Self-Adoration Reaches Newt Heights

[kpete]

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Self-Adoration Reaches Newt Heights
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: December 17, 2011


................ You have to take another politician’s ego, double it, and add cheese and a side of fries to get to Gingrich. An especially heaping, unhealthy diet of self-regard slogs through his veins.

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Gingrich isn’t the answer: he’s hot-headed and truculent. And while Obama sees himself (with justification) as historic, Gingrich sees himself as epic. If Obama is The One, Gingrich is The Plus-Size One.

Lately he has been on less bloated behavior, and by lately I mean the few weeks since he emerged as the Republican frontrunner du jour. If you watched the debate Thursday, you could sense, from the clench of his jaw, that he wasn’t merely biting his tongue but making an unhappy meal of it.

Still, Gingrich the Grandiloquent sneaked through. Asked about his stated resolve to rein in federal courts, he said that “just like Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and F.D.R., I would be prepared to take on the judiciary.” The company he keeps!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/opinion/sunday/bruni-newt-gingrichs-self-adoration.html?_r=1

[southernyankeebelle]

1. If this man wins we all can call him President Ego. That seems all he has going for him.

I for one will be happy when he finally puts if foot in his mouth that will lead him over the clibb as just a footnote in history.

[Enrique]

2. the presidential mirror is perfect

[lunatica]

3. Newt is a prime example of Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Anyone who's life has been turned into Hell by a Narcissist knows that Newt is one. For explanations of the following types of Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder follow the link

1. THE PATHOLOGICAL LIAR
2. THE CONTRACT BREAKER
3. THE HIGH ROLLER
4. THE SEXUAL NARCISSIST
5. THE BLAME-GAME NARCISSIST
6. THE VIOLENT NARCISSIST
7. THE CONTROLLER/MANIPULATOR
8. THE SUBSTANCE ABUSER
9. OUR "SOUL MATE"
10. THE QUIET NARCISSIST
11. THE SADIST
12. THE RAGER
13. THE BRAINWASHER
14. THE RISK-TAKING THRILL-SEEKER
15. THE PARANOID NARCISSIST
16. THE IMAGE MAKER
17. THE EMOTIONAL VACUUM 

18. THE SAINTLY NARCISSIST
19. THE CALLING-CARD NARCISSIST
20. THE PENITENT NARCISSIST

http://forum2.aimoo.com/NARCISSISTICPERSONALITYDISORDER/m/THE-NARCISSIST-Read-Only/20-Traits-of-Malignant-Narcissistic-Personality-Disorder-1-285326.html