21 Reasons Why Newt Gingrich Won't Be President

The Washington Post has an article out listing 21 Reasons why Newt Gingrich Will not become President in 2012. Here's their list of reasons:

1. Previously supported a cap-and-trade plan to reduce carbon emissions, and even filmed a commercial alongside Nancy Pelosi to that effect;

2. Previously supported a health-care plan with an individual mandate;

3. Proposed blasting North Korea with -- wait for it -- lasers;

4. Took $1.6 million from Freddie Mac;

5. Began the campaign with six figures in debt to Tiffany’s;

6. Carried on an extramarital affair with a House staffer 20-years his junior during the Clinton impeachment trial (they’re now married);

7. Tried to explain away said extramarital affair by saying, “There’s no question at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate”;

8. Sribbled a note describing himself as an “Advocate of civilization, defender of civilization, teacher of the rules of civilization, arouser of those who form civilization, organizer of the pro-civilization activists, and leader ‘possibly’ of the civilizing forces”;

9. Worked for ethanol and pharmaceutical interests;

10. Supported the TARP bailout;

11. Is loathed by almost every conservative thought leader writing today;

12. and by most every member of the Republican and libertarian/conservative political establishments;

13. Called Paul Ryan’s budget “right-wing social engineering” and then, two days later, said, “The budget vote is one that I’m happy to say I would have voted for...So, let me say on the record: Any ad which quotes what I said Sunday is a falsehood”;

14. Called for “a massive new program to build a permanent lunar colony to exploit the Moon’s resources”;

15. Called child labor laws “truly stupid”;

16. Suggested that “a mirror system in space could provide the light equivalent of many full moons so that there would be no need for nighttime lighting of the highways”;

17. Said that “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama” is that “[Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]”;

18. Was fined $300,000 by the House Ethics Committee for offering “incomplete, unreliable, and inaccurate” information during an investigation of a for-profit college course he developed while serving in Congress;

19. Helped the GOP lose the 1995 government-shutdown showdown by saying that “part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher continuing resolution” was that he didn’t get good enough seats on Air Force One;

20. Was a dues-paying member of the Sierra Club;

21.  Supported the 1989 Global Warming Prevention Act, which included a provision encouraging the U.N. to work to control population growth through, among other methods, family-planning services

I'll add my own reasons why conservatives should not allow Newt Gingrich to win the GOP nomination tomorrow. But keep these 21 reasons in mind when watching the Republican debate tonight at Drake University, which will take place at 9 pm ET tonight on ABC.