Something better happened yesterday. Check this out: http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-manchester/tea-party-senator-asserts-gingrich-is-not-a-conservative
Kevin My emphasis would be on Newt's hypocrisy, dishonesty, and overwhelming tendency to seek monetary gain at every possible opportunity at the sacrifice of his professed ideals. Brooks is eminently likeable. However, he is also a pentultimate establishment man. Pulls not quite every punch. Still, what he says about Gingrich is about as candid as he gets. If only his comments were picked up on by the moderators of the remaining debates. Fat chance. I may disagree with Ron Paul about a good number of issues, but just maybe he will rock the boat the next time out and bring up something like the issues Brooks discussed. Now that, I'd like to see. Billy ====================================================== 12/9/2011 2:58:02 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: David Brooks really nails it this morning. Please circulate widely. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/opinion/brooks-the-gingrich-tragedy.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212 "Gingrich has a revolutionary temperament — intensity, energy, disorganization and a tendency to see everything as a cataclysmic clash requiring a radical response. I’d make a slightly similar point more rudely. In the two main Republican contenders, we have one man, Romney, who seems to have walked straight out of the 1950s, and another, Gingrich, who seems to have walked straight out of the 1960s. He has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with ’60s excess: narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence and intemperance. He just has those traits in Republican form. As nearly everyone who has ever worked with him knows, he would severely damage conservatism and the Republican Party if nominated. He would severely damage the Hamilton-Theodore Roosevelt strain in American life." In Gingrich we have a bombastic, statist with a revolutionary personality. What's not to like? Everything. Kevin Kervick Discovering Possibility: A Common Sense Conservative Manifesto (For Classical Liberals Too) is available at www.discoveringpossibility.com. The book offers a sociological perspective and corresponding culture change approach, that relies on the principles of classical liberalism and a Deistic spirituality and promotes four pillars of community - freedom, personal responsibility, neighborliness, and thrift. All proceeds from Discovering Possibility go toward the furtherance of our mission at A Place for Possibilities, www.aplaceforpossibilities.org, a 501 (c) 3 educational nonprofit corporation. Also, check out my writing about Independent politics on Examiner.com at http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-manchester/kevin-kervick -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
