Newt Gingrich: American Gaullist

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Tuesday July 24, 2007 · 2:25 PM PDT

2007/07/24 · 14:25

Former Speaker of the House and master of humility Newt Gingrich is definitely maybe running for US president. To those of us who have a modicum of familiarity with the guy, it sounds like a very bad joke. In fact, you shouldn't joke about things like that. Ever.
Nevertheless, he's contemplating a run. Gingrich recently made the following comments about a possible run for the presidency:

Pressed by The Examiner about whether his political baggage renders him unelectable, Gingrich compared himself to a famous French statesman. "This is like going to De Gaulle when he was at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises during the Fourth Republic and saying, 'Don't you want to rush in and join the pygmies?'" he said.

Not only is Gingrich's grasp of French modern history impressive, but the parallels between Charles de Gaulle and Newt Gingrich are obvious.

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Thursday February 16, 2006 · 4:51 AM PST

2006/02/16 · 04:51

One of the best shows currently on TV is ABC's lawyer drama/comedy/whatnot "Boston Legal", starring the great James Spader and William Shatner as lawyers in the fictional law firm Crane, Pool and Schmidt. Shatner's character in the show is Denny Crane, the staunchly Republican senior partner in the firm. Oh yeah, he's also completely insane. I'll leave it unwritten whether there's some sort of correlation between being staunchly Republican and completely insane. This is fiction, after all. Or is it? Read More

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Newt Gingrich: American Gaullist

Dick Cheney is...Denny Crane.