Gingrich Cracks Double Digits in ABC-Post News Poll
EmailRepublican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has gained ground in the 2012 presidential campaign. He registered 12 percent support in an ABC News-Washington Post poll out this morning.
This is the former House speaker’s first time out of the single digits in the poll. He was polling at around 6 or 7 percent before.
“Any progress is good progress,” spokesman R.C. Hammond said. “What we’re looking to do is continually march toward the caucus and put forth ideas and solutions.”
The poll put Gingrich almost even with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was at 13 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stayed steady at 24 percent, and business executive Herman Cain saw an increase to 23 percent from 16 percent, despite his recent troubles.
The Gingrich campaign raised more than $1 million in October, its best fundraising month.
“We’re seeing steady growth and that’s important,” Hammond said. “We’ve got a growing base and we’re seeing three out of every four donors coming in is a new a person.”
The Gingrich campaign is investing in staff and infrastructure in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire. Hammond said the campaign is seeing a large grassroots movement in South Carolina and it’s also focusing on the Hispanic vote in Florida.
One interesting note about those polled: When asked about changing their mind on a candidate, 45 percent said there is a good chance they’ll do so.
“Our goal is to make sure that the time for voters to latch onto Newt as their candidate will be when it’s time to vote and caucus,” Hammond said. “As long as we’re seeing steady progress, that means we’re on track, we’re not looking to have everyone on board by a certain date.”
Gingrich has also shown a strong third-place in other polls. In a Quinnipiac University poll that was released Wednesday, for instance, Gingrich was in third place at 10 percent. Also, when Republicans were asked to pick a winner of the GOP debates so far, 25 percent selected Gingrich and 24 percent selected Romney in second place.
Gingrich will debate Herman Cain Saturday in Houston.
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Gingrich may not become the GOP’s candidate for president, but he’s such a strategic thinker that he’ll probably get the nod for VP and become “The Man” behind the president just as Cheney was when he was Bush’s VP.
Posted by: prontoranger | November 4, 2011, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
I like Newt. having watched him for a long time, I’ve liked him. In terms of qualifications I think he proably is hands down the best choice, he would tear Barry up in a debate, he knows well the in and outs of Beltway BS and can work it to his advantage.
Romney is pure RINO. while i’d take any republican including Mit over Barry.. But this pragmatic republican prefers Newt.
Posted by: slim | November 4, 2011, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
There is no question Newt is the smartest one among the candidates…and unquestionably he is the ONLY one who could debate Obama and win the presidency….I like the other candidates but compared to Newt’s intelligence, they are wimps.
Posted by: Agnes | November 4, 2011, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
…Gingrich…the only Republican candidate who actually came out in his defense.
Posted by: sueinmi | November 4, 2011, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
Didn’t Gingrich leave his wife while she was dying of cancer? Do we really want a person like this as president? Isn;t he also a proponent of establishing a carbon tax?
Gingrich is a globalist who supports NAFTA and has no loyalty to this country or it’s citizens/ He’s a slick talker and liar.
I will vote for Ron Paul.
Just one humble man’s opinion.
Posted by: Citizen Joe | November 4, 2011, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
Newt is not bad but he’s no Ron Paul. Newt agrees with our militaristic foreign policy – and therefore thinks our Constitution somehow makes us King of the World. It doesn’t, and the neocon branch of the Republican party is simply wrong. I like many things that Newt says but he does not have a voting record that adheres to the Constitution like Ron Paul does.
So Newt pays lip service to the Constitution when it is politically fashionable, but Ron Paul actually follows the Constitution by not supporting legislation that is contrary to the Constitution.
Posted by: CZ | November 4, 2011, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
Newt’s dying wife is still alive and well. While they did get divorced while she was in recovery, Newt’s daughter denies that the hospital story ever occurred.
I have my reservations but he is the smartest one up there.
To respond to the NAFTA comment – lots of people supported it. It is not an automatice disqualifier for me.
