If Gingrich does well in Florida, that’s great. More power to him and spit on Romney.
Who says he wouldn’t do the same if Our Sarah fell down a hole?
Is every gain by Gingrich somehow tied to her? I think not.
Give Gingrich some credit. He’s the one with the guts to actually run.
Gingrich has gotten where he is only because of the actions of others.
First, Cain dropping out. Although Cain probably would not have gone the distance, there would have been no opening for Gingrich in time to make a difference had Cain not been forced out when he was.
Secondly, the endorsement/strategery of the Palins. Credit or blame, I see them as almost 100% responsible for the leap Gingrich made in the polls just prior to the primary.
Gingrich was in the toilet until Cain dropped out, and no amount of razzle-dazzle debate performance changed that one dime.
It was only when it became clear there was going to be no "new" alternative to Romney that Gingrich got his opening. There was absolutely NOTHING that he did to attract people or money to his campaign -- and until recently (like yesterday), he STILL was not attracting grassroots donations to his campaign.
It doesn't take "guts" to run for President, especially when you're an old-hand at the political gristmill, like Gingrich is. In fact, running for President can be very lucrative. The Gingriches have cleaned up on book and DVD sales and Newt's speaking and "consulting" fees would have increased considerably after raising his profile.
He's probably pinching himself that he might actually get the nomination. And it seems to me that Callista is probably highly uneasy that things have gotten this far along.
P.S. --
The Good Wife: Can Callista Gingrich Save Her Husband?
Eight days before Christmas, on the last non-holiday weekend before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican candidates for President darted across the state, dropping in at factories and shopping malls and pizza parlors, like birds surveying a beach and swooping down for food. But not Newt Gingrich. He was sitting in front of a portrait of George Washington and his horse in the gift shop at Mount Vernon, drinking a Diet Coke next to his wife and a man in an elephant costume. “I’m Callista, and this is Ellis the Elephant,” Mrs. Gingrich told one person after another. About two hundred people had lined up to have the wife of the former Speaker of the House sign a copy of “Sweet Land of Liberty,” a children’s book she wrote about a patriotic elephant who travels through American history, delivering lessons in rhyming couplets: “Independence was not so easily won. / It would take years of fighting and fighting’s not fun.”
