The Lizard and the Wolf.

I just saw Newt Gingrich being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN. It occurred to me as I watched him grin and grimace and bloviate that this man is an idiot. True he's articulate and glib and informed, but still an idiot. He spent his time on the show kissing Romney's ass, the same magic underwear-wrapped ass he was kicking many months ago. But with his little girlish giggle, he assured us that all that bombast was the expected banter of opponents, not enemies, surely not enemies. And while he sat there, his pompadour looking as shiny as the angel hair we used to toss on the Christmas tree, he gave the impression of an enormous baby dressed in a suit instead of diapers. He frequently beamed at Blitzer with his ga ga grin while his pouty little mouth formed lie after lie, assault after assault, insanity after insanity. Just watching him made me realize that the Republicans aren't another party, they're another species. They're an army of soulless liars who have no feeling at all for the common man, no sympathy at all for starving children, struggling parents or even returning soldiers, whether intact or emotionally or physically destroyed. They are amoral, indifferent, lockstep liars with only two goals: one to win, two to get as rich as possible. They are exactly like the replacement beings in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers after the pods had converted them into cold and unfeeling automatons eager to take over America. And the sad thing is that so many millions of Americans, like so many still-humans in the movie don't recognize the difference. If Newt Gingrich ever had any integrity, honesty or empathy it must have been before a pod was slipped under his bed.