Over a long life you encounter a panoply of personalities. And, if you are paying attention, you find that they can be categorized and pigeon-holed for future reference.
I recognize Newtie, I've met him before. Always under compromising circumstances.
For this reason, and others, it's useful to pay attention....but it takes its toll. If you aren't careful, you tend to get a little jaundiced in your assessments and you have to keep reminding yourself that stereotyping is a very, very bad thing. But irresistible, nevertheless.
In the instance of Newtie, I can read him like the funnies, even though I still can be surprised by his gall. I find him endlessly entertaining because he is so incredibly predictably a clown. Not a conscious clown, but one who takes himself so seriously he can't contemplate that when he opens his mouth, in his studied verbose, but oddly laconic fashion, he looks and sounds like a complex electronic toy that got its wires crossed.
Yes, he is a ninny, but still a source of fun because he is so clueless about his nakedness.
While I have not yet relinquished my front seat at the Cain Train theater, and still get an occasional kick out of the pray-away-the-gay duo, plus that prettier version of Georgie Porgie, I am gearing up for the media feast on Newtie's previously picked-over, hypocritical carcass.
I am so glad he is running.
Schadenfreude is one of the most useful words I have ever learned. Beyond being voluminously expressive, it has explained (and therefore excused by dint of it being a universally shared emotion) my ungenerous reactions to the discovery of a fellow human being's clay toes.
As Rachel would say, "Where's the popcorn?"
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