What? We’re supposed to feel sorry for Newt Gingrich? Oh, please.

The wondrously clueless Sarah Palin sees Gingrich being victimized by a “Stalinist” attack because his opponents accurately point out what a toxic, horrid human being he is. Anyone with even the vaguest sense of the terrible, monstrous, maniacal crimes of the demon Josef Stalin would be little likely to play loose with comparisons to a trifling politician getting called a few accurate names. Rush Limbaugh, who pioneered the slippery comparison game with likening people to Nazis, bleeds for us over poor old Newt being manhandled. Dear me.

Newt Gingrich himself is in full whine about how he is soooooo badly treated — this from a guy who pioneered the politics of slander and wild-eyed hatred which so defines the Republican party, lock, stock and gun barrel, today. Totally intemperate, a hater of Himalayan proportions, a man for whom the truth and society’s and religion’s rules are to pissed upon, Newt Gingrich complains because it is pointed out that he was caught out and punished as a crook? That he is a total nut job? That he is a dark and malevolent force depised most by those who know him best?

We’re supposed to feel sorry for him?

I don’t think so. He is a boil on the rear end of a party that is only that these days. He wrote the rules for the kidney-punch campaign style that has turned upon him. He is a man who boasted of his rage — theatrical and even occasionally real — of those who differ from him. He is selfish. Immoral. Greedy. Dishonest. Standing for nothing, he loathes anyone who stands for something.

And he is a victim — of the truth?

Daddy Warbucks Romney may be a hollow, Tin Man shell but he is exactly right in assailing Gingrich, who now assails him with the volcanic language that he pretends to be offended by when it rains in on himself.

Newt says he will carry on until the convention. For what? To spread more pain and harm. That’s what he does.

Better he should just go away and leave the contest, the party, the campaign and the country to better people. He’s a bum and a cry-baby; we’ll be well rid of him.