Meet the Republican Undisqualified

As was proven once again this weekend, for Republicans nothing succeeds like failure. Across the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages, a legion of GOP luminaries spoke authoritatively on subjects they had frequently - and often catastrophically - bungled in the past. Apparently, no transgression is too serious, no series of mistakes too disastrous and no act of hypocrisy too profound to disqualify the likes of Newt Gingrich, Donald Rumsfeld, John McCain, Haley Barbour and Greg Mankiw from lecturing Americans about morality, the Libyan conflict, the economy or just about anything else.

Take, for example, Newt Gingrich. The Baptist-turned-Catholic presidential candidate who believes marriage is an institution between one man and three women in rapid succession continued his pursuit of Christian conservatives. Despite his serial infidelities (which only days ago he attributed to "how passionately I felt about this country"), this weekend Newt addressed End Times Pastor John Hagee's Cornerstone Church:

He warned that America is headed toward becoming a godless society unless voters take a stand against President Barack Obama and liberal-minded college professors and likeminded media pushing his agenda.

Sunday on not so liberal Fox News, Gingrich explained his own checkered marital past made him the perfect Inquisitor for Bill Clinton:

"I knew this in part going through a divorce. I had been in depositions. I had been in situations where you had to swear to tell the truth. I understood that in a federal court, in a case in front of a federal judge, to commit a felony, which is what he did, perjury was a felony."

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