Newt Gingrich seems to be on the resurgence. I guess it's because the Republican Party is suddenly a great, yawning chasm and he's rushing in to fill it. There, that's my political insight for the month, or year even, and god knows it's probably wrong. I'm just waiting for the movie, when they put a white wig on Jack Black and tell him to ham it up.
I did this for USNews back when, around the time Speaker of the House Gingrich, the Home-Grown American Political Genius gathered his forces and shut down the government in a budget fight with Clinton. Or more likely it's from somewhat later, when Gingrich was out as Speaker and suddenly had some time on his hands to go camping and roast wienies.
Whatever, he's fun to draw, with that enormous, tetradodecahedral head and that teeny, obnoxious mouth.
Nice Newt, as much as one can say that. A colleague of mine, a hard core liberal (aka Canadian) once got a letter of appreciation from Newt about an article he had written. He felt conflicted about that as you might imagine.
ReplyDeleteYikes. But Gingrich is a Genius, Annointed by Fate to Lead. It says so on his business card.
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