[Windy City Conservative]

Looks like National Review simply wants Newt to exist as a tool for debate prep for their guy Romney to use. This was Editor Rich Lowry encouraging Newt to run in 2008.

In other words National Review would like campaign donations to be wasted on a guy who they don't want to have win the nomination, but only help Romney improve his debating skills. This is one cynical bunch of b@#$tards, and the sooner it goes bankrupt the bette for conservativism.

[Cyber Liberty]

I wonder what Lawry thinks today?

[Verginius Rufus]

This was written in 2006—when George Allen was expected to be a serious candidate in 2008.

[Servant of the Cross]

The very same moderate establishment pimp Rich Flowry who emblazons the NRO site with the title and editorial "Against Gingrich". Presumably only because "NRO Hearts Mitty" (especially metrosexual Flowry) would be too unseemly and obvious. National Topsider country-clubber Van Voorhees VII indeed.

Bill Buckley is rolling over in his grave. Surely there are some real conservatives at NRO to contradict this crap? Nordlinger, McCarthy, Hanson?

[RealImmigrant]

The NRO is to Conservatism like Dollar General is to luxury goods.

[vmivol00]

Its because they hung out with Romney on one of the NRO cruises they are constantly pimping. Mittens must have bought them all drinks or something.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I didn't see anything in this 2006 article that suggested they wanted him for "debate prep". Lowry did think he would raise the level of discussion in the primary, although he also said it was hard to see him having a chance of winning (unless George Allen faltered -- which is hilarious in and of itself).

Lowry certainly wasn't saying he would be HIS pick:

"If one of Gingrich’s strengths is that he is enamored of ideas, a weakness is that he seems too enamored of his own. He has ethical issues from his time as speaker related to a book contract and the funding of a college course he taught, but in the Age of Abramoff those scandals seem quaint. More potentially damaging is his messy personal life and the sense of arrogance that sank his speakership."

[supremedoctrine]

I couldn’t understand this in light of “today’s news”, which is being talked about non-stop.
So Gingrich may have grown up,ands shed his more conciliatory side (remember, he’s not talking about
the value of “working with the other side” now) while Lowry and the Republican Establishment has gotten more timid even while convincing themselves that it’s THEY who’ve grown up.

[supremedoctrine]

I couldn’t understand this in light of “today’s news”, which is being talked about non-stop.
So Gingrich may have grown up,ands shed his more conciliatory side (remember, he’s not talking about
the value of “working with the other side” now) while Lowry and the Republican Establishment has gotten more timid even while convincing themselves that it’s THEY who’ve grown up.

[BfloGuy]

This was Editor Rich Lowry encouraging Newt to run in 2008.

There is not one sentence in that piece that could be interpreted as Lowry encouraging Newt to run.

[CedarDave]

Mark Levin just read this opinion piece on the air and contrasted Lowry’s 2008 writing with yesterday’s hit piece on Newt. Since 2006 Lowry obviously has been assimilated into the dark side of the “force” (AKA the Republican Establishment).