism is. They believe this shit because they are too STUPID to think for themselves, and they will follow anyone who chums the water for them.
And Newt Gingrich, with a bucket full of stupidity, is one sharp operator who has announced that he intends to do their thinking for them.
