Bob Dole has written a letter urging Republicans to run away from Newt Gingrich. You should read the whole thing, but here are some excerpts:

I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late. If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.

...In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was very unpopular and I am not only certain that this did not help me, but that it also cost House seats that year. Newt would show up at the campaign headquarters with an empty bucket in his hand — that was a symbol of some sort for him — and I never did know what he was doing or why he was doing it, and I’m not certain he knew either.

Now the commenters at National Review are attacking Dole for being a shitty conservative—have you ever noticed that, except for Reagan, every Republican stops being a real conservative once they're out of office?—and the whole thing is a mess. But not enough attention is being paid to that weird bucket line: