Underhanded Smear Ad Against Gingrich

I am noticing something with Mitt Romney that happened with George W. Bush. The candidate himself comes across as a congenial nice guy, while he apparently has a shadow crew of very nasty people behind-the-scenes taking care of his opponents with smear ads. On the other hand, I expect that both sides in the general election will be hard at work to personally vilify whoever is finally running for the presidency.

I already knew of Newt Gingrich's tarnished past, but apparently many Republican voters needed to be reminded of it in a widely-shown ad claiming that Obama wants Gingrich to be the GOP nominee because he'll be easy to beat. The ad's disclaimer at the end states that no candidate authorized it. Just some concerned citizens wanting to spend a "bucket"-load of money to enlighten the electorate with altruistic zeal, right? And smiling, sparkling "Max Headroom" Mitt had absolutely NOTHING to do with it. Yeah, sure. Here we go again...

I am already pretty sure as to how I will be voting for president this November, regardless which Republican candidate survives the absurd TV reality show titled "The GOP Campaign", with its cast of deeply flawed characters taking turns being in the lead and then falling back because, well, they are discovered to be human after all, apparently a disqualifying trait for a Republican nominee. The truth is that I have become very deeply disillusioned with how the political opposition has dealt with Barack Obama ever since he stepped into the White House in January, 2009. It is one thing to carry on a spirited public debate with your political opposite; it is another thing entirely to treat that opposite as an enemy to the nation who must be countered at every turn with no room for the necessary give and take on that our political process in Washington traditionally functions with. In spite of the fact, though, that the Republican Party leadership decided to stonewall practically everything that the duly elected Democratic president has proposed, the fickle and memory-impaired American electorate will quite possibly reward them this November for such callous irresponsibility with both the Presidency and control of both houses of Congress. Unbelievable.