Heartbreak Awaits Republicans Who Love Gingrich: Ramesh Ponnuru

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-06/heartbreak-awaits-republicans-who-love-gingrich-ramesh-ponnuru.html

The interesting thing about Gingrich, his defining characteristic really, is not his ability to flip flop or say outrageous things, but his ability to believe these things with all his heart, despite their untruth or their direct contradiction to his own beliefs. He can say that he would intervene in Lybia that night, then not even three weeks later thunder that he would have never intervened. He can scourge marital infidelity, all the while carrying on extramarital affairs, then convert to Catholicism for good measure.

Gingrich is the perfect postmodern president - he depends on the short memory of the audience, his previous positions crowded out by multiple news cycles. He feigns anger, he feigns intelligence. As someone said, he is what a stupid man thinks a smart man sounds like.

I do not think he will get the nomination, but he is what the GOP deserves for espousing what went on in the summer of 2010.