Newt talks sense

Newt Gingrich was featured on C-Span yesterday, speaking at Johns Hopkins. This is a man who has been vilified and caricatured in ways that would drive many to despair and retreat. Instead he has stayed on the cutting edge of political and social practicality.

Whether talking about the Middle East, Iraq, global warming, calling for doubling the budget of the National Academies of Science or proposing paying high school students for achievement in math and science, it was obvious this college crowd was taken aback at the intelligent, reasoned man before them.

His answer to the one student who tried to bring up Gingrich's messy divorce
(coincidentally, the one student whose manners and unwashed appearance would lead South Park's Cartman to call him a "dirty, smelly hippie"), was compelling and honest in a way you rarely hear from current/former politicians. Watch the entire speech here.
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