Harold Ford Jr. Calls Newt Gingrich a 'Serious Thinker'

[butterfly77]

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On this Sunday's Meet the Press in which the panel segment looked like a version of Morning Joe redux, their favorite ConservaDem Harold Ford Jr. (D-Wall Street) was asked about Newt Gingrich's rise in the polls and whether he can manage to stay there or not after we've seen so many other candidates rise and fall as the potential alternative to Mitt Romney.

Ford goes on to describe Newt Gingrich as a "a serious thinker, he's a presenter in a very serious way" who has "been able to connect with conservative voters in ways that the others have not." Later in the segment, Ford actually goes on to explain some of why Gingrich should not be taken seriously as a candidate and that he's really good at just throwing red meat to the base with rhetoric that's long on flame throwing and too often short on facts. Ford also ignored the fact that Gingrich is a scam artist who's been ripping people off with his direct mail scheme and that he has no organization on the ground in most states.

A more honest assessment of why so many voters take Gingrich seriously was given by Paul Krugman a couple of weeks ago when he said this:

"It was his time," Krugman explained. "The Republican

[madinmaryland]

1. Compared to most of the rest of the Repukes, he could be considered a

"serious thinker". Says a lot about that party, doesn't it.

[Amaril]

42. +1,000

You stole my answer! :)

[FSogol]

2. FSogol Calls Newt Gingrich a 'Common Grifter'

:puke:

[DJ13]

3. Compared to Harold a ROCK is a 'serious thinker'

:rofl:

[banned from Kos]

4. Ford thought he could take out MY 2016 FAVE - Senator Gillibrand!

Go away - harold ford!

or go back to Memphis and your little district.

[krucial]

5. Harold Ford Jr?

Ford is Another Clarence Thomas,Herman Cain, Allen West type of person,he is bad news for the masses of poor people in America.
Before any of the sleeper Republican cells on here calls me the" R" word,I am also African American.
Frankly,I dont know why some of the so called quasi democrats stay in the party

[Enrique]

16. I can't stand Ford but I don't see much resemblance to those others

other than race. For one thing, he was born into a prominent political family and entered politics very young. That makes for a very different background than those others.

To me he looks more like Evan Bayh than like Clarence Thomas.

[butterfly77]

29. He is

a money hungry lying bastsrd,who is working for and with the republiCON party..

[Enrique]

38. so is Evan Bayh n/t

[butterfly77]

46. And claire mccaskill,,

heath schuler,Ben Nelson,kent Conrsd,Jon Testor,and many more,,

[Lasher]

20. There is a good reason these quasi-Democrats stay in the party.

When we get to the polls in the General election we have but two choices: One person who will promote destructive neoconservative and neoliberal ideology; and another person who will do the same thing while pretending they don't.

[butterfly77]

28. Harold Ford is Scarborough's ...

yes man.

[gratuitous]

6. Misquote, Gingrich is a serious stinker, not thinker

But it's okay. I would love to see Newt at the top of the GOP ticket in 2012. The oppo researchers would hire so many people, we'd be at full employment by July.

[spanone]

7. how's that iraq war going, eh harold? 100% dino

[Initech]

8. He's a serious thinker if you have shit for brains.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Not The Onion? Really? nt

[KoKo]

10. OMG! I love this! Harold Ford...(Font of Dem Wisdom) endorses Newt Gingrich?

Some of us TRIED TO TELL 'YA! You just wouldn't listen...wouldn't listen and now see the shit your are in when hero Harold Ford think's Gingrich is a "Serious Thinker."

Does this mean that "Harold" is throwing a "shot across POB's Bow...? What DOES "Harold" WANT from POB?

I shudder to think...of what "Harold" wants to get in concessions from "POB" for his "Enthusiastic Endorsement." :scared:

Don't "CROSS HAROLD"...you be "swimming with the fishes."

[dionysus]

25. uh.. yeah.. huh? "hero Harold Ford"? name all these harold ford supporters on DU.. i can't think of

any...

:shrug:

[tularetom]

11. You just missed Krugman's money quote

Newt, says Krugman, is "a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like".

