King Henri IV of France called his fellow monarch, King James I of England, “the wisest fool in Christendom,” because James’s vast erudition so seldom kept him from doing really dumb things.
King James, meet Newt Gingrich.
The video, at least judging by that appalling trailer Alana posted, will be terrific fodder for Obama’s negative ads this summer and fall. Indeed, assuming Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee, the Obama campaign should just buy the rights to it. Had the technology been available a century ago, it could have been produced by such anti-capitalist muckrakers as Ida Tarbell or Gustavus Myers. It is deeply tendentious and intellectually dishonest (as were Tarbell and Myers, of course) and utterly ignorant (one assumes willfully) of how capitalism actually works.
Gingrich was apparently deeply angered by the barrage of negative ads that a Romney SuperPAC ran in Iowa and which caused Gingrich’s poll numbers to drop precipitously in that state. I don’t blame him for being angry. I do blame him for forgetting one of the fundamental rules of politics: “Don’t get angry, get even.” This video will not only harm the Republican campaign this fall, it will, I suspect, end any chance Gingrich might have had to win the nomination or even to take a high position in a Republican administration. It shows him to be completely lacking in the temperament needed by an American president in a dangerous world.
Why would it be so bad to show things that Americians who didnt go to Harvard are mad over. The fact that even though some factors and plants were profitable it is just not enough for the greedy rich like Romney and he exposes exactly what you Republicans at the top making the millions and billions really do to workers in this nation. The reason the word "Ruin" when it comes to the chances you would have to beat Obama shows what your weakness has been all along and for years the hate,lies and manipulation of working people has finally came from one of the most respected members of your party. My Grandfather from the Great Generation said' If you look at the laws and things republicians support not one and I mean not one helps a man who has to do any actual work in Americia. You dug your grave !!!
Some people who attended Harvard at the time Obama did; called him the smartest dumb ass they knew. I agree Gingrich has been naive to assume playing nicely would guaranty the same treatment. If he had shown grace under pressure; he would have retained respect. Now it appears he does not have the required self control to take on any position where diplomacy is needed.