A soap opera for our time

The Republicans have pretty much put to rest the canard that only Democrats know how to have fun. Herman Cain furnished pizza with really crispy crust and Rick Santorum even brought condoms back into the conversation. Rick Perry became an Aggie joke. Newt Gingrich has given an entirely new meaning to “baggage call.”

Any upright Mormon would look dull and colorless in a crowd like this one.

Michelle Obama, who was never proud of her country until it elected her husband president, now complains (without naming names) that she has been stereotyped (in a new book by a New York Times reporter) as “an angry black woman.”  She could learn about anger from Marianne Gingrich.

Almost any man or woman who has ever gone through the fun of a divorce knows about angry ex-spouses and thirsts for revenge, even if it’s a thirst never acted on. Mrs. Gingrich-once-removed single-handedly removed her ex from the road to the White House, or at least shoved him closer to the slough of deep despond where presidential dreams and wishes go to die.

Mrs. Gingrich No. 2 questions in an interview with ABC News whether her ex has “the moral character” to be president. You hardly have to be an ex-wife to understand why. She says Newt wanted an “open marriage” so he could have the equivalent of two wives at the same time, even if one of them would be called “wife” and the other “mistress.” This, she said, was after Newt admitted that he had been conducting a six-year affair with a congressional aide. She was shocked, she said, when she learned that Newt and the aide who would turn out to be Wife No. 3, had been canoodling “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington.” ...

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