In 2006, Reed determined that the launching pad for his electoral aspirations lie in winning the Georgia Lieutenant Governor's office. What looked like a sure thing took a serious turn south when Reed was tied to former GOP uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Earlier this year, the ever-ready Reed took a serious look at the political landscape -- read that the Tea Party movement -- and decided to launch a comeback with his very own group "aimed at using the Web to mobilize a new generation of values voters," Dan Gilgoff reported. "In addition to targeting the GOP's traditional faith-based allies -- white evangelicals and observant Catholics -- the group, called the Faith and Freedom Coalition, will reach out to Democratic-leaning constituencies, including Hispanics, blacks, young people, and women."

Reed has also found a home at the Fox News Channel, where he appears on a fairly regular basis.

Enter Lisa Baron

Lisa Baron is currently working on a book she is calling "My Burning Bush: A Political Memoir of Biblical Proportions." She recently said that Reed had "a hard-drinking past, a soft spot for the ladies, a taste for the good life and a hunger for power."

Baron's characterization of Reed as a man with a "hunger for power" will not surprise anyone who remembers the seriousness of his "under the radar" strategy. He once told a reporter: "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag." And he told Newsday that "We've learned how to move under the radar in the cover of the night with shrubbery strapped to our helmets. It's like being a good submarine captain: You come up, fire three missiles and then dive."

But Baron's assertions that he had a "hard-drinking past" and a "soft spot for the ladies" might make for a roguish read.

At this writing, the book is being shopped around the New York publishing houses.

Aiming at Reed's conservative chums

Interestingly enough, the book doesn't appear to be so much about Reed as it is about some of his close conservative cohorts. According to the Daily News' Rush and Molloy, "Baron does not claim there was any romance between them, but she does believe Reed 'felt an instant connection to my bound-for-hell soul. I made him feel young and he made me feel smart.'"

After revelations earlier this year about the sexual appetites of the GOP's C Street three (Governor Mark Sanford, Senator John Ensign, and former Congressman Chip Pickering), former California state assemblyman Mike Duvall, and a host of other party activists, do we really need another round of GOPers Gone Wild?

As G W Bush was fond of saying," Bring it on!"

Reed has been quite gracious in his public remarks about the Baron tome, wishing her well with her writing endeavors.

* For more on GOPers Gone Wild, see http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals, for a pretty thorough listing of "Republican Sex Scandals" and "Rating the Greatest GOP Sex Scandals of the Past 20 Years" @ http://www.alternet.org/politics/140933/rating_the_greatest_gop_s ex_scandals_of_the_past_20_years/.