Gingrich’s Lunar Orbit
Newt Gingrich understands the basics: In an American election campaign, the media must be kept in suspense. Every day, it was Gingrich, though, who made a buzz. Regardless of what the truth is, the media has provided these ideas. Mostly large ones — "Big ideas," Gingrich claims.
Newt is a man of big ideas. Ezra Klein has dissected a few, calling them “big, bad ideas.” Gingrich’s tax reform, which would allow Mitt Romney to pay 0 percent interest on his dividends, is already underway.
The site "Supervillain or Newt" has even created a game where one can train to distinguish true Gingrich-like ideas from copies. (For example: Is the nuclear cause concerning geological movements that would help the real estate sector by creating a larger coastline Newt’s idea or not?)
Gingrich’s most recent idea: settling on the moon. Newt had already proposed drilling. Yesterday, at Cape Canaveral, Newt promised that the U.S. would have a base on the moon before the end of his term (that is, his second). As we can see, Newt really thinks big. This has brought on a never-ending stream of “jokes”; the Washingtom Post proclaimed “Newt Promises the Moon.”
The word that is automatically associated with Newt is "fantasy," but fantasy still does not apply to him.
Yet ... one of his most eloquent statements during an interview with Esquire magazine is when he admits he is four years old at heart (and he reserves a soft spot for dinosaurs). "There is a large part of me that has always been four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know there is a cookie somewhere. I do not know where it is but I know it's mine and that I must find it. My life is an amazing piece of cake."
Below is an excerpt of the original interview, conducted by journalist John H. Richardson:
"There's a large part of me that's four years old," he tells you. "I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there's a cookie. I don't know where it is but I know it's mine and I have to go find it. That's how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun." He says this in the same office, with the same assistant at his side and a digital recorder on the table. Last year, at 65, he converted to Catholicism. He credits this to Bisek, a willowy blond who sings in a church choir. "Callista and I kid that I'm four and she's five and therefore she gets to be in charge, because the difference between four and five is a lot."
Newt is a man of big ideas. Ezra Klein has dissected a few, calling them “big, bad ideas.” Gingrich’s tax reform, which would allow Mitt Romney to pay 0 percent interest on his dividends, is already underway.
The site "Supervillain or Newt" has even created a game where one can train to distinguish true Gingrich-like ideas from copies. (For example: Is the nuclear cause concerning geological movements that would help the real estate sector by creating a larger coastline Newt’s idea or not?)
Gingrich’s most recent idea: settling on the moon. Newt had already proposed drilling. Yesterday, at Cape Canaveral, Newt promised that the U.S. would have a base on the moon before the end of his term (that is, his second). As we can see, Newt really thinks big. This has brought on a never-ending stream of “jokes”; the Washingtom Post proclaimed “Newt Promises the Moon.”
The word that is automatically associated with Newt is "fantasy," but fantasy still does not apply to him.
Yet ... one of his most eloquent statements during an interview with Esquire magazine is when he admits he is four years old at heart (and he reserves a soft spot for dinosaurs). "There is a large part of me that has always been four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know there is a cookie somewhere. I do not know where it is but I know it's mine and that I must find it. My life is an amazing piece of cake."
Below is an excerpt of the original interview, conducted by journalist John H. Richardson:
"There's a large part of me that's four years old," he tells you. "I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there's a cookie. I don't know where it is but I know it's mine and I have to go find it. That's how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun." He says this in the same office, with the same assistant at his side and a digital recorder on the table. Last year, at 65, he converted to Catholicism. He credits this to Bisek, a willowy blond who sings in a church choir. "Callista and I kid that I'm four and she's five and therefore she gets to be in charge, because the difference between four and five is a lot."