The best part of the 2012 election race might very well be watching Newt Gingrich go down in flames…and not by enemy fire but from his own words and the nihilistic sewage he spews out on a daily basis. And I can’t think of a more deserving individual than Mr. Self-Proclaimed Intellectual (although Palin, Bachmann, Boehner and a dozen other GOPers do come in for a close second).  Anytime a politician gets mocked by both the opposition and his own party, you know his chances for higher office are all but gone.

With his latest salvo, Gingrich has crossed the dividing line from STFU You Lying Immoral Bastard to Ridiculous Monkey.  First there was his appearance on Meet The Press where he referred to Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal as “radical change”.

“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering… I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”

When angry conservatives stood up in unison to defend the Ryan plan, Gingrich felt compelled to back down. And back down he did with this lovely piece of Newtonian logic.

“Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, because I have said publicly those words were inaccurate and unfortunate.”

Which begs the question: why Newt? If you thought it accurate enough on Sunday to actually go on about Ryan’s Medicare plan and call it a “radical change” and an example of “right-wing social engineering”, what made it inaccurate on Tuesday? Is it too cynical to suggest that the only thing that really changed in the intervening two days was the sledge hammer placed squarely over your head by a right-wing noise machine who called you a bad conservative for not marching lockstep with other Republicans? Might that be it, Newt? We think so, scumbag.

And then there was the matter of Gingrich’s 1993 support for the individual health insurance mandate, something which he has fought hard against in the last two years. Here’s how Newt reconciled his apparent inconsistency.

“I do not support a mandate. I am opposed to Obamacare. I am in support of the 26 attorney generals (sic) who have filed suit. The Center for Health Transformation that I supported, that I helped found, has been actively opposed to Obamacare for two-and-a-half years.”

“That was a clip from 1993, when in fact, the conservative position was to have individual insurance, in opposition to Hillarycare — because she wanted everybody to be in government — but let’s get that out of the way, okay?”

Well no asshole, it’s not okay. Tell us more.

“I’m saying that you see a 20-second clip from 18 years ago, when you were fighting Hillarycare, and when virtually everybody in the conservative movement was united in trying to stop Hillarycare.”

“Now, nobody at that time was talking about the 10th Amendment. Nobody at that time was talking about these kind of constitutional issues. But to jump from that and say, ‘Gosh, if Newt said this in 1993, he must be for Obama’ — skipping, by the way, two-and-a-half years of active, consistent opposition to Obamacare?”

“I mean, I think the kind of amnesia that Washington gets into is, frankly, silly.”

How stupid does Gingrich take everyone to be? His entire argument boils down to: “If Democrats are against something, than I’m for it. When Dems were against the individual health insurance mandate, my buddies and I were for it. Now that Dems have shifted to the right and accepted individual mandates, I’m against it. Don’t you get it, morons? I’m Newt Fucking Gingrich. What I said 18 years ago or 2 days ago doesn’t matter. All that matters is what I say and do in the next 15 seconds.”

And there folks is your worthless Republican party of 2011 – no different from the 1993 version. They were lying, self-serving vermin then and they’re lying self-serving vermin now. With no principles to guide them other than “I”m against whatever Dems are for”, these people have turned a once proud political party into a decrepit joke.
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