I've been wondering for quite some time now why Newt Gingrich is still killing time by babbling to a handful of folks willing to join him in what he calls a run for the Republican presidential nomination, but is actually nothing more than a has-been mumbling antiquated dribble.
Then again, perhaps he thinks that if he's stays around long enough maybe Romney will give him a job, because heaven knows, it certainly seems like Gingrich needs one. He appears to have nowhere to go, nothing else to do and doesn't seem to have any employment prospects or qualifications at all.
The reason I'm mentioning him today is, I came across an item on Drudge, taken from the National Journal and read it because of the subject whereas, apparently, Obama adviser David Axelrod and Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom are having a back-and-forth about canines (the four-footed kind, not teeth).
It seems that in January, Axelrod Tweeted a photo of the Obamas’ dog Bo riding in an armored vehicle with the president which he compared to a Romney vacation where the family’s dog rode atop the car in a portable "kennel." Then, three months later, Fehrnstrom, a conservative blogger, pointed out that Obama admitted in his book “Dreams of my Father” that he had once eaten dog meat in Indonesia,
Now, it seems Gingrich brought the matter up to try to "rally the Republican cause" saying “I have been watching the totally stupid exchanges between Axelrod and the Romney people today over dogs and this and that – it is just utterly stupid. I think we ought to be the serious party and we ought to blow right past that stuff. I think in that context, the more serious we are, and the more sincere we are, the better we will do as a party and the better we will do as a country and I believe the American people are hungry for leadership that transcends the normal junk.”
And what really struck me about his comments were two things. First of all, the news is now a steady drumming of information, 24/7/365 from myriad sources all over the planet. Consequently, there's practically nothing anyone with a recognizable name does that doesn't get some mention, much less two guys battling for the presidency of the United States. A simple Google search will yield enough trivial information about them to fill an encyclopedia.
Beyond that -and far more important to me was- Gingrich brought this dog subject himself. So, while he stood there demeaning the two candidates to the press, he was actually commenting on a dispute between two relative nobodies, Axelrod and Fehrnstrom, not the contenders themselves. And that says to me that, obviously, he's the one who has the personal time to waste on this clap-trap because the real candidates are battling over far more important issues themselves.
And perhaps that's why folks like Gingrich never really succeed at much beyond shooting off their mouths. Because like most college professors, he has problems separating theory and esoterics from matters of substance. However, by using flowery language and spouting important sounding gibberish he'd like you to think he's intellectually gifted, whereas he's really just another wannabe poltical hack with a couple of diplomas and oodles of unoccupied time to waste.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
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