Poor Newt. Last night while making his victory speech following his win in the South Carolina primary he had a flashback–admittedly a problem for conservatives– and he actually thought the year was 1980. His remarks became saturnine and bat shit loopy. He stumbled like a drunk with a bucket on his foot. He imagined that President Barack Obama is weak and ineffectual in the manner of Jimmy Carter–a comparison that works if you are living in 1980 and imagining that the US has failed to liberate hostages held in Tehran, but not when considering this president’s confident handling of the armed forces and his elimination of Osama bin Laden. Of course I’m opposed to all this militarization of foreign policy, but that aside, one senses that Gingrich is literally trapped in an old campaign, one waged so long ago it has no bearing on our time. The man needs Thorazine and at least one newspaper.
Planet of the Blind 