Jackson, Gingrich’s metric for presidential reliability, was a slaveholder and trader who engineered the genocide of thousands of Native Americans during his tenure.
Well, Gingrich the Newt is one of the most weak-minded politicians in history, so he’s being consistent at least.
Before he was elected President, Jackson killed a man he accused of insulting his wife in a duel.
Usually if you’re in a duel all your attention is focused on winning the duel, not so much on insulting the opponent’s wife.
Grinch’s Trump Endorsement: “As reliable as Andrew Jackson.”
Because the 2016 electorate is yearning for a slaveholder who engineers genocides and kills men in duels.
Andrew Jackson is the president who passed the Indian Removal Act that resulted in the near-genocide of Native Americans via the Trail of Tears.
Decisive, yes. But probably not what we’re looking for.
Why yes…and he has the temperament of Millard Fillmore, the intelligence of John Tyler, and the appetite of William Taft.
This whole exercise is not to endorse Trump, but to showcase Newt’s intelligence. I don’t think his base knows or cares who Andrew Jackson was.
Though, I believe, he is known as the father of the modern Democratic Party.
Isn’t it time for Grover Norquist to step forward and endorse Donald? After all, he has by far the lowest bar for fitness: “enough working digits to hold a pen”.
On the other hand, Grover has a Palestinian wife.
Newt Gingrich is as credible a “historian” as Harry Elmer Barnes was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#Harry_Elmer_Barnes
That is not an endorsement.
I would’ve said Thomas Jefferson.
But that’s just my $2.
Newt: “…and he was nice to his mother, and he has nice, regular features.”
Actually, Newt has undergraduate and graduate degrees in history, though the latter is in European history. I think he knew what he was saying when he compared Trump to Jackson, though he probably didn’t expect the press or Trump’s supporters to understand what he was getting at.
Ah, Andrew Jackson = North Carolina.
Got it, Mitt. Er, Gipper. Er, Newt.
Trump would wimp out of a duel –
Insult his wife ?? … Uhhhh … which one ???
Are we sure Gingrich doesn’t view that as a compliment?
Um
A) history is often interpretive
B) Jackson wasn’t even close to being a tenther.
C) though both men knew how to keep a grudge, Jackson often chose to wait a bit for an advantageous moment.
> the right person to challenge the status quo "will by definition not be normal."
Gingrich’s weirdo awkward way of calling Trump bizarre & abnormal?
“Bloody, bloody Andrew Jackson.”
Calling him “decisive” isn’t really the appropriate word…
“Engineered the genocide…” I don’t think there was as much of an opposition to that compared to the Abolitionist Movement. So, he was doing what every other president did to a greater or lesser degree vis the native people. His was a distillation of an attitude and official policy.
I think Lucy gave the same level of assurance to Charlie Brown about the football.