How Gingrich can still win the GOP nomination -- and the presidency / SALON

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How Gingrich can still win the GOP nomination -- and the presidency


WAR ROOM
Salon
by Alex Pareene

The elite Beltway smear-merchants of the lamestream media claim that Newt Gingrich's various "missteps" this week -- attacking the Republican Party's budget proposal as extremist, then retracting that statement, then saying that quoting him was somehow "a falsehood"; getting yelled at by an Iowa voter and "glitter bombed" by a gay rights activist; owing between a quarter- and a half-million dollars to Tiffany and Co.; calling Barack Obama a "food stamp president"; and finally releasing a statement claiming that his critics were armed sheep working for "the literati" -- mean his campaign for the Republican nomination is doomed.

But what do they know? As his flack wrote yesterday, "out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimidated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”

Here's how Gingrich can win it, and why it's short-sighted to count him out so soon:
First, assume that Barack Obama publicly hugs Michele Bachmann sometime in the next month. Mitt Romney's religion becomes a bigger liability this summer when radical Mormonists are arrested in an FBI sting attempting to purchase bomb-making materials from undercover agents. The Mormonists express a desire to blow up Infidel Liquor Stores in Nevada.

While Romney attempts damage control by announcing that he was never a Mormon, Gingrich's strong opposition to the construction of a Latter Day Saints meetinghouse in Ely, Nev. -- "in the shadows of the Great Basin Inn & Quick Mart" -- helps him take the lead in every major early-state poll.

Meanwhile, it becomes OK to believe in climate change again, as long as you blame it specifically on Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Gingrich un-reverses himself, argues that Obama is purposefully attempting to melt the ice caps in order to drown white people with beachfront property.

Go ahead, finish it here:
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1. Newt should hire Bob Dole as an adviser.

That kind of experience is just what he needs.

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2. Any republican with Rubio on the ticket will win in 2012.

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3. I have no idea who Alex Pareene is

But damn, the 60s were good to him/her.