NEWT GINGRICH
Gingrich exemplifies the generation of professional middle-class trash--mostly white, by no means all Republican--that the ‘80s have deposited in substantial dominance of American government and business, at a frightful cost to the non-middle classes below them in America and in the Third World.
I used to say to friends, “I’d like five minutes in an alley with Lee Atwater,” but with Atwater gone, Newt Gingrich would do just fine.
LEE HANSON
Seal Beach
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