“One of the Republican weaknesses is that we rely too much on consultants and too much on talking points, and we don’t rely enough on actually knowing things.” —Newt Gingrich.
No shit.
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Saturday Open Thread [12.3.11]
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Frank Luntz probably told him to say that.
Cain has suspended his campaign. I guess he wasn’t ABEL to keep up the charade of not being a womanizer.
Martha Coakley kicks bankster ass in Massachussetts.
Actually knowing things would completely destroy their ideology.
I’ll always remember Newt’s top two nuggets of wisdom to GOP hopefuls.
“Go negative early.”
“Never try to educate.”
This man was Carl Rove’s muse.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/02/25/the-wisconsin-lie-exposed-taxpayers-actually-contribute-nothing-to-public-employee-pensions/
The Link above is to a Forbes article about one major Republican lie
Evidently the taxpayers of the State of Wisconsin does not make any contributions to the state employee pension system. It works on a deferred compenation premise and all monies come from the state workers into a central pool that is professionaly managed.
Wasn’t one of the reasons to do away with collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin the cost of pensions