Newt! He's probably running for President, I guess, and he has between 1 and 2% chance of winning the republican nomination and between .1 and 1% chance of winning the presidency, according to my based-on-nothing-but-probably-true-calculations.
Some people take Newt seriously. They think he has cool ideas or something. He's a "big thinker." I don't know where that meme has come from, but he hasn't said anything too useful in pretty much the 10 years that I've been paying attention to the world. He's really good at saying a LOT of things, but basing them on absolutely nothing. And he's clearly just making shit up.
Exhibit A: (from last week)
VAN SUSTEREN: What would you do about Libya?
GINGRICH: Exercise a no-fly zone this evening, communicate to the Libyan military that Gadhafi was gone and that the sooner they switch sides, the more likely they were to survive, provided help to the rebels to replace him. ...The United States doesn't need anybody's permission. We don't need to have NATO, who frankly, won't bring much to the fight. We don't need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we're intervening. And we don't have to send troops. All we have to do is suppress his air force, which we could do in minutes.
Exhibit B: (from this week)
GINGRICH: I would not have intervened. I think there were a lot of other ways to affect Qadhafi. I think there are a lot of other allies in the region we could have worked with. I would not have used American and European forces.
Then he said that Libya is the worst-executed military intervention since WWII, which means that it's worse than Bay of Pigs, Guatamala, Iran hostages, Iraq War, Afghanistan etc. even though not a single American or allied person has yet to die, we've probably killed the bad guy's bad son, and have already neutered the Gaddafi's army. NEWT 2012!
NARF! lol
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