The Real Newt, Part I.

It's time to talk about the Bizarro world of the GOP, wherein Gingrich is seen as a future hope rather than what he is: evidence, all too roundly, of the Corruption of Past Hopes. His offenses are in fact Falstaffian in degree. Or to quote King Henry IV, Part One: Why, GOP, "...dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?"