At first, you think, hey, yeah, Newt Gingrich, sure, the Contract-with-America guy, Bill Clinton's political nemesis, 90's defender of the right-wing agenda, hero of the conservative, Republican populance, in days gone by. But after awhile, this unlikely Gingrich resurgence begins wearing off, when you begin realizing that despite all this great stuff about him, his negative numbers overwhelm the political assets he seems to have as Republican nominee.
“At first you think...” then realize another fat old white guy. Just the qualities to attract the “suburban mothers” lol
Newt will go up and down for a while.
There are plenty of negatives for the rest of them too.
As they shoot each other down it can be expected to be like a roller coaster for a while. The early primary’s should separate the wheat from the chaff and when all is said and done it will be Newt and Romney.
I believe Romney’s negatives trump Newts and that Newt will be the winner. That doesnt mean Santorum couldn’t make a late charge of maybe even Perry. Bachman?? No way, Paul?? No way.
It aint over till the fat lady sings.
I’ll take Newt over Mittens any day.
CNN praying for Romney to win the nod. The oh-so beatable Romney!
Will not vote for Newt...he cannot beat zero.
Newt is still leading with Romney. Are Bachmann, Perry, and Newt done? No. Not until we see what the voters will do.
Gingrich is a lot smarter than you, and all of his rivals.
Romney has money and the GOP-E backing. Ron Paul is a stark raving mad foreign policy lunatic that’s doing Romney a huge favor by running the most serious and severe hit piece ads against Ginrich.
The onslught of negative hit piece ads by all his rivals are doing him harm in Iowa which is a mess right now and might prove to be mess, but Gingrich will prevail in other states.
He’s the adult; the serious candidate who doesn’t have to tell his audiences that he’s the serious candidate.
Our nation can ill afford an amateur for our next Commander-in-Cheif. Gingrich has taught Generals.
Sorry, but these guys are scared sh*tless of Newt. My fear, however, is their job will be made just a tad easier by gullible FReepers and other Republicans around the country. We saw how successful they were getting “conservatives” to join with Politico in destroying Cain.
They actually have a good track record thus far. Why is it i fear the stupid party is about to strike again?
Spoken like a true MittBot.
In my view, this is simply the result of the inevitable scrutiny given a frontrunner. Some candidates survive it, some don’t, some muddle through.
Once it became clear that Gingrich could become a viable candidate, of course people turned their attention to him in a new way.
Lots of conservatives who already held an opinion of Gingrich from way back did two things: (1) took a trip down Memory Lane, and (2) researched more deeply into what Newt had been up to since leaving office.
Some conservatives came up with the verdict that he was “the man.” Others came up with the verdict that their recent positive views of Newt didn’t quite overcome the negatives. Others voiced varying degrees of support or concern, but were not yet firmly for or against Newt, preferring to wait to see how his candidacy at the frontrunner level, as well as the rest of the race, rolled out.
If Newt doesn’t cut it at this level of scrutiny by his own party, it is what it is. He has to, first, understand the skepticism, then, two, dispel it.
Having Newt’s candidacy as a frontrunner evaluated now rather than later is the best thing that could happen. He still has time to recover, and voters still have time to decide if they are going to support him or someone else in the primaries.
Wow. Who could have seen this coming?
He’s a joke and it seems many people are finally waking up to this fact.
It’d be great if some dark horse candidate jumps in...
Besides the obvious Palin and Christie comments (which are way overdone imo) who do yall think could jump in?
So PPP does one poll with the desired outcome and the media/RNC just hammer it over and over and over, even though it does not match up with the other polls. Here is the media tactic that works so darn well most of the time to destroy conservatives. Interestingly, with Perry, Cain and Gingrich, the Beltway wizards of smart on our side go right along with this disgusting tactic.
When the second-tier candidates drop out of the race, their support will go to Newt.
What????
It has become obvious to me that Newt is the one who can beat Obama. As said above things are going to go back and forth in the polls.
In the era of the 24/7 news cycle, news must be manufactured to fulfill the demand for it. These polls are mostly manufactured news, crafted to reflect someone’s opinion. So far every candidate that has surged in the polls has been knocked back down. Nothing new here. I think your time would be better spent disliking Obama rather than disliking Newt as much as you seem to.
Romney won’t be the next president. It’ll be Newt or Obama, and we all know it.