I think it’s important to remember how and why Gingrich stumbled at the start of this race.
He demonstrated that he was amazing ignorant of the zeitgeist in the Tea Party and he made ridiculous and unhelpful, reach-across-the-aisle-nonsense criticisms of the Ryan plan.
He actually did have a few good points to offer, but cloaking it all in bomb-throwing terms (against his own conservatives) such as “right-wing social engineering” and such was beyond the pale.
It just made everyone remember: Yeah, Gingrich. He’s the one who is rolling along fine and then steps in it so big, you can’t even believe a politically blind man would stumble so badly.
I love him in the debates. I love his intellect. I think he has a lot to offer in the next Republican administration. But I just don’t think he’s reliable left to his own devices.
Aye, Gingrinch is rippin’ smart, capable in a debate.
IMHO...
Ultimately he is far too much of a politician to stick to any sort of principles.
The only possible way I would begin to think that he was a changed man from the guy who schmoozes and wheels and deals with the left wing is if he publicly admitted it and went off on some tangent of sticking to principle. But IMHO it’s just not who he is.
He’s starting to sound like he gets what the Tea Party and like-minded people are thinking (and what the nation really needs), but I just don’t see how one could really trust that he would not horse-trade away something significant for social conservatives in order to get what’s needed for some economic change, etc.