In honor of Newt's resurrection, let's return to this oldie but goodie

In honor of Newt's resurrection, let's return to this oldie but goodie
Published: Monday, November 14, 2011, 2:15 PM     Updated: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 8:50 PM
By Paul Mulshine/The Star Ledger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZFfQKWX54&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nj.com%2Fnjv_paul_mulshine%2F2011%2F11%2Fin_honor_of_newts_resurrection.html&feature=player_embedded

Zombies are popular these days. But I never thought I'd see Newt Gingrich return from the dead.

This guy is such an obvious fraud that I never expected any Republican to ever again take him seriously.

Watch above as he whores himself for the ethanol interests. If he ever becomes a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination, this video will sink him. There's a point in there where he looks like he's going to reach over and squeeze Pelosi's leg.

Worse is Newt's blatant sellout to the ethanol lobby. 

It's an unfortunate fact of politics that even dumb people are allowed to vote. And there are many people dumb enough not to see through Newt's pitch.

As I noted here, there were a whole lot of them in attendance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington earlier this year. Newt got up on his hind legs and delivered a thinly disguised commercial for the agribusiness interests, yet the knuckleheads in the audience ate it up.

An excerpt from my reportage that day:

He just devoted 20 minutes to energy and environmental issues. It  was a thinly disguised pitch for the cap-and-trade program he put forth in the above commercial he shot with Nancy Pelosi.

The idealistic young people who attend this convention have no idea how to penetrate the code. When Gingrich proposed America build more flex-fuel vehicles, for example, he gave not the slightest hint that they burn 85 percent ethanol. And that the ethanol in question is on the market only because of federal mandates that push up the cost of fuel.

 In making the pitch for flex fuel, he said, "Let the consumers have the opportunity to choose what they want to do." That got a round of applause. But no consumer in his right mind would choose ethanol. It costs twice as much if unsubsidized and it has just two-thirds the energy of gasoline.

Pushing ethanol goes over great in the corn states, and Iowa is the No. 1 such state, so you can take this as a signal that Newt will be running for president.

Unfortunately for him, the video above should sink his chances. Cap and trade is universally despised by conservatives - though it's loved by the energy industry and Wall Street traders.

I kept waiting for him to come right out and say the C-word and the T-word. But that would have been honest. And Newt's a con man. When he was an earnest young history-professor-turned politician 20 years ago, he was an interesting guy. Now he's a washed-up hack.

By the way I saw a similar spiel from him several years ago when he pitched the Trotskyite foreign policy of the American Enterprise Institute, on whose payroll he appears.

Again the kids in the audience didn't penetrate the code.

But unless Newt can write a virus that blows up every computer with a copy of the above video, he's not just a history professor.

He's history.

Note in the video below of CPAC when he utters the immortal line "We should insist on flex-fuel cars" at the 24:50 mark.

Anyone who knows anything about this knows that in the free market there would be no flex-fuel cars. They - and ethanol - are on the market solely because of government mandates.

But that is a tough thing for the average wannabe conservative to understand.

His mash session with Nancy Pelosi is easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KBPiKSg9jjo



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