Lance Mannion has a memorable take on Poot Gingrich's newfound "celebrity" as the go-to guy for right wing pablum, even though Poot hasn't faced election in years. As Mannion says:
"He speaks for no one but himself, and the only authority he speaks with is the smug authority of the dealer in a back room poker game who knows the local cops have been paid off and he's got a tableful of drunken country boys to fleece."
(photo: Poot Gingrich, left, exclaiming to an admirer "Man, I wish I had that gut, but I'm workin' on it!")
