<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[One More Time: Newt Is&nbsp;Dumb]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>A reader writes:</p> <blockquote> <p>&quot;<a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/11/malkin-award-nominee-7.html" target="_self">Go get a job, right after you take a bath.</a>&quot; Apparently, Newt isn’t aware that … THERE ARE NO JOBS!&#0160; We have a 9% unemployment rate, and that’s because there aren’t enough jobs, not because millions of Americans don’t want to work.&#0160; Is this Newt’s brilliant jobs plan?&#0160; &quot;Go out and get a job&quot;?&#0160;</p> <p>The rhetoric and point of view is right out of 1968, as though these were the dirty hippies so demonized by the press back then, protesting the Vietnam War.&#0160; This kind of personal attack on the protesters may appeal to his base, but it’s really appalling, and I hope that it turns off millions of moderate-thinking voters.</p> </blockquote> <p>Yes, Gingrich is boomer polarization personified. Another agrees:</p> <blockquote> <p>Sorry Newt, another extremist and failed politician beat you to that line more than 40 years ago:</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>