Newt Gingrich Reaches His Sell-By Date - The Diigo Meta page

• 01 Jun 09
  

  Doug Noon

  Gingrich tweeted off the deep end Wednesday when he jumped over the cliff of responsible Republicanism and into the chasm of right-wing talk-radio delusion.
  
  Responding via Twitter to the nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the vacancy that will be created by the retirement of Justice David Souter, Gingrich did not think. He took his talking points from Limbaugh, who has been trying to foster the fantasy that the nominee is some kind of "reverse racist."

  Gingrich Sotomayor 5.31.09

  • Had Gingrich bothered to read Judge Sotomayor's speech, rather than simply take a talking point from Gingrich, he would have quickly realized that the jurist was ruminating on how to assure that biases do not unfairly influence decisions or undermine justice.

  •  Newt Gingrich's tweets mark him as the outlier. 

     

     Instead of calling for Judge Sotomayor to withdraw her nomination, the former speaker might want to consider whether it time for him to withdraw from the public debate he disminishes and dishonors by repeating the crude fantasies of a talk-radio ranter.

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