If Gore is the Democrats' Godot, then Newt is the GOP's Guffman. He's been playing a delightful little game of what Vince Vaughn so brilliantly described in Wedding Crashers as "just the tip, just for a minute, just to see how it feels" for months now, and for good reason: He's the only person who could satisfy the far right in the primaries and still stand a chance in a general, he's largely untainted by the Bush era and its many disasters, and he reminds the Limbaugh right of the good old days of the Republican Revolution in Congress. And up until now, he's been uncharacteristically even-handed with hsi potential rivals, both on the right and the left. That is until somebody at The New York Post called Rudy Giuliani "nasty." Gingrich unloaded with both barrels at Hillary, calling her "nasty" and going on at length about the Clinton political machine's mercilessness.

The nastiness is really no surprise, given the past Newt and Hillary share. But what frightens me is the possibility that Gingrich and Hillary could wind up on the ballot in November 2008.

Analogcabin @ 9:51 AM
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