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If likability matters in an election, the once and future GOP nominee, Newt "The Professor" Gingrich has a ways to go.
Gingrich as always come across as an arrogant, smug, bastard. His M.O. has always been to play the part of the intellectual. However, he has reached new, dizzying heights with this new election. It was most likely a tactical error for Romney's SuperPAC to attack Gingrich (who was dead and the water anyways) and to fire Gingrich up and let the "monster out of the cage". However, let's be frank, Gingrich was only making a half hearted attempt to suppress his inner jack ass.
What I love most about Gingrich is his penchant to scold people. He truly does channel his inner professor.
For instance, he scolded John King for asking about his ex-wifes claims about an "open marriage".
Read more here: Gingrich scolds media for spotlighting ex-wife's complaint - KansasCity.com
Of course, that was not the first time or last time Gingrich refused to respond to a question, and instead attacked the questioner.
And, it played well to a conservative base who has bought into the "evil liberal media" canard.
It won't work with the general electorate. No one likes to be scolded by an arrogant fat body.
Gingrich as always come across as an arrogant, smug, bastard. His M.O. has always been to play the part of the intellectual. However, he has reached new, dizzying heights with this new election. It was most likely a tactical error for Romney's SuperPAC to attack Gingrich (who was dead and the water anyways) and to fire Gingrich up and let the "monster out of the cage". However, let's be frank, Gingrich was only making a half hearted attempt to suppress his inner jack ass.
What I love most about Gingrich is his penchant to scold people. He truly does channel his inner professor.
For instance, he scolded John King for asking about his ex-wifes claims about an "open marriage".
"I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that," Gingrich said, his face flush with anger, when asked about an ABC interview with his ex-wife in the opening question of a two-hour debate on CNN. In the ABC report, Gingrich's second wife, Marianne Gingrich, broke a long silence to say that he had asked her to grant him an "open marriage" so he could maintain an extramarital relationship with a House aide, Callista Bisek, who later became his third wife. He divorced Marianne in 2000 and married Callista shortly after.
Gingrich railed at ABC News for airing it, at CNN for asking about it, and at the news media generally for "destructive, negative" reporting all drawing loud cheers and applause from the Republican audience of about 2,500.
"To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine," he said, voice rising.
When CNN moderator John King insisted he was only asking about a report aired by another network that was dominating the day's news, Gingrich turned on him as well. "It was repeated by your network, don't try to blame someone else," he said. "You chose to start the debate with it.
Read more here: Gingrich scolds media for spotlighting ex-wife's complaint - KansasCity.com
Of course, that was not the first time or last time Gingrich refused to respond to a question, and instead attacked the questioner.
And, it played well to a conservative base who has bought into the "evil liberal media" canard.
It won't work with the general electorate. No one likes to be scolded by an arrogant fat body.