TPM Reader HW chimes in on the Newt question …
Your analysis of Gingrich v. Romney really folds down to one line: if the Republican power brokers can prevent a candidate who can’t beat Obama from getting nominated, then Romney will be nominated. Full stop, no need for further analysis.
There’s been a running debate in our reader emails today over whether Newt Gingrich is more than just your latest also-ran presidential candidate making their high-octane suborbital flight on the polling charts. TPM Reader EA made the point earlier that Newt is quite a different thing from Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain, who by any measure other than the 2012 presidential cycle are basically jokes. So too with Rick Perry. Yes, he’s run a state for a decade. But he’s never been all that popular even in Texas. And as we’ve seen, he wasn’t ready for the national spotlight. Whatever you think of him, Newt Gingrich has been on the national political stage for almost 35 years. And he held, albeit briefly, one of the highest offices in the land. Read More
