N-E-W-T Ascending

Now it’s time for Newt. Just a few months ago, legitimate pundits and illegitimate people like me had written off Newt Gingrich as the Republican nomination for the President. His staff quit. He was broke. Press generated pseudo-scandals were swirling about him. No he is for all intents and purposes the front runner. He has jumped to the front of the pack in national polls, and is even money in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.

Newt Gingrich is the intellectual guardian of the modern conservative movement. He is a brilliant man, and it drives the liberal establishment crazy. Back when he was lost in the pack as his staff deserted him for Rick Perry, Newt said at the end of the day it would be ideas that would win out. He dutifully showed up for all of the debates, and put in stellar performance after stellar performance.  He was right.

Newt has always been my personal favorite, but I honestly felt that he couldn’t beat Obama. Not because he isn’t talented, but because the main stream press would obliterate him. They don’t like him because he is able to tear liberal philosophy to shreds. In simple terms he exposes the fallacy of a nanny state government, and why it hasn’t worked other places, and why it won’t work here. He expresses himself in clear and concise terms, and refuses to take any guff from any of the smart ass reporters that try to give it to him. He does what Ronald Reagan did…maybe not as good…but he’s close.

Gingrich says that this is the most important election in the United States since 1860. I agree. Ironically, like Lincoln, it is his debating skills that are clearing the path to his nomination. I wondered how he could beat Obama flying into the headwind of a vindictive cut throat main stream press. He answered the question himself today. He said tell Obama I want to debate him, and he can bring his teleprompter. If Gingrich is standing at the debate podium with Obama next fall, the emperor will truly have no clothes.

If Newt is nominated, can he beat Obama? I don’t know. Pundits galore are still singing Romney’s praises, which should be a red flag to conservatives. Romney is trying to win the nomination with a 25% solution as the other 75% of the party look for someone other than Romney. From Bachmann to Perry to Cain… each of the candidates has had a turn at the front only to be shot down. Time will tell if the same thing will happen to Gingrich.

What Gingrich has going for him is more debates where he is a star. Then there are the primaries. If he does well in Iowa and New Hampshire coming in at least second in each of those states, then all bets are off. Gingrich may have a shot at the whole enchilada. More likely, the nomination will be thrown into flux and the Republicans will host a brokered convention with Romney having maybe 35% of the delegates and the rest lined up behind the conservative candidates opposing Romney. That opens the way for a Chris Christie, a Rudy Giuliani, and dare I say it…Jeb Bush.

Meanwhile, I hope that America listens to what Gingrich has to say. He is proven politician with the skill to get things done, and the ideological moxie to go with it. His voice is the voice that can save America.