...with knives:
Michael Savage:
Michael Savage Offers Newt Gingrich One Million Dollars To Drop Out Of Race
Savage, who hosts the third-highest rated radio program in the country, outlined the reasons why he believed Gingrich was incapable of beating Obama. In addition to his marital infidelity, checkered past as Speaker of the House, and involvement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html
Ann Coulter:
Gingrich has spent his years since [his first year as Speaker of the House] having an affair, divorcing his second wife and making money by being the consummate Washington insider -- trading on access, taking $1.6 million from Freddie Mac and palling around with Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and Al Sharpton.
Even Chuck Schumer wouldn't be seen doing a joint event with Al Sharpton! But Newt seeks approval from strange places. Newt Gingrich is the "anti-Establishment" candidate only if "the Establishment" is defined as "anyone who remembers what happened the day before yesterday."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html
Peggy Noonan:
"He is a human hand grenade who walks around with his hand on the pin, saying, 'Watch this!'," she wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html#s538154&title=Peggy_Noonan
George Will:
"There is almost artistic vulgarity in Gingrich's unrepented role as a hired larynx for interests profiting from such government follies as ethanol and cheap mortgages," Will wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html#s538156&title=George_Will
David Brooks:
Gingrich, Brooks wrote, "has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with '60s excess: narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence and intemperance. He just has those traits in Republican form."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html#s538157&title=David_Brooks.
The National Review:
he expects change to occur through cataclysmic clashes and so seems always to be seeking after ways to accelerate the contradictions. This allows him to much more easily thunder over his own inconsistencies and past changes of mind. But he has no discipline whatsoever, can be almost unbelievably erratic and unfocused, and is unironically conceited.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html#s538158&title=Yuval_Levin
Michael Gerson:
And this indiscipline was not an aberration. It indicated an impulsiveness found elsewhere in his career. Gingrich has a history of making serious charges that turn out to be self-indictments -- witness his recent attack on congressional advocates for Freddie Mac, despite having been one of its well-paid consultants. Gingrich's language is often intemperate. He is seized by temporary enthusiasms. He combines absolute certainty in any given moment with continual reinvention over time.
These traits are suited to a provocateur, an author, a commentator, a consultant. They are not the normal makings of a chief executive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html#s538159&title=Michael_Gerson
Charles Krauthammer:
"Gingrich has a self-regard so immense that it rivals Obama's -- but, unlike Obama's, is untamed by self-discipline."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/michael-savage-newt-gingrich-one-million-dollars-drop-out-race_n_1144323.html#s538160&title=Charles_Krauthammer
Kathleen Parker:
But no one other than Callista Gingrich thinks her husband can prevail in a general election. No. One. The consensus on Gingrich is so overwhelming that conventional wisdom has taken a holiday. That is, no one in Washington thinks he can win, and Washington is where Gingrich is known best. Instead of rallying to support him, former colleagues are going out of their way to politely say, “He can’t lead.”
Gingrich’s record of leadership is demonstrably erratic. He is, in the words of former senator Jim Talent, who served with Gingrich from 1993 to 1999, “unreliable.” Another insider speaking to me privately was blunter: “He’s unstable, and everybody knows it, but no one wants to say it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-death-wish/2011/12/09/gIQALe5CjO_story.html
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