Um...is it really what passes for political discourse from someone who wants to be president? "Take a bath"?
Perhaps Newt doesn't realize that the President has to be President of the whole United States, not just the folks that shop at Tiffany.
How is that different from Obama calling Americans enemies, arrogant, soft, antipathetic, xenophobes, teabaggers...etc?
Well, let's start with the fact that he didn't do over half of those things. What he DID do is call the Tea Party tea baggers (a name they took upon themselves in the beginning) and call the Republicans "the enemy". I would also argue that he went too far in doing so. I've always believed that the President of the United States should be above those things. I believe the President should leave that sort of blather to the likes of us and should be above it.
When has Newt (or any GOP candidate for that matter) gone on record saying something like this:
“We’ve got politicians calling each other all sorts of unflattering names.”
“Now, the second way to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate.”
“We can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.”
“So what do we do? As I found out after a year in the White House, changing this type of politics is not easy. And part of what civility requires is that we recall the simple lesson most of us learned from our parents: Treat others as you would like to be treated, with courtesy and respect.”