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I would say that Newt is Reagans choice.

Reagan's Young Lieutenant - By Jeffrey Lord on 1.24.12 @ 6:09AM

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director

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Hayward also notes that in one instance towards the end of the administration, Gingrich discussed complaints about things left undone. Writes Hayward of the president Jack Kemp fondly nicknamed the "Oldest and Wisest":

Reagan put his arm around the young Georgia Congressman and said in his typically gentle fashion, "Well, some things you're just going to have to do after I'm gone."

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But to anyone who was present, awake, and paying attention in the 1980s -- anyone who is listening to Newt Gingrich right now -- it doesn't take much to understand that some version of those gentle words from Ronald Reagan when he put his arm around a young Newt Gingrich is in fact driving the older Newt Gingrich in this campaign.

This is why we must all pray—I mean that literally—that Romney doesn’t get the nomination. If he does, it would set back the conservative movement 50 years, to before the Goldwater nomination. There would no longer be a party where conservatism was even tolerated, let alone welcome. Newt is Pitt the Younger to Reagan’s Pitt the Elder. Sure, he’ll never be as great as Ronaldus Magnus, but he can keep the legacy alive.

Romney is content to allow the country to drive off the cliff, so long as he’s the guy who gets to be behind the wheel.