Posted by: RButtarazzi | November 4, 2011, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
WHILE ALL THE OTHER REPUBS FIGHT LIKE SCHOOL KIDS OR KEEP TALKING ABOUT
WHO SAID THIS ABOUT ME , WHO CALLED ME A NAME . NEWT IS THE ONLY ONE WITH A LEVEL HEAD ON HIS SHOULDERS. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PUT OBAMA DOWN
IN A DEBATE BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW OBAMA IS A FAST TALKING CON ARTIST . NEWT IS ALSO VERY SMART WHEN IT COMES TO FOREIGN POLICY , NONE OF THE OTHERS ARE .
ROMNEY IS LOOKING THE PART ,IF WE NEEDED AN ACTOR TO LOOK THE PART H IS THE GUY ,BUT IF WE WANT A REAL PRESIDENT NEWT IS THE MAN THIS COUNTRY NEEDS.
Posted by: LOU YEZO | November 4, 2011, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
Citizen Joe, Newt DID NOT leave his wife while she had cancer. That has been a false rumor. At least know what you are speaking of before repeating such drivel.
Posted by: Ron | November 4, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Cain and Gingrich are having a Lincoln-Douglas Debate ( talking without moderators )
Gingrich would kill Obama in this format. Should Cain keep his composure, after this week, and come close to matching Gingrich … then he’ll take the nod and the WH.
Cain-Gingrich
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Saturday 8PM
C-SPAN
Cain / Gingrich 2012
Posted by: B72 | November 4, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
I was not initially a supported of Newt. I don’t like his personal baggage. However, he is starting to catch my eye. I can’t support Romney. He is a RINO and I don’t trust him. Cain, I like and respect him but I’m not sure of his electability and able to debate obama. Newt could handle obama very easily. Newt has experience and is probably the most experienced and smartest of the lot.
Posted by: Perplexed | November 4, 2011, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
There’s no doubt in my mind that Newt is the most qualified and competent candidate running on all sides. I forgive his past and most importantly he has asked God to forgive him and that’s all anyone can do. He can’t undo his past, period, but he can make the best of the rest of his life and I believe our country is much better with him as our next president than the current occupant of of the White House.
Posted by: bill | November 4, 2011, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
I like Newt, I like what he says. I also like much of what Ron Paul says but what wories me about him is that if he does not win the nomination, which is likely, that he will then do a 3rd party thing and by doing that reelect Obama. If Ron Paul would just clearly say that he will not run as 3rd party I would be much more comfortable supporting him in the primarys.
As for the others, which ever one wins the nomination, even those that I care about less, I will support them as I am now in the anybody but Obama camp.
Posted by: Ca Dan | November 4, 2011, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
I have always liked Gingrich but his propensity to seek “Bipartisan” efforts to solve problems of the U.S. disturbes me. When I saw him suck up to Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi I became physically sick. This guy has some great ideas. Doesn’t he know that he has the opportunity to become one of the greatest presidents ever—But Bi-partisan crap will doom him.
Posted by: Frank | November 4, 2011, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
Indipendent here.
Any Repub. Will do the jub but NO berry flying unicorn with
his head on his you know what. God why this punishment for this
Great Country of Ours. NO I am Not whining.
WE just gathering Super Big Winds for Nov. 2012 so to take these
Loosers in the LOONIE land and keep them there so they can keep
Fantasizing. Oh Yea and whining like … You know what.
Posted by: Any but Zero | November 4, 2011, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
Newt is the only one to stand up to the likes of Brian Williams and the rest of the left leaning media. In a debate with Obama he would destroy him. If Newt doesn’t win the nomination whoever does should hire him for debate preparation.
Look at how the press attacks Cain and Newt. They are more afraid of him than any of the others.
Posted by: Old Dave | November 4, 2011, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Wingers will gladly vote for a serial adulterer as long as he’s conservative. The party of family values swallows camels while straining at gnats just as hypocrites always have.
Posted by: Cassandra | November 4, 2011, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
Gingrich is a smart conservative, but that goes without saying that almost all conservatives are smart and have common sense unlike the Fascist left.
