Criticize Newt, but be honest

  I haven't been enjoying the cannibalism going on in the Republican party. Way too many debates.
  What's the purpose of so many debates, particularly moderated by left wing journalists who take great joy in centering the attention on themselves or asking stupid leading questions like when was America last great.
  Always starting with the negative, the press wants only to agitate and further roil the base.
  Here's a great example of a hair sprayed bimbo asking a really really stupid question with great solemnity, as if the weight of the world is on his shoulders.   
  So the whole Newt brouhaha is pretty nauseating. He's sure a helium balloon but Romney really is a robot.
  We've gone way beyond "vetting" for the actual presidential contest to something that not only isn't healthy, but is doing the work of the Obama slash team.
  Without favoring any particular candidate, we might point out that Professor Jacobsen, who is in full blown Newt mode, is tired of conservatives bashing Newt as anti-Reagan. He has a number of columns dedicated to the subject; for example, the video that was pulled out by Drudge was selectively edited.
  So the admonition is, hey, put the truth out there. Put it all out there.
  But be honest about it. Don't lie. Don't selectively edit. Don't play games.
  Here's a link to Legal Insurrection, where it's pointed out that the video of Newt was really not what it was edited to be:

There is something truly obscene about the full blown assault on Newt Gingrich’s strong Reagan conservative history from and on behalf of Mitt Romney, who unabashedly ran away from the Reagan legacy and conservative principles in his 1994 Senate campaign and 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Truly obscene. 

The latest iteration comes from Elliott Abrams writing in National Review, quoting pieces of a single speech Newt apparently gave on the floor of the House on March 21, 1986, in which Newt criticized certain foreign policy decisions of the Reagan administration. Abrams does not link to the full speech or to other speeches of Newt at the time.

  This dishonesty is the part that makes us sick.
  To be a political wonk is one thing.
  To be dishonest is another.
  They don't have to be the same thing.