From left to right, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman and Mitt Rmoney.
Posted on 12/09/2011 11:04:00 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Conservative pundits turn down Newt By: Alexander Burns December 9, 2011 10:42 AM EST
The conservative opinion elite has reached a consensus on Newt Gingrich: He’s not the one they’ve been waiting for.
In the days since Gingrich leaped to the forefront of the Republican presidential race, the nation’s most prominent right-leaning commentators — many of whom have spent the last year pining for alternatives to Mitt Romney — have rendered a swift and caustic judgment on their party’s latest out-of-right-field challenger.
In columns dripping with disdain, they’ve argued that Gingrich isn’t just undesirable as an opponent for Romney — he’s probably not fit for the presidency altogether.
“He has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with ’60s excess: narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence and intemperance. He just has those traits in Republican form,” New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote Friday. “It doesn’t matter if a person shares your overall philosophy. If that person doesn’t have the right temperament and character, stay away.”
Brooks, an on-and-off Barack Obama admirer and no hardcore ideologue, gave this biting assessment of Gingrich’s policy instincts: “Gingrich loves government more than I do.”
Those are themes that other columnists have developed for more than a week now, recalling Gingrich’s rocky speakership and describing him as an undisciplined, ideologically unreliable egomaniac who likely would lose the general election.
Ramesh Ponnuru, the National Review editor who recently announced his support for Romney, described the consensus on Gingrich as overwhelming.
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Source: Politico
(’nuff said...)
And Newt doesn’t have a nice crease in his pants...
David Brooks? Please.
Multiple conservative pundits to Pollutico is David Brooks.
LMBO!
Don’t really care much for the conservative opinion ELITE
or what they think.
We’re so lucky to have these people to tell us what to do.
I love it when leftist sites tell us who Conservatives are.
Long ago they have been turned by the dark side......inside the beltway.
The fact that the Tea Party overwhelmingly supports Newt is clear evidence where true conservatives stand.
Newt is not the perfect candodate, but he towers over his tiny colleagues in almost any comparison.
Oh No! Politico!
It can’t be true!
Or lacquered hair.
Yep....pretty obvious attempt at strategy, isn’t it?
From left to right, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman and Mitt Rmoney.
Newt IS THE ELITE
Newt is also rising, because he’s been a popular guest on tv.
The main problem with Reagan in late 1979 was this..............
Carter 47 Reagan 39
The article mentions Brooks, Krauthammer, will, Noonan and Gerson. It seems they forgot to Kathleen Parker and fat little Luntz.
Comon! His hair is perfect! LoL
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