Gingrich, the former Speaker himself admitted to being "paid between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with Freddie Mac
Just as I was preparing to write a column critical of Newt Gingrich and wonder at his apparent surge from obscurity to a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary race, darned if Ann Coulter didn't get one into print before I could. And if ever there was an analogous story to the elephant and the mouse, Jerry McConnell vying with Ann Coulter might be it.
