Bob McCarty Writes

In a post six months ago, I reported on the election prospects of Republicans according to Newt Gingrich:

During a question-and-answer session Tuesday afternoon with students at Missouri’s College of the Ozarks, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich dropped a bombshell: He predicted the rise of a third party by 2012 if Republicans don’t get their act together (The video below captures exactly what Gingrich said March 29).

After seeing how Gingrich threw his support behind liberal Dede Scozzafava — and not the true conservative, Doug Hoffman — in the race for New York’s 23rd Congressional District seat, I can only conclude that he’s trying to make his own prediction come true.

If conservatives have their way, a third party will “rise” by 2012, and it will have Gingrich as its only member.