Would Newt just go away? Please?

I swear to ever-lovin' God...Either the Publican party is completely and utterly morally bankrupt, or Newt Gingrich is the political equivalent of the un-dead. Probably the former, unfortunately, which gives rise to Newt as the latter, so we are double-fucked.

Why can't this schlub just slink off back to Georgia and sit on the edge of a no-tell-motel bed and get a BJ from an assistant and leave the rest of the country alone?

Now the ethically challenged adulterer - who served his first wife with divorce papers in her hospital bed then didn't pay his child support - is recommending that we trash our free speech rights in an effort to save them. Yep. You read that right.

It seems The Newt is up in arms that I have the right to call him a pretentious, bloviating gas-bag, which is actually not only an understatement, it is the nicest thing I can think of to say about the jackass.

I have a problem with the "Thought Criminal" classification of crime. And as a member of a minority religious group, I have a problem with the castigation of all Muslims.

By now everyone has heard about the "flying Imam's" who were ejected from a plane for praying and for "sitting in the same seats as the 9/11 hijackers."

WHAT?

First of all, the bearded guy in traditional dress isn't likely to be a terrorist. That would more likely be the clean-shaven dude reaking of cologne and wearing the western dress and baseball cap, trying for all he's worth to pass himself off as a Greek. Second of all - when the hell has anyone ever booked a flight and been asked anything besides "aisle or window"? I have been flying five or six times a year, minimum, all my life. I have never been asked what seat I wanted, so that little bit smells like bullshit to the owner of this oft-stamped passport.

None the less, here is what The Newt had to say:

Our friends at the 'ACLU left,' of course, were staggered at this concept," Gingrich told an audience of Republicans at a Christmas banquet. "How could we talk about anything less than 100 percent free speech? How could we consider in any way thinking about this issue?"

Gingrich cited last month's ejection of six Muslim scholars from a plane in Minneapolis for suspicious behavior, which included reports they prayed before the flight and had sat in the same seats as the Sept. 11 hijackers.

"Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists," Gingrich said. "And the crew of the U.S. airplane should have been invited to the White House and congratulated for being correct in the protection of citizens."

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In an interview, Gingrich said it is possible to distinguish between terrorists and others when looking to fight threatening expression.

"If you give me any signal in the age of terrorism that you're a terrorist, I'd say the burden of proof was on you," Gingrich said.

Yep. You read that right, too. It's really easy to make the next step - If you have brown skin, or if you are not a Christian, these jokers are afraid of you and you must voluntarily surrender your civil liberties so they can feel "safe" in this uncertain world. Only white Christians should have full rights, apparently, and there is apparently a contingent of white Christians who can't wait to surrender the bothersome things and all the inherent responsibilites that accompany them.

Well, I'm all for stopping terrorism, so I think we should start at home. Should we form posse's and fan out ? If you are a white male between the ages of 20-35 and you were raised by religious wacko parents, you have to prove to me that you are not a Christo-fascist terrorist in the mold of Eric Rudolph or Timothy McVeigh.

Otherwise we shouldl just pre-emptively throw your white male Christian ass in the SuperMax, because you might be a terrorist.