Maybe That's Why Your Campaign Isn't Working, Newt

From Republican presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich on the Occupy Wall Street protestors:

We have had a strain of hostility to free enterprise and frankly, a strain of hostility to classic America starting in our academic institutions and spreading across this country and I regard the Wall Street protesters as a natural outcome of a bad education system teaching them really dumb ideas.

What's "classic America"?  I have no idea what that might be.

A bad education system AND really dumb ideas.  Thanks, Newt for the faith you give parents across America.

Protesting IS classic America.

And where are you in the polls?  Right.

Comments

Anonymous said…
a little irony from the newt-ster?

when we look at the bought off sell outs in the ed deform astro turf leadership pushing policies and pushing laws which will benefit the leaders in other astro turfs -- when we look at the commonalities of social class among the astro turf leaders --

we DO have classic American insider cronyism, all hidden under pretty lies about the free market ... I mean the free enterprise system ... I mean 'accountability'...

here is another irony - our 'higher' education system does produce far too many unproductive thumb twiddling paper pushing gasbags for whom getting work done amounts to another dumb process and more dumb work for the dumb process. I am getting warm, newtie?

NewtsAHoot
10/10/11, 5:37 AM
dan dempsey said…
Ok speaking of Campaigns .... Forward this Seattle School Board Election 2011 voters guide ... to Seattle Voters.

http://www.school-truth.com/Election2011-3.html

Enjoy.

Sure hope the Director incumbents' campaigns seeking reelection are not working.
10/10/11, 4:33 PM
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