Unfortunately for Gingrich, that same longevity has also generated plenty of baggage over the decades.
鈥淗e is brilliant as a political strategist, impossible as a political candidate,鈥� says Lichtman. 鈥淗is personality is wrong, abrasive, aggressive. For a party of morality, his personal record on morality is pretty bad.鈥�
Thrice married and twice divorced, Gingrich鈥檚 personal baggage and infidelities may be too heavy for 海角大神 conservatives in the party of family values. 鈥淭wo ex-wives is one ex-wife too many for most evangelicals,鈥� Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist and Religious Liberty Commission, told Newsweek.
As a fiercely partisan, flame-throwing provocateur, Gingrich has also won plenty of enemies. He has called President Obama a 鈥渟ecular socialist鈥� and once said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was acting 鈥渋n the spirit of Soviet tyranny.鈥�
