“The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”
Most of the reviews of Newt Gingrich’s “To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine” seem to be centered around that one sentence; Newt is comparing Obama to Nazi’s. Never mind the fact that went called out on Fox News Sunday, he said, “…there is no comparison to Nazi Germany as a moral — or, by the way, to Mao’s China or the Soviet Union, all three of which were evil,” those twenty words are what most reviewers focus on, which is a shame because they’re missing a great policy book.
When you read as many of these political books as many of you have, it’s easy to get jaded. They all seem to follow the same basic formula, regardless of whether it a conservative or liberal author. It’s 90% “everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot,” and 10% “here is what I’d do differently.” Generally when one of those books come in the mail, I usually skip right to the 10% part because I’ve usually heard the 90% before (and in some cases, the 10% as well).
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I always hate political books that are more biographical than they are the person’s ideas. You know, 300 pages of what an awesome person they are, with one chapter dedicated to everything they would do the fix the country. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case with “No Apologies.” In it, Mitt Romney focused almost entirely on policy.
In “Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America,” 
