Earlier this year, Robert Bork was named the head of Mitt Romney's legal advisement team.
So, when I had the former U.S. Supreme Court nominee, former acting attorney general, former U.S. solicitor general and former redistricting master on the phone, I took the chance to ask him what he thought about the Republican field of presidential candidates and, in particular, Newt Gingrich.
Bork kept his response short. He is, after all, getting on in years. He's going to be 85 next year.
"I wish he'd go away," Bork said.
But then, Bork has never been shy about saying what he thinks.