2012: I'd rather hitch my wagon to Romney or Santorum!

Like many of you, I jumped up and down when Newt Gingrich manhandled John King and answered Juan Williams' question.

I thought that the ABC interview was just a rehash of old news and the timing was questionable to say the least.

I thought that Juan Williams' question was typical liberal nonsense about racism. 

Nevertheless, I'm not comfortable with Gingrich as a potential nominee.

First, has Gingrich ever run anything?  We've seen with Obama that executive, or governing, experience is actually a good thing.

Second, has Gingrich ever won an election outside of his Georgia district or the very conservative South Carolina primary?

Third, do people really think that Obama is going to accept something like the Lincoln-Douglas debates?  Are you crazy?  Obama will try to have the least exposure this fall because he has a lousy record to defend.

Fourth, have people looked at Gingrich's negatives?  specially with women?

Again, I love Newt and cheered him all the way during these debates.  However, this is about defeating Obama and Gingrich does not beat him in any head to head poll.

Yes, it's true that Reagan was behind Carter at this point in 1980.  However, Reagan had that sunny disposition that Gingrich does not have.

Romney may not be perfect but he has executive experience and conservative instincts.  And he is in a dead heat with Obama in the polls!

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"Yes we can" disenchantment update: Maureen Dowd has had it with the man that she blindly fell in love with in 2008!

Today, Maureen reminds us how disappointed she is with her man:

"Despite what his rivals say, the president and the first lady do believe in American exceptionalism — their own, and they feel overassaulted and underappreciated. We disappointed them. 

As Michelle said to Oprah in an interview she did with the president last May: “I always told the voters, the question isn’t whether Barack Obama is ready to be president. The question is whether we’re ready. And that continues to be the question we have to ask ourselves.” 

They still believed, as their friend Valerie Jarrett once said, that Obama was “just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

My guess is that Maureen speaks for a lot of Dems.  They jumped on a bandwagon that was full of slogans and cliches BUT has taken them nowhere, or at least not where they thought it was destined to go.

When will Maureen file for divorce?  When will she do it?  I don't know but we will keep reading her NY Times columns.  She is obviously an angry and frustrated woman who fell for the man who told so many what they wanted to hear.

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A word about Joe Paterno

We just learned that Joe Paterno passed away from cancer.  As a sports fan, I've followed Coach Paterno's career for a long time.  He was a legend and may have been the greatest college coach ever.

Coach Paterno was more than a coach.  He understood that academic performance was also important.  He reminded his players that they need to set up a Plan B, or an education. 

Over the years, I've heard Penn State alumni speak well of Coach Paterno.  He was a "father figure" for many of these young men.

Paterno's career ended abruptly with a scandal.  However, you have to look at his life completely and assess his full record.

Rest in Peace Coach Paterno.

We spoke about this with Bill Katz on Sunday night:

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