All of these things are true, but my deeper problem with Gingrich is his incompetence and simultaneously casual and spectacular overestimation of his own abilities. Read stories about how he managed his '12 bid for the Presidency, or how he managed the GOP after the shutdown in the '90s.
A Republican administration involves the adoption and execution of many ideas I fiercely disagree with. But I'm prepared to operate within a context of governance I disagree with --- so long as there's a backbone of competence behind it. Newt Gingrich represents a flailing, slapdash, amygdalic chaos, a marshaling of a militia of bad ideas aimed roughly in the direction of the aggrandizement of Newt Gingrich, and who cares how many American lives get in the way.
There are plenty of Republicans I disagree with --- can't stand --- feel moral contempt towards --- but can accept as the competent execution of an ideology that must, at some interval in American politics, take the helm. Even Donald Rumsfeld --- himself proven incompetent --- at least didn't lash his incompetence to a lizard-brained need to see himself in the newspaper. Gingrich is something worse than that.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/14/politics/newt-gingrich-house-u...