When asked last week about Russia during a town hall-style meeting in South Carolina, he noted that he made a film about the Ronald Reagan-Margaret Thatcher-Pope John Paul II nexus that he posits helped bring down the Soviet Union. Any mention of "American exceptionalism" earns a mention of his movie on the subject of America's special role. And his film and book about Reagan seldom goes unmentioned as he hails the former president as a role model....
For Gingrich, the campaign sometimes takes on the feeling of an extended book tour.
"At 8:30 tomorrow morning, we're going to be at the Westin at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and we're going to be talking about jobs and the economy," Gingrich told a radio interviewer last month. "And then after the town hall meeting, Callista is going to be signing her new book, the New York Times bestseller, `Sweet Land Of Liberty.' ... And I'll be signing my new novel, `The Crater,' about the Civil War, and a book on American exceptionalism called `A Nation Like No Other.'"
Without reverting to this, from Alice in Wonderland?
- "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
- And have grown most uncommonly fat;
- Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
- Pray, what is the reason of that?"
- "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his gray locks,
- "I kept all my limbs very supple
- By the use of this ointment -- one shilling the box --
- Allow me to sell you a couple?"
