The Gingrich has figured out how to make his troubled (and troubling) past go away.
First, the rubes are kinda predisposed to forget and/or ignore things that happened 10 or 15 or 20 years ago - or 20 minutes ago for that matter. It's history, y'know, and ol' Newt's a highly regarded "historian"; and they'll take his word for what happened over the word of some librul doofus with a google machine any day of the week.
Second, he sounds like he's adopting a style of narrating his past as a story of sin and redemption. And the timing couldn't be better. After a parade of false prophets, Jesus Newt is finally born in the dark days of December blah blah blah. Starting in January, he's visited by the wise men, and gifted with wins in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina (ok, maybe a close 2nd in NH). And by Easter, in a flood of heavy donations covered by the din of heavenly choruses, he's fully resurrected and takes his place at the right hand of The Lord our Reagan blah blah blah.
Or he could revert to his usual form and just self-destruct in the middle of it all. Every time he's held real power, he's over-reached in the most imperious way possible, and come crashing down under the weight of his grotesquely over-sized ego.
(BTW: I managed to screw the pooch by predicting success for Herman Cain, so there's no way to take this but with a handful of salt - as always)
But - ya heard it here first.
Hahaha!...and, of course, invites the money changers back into the temple and then self-appoints his own fat ass to the priesthood where he lounges, writing his own bibles, I mean histories, and sells them as non-lobbying-historical consultations to the congress donkeys who are still wondering around looking for the stable all agog about the big glow in the sky. Is that a star or Rome burning?
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