Cain – Gingrich 2012
Posted by: Regulas | November 4, 2011, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Beware the eye of the Newt,
Do not try to be too cute,
Gingrich will beat ya,
Debate? He’ll eat ya,
He’ll give Obama the boot.
Posted by: Iambic PentaMaster | November 4, 2011, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Re: “Look at how the press attacks Cain and Newt. They are more afraid of him than any of the others.” Please, PLEASE, oh please, run a Cain/Gingrich ticket! Not even the Titanic would be able to match that disaster…disaster to the GOP, that is.
Posted by: Cassandra | November 4, 2011, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
Newt has my vote.
Posted by: doesntmatter | November 4, 2011, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
Deathbed, womanizing, Tiffany spendthrift Newt; I do hope he gets the nomination.
Posted by: Smewt | November 4, 2011, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
Re: “Cain – Gingrich 2012″ From your lips to God’s ear. That ticket would be the best thing to happen to Liberals since John McCain (who could have won with a good VP) chose Palin!
You are correct in saying conservatives are smart – the top brass is anyway, ’cause they outsmart gullible GOP voters all the time.
Cain/Gingrich, y’all!!!!
Posted by: Cassandra | November 4, 2011, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm
@ LOU YEZO — His first wife’s own words— from a Salon Aarticle.
“He can say that we had been talking about [a divorce] for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise,” says Jackie Gingrich, in a telephone interview from Carrollton. “He’s a great wordsmith … He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery … To say I gave up a lot for the marriage is the understatement of the year.”
Other women came forward that he made sexual passes at them as well during this time. He’s a slick talker, nothing else.
Posted by: Citizen Joe | November 4, 2011, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
He aint no Ron Paul. The media is trying to trick us into thinking Ron Paul is not n the running. I don’t need themedia telling me wo the best candidte is.
Posted by: mike c | November 4, 2011, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
PRONTORANGER That would be the perfect conservative ticket! NOT!!! Mitt Romneycare and Newt Mandate Gingrich would make me stay home Nov 4, 2012.
Posted by: MANBEARPIG12 | November 4, 2011, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
Why would ANYONE in their right mind want Newt to be VP ala bush’s “Man behind the President”???? It truly SUCKED the first time around and it would surely be no better under a different Republican. PLEASE! ANY Idea that even remotely resembles the gw bush regime would be a death knell for the USA.
Posted by: demNme5 | November 4, 2011, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
These debates have been great to vet the various candidates. I like most of them, but Gingrich, Paul and Bachman have stood out because I learn something every time they speak. Imagine the level of debate if Chris Christie (NJ), Mitch Daniels (IN) and Bobby Jindal (LA) would have entered the race? Or if Pawlenty had not dropped out so early? Rick Perry’s entrance into the race was opportunistic and has lowered the level of conversation. The sooner he gets out the better for all of us.
The best leaders on the stage are Gingrich and Romney. You guys need to get over the RINO card on Romney. Case in point: Bachman may be the most conservative one up there, but she’s not ready to lead the country. Libs elected Obama because of his liberalism, but he is a disaster as a leader. Don’t give us another neophyte (Cain, Bachman, Santorum) idealist even if you do agree with him or her as I do.
Posted by: Coming Around | November 4, 2011, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Out of ALL of the people announced for HEAD MAN, NEWT by a mile is the smartest and BEST qualified to get us out of the mess we’re in. As Speaker of the House, he was the one who put together the team that balanced the budget in 98. Even with Clinton’s people screaming that the KIDS and ELDERLY would be thrown into the STREETS and STARVE TO DEATH, his team made it happen without anyone starving. To bad that IDIOT HASTERT started reversing success and the WITCH PELOSI finished the job.. Want to save this country, elect NEWT and GET RID of that IDIOT that’s there now !!!!!!!!!
Posted by: wildbill6996 | November 4, 2011, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
Why is Ron Paul not given his poll numbers? Just sad that the big media is trying to block him out, but Ron Paul is who I’m voting for.
