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).

Transcript:

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 …