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2016 Postmortem

JoePhilly

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1. His hame sounds foreign ... which is enough to terrify the Tea Party nut jobs.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2012, 02:58 PM

Jan 2012

The vast majority have never heard of him before ... but to their simple minds, if the oh so smart Newt call the guy a radical, that's good enough for them.

Its kind of like the way Bush was able to get the stupid tea party types to think that Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were the same person.

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Who is Saul Alinsky, and why is Newt Gingrich so obsessed with him? [View all] steve2470 Jan 2012 OP

His hame sounds foreign ... which is enough to terrify the Tea Party nut jobs. JoePhilly Jan 2012 #1

interesting info mzteris Jan 2012 #2

It sounds bad to the low-information RW voters even if they havent a clue who he is. DCBob Jan 2012 #3

You got it all wrong, Gingrich is talking about Sollie Linsky, the guy who owns the local deli. Ikonoklast Jan 2012 #4

He's 'obsessed' with him because Beck and Limbaugh have been, for 4 years muriel_volestrangler Jan 2012 #5