Insufferable arrogance is a drawback?

I'm having trouble sorting out Jonathan Chait's rumination on Gingrich's imminent pushback:

Possibly [the ABC interview] could provide him another chance, in tonight’s debate, to make an endearing confession of sin (while of course denying having asked for permission to cheat.) Of course, even if he pulls that off, he will probably ruin it by filling it with hubris and calling for Romney’s execution, or endorsing communism, or possibly both.

How would that -- insufferable arrogance and human slaughter -- represent Gingrichian "ruin," especially when addressing South Carolina's solidly pious, fundamentalist Christians? Jesus, they eat that sort of stuff up. One thinks of the insufferable, violent Jerry Falwell, or the insufferable, violent Pat Robertson, or the insufferable, violent W., or the insufferable, violent Santorum, or ... you get the point. Nothing says Christian love like imperious carnage. Amen.

I grant, however, that the "communism" thing could pose a snag. Could pose a snag. One never knows. The fundamentalist mind can be amazingly pliable, particularly if its tin foil is set at just the right angle and the transmitter is pompously all-knowing -- as Newt Gingrich unquestionably is.

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