Regarding Santorum's attack on Gingrich and his time as speaker: Rick said he was there and recalled how terrible Gingrich was and how the conservatives were the ones who helped to throw him out. I seem to remember someone at some point (maybe Rush?) talking about how the media had the long knives out for Gingrich, especially after he became speaker, because he had gotten rid of Jim Wright, and he was an articulate conservative. I think Rush then also made the point that Gingrich's fellow conservatives and the other Republicans turned on the speaker rather than defend him because they were petrified of the media. The point was that while democrats defend their own, Republicans in the past have cut and run rather than fight and defend.
Does anyone else remember this?