Careful what you joke about, reality is wierder than jest. Oliver North DID go down to Nic. to tell voters they've "suffered enough", and do a little (alright, alot) of historical revisionism.

Something else i learnt from
http://www.alternet.org/story/44293/

"..But Ortega is a changed man from the revolutionary who for more than a decade withstood a Washington-backed assault of intense ferocity. He has declared himself a free-trade Christian, and just before the vote joined forces with the Catholic Church to back an anti-abortion law that is more punitive than anything James Dobson's Focus on the Family hopes to pass here in the United States. .."

Ah, now it becomes clear, Ortega has lined up backing from the Catholic Church, who will probably broker a working relationship with Washington. No wonder his former comrades in arms deserted him to form a new party