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Newt’s Nostalgia — and Amnesia

By CHARLES M. BLOW
December 5, 2011, 8:36 pm

Newt Gingrich’s new Iowa ad [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdrjLavTzU (above)] has everything. And nothing.

There are picket fences, purple mountains, amber waves of grain and a (fruited?) plain. Office workers, blue-collar workers and cowboys. Small businesses, the state capitol and the Statue of Liberty. Beaming little boys, a young woman with flowers and soldiers in full dress.

It’s as light as a confection — six inches of meringue and half an inch of filling. That’s the new Newt, banking on amnesia and nostalgia. He wants the world to forget who he was (and is) and pine for what America was (and can be).

Gingrich milked his insider status like a two-uddered cow, but now he acts as if he was never in the barn. He profited in cash from Congressional connections, but now he positions himself as the prophet of wisdom from beyond the beltway.

For those of us with memories longer than an election cycle and eyes not blinded by Obama hatred, this is laughable — the charade of a charlatan. But there must not be many like us among the Republican ranks, particularly in Iowa, because Gingrich is surging in the polls.

He’s their latest, best hope to defeat President “Hopey Changey” and he’s not Mitt Romney, whom they just can’t seem to warm to.

In fact, as Gingrich has risen, Romney has faltered.

Charles Franklin, co-developer of Pollster.com and founder of PollsAndVotes.com [ http://pollsandvotes.com/PaV/ ] has done a great job of tracking the undulations of support across the Republican field, and this is Gingrich’s moment.



Republicans seem to be saying: when your nominating process gives you nothing but lemons and you have egg on your face, Newt as meringue makes sense.

Bon appétit.

© 2011 The New York Times Company

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