Gingrich’s Black Pitch: Why Vote GOP

26 June 2011 |permalink | email article

Continuing to lose altitude in trying to win the Republican presidential nomination egghead Newt Gingrich’s grasp of political reality has reached new heights of loathing.

The former House Speaker, Talking Points Memo reported, thinks it’s time for the GOP to tell African Americans how bad President Obama is for them. He had into racial trouble in the past by suggesting Obama is the “food stamp president.”

Shifting gears, Gingrich now believes the African American vote is ripe for the plucking in 2012. In the blue state of Maryland Gingrich tacked by saying while Obama is the food stamp president he wants to be the “paycheck president” – creating jobs because he knows how to create them.

“No administration in modern times has failed younger blacks more than the Obama administration.” The phrase, “rope-a-dope,” may be applicable to boxing but not in politics. Gingrich, increasingly disordered, assumes “putting on brave face Republicans might be able to sway African Americans to vote their way.” I mean, from an historical viewpoint, how disingenuous does it get?

Quotable

“The saying in Southie used to be that when James (Whitey) Bulger walked down the street, the sidewalk shook. In my opinion, Whitey was more feared in Boston than John Gotti was in New York.” – Robert Stutman headed the Boston office of the Drug Enforcement Agency in the 1980s.

“None of the sensible among us entertains the least sympathy for murderous thugs like Bulger, let along a creature like Bin Laden; it’s the fantasy of the fugitive life that resonates.” – Timothy Rutten in the Los Angeles Times.

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