Newt Gingrich locking in his position as a leader of the White Wingnut Party.
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."
All of this from a guy who wrote an entire book in which the Confederacy wins at Gettysburg -- a book that feeds the Lost Cause mythology.