Now It's Convenient To Defend the Gays?

Newt Gingrich's laughable rational to why the President of Iran shouldn't have spoken at Columbia;

“I think it is an outrage for the university to lend its prestige to a dictator whose Government executes homosexuals, tortures and kills journalists, lock up students”

Yeah Newt, we shouldn't kill the gays, we should just make their lives so miserable that they wish they were dead, right?

The Pessimist

Newt Gingrich is blue on GOP chances in 2008.

I'm noticing many of the old school Republicans are very angry with the new school GOP. There may be something more too this. Perhaps we should explore further in a future time.

It's Not The Message, It's The Messenger

Let's review what Newt Gingrich said earlier today;

"The American people believe English should be the official language of the government"

This is true

"We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country,"

Ok, this is a good point

"and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."

There it is, that's where we've lost you there Newt.

The reason why it is so difficult to win over Latino voters and the reason why the Republicans are accused of being racist, anti-Hispanic and xenophobic is because they can't explain their logical reasoning for their beliefs without accidentally saying something inflammatory and racist. This doesn't say "Newt Gingrich supports English education for new immigrants," it says "Newt Gingrich thinks only English speaking people are prosperous."

What Newt Gingrich said, and I'd like to see him worm out of this one, is that immigrants and non-English speakers (specifically Latinos and Spanish speakers) are crap. They live in poverty, commit crimes, and drag down the nation all because they speak Spanish. Once again, the Republicans have let a logical point get overshadowed by the fact that they hate non-white, non-English speaking people.