Campaign In 100 Seconds: Britain’s Lesson For Newt Gingrich

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All of a sudden Newt Gingrich is surging among GOP voters, and to TPM’s Thomas Lane something seems eerily familiar. He was raised in Britain, you see, and he thinks there are some striking parallels between the current rise of Newt and the succession of doomed ideologues the British Tories ludicrously thought would lead them out of the political wilderness.

He tells you all about it – and in the Queen’s English – below:

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