I leave you this fine evening with a column about Newt Gingrich, whom I would love to see as the Republican standard-bearer in 2008. (I haven’t given up on Mitt Romney. It’s simply nice to have two people I can wholeheartedly support.) The problem with Newt is that his negatives are high. This may not matter if he runs against Hillary Clinton, who also has high negatives; but if someone besides Hillary (such as Barack Obama) gets the Democrat nomination, Newt would be in trouble.