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Thomas Nast, please call your office. Newt Gingrich, Catholic convert, is talking openly about joining forces with Rick Santorum, a cradle Catholic, to defeat Mitt Romney, the Mormon.

 

This is an exchange Newt had about Mitt and Rick with Laura, thus raising the specter of a Catholic takeover of America as depicted by Nast (those are bishops as crocodiles emerging from "the American River Ganges," sent by Rome in the background to threaten the U.S) and peddled up through the days of JFK:

Ingraham: Can you see a scenario under which the two of you would align together to try to defeat the establishment candidate, Mitt Romney?

Gingrich: Absolutely. Of course. I mean Rick and I have a 20-year friendship, we are both rebels, we both came into this business as reformers, we both dislike deeply the degree to which the establishment sells out the American people. We both think Washington has to be changed in very fundamental ways, and we have lots of things that fit together. And the thing that's interesting is if you take the votes, you add to that Perry and Bachmann, you begin to see the size of the conservative vote compared to Romney...if you take, you know, Santorum and Perry and Bachmann and Gingrich you get some sense of what a small minority Romney really represents.

The only way to counter this threat is clear: Can you say "Romney-Huntsman 2012"? Watch the neo-Nativist heads explode!

Or maybe not. Santorum was the favorite of evangelicals in Iowa, and Catholics are supporting Romney way more than Santorum. Go figure.

— Photo from wikipedia.org