Melanie Laments Our Many Spenglered Evening

Incredulity: "What is happening in American politics is simply astounding. Here is an incumbent President whose approval ratings are rightly dire. He is the most far-left, dangerous and damaging President the US has ever known."

Regret: "So now it looks as if Gingrich may have crashed and burned – which is a pity because, more than any other candidate, he really does get the single most important issue right now -- the threats to the west from both within and without."

Despair: "The question is therefore not just what in heaven’s name has happened to the Republican Party. It is what has happened to America."