Newt is surging and why not? The rest of the pack is a disgrace.

I am thinking that if we have to have a Republican president it would be nice to have someone who is politically astute instead of a president that is learning as he goes or a president that thinks he can be a dictator to get things done.

We are in a mess. Our congress cannot pull together. If we have to have a Republican, lets pick Newt.

Newt surges!

The last time Newt rose this high in the polls, he asked Abe if he wanted to go to the theater.

FWIW, if I had to hold my nose and pick a Republican, I'd give Huntsman a look first and if he didn't cut the mustard, I'd have to look at Newt next. Those are the only two who look somewhat competent.

"Instead, Gingrich has concentrated on building a movement capable of remaking the Republican party." Newt Gingrich: Shining Knight of the Post-Reagan Right - Mother Jones, November 1984.
Quite a remake it was. We'll never see the likes of Everett Dirksen, Tom Dewey, or Margaret Chase Smith with an (R) after their names.

True that. I said, "If I had to hold my nose...." But, that wouldn't even be enough to vote for either Gingrich, Huntsman, or any other Republican. But, of all the GOP/Teabagger candidates, Newt and Jon are the only ones coherent. I don't like Newt's policies a bit, but you have to admit he's a sharp cookie. But, Santorum? Bachmann? Cain? Oops Perry? I think it's lights out for the GOP. But, then again I didn't think the electorate would elect Bush in 2004 or re-elect Simpson in 2011. So, what the heck do I know.

"I've gone from being dead in June to being asked who will be in my cabinet. I think that's real progress."
NEWT GINGRICH, the former House speaker.

Somebody is going to beat Obama. It might as well be a skilled legislator who can get things done. Bachman, Cain, Perry don't have the tools and this is the wrong time to bring on a new president that cannot deal with a congress full of idealists. We need someone who is skilled.

Newt fits the bill.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1669

Obama also is looking better in matchups against potential Republican nominees:
47 - 42 percent over Romney, compared to a 46 - 42 percent Romney lead October 5;
52 - 36 percent over Perry, up from a 45 - 44 percent tie last month;
50 - 40 percent over Cain, who was not included in a matchup last month;
52 - 37 percent over Gingrich, who was not matched last month.

He's the flavor of the week. Next week, they'll air an interview of the wife he served divorce papers while she was lying in a hospital bed.

Because he wanted to marry the staffer with whom he'd been cheating... and if I have them all in the right order... whom he did marry and then divorce because he'd been cheating with his current wife.

Yeah, I don't think he's electable. But, he's one shrewd dude.

What are the top three items on Gingrich's git er done list?

I think he is so surprised to be up in the poles he hasn't made a list. Seems only yesterday his people were deserting him.

I am not campaigning for the guy but with all the lunkheads in congress unable to get anything done, Newt is probably the most capable of the Republican lot to break the deadlock.

He'd be my choice of the bad bunch of Republicans running just on that strength.

Just because he cheated on his wife? With a woman? Who was of legal age? Who wasn't a hooker? Who wasn't a lobbyist or a Russian spy?

You really are old school.