It just hit me - Gingrich is George Corley Wallace

[rurallib]

It has been bothering the hell out of me where I had heard the rhetoric before -





The anti-media, anti-intellectual and as much race as he can get away with.

[eridani]

1. Not really. Wallace was big on government spending on public goods

--particularly if such spending favored white people.

[rurallib]

5. My memory fades as I age - thanks for filling in that miss.

[crazylikafox]

2. Yep, barely veiled racist demagogue.

We know how well that worked out for Wallace. Frightening, isn't it?

[DCBob]

3. I think he is closer to the evil little man with a mustach.

Seriously.

[hobbit709]

4. Wallace was more honest.

[immoderate]

6. Wallace was less deluded.

Newt thinks he's a world treasure.

--imm

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. 1962 Wallace

http://www.ep.tc/problems/

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Pro-Segregation......Jeez.

It just seems so....bizarre.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. who does he remind me of????? oh........... hello Newton

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[Major Hogwash]

9. The politics of racism . . .

works.

The Willie Horton ad by George Bush proved that.
The so-called liberal media wouldn't even report that the ad was totally false.

Gingrich is just doing what every other racist, scumbag, POS Republican from the South has ever done when running for national office -- be his racist, ugly, dumb as a box of rocks self!!

When Noot loses, he'll crawl back to Murdoch and ask for his old job back, lying on Faux Snooze.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Not to mention birtherism and "Anti-Sharia law" measures.

Racism is still alive, if somewhat more subtle.

[eridani]

10. Wallace actually apologized for his role in attempting to preserve Jim Crow

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-03-11/news/1995070104_1_marchers-montgomery-wallace

The marchers came to the old man in the wheelchair, some to tell him he was forgiven, some to whisper that he could never be forgiven, not now, not a million years from now.

Yet to all of the people who retraced the steps of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march 30 years ago, George C. Wallace offered an apology for a doomed ideal.

[Erose999]

11. wallace was an opportunist. He used the race issue to gain votes, but once it started losing

traction with voters he changed his course and started trying to make amends with the Black community. He appointed more Blacks to gov't positions than any other governor in Alabama history.

Newt is also an opportunist. He will say or do whatever it takes to win. He will trash the 99% and the OWS movement in one breath, and then adopt their language to make an ad trashing his opponent in the next. He has no principles at all. He's a stranger in the bushes.

[madokie]

14. George Wallace, what a piece of work

newty boy, what a piece of shit work

two peas in a pod no doubt