Thursday, April 12, 2012

Gingrich Is not Presidential Material

I do not know why Newt Gingrich insists that he's going all the way to Tampa. I can't remember anyone telling him that he couldn't go. That's not the question.
The problem is that Newt insists on going to Tampa as a candidate - making a last stand, sort of like General Custer, at the Republican Convention.
And that is exactly why he is not presidential material.
Remember back last year when he took a vacation while his first campaign staff was falling apart and leaving his then sinking ship? Remember when he then announced he was not a candidate? Remember how he then decided he was a candidate?
And, remember, while all this was going on, how people who had worked with him or been members of Congress when he was Speaker of the House said he was a poor manager and didn't build a team among the GOP members?
Despite all this, we gave Newt the benefit of the doubt. Some of us sent contributions. Some of us worked for him locally. Some of us voted for him when he was on the GOP primary ballot in our state.
We were wrong.
Newt Gingrich is not a team player. He does not put the need to get Barak Obama out of the White House for the good of America above his own ego. He does not understand that by hanging on, even marginally, he is divisive for the GOP. He does not get the fact that Mitt Romney is the candidate, no matter how often Newt goes to Tampa.
In short, Newt Gingrich has proved one more time that he does not have the personality, the maturity or the presence of mind needed to be President of the United States.
Go home, Newt. Buy plane tickets for yourself and Callista so you can go to Tampa and support Mr. Romney. Maybe if you do this soon enough, you will still have some chance of being a player in the Romney administration.
But, if I were Mitt Romney, I'd be wondering how long it would take before you blow up again, the next time on his watch as President.

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