Newt Gingrich: Bumbling diplomat at large

Newt Gingrich, the GOP's lethally loose-lipped Big Idea Man, indeed had the brainy presence of mind yesterday to renounce all that "racist" lingo of his which was causing Hispanics to fear his party like a five-alarm fire.

So he "backed away," as the LA Times put it, "from those comments" about Sonia Sotomayor's true inner self, "but continued to question whether her philosophy qualified her to become the first Latino on the high court."

In short, he looped back just as he was backing back. He retained the essential accusation, only stripping it of its "r" coloration.

"Racist," he said ungallantly, and I say ungallantly because he made this retraction in a subdued statement -- when have you ever known this guy not to grab the closest microphone to shoot off his eager mouth? -- "should not have been applied to Judge Sotomayor as a person, even if her words themselves are unacceptable.

"My initial reaction was strong and direct -- perhaps too strong and too direct," wrote Gingrich, who just couldn't resist the mealy-mouthed "perhaps."

"The sentiment struck me as racist, and I said so. Since then, some who want to have an open and honest consideration of Judge Sotomayor's fitness to serve on the nation's highest court have been critical of my word choice."

Can you believe this incompetent clown? He just admitted, without, evidently, even realizing it, that his initial "consideration of Judge Sotomayor's fitness to serve on the nation's highest court" was indeed a whispering-campaignlike and dishonest one.

And that, gentle reader, is merely one small example of the kind of Big Idea thinking and diplomatic discourse that Newt believes would work splendidly well from the White House, circa 2013.

Holy Mother of God, where does the GOP find these abysmal pols and how in God's name do they ever get so elevated?

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[Gene]

"diplomat at large"..? "Big Idea Man"...? How about a bumbling big and large No Idea Man..?