Morphing Obama with Gingrich?

When Americans elect a president, they want someone whose policies they're going to like, someone who looks nice and doesn't have too many skeletons in his closet. The problem with Newt Gingrich is that he has several that are being revealed by the right and left alike.

It's not his policies that are going to kill it for him. Most people agree that we need to have clean air so that we don't kill off many life forms on the planet, including our own. Most people want safe borders so that those who didn't have the fortune of being born here will have earned the right to be here and appreciate it, and most people want to have a healthcare plan that doesn't break the back of the system.

And we want someone who is at least somewhat easy on the eyes and looks good in a suit, but we don't want is someone who is immoral. It would be hard to justify a man serving his wife with divorce papers while she is in the hospital battling cancer, as Gingrich once did. It would be hard voting for a candidate who led the Clinton impeachment proceedings over the Monica Lewinsky scandal while cheating on his second wife, as Gingrich has done, and it would be hard voting for a man who racked up the $500,000.00 bill at Tiffany's that is under Gingrich's name. It would be hard for even a Kennedy to explain some of that away.

Gingrich with all his experience and ideas has some 'splaining to do if he wants to make it to the White House, though the mammoth-sized skeletons may just rattle too loudly. It's too bad that we can't morph the family values of Obama with some of the ideas of Gingrich to create the most palatable candidate.