Newt Gingrich's Amazon Book Reviews 275
lee1 writes "Newt Gingrich has written 156 book reviews on Amazon, at one point becoming ranked in the site's top 500 list. Most of the books are cheesy political thrillers, but
the newly announced presidential candidate is also trying to learn about quantum physics, and shows good taste, 'strongly recommending' Richard Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter." Gingrich is an early joiner; I'd like to see the books on the shelves of the other likely presidential candidates, too.
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Re:Troll (Score:2, Interesting)
I think the killing of Osama bin Laden has basically bought Obama a second term. The GOP might as well use the opportunity to cleanse the party of the maniacs, bigots and blowhards who have infected the party.
Re:someone else (Score:4, Interesting)
What an obscene, vile, disingenuous hypocrite that man is.
Wait... you mean Clinton? The guy who used the power of the presidency in an attempt to smear and bury Paula Jones to cover up just some of his illegal sexual harassment activities?
People joke about the Repubs going after Clinton for getting blow jobs in the White House. I never cared that much about that part of it. It was the fact that he abused his power to go after Paula Jones that sickened and disgusted me. The guy was absolutely reprehensible, and the fact that he still has the support of his party -- ostensibly the party that supports women -- points out the extraordinary hypocrisy of the Democrats.
Re:Amazon reviews (Score:2, Interesting)
Those "Republicans" you see on that forum are NOT representative of Republican voters. Back in 2008, I used to frequent some forums that had a lot of Republican voters too, and they passionately HATED McCain, because he was a RINO, he pushed for amnesty, etc. etc. Objectively too, out of all the Republicans who ran in the Primaries, McCain I think we can agree was the least conservative of all of them.
Guess who got the Republican nomination?
2008 was an interesting election, in a bad way. On both sides (D and R), the voters in the Primaries managed to pick the absolute worst candidates on both sides (McCain and Obama), and then ran them against each other. I really wonder what 2012 is going to look like. The Republicans look worse than ever, trying to make giant issues out of homosexuality and abortion, while the badly wounded economy is teetering on a cliff. Meanwhile, the Democrat President is doing everything he can to distract us from this fact, and hoping we'll vote for him again despite his disastrous performance so far (esp. when he had a Democrat-controlled Congress to work with for 2 years). If the Democrat voters have any brains at all, they'll elect someone else in the Primaries to take his place. But I don't have any real hope of that. I think what'll happen is Obama will get the Dem nomination again, but the Republican and swing voters will hate him because of the economy and other things (his crappy healthcare "reform", his abysmal performance on other things he actually said he'd do), and they'll elect the Republican candidate. Then, we'll have a Reps in Congress and the White House, and it'll be 2001 all over again, only much worse, with the nation marching off to a new war or three, every decent government service being canceled (like National Parks, which will probably be sold to the highest bidder), and suspension of all civil liberties and institution of martial law. It's going to look a whole lot like Germany in the 30s.
Re:someone else (Score:4, Interesting)
I suppose you know something Ken Starr doesn't. Clinton ran the cleanest whitehouses in the past 30 years. I give the Republicans some credit for making sure of it.