Do you think Gingrich would be saying all this crazy stuff if there wasn't an audience for it?

[NNN0LHI]

Bad news guys. There is a great number of people out there who eat up every word he says no matter how insane it sounds to us.

Better not lose sight of that fact. Ronald Reagan and the shitheads who voted for him twice during the 1980's taught me this lesson really well.

Don

[sufrommich]

1. Yep. "Activist judges" have long been

dog whistle politics for the freeper set.

[atreides1]

2. No

There is an audience out there for this kind of thing, there always has been. They just keep hiding under the rocks and avoid coming out in the light of day, until it's time to vote!

[teddy51]

3. I agree and the fact that he is smart (as evil as they come) but smart none the less

should be something that scares Democrats as well. Many Republicans just want to defeat Obama and if that means running a candidate like Gingrich, so be it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Or he could be be creating an audience

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. yes.

Look, the man is not all there. The "brightest" GOP candidate, (self-described), is actually a delusional, reactive, mis-informed, ADHD sufferer, who spews volumes of bad ideas before breakfast, only to increase that output between the remaining waking hours.

He uses big words for the sole purpose of using big words. When you look at his ideas that hide behind that curtain of false intellectualism, the man is stupid, short-sighted, and quite probably insane.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I'll just go with Krugman--

Gingrich talks like dumb people think smart people talk.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. probably better to do that.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Not that i have anything against your observations;

it's just that it's good to practice getting your barbs into as few words as possible so as not to unduly challenge the attention span of any nearby wingnuts. In fact, at 9 words, I think my Krugman paraphrase is a little windy.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. ewe betcha.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. Gingrich isn't deaf

He's heard the applause at the GOP debates when the craziest ideas have been proposed, like electrocuting illegal aliens or letting the uninsured die. He's also heard the 'boos' when the ideas haven't been crazy enough, like the idea that we should treat aliens humanely.

[Kalidurga]

9. Like I said before, the scariest things aren't what these crazies say...

it is the fact that the crazier they sound the more popular among their base they seem to be.

Of course there is an audience for the insanity Gingrich spews, if there was no audience no one would broadcast his "wisdom".

[IDemo]

10. Agreed, but I think at least part of his intended audience is us

I've long held that repubs use malevolent rhetoric not only to stir up their base but to antagonize Dems/progressives/liberals to see what kind of response they can provoke.