Newt Hearts Lenin
Rob Long ·
Dec 13, 2011 at 10:17pm
A friend of mine sent this to me today. Perhaps the frontrunners can talk about this, rather than Fannie Mae or Bain Capital.
It was taken during a congressional trip to the (newly) former Soviet Union. The man on the left, for those of you under 40, is former congressman Dick Gephardt (D - Big Union). The man in the center is Lenin (D - Upper West Side). The man on the right is a much-younger Newt Gingrich (R - Planet Gingrich.)
I think it's kind of a charming picture.
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Nov '10
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
You know how sometimes a woman will hang around with her overweight friends so that she looks thinner? I think that may be why Newt is standing next to that picture.
Apr '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
Liking Lenin worries me less than liking Teddy Roosevelt. Newt was good when he was speaker because he was somewhat constrained by the seriously great team he worked with. Still came out with silly lines and big government plans of the moment, but most of his ideas got shut down quickly (whether good or bad, conservative or liberal).
As President, he'd be less constrained, but he wouldn't be so free as to be able to support much in the way of Leninist ideas. Roosevelt's interventionism is much easier to copy.
Plus, the Lenin looks like a gotcha along these lines, with Michael Moore, rather than a genuine confluence of interest, as with Pelosi on Cap and Trade (now refuted) and on an energy tax (still part of his platform today). Lenin isn't Newt's Reverend Wright, he's Newt's Castro.
Edited on Dec 13, 2011 at 11:02pmMar '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
His enemies are digging pretty deep if this is the best they can come up with.
Dec '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
Perhaps the frontrunners should be comparing the bane of our existence (economic legacies of the Frank/Dowd crowd) to the balance sheets of successful corps such as Bain.
Edited on Dec 13, 2011 at 11:21pmApr '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
I was shocked by the degree to which commenters on this thread made it clear that they knew essentially nothing about Bain, or Mitt's role in it. It's hence my impression that we really should talk more about Bain. Even the low hanging fruit didn't get taken; in the whole conversation there was no mention of Ampad, for instance, despite the comments of many who clearly wanted to talk about something like that.
Dec '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
It's mine as well.
Sep '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
Just because you have a picture taken of yourself smiling or laughing in front of Lenin doesn't mean you like Lenin. It could be sort of a pranky, tongue-in-cheek sort of thing to do. That being said, Newt Big-Historian-and-Sweeping-Visionary Gingrich ought to know that taking pictures like that in front of images of Lenin (or Stalin, or Mao, or Pol Pot) should be in as poor taste, and socially unacceptable, as doing so in front of The Little Corporal or Il Duce, which few modern politicians would be caught dead doing.
Apr '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
Is that Dem. Rep. Richard Gephardt standing next to Newt? I'd guess the photograph was taken at the shrine in Gephardt's House office.
Dec '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
I think you are making a subtle joke about big flare ups over stupid things
Jul '10
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
I see what you did there. Rob.
May '10
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
Lenin's necktie is blue. What do you read into that?
Aug '10
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
-how can you be in two places at once ? indeed
Apr '11
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
This really needs to go up on Newt Judges You...
Jul '10
Re: Newt Hearts Lenin
I see this picture as akin to the one of Paul Ryan grinning and holding the deer he just shot. The props may be different, the underlying message the same.