The one word that destroys Gingrich:

[cali]

Unstable. In your heart (and head) you know it's true. So do a lot of insiders. Expect to hear it whispered and yelled a lot before the Florida primary.

There is simply no way that Newt will be the nominee.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Yes, he sure is...

It does make for an exciting campaign, but as the nominee, much less President?

Not so much.

[AtomicKitten]

2. I prefer "unhinged." It sounds crazier.

Hope your recovery is going well.

[gordianot]

3. The same word applies to the entire Republican Party.

They created their own cesspool with Fox, Tea Party radicals, malicious bigots and their desire to destroy the United States Government and the Constitution. They are all unstable.

[Greybnk48]

4. All 4 GOP candidates seem unstable.

I'm not trying to be flip either, I mean it.

[RKP5637]

13. It's a very very strange lineup of people. Now, without a question, I want

Obama to win ... but isn't it a bit scary that this is the best the republicans can come up with. To me, it indicates a fair percentage of this population is unstable. One listens to the rhetoric they resort to for votes, and it's really some strange bizarre stuff. I often think about half of this population is off the deep end.

[Raine]

25. Yes it is scary. One these days one of them is going to win and this is the pool

they will pick that future president from.

[Bobcat]

21. Stable?

All of the "stable" Republicans have been purged.

[louis-t]

22. I like to refer to them as circus freaks.

And I do so often when in repub circles.

[gateley]

5. I hope we hear it yelled. nt

[RKP5637]

15. UNSTABLE!!! UNSTABLE!!! UNSTABLE!!! GINGRICH!!!

[gateley]

20. What? I can't HEAR you!!! nt :-)

[RKP5637]

23. Here you go, pic worth a thousand words!

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ugly+gingrich&num=10&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=907&bih=527&tbm=isch&tbnid=uk7ZPGCLqiOo2M:&imgrefurl=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/Republicans-after-South-Carolina-An-ugly-2673296.php&docid=kiO6FaPnPX-3rM&imgurl=&w=628&h=437&ei=xrEcT7jNHsik2gWRxbiiCw&zoom=1

[gateley]

26. No more, PLEASE!

That is truly frightening.

[patrice]

6. He's a hollow man, spreading an epidemic of hollowness.

"We are the hollow men,
we are the stuffed men,
leaning together,
headpiece filled with straw . . . "

T.S Eliot

[southernyankeebelle]

7. That was part of the deal on McCain they tried.

[Major Hogwash]

8. "Government shutdown" is another phrase we will hear often about Noot.

Which is not a good thing for so many people receiving Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, or food stamps these days.

Gingrich may have a revolving account at Tiffany's, but the poorest Republicans are not going to reward him for that.

He's only in the race to throw firebombs at President Obama.
His own staff quit his campaign last May.

A man who cannot be faithful to his wife cannot be faithful to the oath of office that Noot wants to take.
And he has proved that, twice!

His old form of dog whistle racism is no longer dog whistles, we all know what he is saying these days.
Noot hates black people more than George Wallace did in 1968!

[Jackpine Radical]

9. In your guts,

you know he's nuts.

(Recycled from the Johnson-Goldwater campaign, 1964)

[regnaD kciN]

14. I thought of the same thing...

...but, seriously, isn't it frightening that Newter supporters (and most of the G.O.P. in general) would today consider Goldwater a weak-kneed liberal?

[NNN0LHI]

10. Unstable kind of describes everyone I know who does anything to help Republicans get elected though

So, we have that going against us.

Remember how they loved Bush when he stood on top of thousands of bodies with a bullhorn and soon after that he had a +90% approval rating?

That concerns me.

Don

[no_hypocrisy]

11. If Newt ever has to debate Obama, I'm sure that the President

will have a device ready to force Newt to show his instability. Don't forget they're both competent debators and both professors. But don't kid yourself. Newt folded like a cheap suit when he marched up to Bill Clinton with a list of demands and Clinton charmed him and sent him on his way without giving him a damned thing.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. I think "Asshole" is more catching and accurate.

[antigop]

16. I was thinking of the word: "old" n/t

[auburngrad82]

17. What amazes me about him is this

He had over 80 ethics violations investigated while Speaker of the House and that was with the GOP running the House.

Imagine what would have happened if the Dems had been in charge at that time. It would have added special emphasis to the statement that voters like Gingrich because he has convictions.

[LynneSin]

18. Could u point me to the stable GOP candidate?

Nuff said

[auburngrad82]

19. He has a complete lack of respect for the laws of our country

That's why he had so many ethical violations as Speaker of the House.

That's why the rules of marriage have never applied to Newton.

That's why he openly says he'd fire liberal federal employees and why he would ignore Supreme Court rulings that he doesn't agree with.

That's why he'll very openly and unabashedly lie in front of dozens of cameras. He just doesn't think rules and laws apply to him.

Unstable, loose cannon, batshit crazy, whatever. This man cannot be allowed anywhere near the White House.

[Mimosa]

24. He's flakey.

But is he dangerous? Possibly.

[waddirum]

27. "Inflammatory"

like hemorrhoidal tissue

[gulliver]

28. Romney used "zany" but it was too subtle.

The Republican rank and file didn't get that Romney really wanted them to understand that Gingrich was nuts. Now it's too late. Romney can't call Gingrich crazy without calling a lot Tea Party Republicans crazy. They are, but he can't say it.