Republicans need to take this clown down. Mitt Romney should rhetorically nuke Newt.
But even as Chris Wallace zeroed in on Gingrich, watching Wallace squirm while doing it was telling. The Fox News anchor obviously conflicted about cornering a Republican.
Having gone through impeachment and written in Clinton’s defense at the time, the unwinding of Gingrich’s hypocrisy while he sweats like a stuck pig trying to get the Republican nomination isn’t in the least gratifying.
When you add chief impeachment honcho Rep. Henry Hyde’s own affair to Gingrich’s convenient moralism it’s a reminder of Republican chutzpah, but also that Democrats never hold their adversaries accountable.
Pres. Ronald Reagan was saved from Iran-Contra investigations and ultimate impeachment through the horrific assassination attempt that bound the country closer to their president. Richard Nixon was allowed to resign. Both Republicans revealing true “crimes and misdemeanors” needed for impeachment, which Pres. Bill Clinton’s stupid consensual sexual indiscretion never did.
I hadn’t thought about Henry Hyde’s “youthful indiscretion” excuse in a while. As I recall, Hyde was in his early 40s at the time of something like a two year “indiscretion.” I do remember I thought about it when Karl Rove attempted to deflect Vietnam questions (coming up because of the “swift boating” / Kerry stuff) by saying that at the time of that conflict, he was just a “young whippersnapper.”
Maybe Gringrich knew not to try that one. But so far I’ve read of two explanations, neither of which seem any better: the earlier one, about how passionately he felt about the nation, and somehow his very hard and passionate work for his country made other passionate “things happen.” Now he’s moved to the “I was going through a divorce” and that helped me impeach Clinton. Which seemed to be his way of getting to the “testifying under oath” angle, and getting off cheating on your wife.
I guess Newt sees this as his last chance at the Rep nomination, which I don’t see happening. But if he can really spin “I cheated on my wives” as “passionate patriotism,” he might have a lot more wannabees joining him.
Romney should nuke Newt just to put Newt out of his misery and the embarrassment that he is to the country and his own party. Every time Newt is on TV, he reminds the general public why they hate the GOP so much. Right now he’s going down by 20 points to Obama and should tell the GOP how miserable he is but they already know this. I think that his campaign will never get off the ground because of money. I mean who is going to donate to his campaign? The big money people? They’re already in bed with Romney. The evangelicals? they already have Huckabee and Palin if she decides to run. I mean I don’t even see a constituency within the GOP for Newt.
It’s amazing the hubris of this hypocritical bag of puss. But even MORE amazing that repugnantklaners and teabaggers seem to love this scum bag.