Comments on: Newt Gets Lame On Foley Scandal

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:14:15 +0000

Talk about Newt cheating on his wife misses the point… the politics of “in-groups” attacking “out-groups” always have to involve flawed people making the attack. Imagine if Hitler was 6′ tall, muscular, blond hair and blue-eyed: every time he talked about superior and inferior people, all the ordinary Germans (shorter, fatter, or browner-haired) would have had to have felt inferior. Attack politics ONLY works when it’s full of lies, it’s about gathering up people’s shame and leading from there. Foley, of course, goes too far, but progressives don’t gain much in the long-run from mud-slinging, it just builds up the feelings of shame that power the current politics.

Hypocrisy ruins progressives. It ruins honest conservatives. It doesn’t ruin the kinds of conservatives that are fomenting today… we basically need to become therapists when tackling the dittoheads and angry conservatives who spend all their time watching scandals. http://stephencataldo.livejournal.com/460.html

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:20:57 +0000

“Newt, Newt, he was a hoot:
A bit of a bully, a bit of a brute.
His voice was loud and his eyes were wierd,
And a few years ago, he just disappeared…”

Newt not only cheated on his wife, he left his wife while she was gravely ill in the hospital with cancer. I haven’t been able to think of any Democrat who’s sunk lower than that.

IOW, STFU, Newt

By: ES

ES — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:47:16 +0000

Does “hypocrisy of the sex scandal” cover adultery? Interesting to see people living in glass houses carrying around big stones to throw at someone else’s glass home.

As Andrew Sullivan put it in the most basic denominator either today or yesterday, when is it possible to talk about IEDs and not IMs?