OK, Newt Gingrich is
officially certifiable.
Gingrich has now sent out a fundraising e-mail, asking for help to send blast faxes to every member of the Senate demanding that the Sotomayor nomination be defeated. He even says that she shouldn't even get a vote in the Senate, but should just have to withdraw.
Gingrich warns that all of American civilization is at stake here. "If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything, we cannot accept that conclusion," he writes. "It is simply un-American. There is no room on the bench of the United States Supreme Court for this worldview."
Remember, even arch-conservatives Jesse Helms and Rick Santorum voted for Sonia Sotomayor when she was
confirmed to the secnd circuit court. That's right, Newt Gingrich apparently is determined to stake out territory even further to the far right than Jesse Helms and Rick Santorum. And the comment about the Civil War, suffrage and Civil Rights not meaning anything if Sotomayor is confirmed? There's only one conclusion here: Newt Gingrich is Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo.
