Newt's got a mancrush on the father of our country:
Just what exactly is Newt Gingrich's game plan as he tests the waters for a White House campaign? His latest column in Human Events suggests he may be trying to out-hawk John McCain, who's called for additional troops to be sent to Iraq, for the designation of über-hawk in preparation for a possible GOP primary. Gingrich pre-emptively criticizes the Baker-Hamilton Commission, then goes on to bring up the fact that things looked grim for George Washington during the American Revolution, too. He then asks:
Imagine there had been a Baker-Hamilton Commission — the group charged with assessing our options in Iraq — advising Washington that cold Christmas Eve. What "practical, realistic" advice would they have given him?
Gingrich also invokes the password famously used by Washington and his men as a prescription for success in Iraq: "Victory or death." And just in case you were wondering whether he's serious, Gingrich ends the piece by promoting an upcoming book-tour appearance: "I will be in the 'Live Free or Die' state of New Hampshire today and tomorrow talking about, among other things, my new book, Rediscovering God in America."
Um, Gingrich might want to rethink his imagery, particularly in regards to Hessians.
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