It wasn’t until the brain-dead teabaggers in the Nevada House chose him as speaker that his views became an issue – before that he was just another nonentity with bizarre attitudes.
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Was it Gingrich who said “Anyone who quotes me directly is engaging in hate speech”?
“How dare they use my own words against me?!”
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Adios, douche!
Let’s hear it for more carefully orchestrated political attacks like this one. On the other hand, how careful do you need to be when they just drop the damning evidence right in your lap?
Pilate asked Jesus, did you say that you would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days? And Jesus answered, deliberate character assassination and the politics of personal destruction have totally distorted my views and record.
had a feeling he was short in leadership and consensus building skills…
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i.e. , i hate it so bad when my own extreme rhetoric comes back to bite me on my own extreme ass.
The reasons he gives for resigning would, if true, actually be good reasons for staying and fighting. If he really believed these were attacks against him for actions he wants to take as a leader, and if he were truly a leader, he would stand and fight.
Typically Republican when you’re called on your racism: it’s an attack on me. The man ought not even to be an elected representative.