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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Mon Dec 19, 2011, 12:29 PM Dec 2011

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

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

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Do you think Gingrich would be saying all this crazy stuff if there wasn't an audience for it? [View all] NNN0LHI Dec 2011 OP

Yep. "Activist judges" have long been sufrommich Dec 2011 #1

No atreides1 Dec 2011 #2

I agree and the fact that he is smart (as evil as they come) but smart none the less teddy51 Dec 2011 #3

Or he could be be creating an audience proud2BlibKansan Dec 2011 #4

yes. ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2011 #5

I'll just go with Krugman-- Jackpine Radical Dec 2011 #6

probably better to do that. ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2011 #8

Not that i have anything against your observations; Jackpine Radical Dec 2011 #11

ewe betcha. ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2011 #12

Gingrich isn't deaf aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2011 #7

Like I said before, the scariest things aren't what these crazies say... Kalidurga Dec 2011 #9

Agreed, but I think at least part of his intended audience is us IDemo Dec 2011 #10