Bye bye, Newt

Fee Fi Fo Fum, Etcetera

My Two Bits on Newt's Many Monster Flubs.
The three deal-breakers. As Fred Barnes noted @ The Weekly Standard, it was the wife. Jewelry & amateur weirdness.

Second, Newt seems to have a hidden sloth gene or at least an aversion to plodding day-by-day building an infrastructure. Instead, he believes in "L'audace, toujours l'audace."

Third, the guy is very full of himself---his coup in '94 filled his head with much more ambition than mere mortals could manage and, as with the govt. shutdown in '96, he kept stepping on his own feet trying to get ahead. For every good accomplishment, he seemed to acquire a political tone deafness which began to transfer into his personal life. In '98, he got into a love triangle or quadrangle or whatever so nasty he walked out on a wife suffereing from cancer. By 2000, he was on his third and present wife, with a whole new perspective.

Personal note: Right after Newt was whining about leaving Air Force One via the rear exit, something the BJ man made him do, I saw him in Amman Jordan pull up to a hotel in a huge limo-SUV big enough for two dozen people. Five minutes later up comes Dick Gephardt, the minority leader, in a tiny sedan barely larger than a VW beetle. The guy is simply a nasty egomaniac.

He may know more second and third tier stuff than any Republican, but the Chinese vote in Iowa?----he's an undisciplined eccentric.

This year, it's the Economy Stupid, all over again. And with the economy, jobs. Let's forget about abolishing the EPA until AFTER you're elected.