Watching Newt Gingrich getting savaged in Iowa by a withering barrage of TV and radio attack ads paid for by Mitt Romney's super PAC, I couldn't help but chuckle at the irony. Here was the self professed arch-conservative destroyed by his opponent because of a decision the five arch-conservatives on the Supreme Court made in the notorious Citizens United case.

 

The conservative justices probably never envisioned that the first high profile victim of their ruling, which made legal unlimited campaign spending by nameless, faceless corporations, unions and mega-wealthy Americans, would be the former conservative Speaker of the House and would be GOP president.

 

Gingrich's campaign was already on life support before he finished a distant fourth in Iowa, so maybe none of it really matters. I'm pretty sure all he really hoped to do was drive up his speaking fees and maybe get himself a book deal so he can go shopping at Tiffany with Callista. But I hope conservatives who cheered the Supreme Court decision were watching, because the unintended consequence of what went down in Iowa is where politics are headed in America. You can thank Justices Roberts, Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy.