All in the span of less than thirty seconds, Newt Gingrich manages to play the race card (saying President Obama is a Chicago thug who wants to “mug” America) and sound like a complete idiot (claiming that President Obama is like a dictator because he believes in majority rule when it comes to things like health care policy).

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Well, I think that what you’re seeing is a Chicago machine politics approach that basically says, if we can run over you and mug you, then we’re going to get away with it. And I think what they don’t understand is that this is not Chicago. That the United States is not going to tolerate a group of people trying apply kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule in the Senate. I don’t it’ll happen.

You gotta’ love the fact that dimwits like Newt Gingrich are the heart and soul of the GOP.

API and Newt GingrichNewt Gingrich, through his political attack group “American Solutions for Winning the Future” (ASWF), has organized tea party protests, conservative legislative efforts, and is best known for driving the Republican “Drill …

Two very different but ultimately very aligned versions of GOP mendacity were on display this week. At one end stands Newt Gingrich. A former college history professor, Gingrich is articulate and knowledgeable. But that didn’t stop him from misrepresenting shoe-bomber Richard Reid’s citizenship in an effort to paint President Obama as a soft-on-terror “radical” — or tie logic in knots trying to justify his “mistake” after the fact. At the other end of the spectrum is Sarah Palin — so clueless she feels the need to make crib notes about boilerplate talking points. She too is willing to completely discard truth, evidence, logic, and the facts to score cheap political points. These two appear destined to compete for the 2012 Republican nomination. Or perhaps they can join forces and form a veracity-vanquishing dream ticket — two peas in a prevaricators’ pod.