No Hope For Newt Doesn't Mean He's Not Dangerous

Josh Marshall is quick to dismiss Newt Gingrich as having any real shot in 2012 at the GOP nomination for President.

Let's remember, Newt famously dumped wife #1 for wife #2 while wife #1 was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. As in literally went to the hospital to present her with divorce papers while she was recovering from surgery for uterine cancer.

He eventually dumped wife #2 for wife #3 shortly after wife #2 was diagnosed with MS back in 1999. And he was having the affair on wife #2 with wife #3 while he was turning the country upside down trying to drive Bill Clinton from office over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

There are so many reasons why Gingrich is the lead balloon of presidential politics, but Frum really has this right that the infidelity thing is just something he cannot survive. Not because voters won't tolerate infidelity -- in many circumstances they will -- but because the pattern with Gingrich shows a level of hypocrisy, cruelty and emotional immaturity that most people won't accept in a president. 

Bullcrap.  One word for you, Josh.

Dubya.

He got elected and re-elected.  Newtie, like Moose Lady and the No Fun Bowdlerization Bunch along with her, are all about hypocrisy, cruelty and emotional immaturity.  That's what Republicans friggin do these days, 24/7. 

Everything's about baldfaced hypocritical lies that Democrats are doing X destroying the country when Republicans pushed the same thing under Reagan-Bush.  Everything's about being completely cruel to women, minorities, unions, government employees, intellectuals, scientists, anyone who's not a Fortune 5000 CEO is a "moocher" who needs to be eliminated from American society as one of "them", and the daily Perpetual Outrage Machine is prima facie evidence that emotional immaturity is the key to the hypocrisy and cruelty parts of the equation.

By that yardstick, Newt is the perfect 2012 candidate.  Don't dismiss him out of hand, he's still dangerous because frankly all the Republicans mentioned for a run against Obama are guilty of the same circus nonsense.  And anyone who survives the GOP primaries will have perfected all three of those.

Be afraid.