That says a lot about Krugman. It says even more about Newt.

But IMO it really says all that needs to be said about Harold Ford Jr.

[LeftofObama]

15. Didn't Krugman also say...

Newt is the most intellectual of the republicans the way Moe was the most intellectual of the three stooges?

Or am I thinking of someone else? Anyhow, it's a damn good quote! LOL!

[WCGreen]

12. Reason number 4,578 on why I don't watch those "news" panel shows...

[KoKo]

14. Yep...I do get much from DU who seems to have watchers of "those shows" to keep me informed

while I'm watching International News on my ROKU... But, it's what it is.

[CreekDog]

45. Me too, I think they make people stupid

in the same way that people instinctively model each others' mannerisms...watching them makes people think and say things as stupid as the average panelist on these shows.

there are some exceptions, namely shows that don't exclusively go after the same brain-dead panelists --like Real Time With Bill Maher and the like.

[JohnnyBoots]

13. That's like calling HF a liberal. DLC Bastard

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Ford Jr is not enough of a thinker to make that call

Oh how I loathe him. It is sad that our Party can harbor such stoogery.

[indepat]

18. I think Harold Ford, Jr. must have lost his mind, at least his critical-thinking

processes. On second thought, maybe Harold has just been blinded again recently by the right. :patriot:

[sibelian]

19. I thought they didn't like thinkers?

Anyway, um. It's not really true, is it?

[Gregorian]

21. How about a TEDIOUS STINKER?

Forgive me. I just couldn't help myself. :)

[dimbear]

22. Hmm. I need to get rich, get fat, and get hot chicks. And this is going to take

serious thinking.

[Glimmer of Hope]

23. His presentation comes across as serious but the output is crap.

I think he does some serious thinking to come up with the crap that comes out of his mouth.

[1776Forever]

24. Seems the DLC crowd just loves old Newt! Probably because he played along with them during Clinton

years. Nothing new here - move on.......

[jberryhill]

26. Like when the hospital says you are in "serious condition"

[blue neen]

27. Maybe he said "Serial Kinkster"

Yes, that would be much closer to the truth!

[Historic NY]

30. This poster calls Harold Ford a shill

[KamaAina]

31. Except that all of his thoughts are straight out of Dickens

Orphanages, and now workhouses. :grr:

[TheWraith]

32. Isn't that kind of like a three card monte dealer vouching for the integrity of a used car salesman?

Seriously, Harold Ford is about as big of a goddamn moron as you can find in politics without looking at Texas.

[tex-wyo-dem]

33. Yeah, Harold...like putting school kids to work as...

Janitors is a real "thinker's" approach to problems.

Harold is a DLC corporate ass kisser of the worst kind.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. Gingrich's 'Rocky-The-Flying-Squirrel' high-pitched voice doesn't lend a serious tone

and when you stop being distracted from the cartoonish sound and pay attention to what thoughts are actually coming out of his mouth, you know this man will never be elected President.

[blue neen]

37. "Rocky-The-Flying-Squirrel". That is absolutely perfect!

I'm laughing so hard the tears are running down my face!

:rofl:

[Jello Biafra]

39. "And now it's time for Mr. Know It All......" n/t

[blue neen]

43. "Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

Presto! It's Donald Trump!

[Major Hogwash]

35. I think Ford wants Gingrich to be the GOP nominee, which isn't all that bad.

Because I think President Obama would make him look like a jackass much easier than it would be to do that to Mitt.

Maybe not.

:rofl:

They're doomed!

[eShirl]

36. Noot is an overgrown toddler who knows a few big words.

That's pretty much it.

[Tsiyu]

40. Ford is as much of a clueless lackey as Newtie

He drank the koolaid a while back....

[UTUSN]

41. Well, our perceptions are limited by our own filters & Jr's is really limited n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

44. Mr. Ford proves that he is not a serious thinker

He is, however, a Wall Street tool.

[opihimoimoi]

47. Noot is Moot....series. .condenscending hubristic asshole ...if he was so smart...he woulda shoulda

coulda been Prez a long time ago...so wha happen?

People forget things....he is one of them...