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The problem with Boehner is not one that can be fixed by the occasional stand and attention to an issue.
The problem is he's like Bob Dole all over again.
That is something that can't be fixed.
He lacks both the charisma and the will to be a national spokesman for the GOP cause. Mike Pence has it. John Boehner doesn't.

I'd love to see Newt take over the RNC, and then perhaps run for President in 2012.
The problem with Newt is he is always on the verge of contemplating such things, but then never comes through. He makes Fred Thompson look decisive. Perhaps Newt feels more effective and free outside of power than inside. Sort of like Sarah Palin beginning in two weeks.

Newt Gingrich unquestionably has the talent but I saw him in person about two years ago and his appearance was not good. He was bloated and looked like he might have been hitting the sauce too much. He is really overweight and at his age it is becoming a threat to his life span.

Gingrich clearly has gravitas and forensic skills and he comes the closest of any living American politician to what we might legitimately call an American Churchill. In my view, his conservative credentials are adequate because I am willing to accept his explanation for his flirtation with Nancy Pelosi on climate change. I'm not sure that it is a conservative position to accept or to reject a scientific theory. Can we really say that one is not a conservative if he accepts Darwin? Is there a conservative theory on the extinction of the dinosaurs? My point is that a reasonable conservative can accept the science for global warming but not the remedies proposed by Al Gore. Gingrich's argument is that he tried to find free-market solutions to a real scientific problem to avoid the imposition of a left-wing solutions. Not Gingrich's finest hour, but there it is.

There is also his personal baggage which weighs on a conservative much heavier than it would a liberal.

Yet as I look over the field while so acutely aware of our desperate need to mount a credible attack on Obama, I am willing to overlook these deficiencies to get someone in there who has a chance of morally destroying Obama. When one considers the array of factors against the Republicans, one comes to understand that nothing less than the utter moral destruction of Barack Obama will turn the tide. I don't think that Mitt Romney has the courage to risk his nice guy image to really turn the screws on the Democrats. It is almost as though it might mess his hair. I know of no one but Gingrich who has a chance to do it.