A self-aggrandizing, nihilistic, ignorant egomaniac masquerading as an "intellectual" -- only possible because his dying party basically has none.

Fine, let him keep 'Speaker'.

As long as his full descriptive title remains 'Disgraced Former Speaker Newt Gingrich'

Hmmm. The "future" of the GOP looks a lot like the 1990's.

Newt could not be elected in this country. It's strange that the Right, and apparently the media, can't pick up on how much the other side hates this man.

"The thrice-married Gingrich also has a new book with his daughter: 5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours. And on top of all that, he has recently converted to Catholicism."

This, from a thrice-married jackass who hounded President Clinton mercilessly and hypocritically over marital infidelity, while simultaneously and giving his then-girlfriend a $62,000-per-year job as senior staff on the House Agriculture Committee.

And now this clown has converted to Roman Catholicism, and is going to lecture me, a lifelong Catholic since birth, about how to be a good Catholic?

Two words, "Speaker" Gingrich. Fuck. You.

How's THAT for being a good Catholic boy? Just a little something I picked up under four years of Jesuit tutelage at LaSalle High School.

Here comes the new boss; same as the old boss. I'm just glad the GOP (Geeezers o'Plenty) can't reanimate Reagan!

Orwell update:
It's now called Newtspeak.
Everything old is new again.
Once again, Legend in his own Mind, Gingrich is Speaker again, which opens up the whole can o' worms of what ended his career
Get ready for the Republican Revolution, part deux, centrifugally driven to concentrate down to a witches brew consisting of tongue of Newt and the foul bile of Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney.

In 1952, after 20 years of Democratic hold on the presidency, Time Magazine ran an article about the campaign titled, "The only thing they have to cheer is fear itself," taking off on FDR's 1st inaugural. It was in a way true. The campaign was based on "don't let 'em take it away." Later, Democrats couldn't get going on a strategy that didn't reference past glories.

Now, the GOP is behaving similarly. They are looking back to the last true success, the 1994 take-over of Congress using Gingrich's Republican Revolution strategy, before the squandering of their lead in government shutdown fights and impeachment, before the disaster of Bush-Cheney for the party. It's understandable. It won't work, but it's understandable.

But Gingrich is a much smarter and believe it or not, saner voice than Limbaugh, Rove, Hannity, or Palin. Plus Gingrich gets to sell books, and take another turn on the catwalk.

Newt executed the biggest political bellyflop in history.

If he gains any traction, so called, "progressives" have no one to blame, but themselves. Your willing embrace of fascism, attacking poor and struggling citizens, merely because they speak out against displacement from their jobs, and how they are discriminated against because they are citizens.

Have you visited a tent city? They exist in all your respective back yards. We haven't had tent cities since the great depression, now they have sprung up, and the so called, "progressives" don't talk about them, because they despise their fellow citizens.

I know many liberal democrats, who have re-affiliated to independent, and I'm old enough to remember when democrats elected Reagan, after the dems in congress were dismissing their concerns. Here's a clue, the majority of American democrats now realize that dems in congress don't respect their legitimate concerns. The republicans will most likely retake the majority in the mid-term, and it's because "progressives" are arrogant, selfish pricks who are fascists.

What is with this conservative, conversion-to- Catholic thing?
Novak, Sen.Brownback, Dinish D'Sousa, others and now Newt.
If it were the pre-Vatican Council Catholicism I could see it(maybe), but this seems weird to me.

Especially since the GOP is a predominantly
born-again party as evidenced in part with McCain's flip to the Baptists, just prior to the election.

For quite some time, it has been obvious that Newt is running for President. When folks like Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele are the leaders of today's Republican Party, Newt sees a leadership vacuum of gargantuan proportions, and his immense ego simply cannot resist getting into the fray. His "conversion" to Catholicism is clear evidence of the foundation he is building for the campaign. Do not underestimate Newt: he is very smart and very opportunistic. The only thing he lacks is character; as we have seen, the complete absence of character, judgment, or ethical standards is no longer considered a problem for Republican candidates.