Newt Gingrich may be the nastiest politician to hold office in the modern era. Assuming he can muster the discipline and focus (and money) to follow through on the threats against Mitt Romney he made after losing the Iowa caucuses last night, the Republican presidential race is about to go to a very dark place.
In part, he said:
GINGRICH: Does this party want a Reagan conservative or a Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, would be pretty good at managing the deca ybut has given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture, or change the political structure, or change the government? … We are not going to go out and run nasty ads but I do reserve the right to tell the truth. And if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics.
Translation: I will lie, cheat and steal, if that’s what it takes to take Romney down.
