New Posts For Thread: Wow, can a Newt can change its spots? --- Gingrich backs down on Sotomayerhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_SotomayerWell, wonder of wonders! Newt..... (now why do I think of an amphibious critter whenever I hear that name)? has actually THOUGHT about his previous accusations directed at Sotomayer (remember, he claimed she was a racist) and actually GONE BACK on tYeah--he tried to backpeddle on the Sunday news shows and got grilled for trying to say he "didn't really mean what he said." He just looks more and more stupid. And he has ALWAYS looked and sounded like a highly prejudiced person throughout his polihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297340627#297340627Yeah--he tried to backpeddle on the Sunday news shows and got grilled for trying to say he "didn't really mean what he said." He just looks more and more stupid. And he has ALWAYS looked and sounded like a highly prejudiced person throughout his poliTue, 09 Jun 2009 23:42:01 -0500I think Newt would fit in well as a bishop in Rome during the black plague of 1348-I wouldn't mine traveling back in time and being a Plantagenet for a day.I would like to come back though. In time for a bath....http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297214831#297214831I think Newt would fit in well as a bishop in Rome during the black plague of 1348-I wouldn't mine traveling back in time and being a Plantagenet for a day.I would like to come back though. In time for a bath....Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:53:16 -0500I think, in this instance, Newt has succombed to the temptation of a lot of history buffs (including me) of thinking we would thrive under the social and cultural mores of a particular period while forgetting that those same social and cultural moreshttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297213551#297213551I think, in this instance, Newt has succombed to the temptation of a lot of history buffs (including me) of thinking we would thrive under the social and cultural mores of a particular period while forgetting that those same social and cultural moresTue, 09 Jun 2009 12:47:04 -0500Newt said recently that he felt more at home in the Medieval period, what with iron maidens, soaring, flying buttresses, and so on.I don't think that he's ever read Henry Adams' the "Virgin and the Dynamo," as that would, alas, require reading, but Ahttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297211547#297211547Newt said recently that he felt more at home in the Medieval period, what with iron maidens, soaring, flying buttresses, and so on.I don't think that he's ever read Henry Adams' the "Virgin and the Dynamo," as that would, alas, require reading, but ATue, 09 Jun 2009 12:36:51 -0500I'm still not sure what to make of Newt. At one point, he had some interesting stuff to say (for example, he's spoken at length about the coming nanotech revolution) but then he seemed to lose his mind during the 90's and translated "co-equal body" ahttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297211141#297211141I'm still not sure what to make of Newt. At one point, he had some interesting stuff to say (for example, he's spoken at length about the coming nanotech revolution) but then he seemed to lose his mind during the 90's and translated "co-equal body" aTue, 09 Jun 2009 12:33:35 -0500On the one hand, Newt has to inflame the Base, to keep it loyal; on the other hand, appearing as a racist Republican, in that familiar mold, won't sell well for his Presidential bid in 2012, so time to retract.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297209967#297209967On the one hand, Newt has to inflame the Base, to keep it loyal; on the other hand, appearing as a racist Republican, in that familiar mold, won't sell well for his Presidential bid in 2012, so time to retract.Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:27:26 -0500Yeah, but he is still slimy. And venomous.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297207001#297207001Yeah, but he is still slimy. And venomous.Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:11:50 -0500This thread has been moved to USNP from Hot Topics Zone--- agnosticspirit - Bnet Community Hosthttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=297205173#297205173This thread has been moved to USNP from Hot Topics Zone--- agnosticspirit - Bnet Community HostTue, 09 Jun 2009 12:01:17 -0500Well, wonder of wonders! Newt..... (now why do I think of an amphibious critter whenever I hear that name)? has actually THOUGHT about his previous accusations directed at Sotomayer (remember, he claimed she was a racist) and actually GONE BACK on thttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/14766289/Wow,_can_a_Newt_can_change_its_spots__---_Gingrich_backs_down_on_Sotomayer?post_id=296114419#296114419Well, wonder of wonders! Newt..... (now why do I think of an amphibious critter whenever I hear that name)? has actually THOUGHT about his previous accusations directed at Sotomayer (remember, he claimed she was a racist) and actually GONE BACK on tWed, 03 Jun 2009 13:05:30 -0500