Republicans committing electoral suicide with Donald Trump and now Newt Gingrich

Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 at 11:16 PM

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Are Republicans intent on committing electoral suicide in 2012?

The news that the ancient war horse Gingrich is about to leave the stable for one more go-round is almost laughable.

The Newt Gingrich of the early 1990s would have been a formidable candidate,a fresh face with a fresh idea called the Contract with America and Speaker of the House to boot.

But if a week is a long time in politics, then almost twenty years ago is pre-history.

Gingrich has slid down the scale alarmingly since then.

Where once he was innovative, interesting, intellectual, now he is an old man, covering up his romantic infidelities , on his third marriage and with nothing more to let loose with than the old bombast rekindled.

He has about as much chance of winning as Donald Trump --speaking of whom where has he disappeared too since bin Laden's death?

But Newt will suck up considerable oxygen in this race, especially as the field gets more crowded with relative unknowns and he is the best known face there.

You can already see him and Trump dominating debates just because they have the largest megaphones.

No wonder Iowa Republicans are rushing to New Jersey to try and convince Governor Chris Christie to run.

With Newt Gingrich all saddled up and Donald Trump getting ready to mount and Sarah Palin eyeing the campaign trail it could not get any better for Obama.

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Jamcelt | May 10, 2011, 09:47 AM EDT

I am sure they will do their level best to find a Christian fundamentalist, paranoid, delusional homophobe in time for the election

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TheOldPerfessor | May 10, 2011, 09:41 AM EDT

Bring him on.

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seamusmoore | May 10, 2011, 08:59 AM EDT

PR, I am sure the Republicans will want to hire you as a political consultant. They will never again make the mistake of the magnitude that John McCain made in September, 2008: bringing ciaran Staunton of ILIR, Niall O'Dowd's brother-in-law, to a campaign event. You can be sure of that.

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EdinCali | May 10, 2011, 12:26 AM EDT

Patrick: Newt Gingrich would be a formidable opponent to Obama.

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