Posted by: michael in washington | November 4, 2011, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Political Truism #3: You can tell when someone feels politically inferior when they attack the person rather than their politics. Example #1: Rick Perry in every debate with Mitt Romney. Example #2: The libs on this wall with Newt Gingrich.
Posted by: Coming Around | November 4, 2011, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
State media is already trying to pump establishment Gingrich into the number two spot behind Romney while the Cain campaign inevitably crumbles. Of course Gingrich is a status-quo candidate who offers more of the same, but he’ll try to position himself as the “moderate” who doesn’t have the flip-flopping baggage of a Romney, so his pandering will seem more authentic and believable. Meanwhile state media will attempt to beat down and smear Ron Paul to prevent the predicted Romney vs Paul match-up in the end. And if Ron Paul doesn’t win the nomination, we get Obama for another four years.
Posted by: brody | November 4, 2011, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
I turned on the car radio an hour or so ago. The first voice I heard was that of Gingrich, on the Hannity show. I’ve known that voice for years as the one I can most rely on to know what the hell he is talking about, and has ideas & solutions for pretty much everything. At this point in the campaign and in our country’s situation I think that is the premium quality needed. I have gone from Bachmann to Perry to Cain and I am getting dizzy. I would like to stop and take a breather with Newt. I don’t give a s$$$ about all this supposed “baggage”. Ever since Clinton, the issue of “baggage” is irrelevant.
Posted by: blake99 | November 4, 2011, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm
Carbon taxes and a world central bank? No thanks Newt, in sticking with RON PAUL!
Posted by: Adam Williams | November 4, 2011, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
Just love how the lefties decry the primary process and the fact that 45% of the Republican voters are keeping their options open. This is a healthy, open minded, and sometimes messy process in an election. The left does not tolerate a healthy exchange – they start with name calling and go downhill from there.
Posted by: Stevo | November 4, 2011, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Cain/Gingrich or Gingrich/Cain won’t happen. They are both from Georgia. The Constitution prohibits the election of a President and Vice president from the same state. That’s why Cheney had to change his voter registration back to Wyoming from Texas.
Posted by: Terpin | November 4, 2011, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Newt has by been the best debater . He is the most competent and experienced, I still like Cain, but New is a very close second. very close.
Posted by: craig54 | November 4, 2011, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
Bill Clinton’s past didn’t prevent him from being one ot the few competent presidents we’ve had in 50 years. Bush senior, Reagan (though vastly over-rated by republicans into a a cult figure). Newt is brilliant, knows what the country needs and knows how to get it done.
Posted by: soon enough | November 4, 2011, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
I’m a Democrat and I don’t have a choice in this upcoming election. I don’t want another Bush or a RINO. Obama hasn’t shown that he can be President of all the people and he hasn’t grown in the Presidency. He only plays to his base.
Posted by: Gaul | November 4, 2011, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm
Go Newt!! NOBAMA2012.
Posted by: Diego Roswell | November 4, 2011, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
I would pay very good money to see Gingrich squash the incompetent Marxst America-hater Obama in a Presidential candidate debate. If he just hadn’t sat on the loveseat with Pelosi and ran around with the low-functioning America-hater Al Sharpton, Gingrich would be my first choice, but for now he’s second choice (but Gingrich will be the Republican nominee and President in 2013).
Posted by: ObamaIsGodAwful | November 4, 2011, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
Met Newt at a book signing and got to hear him speak about US History. I really enjoyed his speech and liked what he had to say about life and liberty. The story about his wife and cancer etc is fiction.
Posted by: Bfife | November 4, 2011, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
controlled media selling = Newton Leroy Gingrich = selling controlled polls
Posted by: NadePaulKuciGravMcKi | November 4, 2011, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
I would prefer Newt G. over the Liberal McRomney, obviously; but I think the most exciting match-up would be a Cain-Obama bout. Any of the candidates could beat the bamster this go round. Perhaps even the “I will put you to sleep when I talk”-John Huntsman from Utah. ;-)
Posted by: Jason | November 4, 2011, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm
Newt has had 3 wives and ls in a race with Willie to claim the most Blow Jobs from other than your wife. His daughter is a Lesbian it must be in the blood.
