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It looks like Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus was batting two for two this Wednesday, first appearing on MSNBC and being apparently clueless that anchor Thomas Roberts is an openly gay man and probably unintentionally insulting him and then later appearing on Erin Burnett's Out Front on CNN, and dismissing Newt Gingrich's lobbying efforts that we dare not call lobbying.

I've heard some sorry defenses of people who basically are willing to sell their souls to do anything for a buck over the years, but Jacobus and her defense of Gingrich here was one of the more pitiful I've heard in a long time. All I know is that as any of us who have been following Newt Gringrich for some time now have known, the man has more baggage both personally and politically than most people who don't follow politics can possibly imagine, and all the happy talk from this panel here on how his doublespeak now doesn't matter much is really ridiculous. Even those supposed "tea partiers" that he's been courting aren't going to be happy about the lobbying for Freddie Mac. And that doesn't even begin to touch on the hypocrisy of him calling for Barney Frank among others to be jailed along with other equally outrageous statements he's made when it comes to Frannie and Freddie.

The rest of them on the panel weren't much better and naturally host Erin Burnett didn't question a one of them on whether Newt is actually a viable candidate, even if he is the new GOP's flavor of the week since they all hate Romney from the bottom of their hearts.

I'm not sure how much more out of touch a group might have to be to consider the type of fees Gringrich charged just business as usual and nothing the peons should get upset about when it comes to income disparity in the United States and something that any of them should be concerned about. That's about what I'd expect from a bunch of overpaid CNN contributors who are in the one percent as well. I'm not sure what else Gingrich or a lot of the rest of them have to do to finally make themselves disqualified from being a serious presidential candidate as this GOP primary race goes on, but sadly I think we're about to find out just how low that standard goes.

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A Republican strategist who has spoken out against same sex marriage asked one of the few openly gay news anchors Wednesday if he had ever "disappointed a woman."

During a segment about female support for presidential candidates, Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus told MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts that President Barack Obama shouldn't try to bolster his poll numbers by condescending to women.

"Women need jobs," Jacobus stated. "We don't have to be off to a separate group and condescended to and talked to by the first lady. That's nice, but we don't need that. And we're disappointed in this president, and that's what's happened. We've been lied to."

She continued: "Thomas, if you ever disappointed a woman, you know how hard it can be to get back into good graces and regain her trust."

"The most important woman I'm disappointing right now is my executive producer, who's telling me that I need to be quicker," Thomas said with a grin.

Whether she knew it or not, Jacobus may have been on to something with her tone-deaf assertion. In a 2008 interview with The Advocate, Thomas admitted had felt the need to date a few women early in his career.

"I didn’t know how best to deal with that professionally, or personally for that matter," he explained. "I thought it would be a roadblock -- or a brick wall -- to advancement."

He said that after taking a job in a new television market, "I would automatically date a girl and have everyone at the station see it. We'd date for a little while and then I'd break up with them or do something to make them break up with me."

Jacobus is president Capitol Strategies PR and appears regularly on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. In an op-ed for The Hill in 2009, she argued that "bullies" were trying to legalize same sex marriage.

April 20, 2009 CNN

Heather:

David Sirota hits Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus for her Bush kept us safe from a terrorist attack talking points. I almost fell out my chair when I heard her say this in response:

Jacobus: We have president -- our last president who went out as an unpopular president, but when he was taking very strong measures against the terrorists, he was the most popular president in history. He kept us safe for nine years. And when I -- for many years it was since 9/11. And now we have a very popular president whose popular personally going in and sort of riding that wave of optimism.