Don’t worry Newt, you can probably have coffee with John Kerry or somebody when this is over.

While Gingrich and a few other people on the Right keep trying to make the “A left-wing Republican is better than no Republican at all argument”, Fred Thompson lent even more conservative street cred to Doug Hoffman’s campaign by making an ad.

Thompson gently knocked back Newt’s condescension towards the party’s real conservatives and further undermined Gingrich’s claim that we’re the ones who are out of touch.

“Are we saying that as Americans you’ve got to have an ‘R’ by your name before you vote for them? Where do you draw the line?” he continued. “If somebody with a record like this gets our seal of approval, regardless, only because she’s got an ‘R’ by the name… You know, just because we’re Republicans doesn’t mean that we’re deaf, dumb, and blind.”