NEWT GINGRICH-- CHEERLEADER OR RAT DESERTING A SINKING SHIP-- CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE UP HIS MIND ABOUT IRAQ

So today started with big news: Newt Gingrich, the disgraced former leader of the radical right in the House of Representatives, currently trying to rehabilitate himself for a run for the GOP presidential nomination against Bill Frist and John McCain, told faculty and students at the University of South Dakota that "It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it." He went on to basically endorse what John Murtha has been saying for months (without, of course, mentioning Murtha-- Gingrich being smart enough to stay out of the line of fire of someone as aggressively insane as Mean Jean Schmidt of Ohio)

Gingrich, a coward and a rat ready to abandon a ship he helped launch, now claims Bush's policy-- a policy he was an aggressive cheerleader for-- has been wrong for nearly 3 years. Any independent-thinker who dared to challenge the Bush Regime on Iraq was promptly and viciously dubbed unpatriotic by Gingrich and the radical rightists around him-- with Fox's big megaphone at his disposal whenever he wanted it.

Should we welcome Gingrich out of the Darkness and into the Light? Don't be absurd. He's a partisan reactionary hack, utterly contemptible and untrustworthy, jockeying for position in advance of his ludicrous run for the presidency. Today when Ed Schultz asked for an interview about his Iraq-occupation-was-wrong statement, Gingrich hid under his bed and refused to come out. With her usual eloquence and aplomb, Jane points out that Gingrich is essentially nothing but a stinking war pimp who should be greeted on the streets of America not with candies and flowers but with rotten tomatoes and cabbages.

And now Gingrich has further muddied up the waters by claiming he was misquoted on Sean Hannity's Republican radio infomercial. Presumably by the time Hannity is ready for his TV propaganda show, Gingrich will have concocted a new version of what happened.