The New Newt Same as the Old Newt

The new Newt is really the Old Newt if you ask me. He still talks about Reagan. A lot. What's really cool about this story is the accompanying cover by Zina Saunders. Check it out here.

Whether or not Gingrich is running for anything, he's never had trouble staying in the mix. During the congressional deliberations in September on the Wall Street bailout, he easily became an interloper. NBC News reported that he had privately egged on House Republicans to vote against it. He disavowed that, maintaining that he had been "trying to help it get through." But in public statements, Gingrich sent mixed signals, calling for Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to resign. He also railed against the Bush administration, huffing that it had "provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation, and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Bremer in Baghdad, and Secretary Paulson at Treasury...No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party."

In the wake of the Obama victory, Gingrich has surfed the postpartisan wave. When the Republican National Committee released an ad attempting to link Obama to Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, Gingrich pummeled it for engaging "in the sort of negative attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles." Shortly after that, when a candidate for the party's chairmanship distributed a parody song called "Barack the Magic Negro," Gingrich declared it was "racist" and "so inappropriate that it should disqualify any Republican National Committee candidate who would use it.

"Has the man whose political action committee once circulated a memo urging Republicans to call Democrats "sick," "pathetic," "corrupt," "selfish," "bizarre," and "traitors" who "lie" and "betray" truly found another way? Not exactly. Commenting on protests against California's anti-gay-marriage amendment Proposition 8, he told Bill O'Reilly, "There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us." And he and his third wife (the woman with whom he had an extramarital affair during the Clinton impeachment) recently produced a movie aiming to expose the "relentless effort" of the "secular Left" to "drive God out of America's public square." Read it all

Mr. Newt wasn't very nice at the CPAC show:

Newt Gingrich Speaks at Conservative Gathering

He enters the room to "Eye of the Tiger." His immediate target: Obama, Holder and the "left wing machine."
Gingrich goes hard after Eric Holder. He challenges Holder to a "dialogue." It's interesting how much conservatives have attacked Holder. He also belittled Nancy Pelosi. I'm not the biggest Pelosi fan but he shouldn't be belittling the Speaker of the House, especially since that was once what he used to do.
Remember, this is a man who had an affair after attacking Bill Clinton for having an affair. This is a man who was forced to resign for bad leadership.
It's not a fun video to stomach.
Fortunately, these folks have been largely marginalized because of their awful leadership and their bad behavior.