Newt is a JAK and is on their payroll. He is ready to start a war with your blood. His immigration policy is worse than Perry’s and is close to Obama’s.
Newt has way too much baggage and has never won a state-wide election!
Posted by: com9600 | November 4, 2011, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
Way to go, Newt. Give ‘em hell!
Posted by: bill.1942 | November 4, 2011, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
Newt is the sharpest knife in the drawer. I was thinking Cain’s VP or Sec of State. He would get my vote if its close in the primary.
He’s for renewable energy but for different reasons. Not Green Reasons, but because the guys we give oil money to really want us dead. A good reason not to give them money.
Posted by: PinkFloydFan | November 4, 2011, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
Newt has my vote also
Posted by: Independent | November 4, 2011, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm
While I find his personal behavior a bit repugnant, Newt is BY FAR the most intelligent and competent candidate in the race. Dull boring Romney is close on the competency scale, perhaps more so on the economic scale, but less on the “historical world vision” scale. That either, well almost anyone, is miles more competent than Obama and much less dangerous to our future, is a given – just name ONE responsible job that Obama has ever held, much less succeeded in doing. That said, it’s equally obvious that competency and an adult vision for the future of civilization are WAY down the list of voter inspiring attributes circa 2008+, so why does this matter?
Posted by: Honest John | November 4, 2011, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
I want Gingrich to be the nominee. He’s smarter and more adept at politics than any of the other candidates. Plus he’d crush Obama in any debate
Posted by: doeslovetoread | November 4, 2011, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
COM9600 – Please elaborate on Gingrich’s baggage??
Posted by: doeslovetoread | November 4, 2011, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
The initial qualifying questions 1-16 have not been released. These first questions are often used to screen for a specific and narrow demographic. If these questions are not disclosed it is impossible for us to determine the credibility of this poll. It is meaningless.
Posted by: Thinkforyourselllfff | November 4, 2011, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm
It’s hard to say which crazy person will win the Republican nomination. I’m so excited!!!!
Posted by: plantain_11 | November 4, 2011, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm
Newt’s a smart guy, but I didn’t like him when he was Speaker and I’m a life long Republican. I don’t want to vote for him for president, though I will. Obama’s ACORN mentality is dangerous, divisive and handing over our nation’s autonomy to China with his belief in spreading the wealth (or debt in our case).
Posted by: pam | November 4, 2011, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
It is still too early for the Newt lovers to open the champagne bottle. A lot of writers have noted he had carried quite a bit of baggage from the past. His alleged womanizing, ethic violation scandals, forced resignation as the speaker are still green in many voters’ minds. He may be smart as a whip, and may offer avant garde approaches to the economic woes.
But his snappy voice and crotchety countenance are very irksome to a few debate watchers. For an unbiased observer, to watch him admonishing the moderators and the audience about Obama’s policy failures and about the GOP’s infallibility to produce a panacea for the present problems, will be a stiff dose. That’s hubris at its worst.
A shortage of humility seems like a sinister scene for the GOP gang and personally, we want to see the GOP, beaten neck and crop again in 2012, like the shellacking of the Dems in 2010. A nice drubbing oughta teach these repugnant repubs a well deserved lesson, that is long overdue.
Posted by: Marat | November 5, 2011, 1:20 am 1:20 am
Always Biased Crap news, fails to report sample size of the polls as well as margin of error. We are unemployed not uneducated. If you were to hold your poll numbers up to scientific scrutiny, you would be laughed out of any credible scientific community. Reporting poll percentages with less than 60 days from primaries and stating that any change is significant; is utter propaganda. Report ethically and with some critical thinking. Ron Paul for president 2012.
