With that in mind, it would be prudent for the GOP base to consider the fact that any assessment of Newt would be inaccurate absent consideration of a dynamic I'd term the "quack factor," an equation that accounts for the possible outcomes of those who've had the good fortune of gaining entree to a great educational institution but the misfortune of lacking the cognitive nuts and bolts necessary to put that education to proper use.
Quite often, such individuals turn out like Newt; inordinately successful at the scholastic paper chase, but at the end of the day are basically educated beyond their intelligence. Were they ever to wake up and proverbially smell the coffee, they'd soon realize that they need to just stop making coffee.
Gingrich hasn't been awakened. This perhaps accounts for the ease with which Newt was able to blithely advocate the incarceration of both Barney Frank and Ben Bernanke for their association with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac despite himself having been paid well over $1 million from those mortgage corporations to lobby congressional conservatives on their behalf.
It also perhaps accounts for why the married Gingrich found no shame in piously expressing his personal moral outrage at President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal even as Newt was himself carrying on an affair with Callista Bisek, the woman he ended up marrying after ditching his then-wife, Marianne Ginther.
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