Newt Gingrich

People that I talk with say, "Gingrich is the smartest. most experienced and most knowledgeable of all the GOP POTUS candidates, but he is not electable." Do you find that statement as puzzling as I do?  


In the debates, he always seems to make sense. However, he seems to lack Romney's handsome appearance, Perry's charming can-do-it-all Texas attitude, and Bachmann's ability to cheer lead, and of course Newt has no money.


Here is a brief excerpt from his contract with America 2012- Repeal major business and financial reforms such as the bipartisan Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Dodd-Frank, partial privatization of entitlement programs, border control and making English the official national language, and requiring unemployment insurance recipients to enter training programs at private companies. Google his contract with America and read it all. It makes sense because he focuses on the roadblocks that keep us from continuing the growth of America. He is concerned less with which party built the roadblocks and more concerned with removing them, which is the mark of a great leader. 


He nails the media to a wall when they go for memorializing the trivial, or when they create disruptive notions while failing to report objectively on the real problems. The debates and the media questions are  absurd.  It is an insult to the viewer, except that the media know that  the wildest, most insane survival shows dominate the TVscape. It is hard to face economic reality. That is why we need leaders who can help us understand what needs to be done and get started doing it. 


I have been supporting Huntsman. However, the emails asking for money are now burying any message that Huntsman may have outlining what he plans to do.  That message will never come because it will get vetoed by the "old" election consultants in Huntsman's camp. In contrast, Gingrich has no money to lead with, but he leads with his ideas. I feel a switch coming. 


Why can't Gingrich be elected?