And you know this…how?

I’ve met and personally spoken with his sister. But, that’s anecdotal, so don’t take my word on it… Newt’s mother and father have admitted Newt was abused in interviews before they died.

People who were abused as a child, whether or not they “coped with it,” do not necessarily grow up to be conservative Republican warmongers.

Not necessarily, but many who do not cope with it do. In other words, a large majority of neoconservatives are victims of “tough love” at best and child abuse at worst. There’s a great book on this topic that studies this phenomena in depth:

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party.

Here’s an interview with the author, Max Blumenthal, on the topic:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/4/republican_gomorrah_inside_the_movement_that

None of this means just because someone was an abused child, they’re guaranteed to become a neoconservative (nor any other loathsome attribute). Many wonderful, healthy people overcome abuse and go on to be great people.

But if you’re going to convince people not to vote for him, you’re going to have to do better than that

I’d love for Newt to be the Republican nominee. Vote for Newt!

Reagan wasn’t the cause, of course, but his posturing terrified the Iranians enough so that the day he took office the embassy hostages were released.

Honestly, we were closer to nuclear annihilation during the Kennedy administration than at any other time during the Cold War.

It’s still a long way to November and Obama hasn’t laced the gloves yet.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/us-has-already-flexed-cyberwar-muscle-says-former-nsa-director.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Funny thing – many of the targeted systems turned out to be in Iran. Now, I wonder who might have chosen to undertake such activity?

That’s the part that bothers me about these political contests – candidates criticizing the administration for “not doing enough about Iran” while rattling the saber about cyberwarfare by China/Russia during the primaries is political chest-thumping at best. These candidates are armchair quarterbacks making wild assertions about “what they would do” on national security issues without the benefit of any real information or insight into the situation or the actions their own military may or may not have undertaken.

these are the words of a man who was abused as a child by his parents and has never properly coped with it

And you know this…how?

Regardless of whether or not that’s true, your statement draws, or at least strongly implies, a conclusion from premises that don’t support that conclusion. People who were abused as a child, whether or not they “coped with it,” do not necessarily grow up to be conservative Republican warmongers.

(BTW, I detest Gingrich. But if you’re going to convince people not to vote for him, you’re going to have to do better than that.)

Difficulty Level: War Games was a movie.

Will programmers be drafted into the new Cyber Army?

That’s a good question. DADT saw a lot of technical experts flung out of the service. Newt might simultaneously start a war and expel our own best combatants. Because, face it, it’s not about winning; it’s about how you play the game.

2 – The fact he can say these things with a straight face should worry the hell out of everyone.

3 – New plan, maybe just maybe ponder taking all of those critical systems off the interwebs?  If there is no target there is no damage.

ATTACK THEM!!

But sir, they manufacture our weapons and ammo.

ATTACK THEM ANYWAY!!!

Sir the missile it’s turning back this way!!!