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Family Values, Newt Gingrich Style

January 23, 2012 by

For those media types who still want to jettison a closed primary and open a primary to anyone, let me present Exhibit A for why open primaries give bad results:

Newt Gingrich. He’s proof that a body of voters can choose the candidate least in line with his party and with more likelihood of getting in a “snooty” remark about the President than winning a general election.

Besides, how do we respect a man whose definition of “family values” includes trotting out his daughters to hide a lie about his infidelity?

APROPOS: At least three people in America not on Newt’s payroll are sanguine about his victory, but only two of them share his last name.

(Not a real copy of the Washington Post)

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Comments

  1. Brittany Bowen Burton says
    January 23, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    I don’t know that I agree with your argument about what happened in SC as being a reason as to why we shouldn’t jettison a closed primary. I think Newt won because the Republicans in SC are stupid, not because the Democrats went out and voted for him. But the picture of Obama in the context that you used it is hilarious.

  2. Saturna Bellweather says
    February 7, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    Maybe Newt will take his wife and ex-wives on Jerry Springer.