NEWT: “Republicans look at what’s happening & think we’re watching new stage of left-wing nuttiness"

[kpete]

“Most Republicans look at what’s happening and think we’re watching a new stage of left-wing nuttiness.
It’s just surreal.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-a-fast-changing-culture-can-the-gop-get-in-step-with-modern-america/2015/06/27/2057bb30-1b95-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html


Hurray For Nuts!

[BumRushDaShow]

1. They always accuse others of what they are. nt

[Rex]

2. Says the man that divorced wife number 2 on her death bed so he could remarry ASAP.

Newt can say whatever he wants to, he will be remembered as a disgrace and a total failure in the history book footnotes. That is good enough for me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Not quite a footnote.

[Rex]

5. True, probably won't get any mention. If he does it will be for his disasterous Contract On America.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. His role in partisanship is central

so is his role in impeachment. The books already out on this subject recognize his very central role in this. Somebody will write a long bio of him, guaranteed. I hope somebody like Caro. His role is far more complex, and far from a footnote.

[daleanime]

28. Amen....

I just hope they remember to wash their hands afterwards.

[jwirr]

7. He was definitely the catalyst in the welfare reform.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. If the Huckster or the Cruzer run as a Third Party social conservative...

If the Huckster or the Cruzer run as a Third Party social conservative they can make some noise and help us.

[Paladin]

8. Why do Gingrich and his asinine opinions still receive coverage?

Remember the deathless comment from the last election cycle: Newt Gingrich is what stupid people think a smart person sounds like.

[0rganism]

9. great! let them live in the past and spend their big money calling us crazy

in the meantime, us "crazy kids" will get our asses in gear and do what we can to reverse or mitigate the enormous damage Newt's "normals" have already caused, and maybe while we're at it we can push things forward a little bit to keep this country abreast of the rest of the industrialized world.

[MisterP]

10. nobody cares what the towheaded kid from Family Circus has to say

[Nay]

11. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black. We're watching the Pubs go from batshit

crazy to dangerous Nazi crazy.

[Arugula Latte]

12. Yeah, equal rights is such a "nutty" concept. It's so much less nutty to believe in a book

that has talking snakes, rules against eating shellfish, smitings of babies and children, supernatural winged creatures, a zombie (okay, lych) who rolled away a rock, a mean, nasty, vengeful sky god who murdered most of the population of Earth with a flood, etc.

From the article: Huckabee responded by declaring that the standard of all truth is the Bible. Distorting the laws of nature, he said, is akin to playing the piano without a tuning fork — or baking a cake without the proper measurements of salt, flour and sugar. “You’re going to have a disaster on your hands,” he said.

This isn't too fucking weird: 2 KINGS 6:29: "So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son."

Leviticus 25:44: "Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves."

Deuteronomy 13:12-15, if you find that the people in the city you're visiting worship another god, you have to kill them all."

Leviticus 10:6: “Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people.”

Leviticus 20:10: "If a man cheats on his wife, or vise versa, both the man and the woman must die."

There are a lot of Republicans in Congress who should be stoned to death, pronto.

Great source for "morality," huh?!

[gratuitous]

15. Galatians 5:13: "Serve one another in love"

I mean, talk about cray-cray.

[Arugula Latte]

17. Right, but that's far from the only thing in the Bible.

Huckabee and people like him don't acknowledge that the book is a bunch of weird-ass primitive myths slapped together a couple thousand years ago that express good, bad, and just plain bizarre sentiments and strange rules and orders. They say the Bible is the word of an omnipotent deity and only source of truth (like Huckabee did in the article), so the Bible thumpers must believe all of the fucked-up, twisted, sicko, and truly nutty things in the Bible, as well as the more positive things. And yet "leftists" who want equal rights are the weird ones.

[hifiguy]

16. The old testament god

was a bloodthirsty psychotic who demanded genocide, mass rape, wars of extermination and that's for starters. Why would anyone worship what amounts to a supernatural Pol Pot?

[Arugula Latte]

19. They are really into power, obedience and control, so they probably get off on Yahweh being such a

murderous, vengeful sociopath and extreme control freak. They wish they could do the same.

[MohRokTah]

13. Newt Newt Newt

This is mainstream. You guys are the nuts.

[JHB]

14. That's like wondering how football players looks so big at the scrimmage line...

...when they looked soooo tiny when they were way down on the other end of the field.


When you veer deeper and deeper to the right everything looks like "left-wing nuttiness".

[hifiguy]

18. Gingrich's fifteen minutes were up fifteen years ago.

And this pompous idiot blowhard still thinks he is relevant to something? Anything?

[octoberlib]

20. I look at Republicans and think we're in a neverending stage of batshit insanity.

They're masters of projection, aren't they?

[spanone]

21. well, the newt's found us out. i guess their lineup for prez looks like a winning proposition....

from where newt sits, they're all fucking geniuses

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[Solly Mack]

22. I read the article. It's a whine-fest of republicans bemoaning the fall of America.

And how out of touch they are with Americans overall, but how they can still say the same old things - they just need a new way of saying the same old hate-filled shit.

Laughably sad.

[Skittles]

23. repukes, always on the wrong side of history

FUCK YOU NEWT

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

24. Mr. Sanctity of Marriage, on his third mistress

is the last person who should weigh in on gay marriage

[olddots]

25. can I second Skittles ?

Newt bite the bag you venerial wart puss boil .
sorry ......

[BeyondGeography]

26. We're not the freaks anymore, Newt

Try to keep up. Then again, keep doing what you're doing.

[Hekate]

27. Sez the serial adulterer who dumps wives when they get too sick or too "old" for him....

Or is that McCain? It's hard to keep up.

[Agnosticsherbet]

29. It is gratifying watching Republicans tear themselves apart

I look forward to seeing how this expression of real change in the eletorae plays out in the primary and the General election.

Quite a few states have been gerrymandered to make them safe for Republicans. It will be interesting to see how this affects the electorate in those "safe seats."