What a Jackass!

The current Republican base's latest crush sticks his very fat foot in his very big mouth (h/t John Cole):

GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich defended his stance against certain child labor laws during a campaign stop in Iowa Thursday, saying that children born into poverty aren’t accustomed to working unless it involves crime.

“Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed.

“They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal,” he added.

That was today, folks! A lot can be said about the plight of families unlucky enough not to make $60,000 for a half-hour of bloviation or about their equally unlucky children who are deprived delightful cruises through the Greek isles. But Gingrich’s blanket condemnation of “really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods” is unbelievably disgusting. And it’s disrespectful of the overwhelming majority of those children and their families who live their lives with far more integrity and far less cash than Gingrich ever will.

I'm sure Gingrich didn't mean poor white folks in Appalachia, because they will probably vote for a Republican instead of Obama.  He must mean dark-skinned people who leech off of us working folks.  What a piece of shit.  Just because it is perfectly legal for this asshole to get paid $1.6 million to be a "historian" for Freddie Mac doesn't mean this dickhead knows anything about showing up on Monday.  If you don't believe me, ask his ex-wives.

Barack Obama is regularly losing in polls to generic Republican candidates.  He often beats real Republican candidates in the same polls (although Gingrich was supposedly ahead by a couple of points).  It isn't hard to see why.