Newt Gingrich Compared Trump to Abraham Lincoln and He Wasn't Even Kidding

[question everything]

Here's a good one. Adult diaper Newt Gingrich—who is perhaps most famous for wasting millions of taxpayers' dollars to not convict Bill Clinton of inappropriate cigar play—thinks Donald J. "Grab Em By the Pussy" Trump is a whole lot like... Abraham Lincoln.

Once again, Gingrich and his party would rather talk about Benghazi than, say, locking up children away from their parents for the mortal sin of trying to make a better life. Or, say, the ongoing Trump/Putin circle jerk. Or, I dunno, Trump's slow dismantling of the federal government because he literally does not know what it does and thinks thousands of civil servants can be replaced by a few tall blonde women in kitten heels. Just another day for the GOP!

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/24/29671072/newt-gingrich-compared-trump-to-abraham-lincoln-and-he-wasnt-even-kidding

(not familiar with The Stranger, but Newt was featured on the 11th Hour...)

[leftofcool]

1. It's Newt, who cares?

Bernie Sanders was compared to FDR. Obama was compared to JFK. People who make those comparisons are just plain stupid.

[question everything]

3. And yet, when it was Newt who criticized the lovefest in Helsinki

many took note.

[leftofcool]

7. Anyone who takes note when Newt opens his mouth is also stupid

[Scurrilous]

2. Who?

[11cents]

4. I have also compared Trump to Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln was better.

[John Fante]

5. Read Lincoln's Lyceum Address. Then read this.

“I have broken more Elton John records. He seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look, I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really, we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical – the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth, right? The brain. More important than the mouth is the brain. The brain is much more important.”

Then tell Newt Assich to go eff himself.

[Solly Mack]

6. With apologies

Eye of Newt, and toe of Keebler,
Wool of sheep, and Trump's loose jowl,
Pence a dork, the blind-cult fling,
Huckster's last leg, and Conway's wing

For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

[trusty elf]

8. Newt of the Living Dead

[JHB]

9. The only thing that comes out Newt's mouth that can be taken at face value...

...is vomit.

Everything else is designed to push hot buttons and get the herd stampeding in a dir cation hat serves his agenda du jour.

[logosoco]

10. Baloney!

On our way back from Madison, WI to St. Louis, MO the other day, my adult daughters wanted to stop in Springfield to see Lincoln's Tomb (and my grandsons and I read the Gettysburg Address in the car afterward!). I told the guide at the door I felt like I needed to apologize for what is happening in Washington right now.

I did actually sob just a bit as we stepped up to where the body is at rest. It just came over me. Lincoln was not perfect, but he was very honest. The folks in trumps camp know nothing about that. Liars do not make progress. Nor do they ever learn.

If the phrase "rolling in their grave" was possible, that place would have felt like an earthquake!