Let Us Eat Cake

  Newt Gingrich may have the wherewithal to unify the conservative base. If such a success results in a sweeping victory, attaining a stronghold in both the executive and legislative branches of government, he will have secured his status as a major figure in American History. The piecemeal way history is subjectively fashioned eventually crystalizes in some form of objectivity. Like a fully baked cake that is photographed and published in the pages of time, political watersheds ultimately become catalogued wherein it can be said that, "it was what it was." It would be a curious turnabout  in the wake of the Occupy Movement, and brings Richard Harris' lyrics in McArthur's Park to mind; "..Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it cause it took so long to bake it, and we'll never have the recipe again..."