Newt Gingrich’s Retreat: The End
Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
(Germany) on 3 May 2012
by Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger (link to
original)
Newt Gingrich never really had a chance of becoming a presidential candidate. His retreat was long overdue and in the role of chief mudslinger against Mitt Romney, he met his political end.
At the end, he kept his candidacy for nomination in the limelight only for the sake of appearances; he never stood a realistic chance of becoming the Republican Party's nominee for the presidency.
The reason for that was the man himself: He attempted to combine systematic professionalism with passion into a campaign that was ultimately torpedoed by a manic ego combined with his own unstable and fickle character.
His Own Idiosyncratic Ideas
Newt Gingrich was unable to get the party's conservative right-wing base behind him and, as a result, Mitt Romney became the nominee. Gingrich's unspectacular withdrawal from the race was long overdue. Yet that doesn't change the fact that Gingrich is still one of the most interesting and successful Republicans of the modern age; a man who was never intimidated and who never compromised his idiosyncratic ideas and one who in 1994 gave Republicans control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.
The political demise of Bill Clinton's greatest nemesis came about when he took on the role of chief mudslinger against Romney.
At the end, he kept his candidacy for nomination in the limelight only for the sake of appearances; he never stood a realistic chance of becoming the Republican Party's nominee for the presidency.
The reason for that was the man himself: He attempted to combine systematic professionalism with passion into a campaign that was ultimately torpedoed by a manic ego combined with his own unstable and fickle character.
His Own Idiosyncratic Ideas
Newt Gingrich was unable to get the party's conservative right-wing base behind him and, as a result, Mitt Romney became the nominee. Gingrich's unspectacular withdrawal from the race was long overdue. Yet that doesn't change the fact that Gingrich is still one of the most interesting and successful Republicans of the modern age; a man who was never intimidated and who never compromised his idiosyncratic ideas and one who in 1994 gave Republicans control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.
The political demise of Bill Clinton's greatest nemesis came about when he took on the role of chief mudslinger against Romney.