Posted by: Libertarian | November 5, 2011, 2:23 am 2:23 am
Newt supported TARP.
Newt has a checkered past.
Newt wants to axe the judicial branch of government.
Newt supported pro climate control legislation.
Newt supported amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Newt is the smoothest talking person by far.
You pick which of these facts is more important to you and your republican ideals.
I’ll take the only real conservative; Dr. Ron Paul.
Posted by: Chris | November 5, 2011, 8:15 am 8:15 am
I want Gingrich to be the nominee. He’s smarter and more adept at politics than any of the other candidates. (plus)
COM9600 – Please elaborate on Gingrich’s baggage??
Posted by: doeslovetoread | November 4, 2011, 10:14 pm.
LOL! Seriously? You want him to be the nominee, you think he’s smart and a good politician, yet you DON’T know about his ‘baggage’? Wow! Google ‘Newt Gingrich scandals’ if you REALLY do not know and if you REALLY want TO know. Or just stick your head in the sand and go “La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la” and continue to support this serial adulterer and monumental hypocrite……..
Posted by: Searambler | November 5, 2011, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
Notice you never hear, “Well, looks like Paul has placed first in 7 straw polls already” even though he has, while the airwaves are full of “Cain first place twice” and “It doesn’t matter that Cain is a serial sex abuser who locks his wife in the house” though couched I am sure in infinitely gentler language. I love Paul because of his honor, but I wish he had an ally somewhat less so who would play hardball with the jerks that are marginalizing him.
Posted by: Louis Nardozi | November 5, 2011, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm
I can’t believe the stupidity exhibited by most mainstream GOPers. Gingrich is no different than any other Republican candidate. Neither he, nor any of the other candidates, has highlighted one single thing they will actually CUT if they become president. They all favor a bank that controls the economy while hypocritically talking about how they favor free markets. They all favor a failed and costly interventionist foreign policy. They all favor “bipartisanship” once they get in office and end up expanding government and the entitlement programs that they claim they are against. The mainstream media is propping up Gingrich with selective polling because they see that Cain is plummeting and they are afraid Romney will not energize the base…which he won’t.
THE ANSWER WILL BE OBVIOUS – RON PAUL 2010
Posted by: CircleV | November 5, 2011, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm
Like him or not,he is the only one smart enough to get this country out of the mess it is in.
Posted by: Larry | November 6, 2011, 10:54 am 10:54 am
Newt is by Far the smartest and most qualified candidate on either side of the aisle, Period! He just out debates ev1 with common sense and logic.
I use to think Paul was pretty good on the domestic problems and solutions. But after hearing his foreign policy stance, I realize what a real Kook,Ron Paul truly is.
I’ll take Newt by far and then Cain.
And screw and turn Off the one-sided controlled and lying main stream media and talk shows.They are all owned and tied up in the Bilderberg Group agendas anyways for The One World Order crap, by any means neccessary,as they groom their bought and paid for minions in the White House and media, shows etc.
Oblamo, Romney and Perry are all part or are current invitees of the Bilderberg Group and its agendas.Keep away from all of them, they DO NOT have your best interests in mind at all, only theirs! Thats why we are secretly over in Africa now…its all staged and planned and you just will hear nothing on that until its too late.
Posted by: jonas | November 7, 2011, 2:08 am 2:08 am
Gingrich has had strong debate performances from the beginning. I feel at last we voters are looking at who occupies that stage well. He is bright and hyper-articulate. His winning sense of humor easily burries the rancor the left tried to tag him with during the Clinton years. The man is legitimately funny and has a thick skin. For a while, the media told the public who to focus upon. This left us with Perry, but Perry simply has not closed the deal and allows the big media outlets a candidate who can be easily parodied in a Bush Texan manner.
If you try to parody Newt, if you go for the easy jokes about his marriages, Newt will have a smart comeback that display genuine emotional IQ. True leadership. His staff quit him early. But he never quit. Go Newt.
Posted by: Professor Coulter (GWU) | November 7, 2011, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm