They just can't live without their Newt

Last night the GOP had their big fundraiser in DC. Billed as the most important and biggest fundraiser of the year. I am sure the usual gaggle of lobbyist, hanger ons, want to be, grand standers, money shakers, elected officials, staffers forced to be there and hookers were in attendance.

It appears the organizers struggled with who would be the keynote speaker and the final choices were Newt & Sarah. The organizers sent out conflicting notices about who would speak and they did not want to insult the two great leaders. One was all about the future and the other was all about the past. One is thoughtful one is exciting, one has fought through the trenches and earned his way to the top by doing the hard work needed to succeed one appears to have the Midas touch and has lately turned everything in to gold. One just won't go away, well neither one will just not go away.

The organizers chose the past, though the "bright" future did grace the stage with a walk through.

I do not think Newt has much credibility with the average American voter but he does for some reason with the DC punditry and the DC Republican party. Do both groups have short memories or do they just want to benefit from the free press his outrageous statements attracts?

Let's help the DC Republicans look back with some my favorite highlight of Newts career

1. Brought the politics of personal destruction to new and sophisticated level with his negative campaign ads hinting that Tip O'Neil was an over drinking, out of touch corrupt hack pol. Followed a year or two later with his relentless attacks on Speaker Wright over a book deal. Followed by hints that Speaker Foley was not in a real marriage and was gay
2. He filed for divorce from wife # 1 while she was in the hospital with cancer
3. He blamed Susan Smith drowning her sons on the Democrats
4. He was so put out that he was forced to exit Air Force 1 from the back and did not get a seat with the President on the plane during a trip to the funeral honoring PM Rabin after his cold blooded murder that he orchestrated the government shut down.
5. He pushed through the impeachment of a very popular president, who lied about cheating on his wife with an intern.
6. These last two caused his party to lose seats in elections that have traditionally gone to the party that did not sit in the White House
7. As a result some of the men and women who put him in power forced him out as speaker because he had become such a drag on their fortunes and futures
8. He divorced his second wife because she caught him having an affair with a congressional staffer. See point 5.
9. He continues to make incendiary statements calling people vile names.
10. He has married his third wife and is now a pious Catholic

This is who the GOP chose to be it's face on the biggest night of the year. You have to ask how bad is Sarah Palin if the only choice they thought the had was this man. All this makes it hard not to be over confident about how long the Dem's can stay in power. But, politics is a fickle business.