Today, over a Twitter background that still reads Newt 2012, Newt Gingrich followed up Monday's timely warnings about electro-magnetic pulse attacks with some musings on the "shameless dishonesty" of the Obama tax/mandate switcheroo. These 140-character bromides may seem six days late to you, but to Newt, they're just in time for the 4th of July, a "good day to reflect":
Fourth of July celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Read it to celebrate the source of our freedoms. Words matter then
Yes, but tense did not, apparently. From there it's on to zoology:
The tragedy of Newt—whom I'm starting to think of more and more as our generation's Nixon—is that his florid passion for power occassionally overflows onto a worthy cause. In Newt's case, that cause is endangered animals, often to the sputtering dismay of conservatives who may not quite see the etymological link between conservancy and conservatism. Granted, Newt would defenstrate any hippie socialist leftist who tried to sell him on a biodiversity building stateside, and his use of Europe as a adjective is not quite so laudatory when applied to Democrats as opposed to bison.
But still. Notice how much more earnest his zoo-tweets are, in comparison to the preceding string of messages that seemed to be bitterly-brewed political broth? It's eerily like Nixon: if they could just cleave their real selves from the angry character they've created and now follow around like a shadow! But then, we'd probably never have heard of them if they did...
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