You gotta be kidding me.
“Saul Alinsky radicalism is at the heart of Obama,” Gingrich told CNN Sunday.
Which makes all things Alinsky evil and the latest Republican talking point, which then leads us to…
Michigan Governor George Romney’s biography (“Romney’s Way” by T. George Harris)
When slum organizer Saul Alinsky, with the West Side Organization’s militant Negroes and clerics, wanted to meet with the white Detroit rulers, Romney indirectly arranged the meeting, and attended. Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh avoided the rough company.
“I think you ought to listen to Alinsky,” Romney told his reluctant white friends. ‘It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people. Maybe the time has come to hear new voices.” Said an Episcopal bishop, ‘He made Alinsky sound like a Republican.
Newt is the luckiest man alive… while Mitt Romney can’t catch a break.
On the other hand, his Dad sounds pretty cool.
(I started a new tag for this post. I think we’re gonna need it.)