Cain and Gingrich get a Room

Um, there was a handjob thing that happened Saturday night that kind of looked like there actually isn't any daylight between two candidates who, like, a month ago, were both Nowheresville?  And like, it totally just so happens that Herman Cain actually happened as a thing after Texas Governor Rick Perry turned out to be a total bag of nonsense, and then it seems like it might be a total thing if former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich benefited when/if Herman Cain is downed by the whole sexual harassment scandal business.

Oh, did I say a total "handjob thing"?


I'm sorry. This is serious business.  Read all about it:

The cordial, tame joint appearance by Cain and Gingrich on Saturday night was par for a race in which they’ve often offered outright praise for each other in debates and defended each other against outside criticism. It’s not even their first joint appearance: they shared the spotlight on CBS’s “Face the Nation” last month.

The relationship has some history: both Georgia natives, they’ve known each other for 15 years. In fact, former House Speaker Denny Hastert said on MSNBC earlier this week that he first got to know Cain while Gingrich was speaker, and used to bring Cain in for policy talks with the House Republican conference in the 1990s.

Gingrich even offered the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO some advice about handling his current scandal in an interview with CNN earlier in the week.

“Just has to slow down, take a deep breath,” Gingrich told CNN. “If you’ve never before been hit by the entire national press corps, it’s a very disorienting experience. I think that he probably wasn’t prepared for it and I think now he’s got to sit down and sort it out and we’ll see how he does.”

They wouldn't have even bothered with this thing unless they were actually going to be more than two old right-wing nonsense peddlers sharing a stage for an audience of $150-$1000 a pop peeps. They are raising serious issues like the Chilean model of social security and, um, what they would totally replace Medicare with, and other things that totally won't happen as if they ever had a chance of getting elected president, for gosh sakes.  With real ....um.  Oh hell.  It was all love. No contention. Just the mutual respect of two people trying to make each other look plausible.

I'm not sure what was "Lincoln-Douglas style" about the whole thing.