Gingrich Derangement Syndrome

While Bush Derangement Syndrome only effected those on the left, the right now has its own analog, Gingrich Derangement Syndrome. GDS apparently afflicts select right wing pundits, most everyone at NRO, and John Hinderaker at Powerline:

So, congratulations to Newt, and on to Florida. Let’s just pray that Barack Obama’s second term didn’t start today. If Gingrich does get the nomination, this may turn out to be a year in which Republicans more or less ignore the presidential race, ceding Obama his second term, and focus instead on trying to hold the House and, if possible, picking up a seat or two in the Senate, along with doing the best we can in state races where the wipeout at the presidential level doesn’t swamp all efforts to elect Republicans.

Now that is a full blown case of GDS.

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Powerline's John Hinderaker Gets Unihinged

One does not see this too often from John Hinderaker at Powerline - throwing what can only be described as a temper tantrum. But here it is.

It seems that just the thought that Newt Gingrich might win the SC primary has Hinderaker going into a full metal leftie unhinged rant. Labeling anyone who votes for Gingrich "delusional," Hinderaker tells us that electing Gingrich as our nominee would result in the near complete extinguishment of the Republican Party, in addition to causing a whole host of other calamities all the way up to the visitation of the ten biblical plagues on our nation. Well, maybe he didn't say that last bit, but after reading his unhinged rant, one wouldn't be surprised if he had.

In list form, Hinderaker throws the kitchen sink at Newt as to why he is our era's Thomas Dewey, Michael Dukakis, and the Edsel all rolled into one. But he counts them as asides, settling on the utterly bizarre argument that Newt can't win in the general election because of Newt's ex-wife's revelations in the ABC interview on Thursday. Using incomprehensible reasoning, Hinderaker says that Newt - who has acknowledged most of the facts raised by his ex-wife in the interview - is mortally wounded because he called her new allegation, that he had asked for an open marriage, false. Indeed, Hinderaker fails to note that Gingrich's ex has spoken at length publicly on the break up of her marriage with Newt over the past several years - yet this is the very first time she has raised the "open marriage" allegation. His post is one giant non-sequitur. It is he that appears "delusional."

Indeed, if Newt's past infidelity and an unhappy ex-wife are going to be the deciding factor in this election, Hinderaker had best inform Thomas Sowell, Kyle-Ann Shiver, in addition to President Grover Cleveland if they can dig him up - just to name a few in a very long list.. What is it about Newt that drives so many Republicans into an utter frenzy of inchoate rage? In this, John Hinderaker joins the ranks of most of the entire staff of the NRO, Ann Coulter, George Will, Jennifer Rubin and Kathleen Parker, all of whom are exhibiting unmistakable symptoms of Gingrich Derangement Syndrome.

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From Drama Critic To Drama Queen

The title of this post comes from Powerline, where John Hinderaker attempts to describe the steaming pile of vacuous, disingenous, melodramatic hyperbole that is the NYT's Frank Rich. The theme of Rich's most recent column is "Joe Stack = Tea Party = mudrder = Republican" with a lot of very warm cow patties thrown in. It is so over the top that it moved John to do a full scale fisking. If there is a moral to this story, its don't piss off John. This is about the best fisking that does not conern Andrew Sullivan that I've seen to date. Here is the Rich column, and here is John's reply. Enjoy.

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