Newt Gingrich has form. He wants "a mirror system in space [that] could provide the light equivalent of many full moons so that there would be no need for night-time lighting of the highways." Oh, and "a large array of mirrors that could affect the earth's climate", thereby extending the growing season for farmers. And now, he has earned the endorsement, which I would expect to be forthcoming, of Lyndon LaRouche, by advocating the old loony's signature policy of colonising the Moon and then Mars. Yes, that's right. Mars.
Gingrich's historical theories are about as credible as LaRouche's, making it no surprise that he was denied tenure, not in the liberal Northeast that he had fled, but in Georgia, and I mean Georgia as it was then. His moral positions are if anything more liberal than most of LaRouche's, Gingrich having had more wives than children and more affairs than wives. He is also far less of a peacenik, being financially dependent on Sheldon Adelson, and with a history of, for example, calling Reagan "Neville Chamberlain" for daring to meet Gorbachev.
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Great post. Some of the Republicans I know are becoming more attracted to LaRouche. It makes perfect sense. LaRouche may have come up with the "death panels" meme and maybe even invented the "Obama Hitler" poster.
ReplyDeleteIf you can believe that Obama is a Maoist/Muslim terrorist and future Communist dictator, then you can also believe in an Anglo-Dutch-Venetian plot to take over the world via the drug trade.
LaRouch is arguably no more ridiculous than many American conservative politicians and pundits, a rather scary thought.
Oh, and I think LaRouche is also an ex-Trotskyite. You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried!