The Gallup numbers are simply stunning: asked to name the "main person who speaks for the Republican Party today," Republicans across the country are most likely to name three men: Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Cheney. With national ideological leadership like that, who needs opposition research to further erode the hold of conservatism on the national body politic? And who can argue with the Moderate Voice's Tony Campbell:
Limbaugh, Gingrich, Cheney - a radio talk show host with no leadership
experience; a former House Speaker kicked out in disgrace by an
inter-party coup; and the former Vice-President of the United States
whose claim to fame for the past eight years was shooting a friend
while quail hunting are the three-headed hydra of the G.O.P. One can
only hope that a Republican hero will show up to slay the beast before
the debacle of 2008 becomes a Greek tragedy of epic proportions.
At least Gingrich is toning down his Twitter usage, according to the Washington Post, after his disastrous "Latina woman racist" Tweet.
