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Conservatives waiting for the candidate of their dreams can give us President Hillary Clinton in the meantime.

Thomas Sowell does a better job with the "shut down the government" propaganda than Newt did.

Give Sowell a cabinet post or create one for him.

Know-It Laureate.

"Conservatives waiting for the candidate of their dreams can give us President Hillary Clinton in the meantime."

The best and wisest line in the whole piece and can't be repeated often enough.

Many a man has found some woman irresistible when he shouldn't have -- and, in a field of candidates crowded with saints, this would be enough to permanently disqualify Newt Gingrich.

But this does not seem to be the situation we are faced with. Conservatives waiting for the candidate of their dreams can give us President Hillary Clinton in the meantime. Among these alternatives, Newt Gingrich doesn't look bad at all.

All very well to find Newt wanting on the marital faithfulness front, and move on - but, to whom/what? It has been a very long time since the Democrats have elected a "saint" not named Jimmy Carter.
How do we process the fact that the most recent notable "saint" left it to Ronald Reagan to get the country going again, whip inflation, handle the Energy Crisis, and Transcend Communism. And in the process, btw, fight a major naval campaign against a country which had been an important US ally when the "saint" took office in 1977 . . .
We have a serious problem on our hands. If Romney were reliably conservative that would be one thing. But as Sowell notes, Newt is unquestionably Mr. Republican at this point. And I think we have to face the fact that as far as Big Journalism is concerned, being Mr. Republican draws a great big bullseye on your chest no matter who you are. "Mr. Republican" is always going to come with "baggage" of some sort, I'm afraid. It's not as if we could get Thomas Sowell nominated - or that if we did, Big Journalism wouldn't manufacture "baggage" on him like they did to Clarence Thomas.