Posted on 12/08/2011 12:14:45 PM PST by TBBT
I just returned from the belly of the beast, Washington, D.C. There is not a more parochial or insular city in the country. While there, I had a conversation with two members of what can be described only as the Republican establishment, one in the print media and the other a K Street lobbyist. In short order, the conversation turned to Newt Gingrich and his surge to the top of the ladder.
There is no one more reviled in Washington than Newt. If anyone believes he is part of the establishment, he or she is mistaken. In fact, it would not be a terribly great stretch to say some in the Republican wing of the governing class would prefer to see Obama re-elected than Newt in the Oval Office. However, the vast majority of this class are now in a panic as the preordained choice, Mitt Romney, is truly threatened by the rabble in flyover country constantly looking for anyone but Romney. These people have settled, so it seems, on Gingrich. The increasing volume of commentary of the Beltway insiders and attendant vitriol toward Newt has become a near-hysterical tidal wave rehashing and embellishing Newt's supposed failings and personal "baggage."
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Trust me.. he is far from my first choice. It’s getting pretty sad when we are constantly forced to support the least worse of all evils.
Is this the best we can do?
If there’s ever a year where something unexpected could happen, this would be it.
That said, it sure seems like the Newt phenom took the wind out of the sails of the Tea Party movement, at least in terms of how it was shaping the debate and the voter intensity.
I have said from the beginning that any candidate who is not completely focused on massive tax reform (and the follow-on spending cuts/entitlement reform) is simply not addressing our country’s survival.
Yes, Newt has a plan out there, but no one is talking about it — it hasn’t captured anyone’s imagination — and, to be honest, I get the sense it’s viewed as the same-old, same-old. Sort of like the “plan” to cut spending by “rooting out fraud, waste and abuse” — blah blah blah.
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