Daniel Hannan gave an amazingly eloquent speech at CPAC this year! I believe he understands more about the foundations of America than most American pundits.
The argument that Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin consistently posit is that Newt Gingrich—a man who served in Congress for TWENTY years and acts as a power broker on K Street—is not an establishment politician because the establishment doesn’t like him. Under what rule of logic does someone cease to be something they manifestly are solely because similar people dislike them? This is almost as absurd as suggesting that I am not black because some black people dislike me.
Clearly, the establishment dislikes Newt Gingrich because all objective evidence points to the fact that he is a loathsome person. The fact that establishment Republicans like Romney more than they like Gingrich is not evidence for the claim that Gingrich is not an establishment Republican. It just doesn’t follow at all.
I enjoyed Dinesh D’Souza What’s So Great About Christianity, so I am looking forward to reading this new Christian book! See D’Souza discuss the premise below: