Oh, Newt, you’re such a font of information, right down to your name: “My name, Newt, actually comes from the Danish Knut, and there’s been a major crisis in Germany over a polar bear named Knut.” Maybe you can liven up the GOP race a bit. Though I’m just not sure that you’re, er, ideally situated to make Rediscovering God in America campaign theme.

But this is a bold analogy, sir:

Prime Minister Maliki is doing the best he can in a chaotic environment, and he’s not a very strong person, but if—imagine we were the French in the 1700s, debating the American Continental Congress and saying, “Well, should we really send aid to these guys? I mean, they can’t even hold—you know, they’ve retreated to Lancaster. They’re not even in Philadelphia. They’ve lost New York. George Washington’s lost all these campaigns. This guy Washington has no major victories. I mean, why are we sending money over there? This is just bad money after good.”

Spot-on. A lot of people forget that the Continental Congress was a front operation for sectarian death squads known for power-drilling Tories to death. And all too many forget that nearly 2/3s of the American rebels thought it was perfectly legitimate to shoot their French “allies” on sight. But Gingrich knows his history. He’s written novels about it.

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