Is Newt Gingrich suited to be president of the United States? Trending negative on this question along with much of the rest of the world is columnist Patrik Eschemeyer of Switerland’s News. Eschemeyer labels the entire Republican field with the exception of John Huntsman as ‘madcap’ – and he regards Newt Gingrich as a ‘pig.’
For the News, Patrik Eschemeyer starts out this way:
At the moment, we in Europe are busy gazing at our navels, what with the euro and all the pleasures associated with that. But let us not forget that in the United States, the decision on who will run against Barack Obama is currently being reached.
Here, the Republicans are embarrassingly reminiscent of the Swiss People’s Party [SVP] … although when it comes to the nomination of viable candidates for high office, the SVP actually looks amazing in comparison. The only advantage Republicans have over the SVP is probably that the candidates activate the self-destruct button several months- not just days – before the polls.
But their choice of candidates is staggering. The madcap Republican stable includes characters like arch-conservative, homophobic, social-Darwinist, hate-politician Rick Santorum; pizza-adulterer Herman Cain, who unsurprisingly stumbled – not because of his moronic tax plan or his total ignorance of foreign policy, but because of his serial infidelity – and even as he continued to proclaim his religious faith; Michelle Bachmann the intellectual vacuum, who will likely be used by anti-feminists for years to come as a pretext for keeping women out of politics … although, after the appearances of Rick Perry, during which he wasn’t even able to remember his own campaign program, men should no longer be allowed to aspire to political office either.
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