Newt comes home to roost. Republicans freak out!

Oy!  What Charles Pierce wrote about Newt! Pure poetry on a sword:

Newt Gingrich should stay in the race, doing exactly what he's doing, for as long as he wants to do it. If he wants to show up in Tampa come August to hurl invective at the walls of the convention center, he should do precisely that. And I am not saying this entirely because I know such a development will be wonderful theater and will drive Willard Romney batty. I am saying it because, for over 20 years, I have watched the Republican party embrace Gingrichism. I have watched it profit politically for having done so. I have watched it become coarser, more ignorant, and more vicious perhaps than any national political party has been since the days when actual fistfights broke out around the hard-cider barrel in the town square. I have watched it adopt retrograde policies that have damaged the country. All of these are products of the politics created and practiced by Newt Gingrich. If we are now at the gotterdammerung of that age, then, goddammmit, let Newt Gingrich be its agent. It's only just.

--Trakker

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coarser, more ignorant, and more vicious perhaps than any national political party

The experience of the German people with an enthusiastic nutty leader given a platform went to a dark place.

such a development will be wonderful theater

The price of admission is losing your soul.

[Trakker]

The price of admission is losing your soul.

I think we lost that sometime around 1980. I'm not sure we can get it back.

[Dan D. Doty]

Since when did you think you had a soul Trakker?

[Trakker]

Dan, I know your friends at that other place where you hang out think you are an intellectual, and maybe by their standards you are.

But you've commented here many times over the years and it should be obvious to you that we live on different planets and speak a different language. Your comments here are a waste of your time and my patience. I know what you think of me, you've told me many times.

I will delete your comments as I see them. It goes against my desire to respect freedom of speech, but on the other hand I must maintain some standards here...