"Newt Gingrich is what stupid people think smart people sound like"

[banned from Kos]

Heard Paul Krugman say that on Amanpour's show today.

Don't know if he coined it but its perfect.

[SpiralHawk]

1. True that

What a chickenhawk maroon. The kind of draft-dodging, platitude-spewing 'qualifications' the Repubbies luv.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. And he's what evil people think righteousness should sound like

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Ding!

:applause:

[chaska]

13. HERE'S THE QUOTE. Along with his "fools and clowns" comment.

I saw this yesterday. Laughed my ass off. And George Will's reaction was priceless! Krugman's got some brass in his britches, alright.


Paul Krugman says that Newt Gingrich is just the latest of the “fools and clowns” in the Republican presidential race to become a frontrunner.

“I have a structural hypothesis here,” Krugman told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour Sunday. “You have a Republican ideology, which Mitt Romney obviously doesn’t believe in. He just oozes insincerity, that’s just so obvious. But all of the others are fools and clowns. And there is a question here, my hypothesis is that maybe this is an ideology that only fools and clowns can believe in. And that’s the Republican problem.”

…Krugman explained. “The Republican base does not want Romney and they keep on looking for an alternative. And Newt, although — somebody said, ‘He’s a stupid man’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.’ But he is more plausible than the other guys they’ve been pushing up.”

[Ship of Fools]

4. He was the little doughboy kid with a pocket protector

whose overbearing mother incessantly told him that *someday you'll be president ...*

No offense to those who wear pocket protectors.

[chelsea0011]

5. I laugh everytime he calls himself an historian and understand there are people who

buy his bullshit.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. "He is so narrow minded he can look thru a key hole with both eyes"

Juanita Jean.

http://www.juanitajean.com/

[enough]

7. Nailed. (nt)

[mazzarro]

8. In another thread, I rephrased that statement as follows

Newt is what stupid people think smart "conservatives" sound like.

[marmar]

9. George Will is another who fills that bill.

nt

[JI7]

10. yup, that's exactly it

[guitar man]

11. Spot on

I am stealing that one! :P

[GeorgeGist]

12. [phone]

[JNelson6563]

14. Couldn't agree more.

[lunatica]

15. I've been telling people that for years

It has a lot to do with his tone. He sounds reasonable so people think they're just not getting what he's saying. He throws in phrases like 'social engineering' and people fall over in admiration.