The Republican Party is finding itself the victim of its own demagoguery, and frankly, I enjoy this in a way that can best be described as priapismic. They have adopted a grand strategy of marching rightward while obstructing anything that resembles governing. This has been sold the usual way, by peddling as much fear as possible and then offering anger as a way of dealing with that fear. Well, some of their scared chickens are coming home to roost. Now they find themselves in a disaster of a primary with an unpopular default frontrunner who is fundamentally flawed as the personification of the 1%. The alternative to the guy the party doesn't really like is the unhinged, and equally unacceptable Newton Leroy Gingrich. A thirty year rightward lunge, with a disdain for compromise, and the practice of fear/hate politics is how they got to this point. Of course, Citizens United helped too.
Newt made one of the truest statements in the cable reality show known as the Republican debates when he said " It's sad the news media doesn't report how the economy really works". In later episodes he attempted to start an honest, critical discussion of how our capitalist system works. Then like a good Reublican he offers solutions that would only serve to make Mitt Romney richer. I thought Rick Perry would be the Romney alternative but as a partisan I'd never turn down a gift like Newt. I'm not sure if he is constantly in Callista's line of sight because they are trying to remind me he is an untrustworthy, serial adulterer or not.
The Republican Party has taken to accusing the president of class warfare, which is the surest sign that he might be uniting the country. Americans, being the invented people that we are, have a union forged not by blood, but by values and ideals. The value of fairness is right smack in the middle of that and it speaks to all Americans in every economic class. President Obama's message is one that attempts to unite the country on a core value. This embodies leadership the way Newt embodies pompousness.