Newt Gingrich, on the rise, says, ‘Hopefully, I’m going to be more disciplined’

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Source: Wash. Post

For months, Newt Gingrich has had a front-row seat from which to observe what happens when a Republican presidential candidate emerges from the pack to be touted as the next great insurgent hope and the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney.

Now it might be his turn.

“This is actually the point where other people have faltered,” Gingrich said in an interview Wednesday.

The former House speaker is rising in the polls. But whether he will become an actual threat to Romney, or just another fleeting phenom, will depend largely on two things: Gingrich’s ability to keep in check the impulses that have been his undoing in the past, and how well he deals with the criticism and scrutiny that go with being a real contender.

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[Kennah]

1. Oh, you're in for a spanking

[Mz Pip]

2. Oh please don't hold back!

YOur unrestrained off the cuff self is so much more entertaining.

[pezDispenser]

3. should be interesting

probably carries the most baggage of any hopeful, yet clearly has skills. anyone doubt it was him that released the cain dirt? wonder what he has on romney.

[grasswire]

4. he's going to divorce his wife for a dominatrix?

That's the image that came to my mind immediately. Whips!

[SoapBox]

5. ...what an asshole.

He is simply more of the GOPBagger scum.

[Politicalboi]

6. Hopefully?

I doubt that. More disciplined indeed. LOL! More of Newts connection to Nixon should be talked about also. Before he starts his "outsider" routine.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Stupid ass bastard know-nothing.

This shit is the BEST that they have to offer? Fuck them.

[MADem]

8. That is the funniest headline EVER! Newt's problems in the past have stemmed from his being

all-too-frequently "ON THE RISE" and out looking for a BJ.

Wonder who the WAPO wag was who wrote that gem?

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10. Karen Tumulty

[red dog 1]

9. Gingrich Rising, Cain Falling.

[No Elephants]

11. Newt Gingrich says, "Hopefully. I can be more likeable.

And hopefully, Americans will have collective amnesia and forget that I am the only Speaker of the House in U.S. history ever fined for ethics violations.

$300,000, and then I cried poverty and said I couldn't pay unless I borrowed the money from Bob Dole.

And I am a serial adulterer, which I smarmily blamed on loving my country too much.


And now, I have lines of credit at Tiffanys' for about a million bucks for my current wife (so suck it, House Ethics Committee-and 99%ers).


And I impeached a sitting President over something that should have remained a family matter. And made him more popular. (Hope Republicans forget that one.)"

That's what Newt Gingrich really says, but never aloud.