Is Newt more than just another non-Mitt prepping for a sub-orbital flight against the frontrunner? TPM Reader EA says yes.

It strikes me that Newt’s rise in the polls is, to borrow a Newtism, fundamentally, unlike those experienced at other times during this Presidential nomination process. Newt Gingrich is decidedly not like Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain. Sure, he’s got these enormous flaws in his personal life that may very well render him just as or nearly as unelectable as some of these other GOP trend candidates, but I would argue that Newt is the only candidate positioned to mount any kind of challenge to Mitt Romney.

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Newt Gingrich rockets into frontrunner status in today’s polls.

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