What does it say about America that Newt Gingrich is now considered a wingnut that we can live with? Or so Ezra at Pandagon thinks:
So what do you do when you take on the throne and lose? Well some, like Lucifer, found a realm of eternal damnation and torture others for eternity. Others read a lot of spy novels and review so obsessively they crack Amazon's Top 500. Newt Gingrich is the latter.As an addendum on Gingrich, he's an interesting case in the discussion Matt Stolelr and I have been having. As radical and poisonous as anyone our polity has ever been, he also presided over a GOP obsessed with policy. While the current group (DeLay, et al) have his bile they possess none of his wonkishness nor relative honesty about their agenda. To say this shows how far we've fallen, but Newt was the sort of wingnut I could live with. At least he stood for something beyond partisan politics and attempted to engage legislation in a meaningful way.
I checked Newt's review list on Amazon - the man has pretty lousy taste in spy novels.
