What Newt Gingrich Can Teach Obama, and America, About Romney

[DonViejo]

by Matt Latimer Oct 28, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

How Romney beat Gingrich in the primary foreshadowed the general election against Obama—and shows how a President Romney will govern. From his shamelessness to the right’s hatred for Obama, Matt Latimer offers six lessons.

The great thing about Halloween is that something has the potential to scare us more than the prospect of either of these two guys winning the election. For the past year I’ve followed the 2012 race closely, mostly as a bored observer but for a brief time as a participant, driven by sheer Romney-phobia to the Newt Gingrich campaign. Speaking of Halloween, if anyone ever gave Mitt Romney a scare this year, it was the former speaker of the House, who for just a moment at least seemed likely to unravel the former governor’s carefully laid plans for victory.

But, as we all know now, it was not to be. Then, as now, a man largely unliked and untrusted by his own party may well be poised to reach the White House simply by outlasting and exhausting everyone else.

The lessons Romney used to beat Gingrich, as well as every other frontrunner-of-the-moment, said a lot about how Romney would run in the general election against President Obama. And it almost certainly will dictate how he would govern as president, should the good people of Ohio have a surprise in store on Election Day.

Lesson #1: Ideas Don’t Matter, Plans Do. During the seemingly endless quest to win over Iowa caucus voters, Gingrich talked about all sorts of ideas—on economics, agriculture, space, brain science, entitlement reform, government waste. He offered long discourses on almost any topic and in so much mind-numbing detail that even Charlie Rose would throw up his hands and say, “Enough!”

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[Tutonic]

1. Isn't this like LIndsey Lohan

giving dating tips to Sasha Obama?

[savebigbird]

2. The only thing Newt can teach Obama...

...is how to whine.