"let's take a quick stroll down memory lane with ol' Newt"

[ProSense]

A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH NEWT GINGRICH....

As tempting as it is to simply ignore the odd tirades of the disgraced former House Speaker, this latest gem from Newt Gingrich strikes me as special.

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Putting aside the madman's incoherent ideology, it's fascinating to see Gingrich chastise those who would dare rush to "draw conclusions" in the wake of a tragedy, making claims that are "factually untrue."

Indeed, let's take a quick stroll down memory lane with ol' Newt.

In 1994, just a few days before the midterm elections, a deranged woman named Susan Smith drowned her two young sons. Gingrich, at the time, made infanticide a campaign issue and publicly equated Smith's murders with the values of the Democratic Party. Gingrich told the AP, "The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican."

Five years later, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people at Columbine High School. Gingrich insisted that American "elites" bore responsibility for the massacre. "I want to say to the elite of this country -- the elite news media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite: I accuse you in Littleton ... of being afraid to talk about the mess you have made," Gingrich said, "and being afraid to take responsibility for things you have done, and instead foisting upon the rest of us pathetic banalities because you don't have the courage to look at the world you have created."

In 2007, Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. In response, Gingrich blamed liberals for supporting "situation ethics," adding, "Yes, I think the fact is, if you look at the amount of violence we have in games that young people play at 7, 8, 10, 12, 15 years of age, if you look at the dehumanization, if you look at the fact that we refuse to say that we are, in fact, endowed by our creator, that our rights come from God, that if you kill somebody, you're committing an act of evil." Gingrich, explaining the VT tragedy, went on to condemn Halloween costumes and the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law.

Sure, Newt, tell us again how awful it is for political figures to rush to "draw conclusions" in the wake of a tragedy.

[LiberalEsto]

1. That subhuman is the worst kind of opportunist

I stopped paying any attention to him after he told one of his wives that he was divorcing her while she was hospitalized with cancer. He is utterly soulless and will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

[FSogol]

2. Situational ethics. Gingrich is the worst type of scum in our political system. n/t

[salinen]

3. "Obama is an anti-colonialist"

world's most stupid statement ever.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Reminder:: Newt is MOOT

[The Wizard]

5. Some say Newt

is a bile filled bullshitter. The words he spews indicate that's true. He's also full of himself.

[yellowcanine]

6. HOISTED ON HIS OWN PET - ARD ALERT

Ah Newtie, you are just too easy to refudiate.