It’s not clear to me that he’s serious, but the very thought of Newt and Sarah squaring off thrills me to no end. I keep imagining the scene from “Clash of the Titans” (the original movie, not that awful new one) when the Kraken meets the head of Medusa. Cheesy and awesome! (In case you didn’t see it, they’re both destroyed by the demigod, golden boy who grew up with an absentee father.)
Newt once said, “I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.” Ha! That’s rich, and wrong. It certainly isn’t true today as some Republicans, including Gingrich, casually toss around Nazi references.
I’m betting that the battle for the Republican nomination will be beyond nasty. Not only are we likely to have Sarah and Newt, but bungling Bobby Jindal; the devastatingly boring Mitt Romney; and Mike Huckabee, who reminds me of Floyd the barber from “The Andy Griffith Show.” He once told an N.R.A. group that he couldn’t wait to get to heaven for the duck hunting. It wasn’t enough that Jindal last week signed the Louisiana “gun-in-church” bill. Huckabee wants guns in heaven.
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