[dirtboy]

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich certainly isn't saying much. The former House speaker has inched upward in approval ratings in the light of Herman Cain's sexual harassment troubles and Rick Perry's inability to remember what he was talking about. But Gingrich should be careful in how he has been attacking Democrats like Barney Frank for being too close to Freddie Mac in its era of making dubious mortgage loans.

Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million from the disgraced housing organization after he left government service for giving his insider advice.

Although Gingrich last week insisted he has not been a lobbyist, it turns out that health companies paid as much as $200,000 a year in dues to the Center for Health Transformation -- a health care think tank he created in 2003 to find ways to improve health care and make it cheaper. The Washington Post reported that the center collected at least $37 million in the last eight years as Gingrich pushed public policy positions favored by many of these companies.

Yet I have Newt boosters on FR telling me none of that matters, that Newt was just making a living, that he was cast out by the Beltway elites, and he will turn on the system that enriched him and make it all better.

Yeah, sure.

Newt is deeply entrenched in the system that is strangling this country. He is not the answer.

[RobbyS]

Then who is? Bachman is the only one who has resisted co-option, but this has kept her from a leadership position the House. Cain has been defamed. Santorum is getting no where. Paul is as marginalized as Palin.