The extent to which some Republicans will twist history to try and sell Newt is truly amazing.This morning on Chuck Todd’s show, former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va) was busy explaining how voters will forgive Newt for his past. As an example he brought up Bill Clinton:

Look at where Bill Clinton is today compared to back then.

Fine, let’s look at where Bill Clinton was back then. Right after the House voted to impeach Clinton his approval rating spiked to 73%. According to Gallup, throughout the entire scandal he remained in the mid to upper 60% range, only dipping down to the upper 50’s a couple of times.

Is Tom Davis idiotic enough to think that bringing up the 90’s is a good thing for Newt? We had a booming economy back then and yet Newt was hellbent on destroying the President that lead us there. Americans on all sides of the aisles loved Bill Clinton, yet Newt was trying to destroy him. To make matters worse for Newt he was going after Clinton for an affair, while Newt was having the same thing.

Oh wait!

Today Newt says he was going after Clinton for lying to Congress. But Newt did the same exact thing at the same exact time. Newt was reprimanded by the House for “misleading” the ethics committee among other charges.

And here we have the big Newt problem. His best surrogates can’t even go out there and try to polish this turd without reminding the American people that he is still a turd. When you relive the Gingrich 90s, you are reminded of a man who cared absolutely nothing about this country, only himself. He tried to take down one of the best Presidents we ever had just because he was a Democrat. Perhaps that’s the very reason we see a lot of other Republicans coming out so strongly against Newt, and not just regular voters, but Republicans who actually had to serve under him.