Why Gingrich is Bad (and Romney is Awesome): A Politico Megathread Spectacular

[CLARENCE 2015!]

David Brooks and George Will do NOT speak for GOP voters... they speak for the establishment. They are Ivy League big city elitists

[Politico]

David Brooks and George Will do NOT speak for GOP voters... they speak for the establishment. They are Ivy League big city elitists

Absolutely, but do you want your taxes going towards mirrors in outer-space and colonization of the moon? Because David Brooks and George Will did not force Newt Gingrich to support those policy objectives. I mean, for crying out loud, this is infinitely more outrageous than George W. Bush's version of Big Government. I fail to see how somebody can support Gingrich and call themselves a supporter of smaller government.

[Politico]

quoting from the NYT only serves to make the jmfcsts point for them

I done goofed. But hopefully they will remain focused upon the absurdity of Gingrich's proposals for outerspace. I mean, I am a bigger supporter of NASA than most people, but putting mirrors into outerspace to light highways and colonizing the moon are absurd, costly projects. There are better ways to use our limited resources.

Obama must be laughing his ass off at the prospect of cruising to re-election against Space Cadet Gingrich.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Point to me where he has proposed these as laws or proposed bills... he is a thinker, he puts ideas forward, and thinks forthe future

It's not like Mitt who has implemented some crazy ideas

[Politico]

Feel free to add any other suggestions. In the meantime, here is a tribute video for Gingrich:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugY6HNLOCo

[Politico]

Point to me where he has proposed these as laws or proposed bills... he is a thinker, he puts ideas forward, and thinks forthe future

It's not like Mitt who has implemented some crazy ideas

It's all over the web. I could not believe it when I first heard. It's almost as damaging as Al Gore's "I Invented the Internet." Rumor has it that a video is going to surface that is going to make Gingrich look about as serious as this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugY6HNLOCo

[Antonio the Sixth]

Option 3 is certainly the most disgusting one.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Point to me where he has proposed these as laws or proposed bills... he is a thinker, he puts ideas forward, and thinks forthe future

It's not like Mitt who has implemented some crazy ideas

It's all over the web. I could not believe it when I first heard. It's almost as damaging as Al Gore's "I Invented the Internet." Rumor has it that a video is going to surface that is going to make Gingrich look about as serious as this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugY6HNLOCo

First of all...I would vote for that guy int he video!

Second- Gingrich never sponsored a bill, was just talking about techonology that is possible from what I understand. Compare that to Romneycare- which by the way I do NOT think is THAT bad - in the eyes of most GOP voters

[Middle-aged Europe]

How is the repeal of child labor laws "big government" exactly?

Doesn't make sense.

[Politico]

How is the repeal of child labor laws "big government" exactly?

Doesn't make sense.

Fixed. I started the subject of the thread before deciding upon the choices. The repeal of the child labor laws was an after-thought thrown in for good measure. I am, of course, shocked by Gingrich's Space Cadet proposals, as disgusting as the other proposal is (which is old news compared to the Major Tom stuff).

[morgieb]

The first 2 are silly, the 3rd one is vile.

[Zarn]

Point to me where he has proposed these as laws or proposed bills... he is a thinker, he puts ideas forward, and thinks forthe future

It's not like Mitt who has implemented some crazy ideas

It's all over the web. I could not believe it when I first heard. It's almost as damaging as Al Gore's "I Invented the Internet." Rumor has it that a video is going to surface that is going to make Gingrich look about as serious as this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugY6HNLOCo

First of all...I would vote for that guy int he video!

Second- Gingrich never sponsored a bill, was just talking about techonology that is possible from what I understand. Compare that to Romneycare- which by the way I do NOT think is THAT bad - in the eyes of most GOP voters

A government program like that would cost a massive amount of money, whether it was an idea or an actual bill. He wasn't pushing the private sector on this one.

[Zarn]

The first 2 are sillymassively expensive, the 3rd one is vile.

[Joe Biden 2020]

The first 2 are sillymassively expensive, the 3rd one is vile.

[Simfan34]

I would support these proposals.

[Roemerista]

What is so absurd about having students take part in the school? I would think that it would be the duty of the students to clean as a lesson in character, and not even pay them. We have loads  of already useless character development aspects of ed, why not something that gives students a reason not to vandalize things, and an incentive for peers to punish those who do?

[TJ in Oregon]

Seriously folks? Colonizing the moon?!?!? How can #2 not be the most absurd?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Seriously folks? Colonizing the moon?!?!? How can #2 not be the most absurd?

I don't know about you, but I'd rather colonize the moon than reinstating child labor.

[Iosif]

When does this start becoming spam?

[Torie]

Newt's idea to legalize the residency of a host of illegals, but not make it legal for them to earn a living with a green card strikes me as right up there in the nutter category. But yes, there is just so much to choose from.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Seriously folks? Colonizing the moon?!?!? How can #2 not be the most absurd?

I don't know about you, but I'd rather colonize the moon than reinstating child labor.

I agree.  Lunar Colonization is very absurd and it ranks a close second in my polling, but child labor is just that, child labor.  That reminds me too much of sweatshops.  I don't want our schools to become sweatshops.  It is true that our children need to learn housekeeping, but they're main focus at school should be to learn tools that will get them quite far in life.  Housekeeping can only take them so far.  They should be learning such at the home doing chores, not in school taking time out of their day.  Now, I will say, that if a child spills something on the floor they should be required to clean it up as best they can, but shouldn't be required to clean the hallways or the bathrooms that they did not dirty up.

[Politico]

Never
Enough
Wacky
Thoughts
2012

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

Not like Rand's dad is in the race or anything.  In any case, the Pauls are not representative of the rank and file Tea Partiers, who are just conservatives with a new name. The Pauls are like wormyguy and Tweed, perpetually dissatisfied with the status quo, no matter what.

I'm dissatisfied with this post.

[TJ in Oregon]

Newt's quote about when life begins is has one sentence in it that really irritates me:

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It's as if he thinks our metric for determining the answers to these questions ought to depend not on what actually happens but insted on the political expediency of it.

[BigSkyBob]

The various forms of amnesty he has proposed. In particular, his attempt to "Newter" the e-verification system by making it optional.