Newt is running
"Mr. Newt" is smart; he has better credentials as an "idea man" than any other candidate in either party. But based on his behavior when he was Speaker of the House, I'd say his political instincts are questionable. "Movement" conservatives may well get behind Gingrich as one of the more substantial and cerebral of the Republican candidates. But I have a hard time seeing him as viable. His marital history will be an albatross around his neck, for one thing. So will the ethics charges against him when he was Speaker. And I just have a very, very hard time seeing someone as pedantic as "Mr. Newt" as an effective opponent for Barack Obama.
None of the Republican candidates have exactly captured my imagination at this point. I continue to think that the nominee will probably be Mitt Romney; the Republicans, after all, almost always nominate "the next in line." And he just might turn out to be the least flawed of all the possibilities.
Another sigh.
Comments
While I'm no particular fan of Gingrich, he's no Neo-Con.I'm a Neo-Con, and somehow I have the impression that you would be unable, if challenged, to accurately define that term.
As to the Bohemian Grove business, you would be hard-pressed to find an influential politician of either party who hasn't attended that silly but essentially innocent bit of nonsense. Undoubtedly most, like Richard Nixon, have found it childish and boring. Leave it to a wingnut, though, to make even something that banal seem lurid.