Yes, Gingrich, Roger Stone, and perhaps Lee Atwater will go down in history as the idiots that began the dirty tricks, race-baiting, religious-right energizing brand of ultimately traitorous politics (in the name of ego, as Gingrich et al are far from the righteous people they claim to represent and seem to get off on these subterfuges). At this time, "across the aisle" politics went south (just ask former R speaker Boehner) and the votes of faux-religious skinheads became more important than things like balanced-budgets, tolerance, and our Country's unity. Liberals may have taken permissiveness too far, but the far-right reaction is a cure much worse than the disease.