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Newton Leroy Gingrich’s poll numbers are on the rise, so, what does he decide to do? He compares himself to William Wallace.

In a USA Today profile, the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) candidate referenced a Robert Reich Christian Science Monitor op-ed, commenting on how a Mitt Romney/Barack Obama election would be “passionless.” Gingrich stepped in on that claim, likening himself to the famed Scottish hero portrayed by Mel Gibson:

“If you go out and see what’s happening in the Tea Party, the last thing you want is a passionless election,” Gingrich told USA Today. “Remember Braveheart? These people want somebody who plants a flag in the ground, gives a speech and yells ‘Charge!'”

Has Newton – who’s a self-proclaimed historian extraordinaire – ever seen the movie? In the end of the film William Wallace is captured by the British, tried for treason, found guilty and brutally executed – being hanged, drawn and quartered. Is this a foreshadowing of Newton’s campaign? Will it also end up – figuratively – hanged, drawn and quartered?

While Newton is trying to cast himself in the hero mold of Wallace, he no doubt also sees himself as a Gibson type persona wooing the women, but marrying them later; which begs the question, if Newton was to somehow be elected president would his current wife be called the First Lady or the First Mistress? Clearly she’s proven herself not to be a lady having had an affair with the former Speaker – while he was married to his second wife, who he also had an affair with, while being married to his first wife, who he dumped while she was fighting cancer; the current strumpet would be the first wife of a president since Andrew Jackson’s to be called a ho, but this time it’d be an accurate description. I’m sorry but let’s not be fidgety here, if you sleep with a married man you’re a ho, and that’s exactly what she did.

Normally I’d avoid this kind of thing, but Newton’s an adulterer – many times over – and his current wife was his former mistress; clearly the new conservative “family values” model leaves a great deal to be desired. But alas, this is just another example of the hypocrisy of today’s GOTP; don’t do as I do, do as I say! Of course, let’s not forget why Newton had his affairs, it was because he loved America so darned much.

On Newton thinking he’s William Wallace; who does he see as being cast in the role of King Edward I of England, President Obama, or Mittens Romney, or both? And one last thought, Newt in a kilt is not something anyone should ever have to see.