In an earlier time - before all the hippified 70's psychobabble people eliminated the word shame from the public vocabulary in this country - Americans would have felt embarrassed to have the world witness the insane clown car spectacle that is the Republican party - which is glaringly obvious even to outsiders, as witness Fidel Castro's observation this week:
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Update: Alan Grayson, former Democratic Congressman from Florida, as usual gets right to the point about Gingrich's racist campaign:
And the stats he presents here are both eye-opening as well as nauseating:
