Newt Gingrich, fade away

He's a figure, frankly, of the past:

Newt Gingrich, at the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce breakfast, was nostalgic for Cobb County. He was nostalgic for his days as Congressman and for his time as Speaker. He was nostalgic for Ronald Reagan, of course, but he was also nostalgic for Bill Clinton, whom he portrayed not as an antagonist but almost as a comrade-in-arms, back in those days when they were balancing budgets, reforming welfare, and engaging in sexual congress with their staffers. He was even nostalgic for past Cobb County Chamber of Commerce breakfasts, mentioning one he attended in 1998, before he and Clinton fell from grace, and saying that now, on second thought, he wished he'd begun his presidential campaign here... which made him sound nostalgic for the campaign itself.