Newt Gingrich's Fantasy Campaign\u2014and the Fictions That Gave Rise to It<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHis ideas may seem merely grandiose, but they reveal the deep affinity between American conservatism and one branch of science fiction.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I can't imagine Heinlein being particular pleased with any of the GOP candidates this year. Maybe Ron Paul, strictly from a libertarian standpoint (though I think he'd still have some serious policy disagreements with him), but certainly not Newt. That Newt likes SF is no more meaningful than if he professed to like mysteries ("See, … Continue reading “No, you can't blame Newt Gingrich on SF (or on Robert Heinlein)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25825,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/the-newt-mitt-show.html","url_meta":{"origin":26639,"position":0},"title":"The Newt & Mitt Show","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Jan-12 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Pretty much. #ddtb","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25769,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/newt-and-the-gop-establishment.html","url_meta":{"origin":26639,"position":1},"title":"Newt and the GOP Establishment","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Jan-12 4:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bottom line: the GOP don't like Newt. 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