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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewt is great at saying shit the right wing loves. He is insane but knows how to deliver.....
his message.
Like Bill Clinton said "When people are insecure, they'd rather have somebody who is strong and wrong than someone who's weak and right,"
Well, Newt is WRONG but says it in a way that gives his supporters what they want to hear. Confidence goes a long way with the right wing idiots.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)It's as much WHAT he says as how he says it. "Food stamp president", "Pay checks not food stamps" are all very thinly veiled references to the old Reagan "welfare queen" stereotypes of black Americans. And it goes over real well with the mouth breathers that Newt is trying to appeal to.
Ignorant people need scapegoats for the fact that their lives haven't exactly turned out the way they hoped. Minorities make really good scapegoats and assholes like Gingrich know just how to push those buttons.
Logical
(22,457 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I don't think he buys half the stuff he says, but he knows how to make money off rubes.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Mittens will just get the Obama haters. I've seen a light bulbs with more excitement than Romney