I believe Newt Gingrich is a despicable man who is willing to say and do whatever advances his agenda and further inflates his already Goodyear blimp sized ego. But he is also symptomatic of a political party that is becoming more sick, racist and divisive by the day. Andrew Sullivan summed Gingrich and his win in South Carolina most succinctly:
In a state where African-Americans make up 28 percent of the electorate and 1 percent of the voters in the primary today. . . . . what an indictment of a party that in a diverse state, 99 percent of the voters were white.
If I were a Republican, I'd be ashamed. But Gingrich won, I think, because shame is alien to him. Especially when it comes to race.
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