[BITList] adoration

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      do your politicians have self-adoration too?
      presidential hopeful Newt [Pillsbury dough boy] Gingrich has more than enough for all of them...
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      Self-Adoration Reaches Newt Heights
      By FRANK BRUNI
      MARVELING over a presidential candidate’s arrogance is like noting that a hockey player wears skates. It states not just the obvious but the necessary. You can’t zip across the ice in Crocs, and you can’t thrash your way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if your confidence doesn’t bleed into something gaudier. Arrogance is the grist, and arrogance is the given. 
      But what flavor? And what measure? 
      That’s where candidates — and the presidents that some of them become — differ, in ways that shape the sorts of messes they’re likely to make. And that’s where Newt Gingrich provokes real concern. You have to take another politician’s ego, double it, and add cheese and a side of fries to get to Gingrich. An especially heaping, unhealthy diet of self-regard slogs through his veins. 
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