How Newt Gingrich blew it: An Iowa road map

[brooklynite]

from Politico:

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa – The high water mark of Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign may have been Nov. 27, the day the New Hampshire Union Leader endorsed his candidacy for president.

The famously conservative paper’s endorsement was a priceless gift. The former House Speaker proceeded to squander it.

In doing so, Gingrich revealed that he learned all the wrong lessons from his campaign’s collapse this summer and none of the right ones from his remarkable comeback.

Instead of seizing the moment and making an aggressive case for why the contest was now a two-man race between a movement conservative and flip-flopping moderate — a unique opportunity afforded by the endorsement’s implicit-but-unmistakable critique of Mitt Romney in his firewall state — Gingrich fell back to his familiar habits, a routine marked by too much self-assurance and not enough discipline.

[AlbertCat]

1. How Newt Gingrich blew it:

Being himself.

[JHB]

4. +1000

[wpelb]

2. A lot of people can't stand him

Some of them are conservative Republicans. They'll never forgive him for his PSA with Nancy Pelosi, among other things.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Self centered and full of shit...he tries to sell himself....he is a typ GOPer Fool

[trusty elf]

5. ......

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[southernyankeebelle]

6. Yes Newt when all fails blame everyone else but yourself.