With inexplicable acts of violence as with marriage, Newt Gingrich apparently believes the third time's a charm. Seventeen years after he blamed Susan Smith's drowning of her two young sons on "Lyndon Johnson's Great Society" and 11 years after accusing the "liberal political elite" over the Columbine massacre, Gingrich is using the attempted assassination of a Democratic Congresswoman to once again go after her party.
As ThinkProgress explained, the former House Speaker and would-be 2012 GOP White House hopeful turned demands for political civility after the carnage in Arizona into yet another indictment of his Democratic opponents:

Look, I think it's amazing that people who cannot bring themselves to connect any kind of radical Islamist ideology to the 126 people who've been indicted in the United States plotting terrorism, people who would immediately scream about ethnic profiling, people who on the left have every possible incentive to never allow any one to draw conclusions, suddenly say things that are just factually untrue. There's no evidence that I know of, that this person was anything except nuts.
Certainly, the books that he had in his library tended to be left wing, much more Marxist and communist...Yet on the left the very people who scream if you tell the truth about American Islamists, as I did in our movie "America at Risk," turn around and say "oh let me draw the worst possible comparison because it makes me feel better."

If so, in 1994 drawing the worst possible comparison must have made Newt Gingrich feel much, much better.
After dumping his cancer-stricken first wife but before marrying his mistress following the adulterous affair that ended his second marriage, Newt pointed the finger at Democrats for the Susan Smith affair.
It was Smith who drew Americans' initial sympathy - and subsequent scorn - for her invention of a black bogeyman to conceal her heinous crime.
On October 24th, 1994, as the New York Times recalled, Smith killed her young sons, killings for which she was eventually sentenced to life in prison:

That night, investigators say, Mrs. Smith pulled her car to the edge of a deep lake, stepped out, put the gearshift in drive and let it roll down the boat ramp into the black water. Her two little boys, buckled snugly in their safety seats, died under the lake...
..."I believed her, right up to the end," said Juliaette Kerhulas, of Mrs. Smith's story that a young black man had ordered her out of her burgundy 1990 Mazda on the night of Oct. 25, then driven away with 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander in the back seat.

Ms. Kerhulas wasn't the only one who believed in her. None other than future House Speaker Newt Gingrich rushed to the defense of Smith, whose step-father ironically happened to be a prominent Republican fundraiser and member of the Christian Coalition. Even after her confession, Gingrich insisted the Smith murders showed the decay of American society under Democratic Party rule:

Enter Newt Gingrich, who rushed into action on election eve with another reliable generic culprit: society. He said the double murder "vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things," expediently adding that "the only way you get change is to vote Republican."

As Frank Rich recounted in August 1995:

Asked later by Tom Brokaw to elaborate, the Speaker-to-be cited "a direct nexus between the general acceptance of violence" and "the pattern that the counterculture and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society began in the late 60's."

Despite that embarrassment, five years later Gingrich resurrected the charge of liberal complicity after the slaughter of school children at Columbine. As Steve Benen recalled:

Gingrich insisted that American "elites" bore responsibility for the massacre. "I want to say to the elite of this country -- the elite news media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite: I accuse you in Littleton ... of being afraid to talk about the mess you have made," Gingrich said, "and being afraid to take responsibility for things you have done, and instead foisting upon the rest of us pathetic banalities because you don't have the courage to look at the world you have created."

As it turns out, Newt Gingrich's attempts to blame Democrats for the murderous rampages of the mentally exceeds his number of wives. As ThinkProgress noted, when ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked if he saw the 2007 Virginia Tech tragedy the same way, Gingrich said "yes" because liberals have created "situation ethics" zone free of religion. And in March 2010, just days after Democratic members of Congress including Gabrielle Giffords received death threats in the wake of their health care votes, Newt blamed the Democrats themselves:

"Just as there was no place for the kind of viciousness against Bush and Cheney, there's no place for viciousness against Democrats. I would condemn any kind of activity that involves that kind of personal threat...
I think the Democratic leadership has to take some moral responsibility for having behaved with such arrogance, in such a hostile way, that the American people are deeply upset. So let's be honest with this. This is a game that they're playing. People should not engage in personal threats. I'm happy to condemn any effort to engage in personal threats. But I think the Democratic leadership has to take some real responsibility for having run a machine that used corrupt tactics, that bought votes, that bullied people, and as a result has enraged much of the American people. And I think it'd be nice for President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid to take some responsibility over what their actions have done to this country."

Newt Gingrich the serial husband isn't merely a serial liar. When it comes to some of the greatest tragedies in recent American history, Newt is also a serial opportuniist.