Ezra, I just don't think Democrats are likely to choose their candidate based on what went down with Newt Gingrich or Tom DeLay in the mid-1990s -- people today just aren't thinking about those guys. Voters aren't looking for a president who can protect them from the Right, they're looking for a president who can protect them from "the terrorists" -- and end the Iraq war, and create jobs, and restore respect for America on the world stage. Gingrich and DeLay have nothing to do with all that in the minds most of Americans. --Dana Goldstein
