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The Palinization of the GOP - 11/21/2011 6:25:51 PM

EternalHoH

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No wonder "intellectual Newt" is seeing a resurgence and is now leading the pack...... this month......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-palinization-of-the-gop/2011/11/18/gIQAd6gwZN_story.html

"The conservative brain trust once led by William F. Buckley has been supplanted by talk radio hosts who love to quote Buckley (and boast of his friendship) but who do not share the man’s pedigree or his nimble mind. Moreover, where Buckley tried to rid the GOP of fringe elements, notably the John Birch Society, today’s conservatives have let them back in. The 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference was co-sponsored by the Birchers."

"Meanwhile, the big tent fashioned by Ronald Reagan has become bilious with the hot air of religious fervor. No one was more devout than the very-Catholic Buckley, but you didn’t see him convening revivals in the public square. Nor is it likely he would have embraced fundamentalist views that increasingly have forced the party into a corner where science and religion can’t coexist."

"It takes courage to swim against the tide of know-nothingness that has become de rigueur among the anti-elite, anti-intellectual Republican base. Call it the Palinization of the GOP, in which the least informed earns the loudest applause. "

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RE: The Palinization of the GOP - 11/22/2011 1:12:53 AM

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Newt spoke at Havard last week and wanted to have a Police escort.It had to be explained to his aide that without a logistic or security reason, the only way he could obtain an escort was by written request. The staffers need a clue.
Harvard Campus PD feel he may have staged his own mic check. They said his "videographer" sat in an odd location. They also say there were only two "protesters", the mic thing was about 3 sentences, the officer wasn't summoned from the lobby to the theater, and that one was seen casually chatting with Newt at the meet and greet afterward.

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