..finding That particular utterance within a noisy sea of 1.666 million 'hits'

Concur that he's no idiot (though his home-life and other ethics appears no better than that of your average manic Aussie CIEIO buying up more news outlets with which to Foxulate without a condom.) Still, manifestly we Are scraping bottoms of barels in search of anyone with an iota of competence in 'Statecraft' ... (author of such a book with that part-title was on Cambridge Forum? recently: a scathing step-by-step litany -- most every piece of which: was omitted by this Admin from 9-12-01 on. It's UGLY when laid out in minimalist Boolean stages - our recent history.)

Maybe, then - his academic training (and of late, Professorship) has reminded him of such early-on debate training as [link|http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/logic.html| this sort?] -- quite further nudged along by the fact of the complete shambles made.. by every single decision of the Cheney Cabal, since shortly after the toppling of the Saddam statue.

As mentioned already, the Natl. Attn.Span is increasingly shorter, and if Newt remains fully sentient, he might well become a contender for Something -- surely he wouldn't want to be seen associating Himself with the ludicrous mindsets of the listed jackals assembled there, (to try to devolve some merely callow students into My Gramma - a few years down the road?)
Sad that so few of the audience grokked at-all the significance of the content and That Speaker.. are 'conservative' wannabes really [-]outliers, to This Extent??

Should be interesting to catch his Act II - if anyone catches that: please Do report!
(After all, all it needed for Scrooge's rehab - was some wise prescience about LSD in that fertile mind of Charles, eh?)