There Are Very Few Socialists in America: Krugman

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65. I have run into Gingrich a few times, but never really talked to him.

Frank Luntz is a piece of work. If you ever read Dickens, and know who "Uriah Heep" was, increase his IQ by about 80, and you have Frank Luntz. The guy is not just wicked smart, but just plain wicked as well. He is a true mercenary, and sold himself to the highest bidder, knowing full well what damage he would do (and did). If there is anything Luntz is NOT, it is a "true believer." He believes in getting paid for his very effective work, and apparently even today manages to arrange that. In a supposedly "confidential" conversation after the 2000 election, he even admitted that Al Gore had won. But so what? He was never going to say so with the mics on and the cameras rolling, and he didn't.

So, his work got done, he got his money, his cause was successful, and the rest, as we all know, is tragedy.