Newton Leroy Blingrich, give it up. You will not be the nominee, you’re in it for the media exposure and money, and you’re a hypocritical, dishonest, despicable s.o.b. By the way, how was that cruise? And is Callista doing a good job helping you run the campaign?  If I were you, I’d give her a lot of TLC before you leave her for someone else. After all, she’s your biggest fan.

ABC has the goods:

A non-profit charity founded by Newt Gingrich to promote freedom, faith and free enterprise also served as another avenue to promote Gingrich’s political views, and came dangerously close, some experts say, to crossing a bright line that is supposed to separate tax-exempt charitable work from both the political process and such profit-making enterprises as books and DVDs.

The charity, Renewing American Leadership, not only featured Gingrich on its website and in fundraising letters, it also paid $220,000 over two years to one of Gingrich’s for-profit companies, Gingrich Communications. It purchased cases of Gingrich’s books and bought up copies of DVDs produced by another of the former House speaker’s entities, Gingrich Productions.

Of course, anyone running for the highest office in the land would be very concerned about so much as the appearance of anything inappropriate and do his level best to explain it when an ABC reporter asked:

“I’m not concerned about that. The American people aren’t concerned about that. Try covering the speech,” Gingrich said as he left a campaign event. When the reporter tried to follow up, Gingrich got in his waiting car and slammed the door.

If that doesn’t reassure voters, nothing will. I’m pretty sure all those aides who resigned en masse from his campaign are extra crispy glad they’re outta there.

Looks like he took an Evading the Press 101 course from Sharron Angle and Sarah Palin.

And let’s not forget Newtie’s history:

In the late 1990s Gingrich became the first sitting House Speaker to be censured and fined by the House Ethics Committee after being accused of drawing money from a tax-exempt organization to help finance his political activities. The IRS later cleared him on the charges, but not before the House ordered him to pay a $300,000 fine.

Much more here.