Interesting, the pundit reaction to this. Some are drooling (h/t Matt Taibbi):
11 Reasons Newt Gingrich Will be the 2012 GOP Nominee for President"Grounded"? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
1. Ideas and solutions: ... Policy is Newt's strength. He is well known for his constant generation of ideas and solutions. ...
11. Callista, his third wife: She keeps him grounded, shows that he's settled very well into marriage.
That was U.S. News. Here's Matt Taibbi; he's also drooling (my emphasis):
I literally cannot wait to get back to covering the insane reality show that is the presidential race, especially since the Republicans seem determined to run the most entertaining collection of mutants seen on earth since Tod Browning’s classic Freaks.And for good measure, here's Rachel Maddow, who has taken his measure many times. For Maddow, the news is that he has to appear to run to keep his money-making schemes alive.
Purely from a political-theater standpoint, Gingrich brings several really outstanding qualities to this race. ... Gingrich [is] a relentless mirror-gazer and attention-seeker with a wandering pee-pee and a talent for pseudo-intellectualism. Gingrich, hilariously, is the right’s idea of a “thinker,” which is to say he’s a pompous mispronouncer and Thesaurus-raider who lards up same-old/same-old right-wing rhetoric with quotations from obscure academic texts and inane historical references, so that friendly pundits can later describe the resultant utterances as “fresh new ideas.”
You can't sell a product forever without producing at least one of them. This is the one of them: Gingrich in 2012.
It will be interesting to see how long this lasts. After all, if he really does run, he's going to get creamed, and not in that "wandering pee-pee" way that Taibbi talks about.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
GP
