From Austria: Newton Leroy Gingrich - America's 'Hypocritical Moralizing Apostle'

For Republicans, South Carolina is sending some potentially devastating news: out of a raft of candidates, conservatives aren't selecting a leader with the best chances of beating President Barack Obama. Rather, they are electing the incarnation of the angry American.

Newt Gingrich is carrying more heavy “baggage” than could possibly fit in his campaign bus. As Republican House speaker during the Clinton years, he is the ultimate Washington insider. He tried to relieve the president of his post because of the Lewinsky sex scandal, while he himself was having an affair. Meanwhile, this sanctimonious moralizing apostle is married to his third wife. Friends in his own party chased him out of Congress because of a long list of ethical misconduct.

Far-right Republicans see in Gingrich a mirror image of themselves: a retro-party led by angry White men, whose frustration with the challenges of globalization has erupted into resentment.

Gingrich understands this sentiment better than anyone. And he uses it in the worst way by turning angst against elitists into a populist campaign against “Washington” and “Wall Street.”

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Newt and a party of angry white men. Sounds about right.