Could be worse for the Republican establishment — he could be the Tea Party Chair.

He absolutely MUST be the Smartest Person in Any Room. And, he absolutely, positively MUST be seen & heard by many.

It may be time for a new principled classically liberal – fiscally conservative but socially more libertarian as far as the use of state power goes – party to rise from the ashes the way the Republicans rose as a principled abolitionist party from the ashes of the Whig split over slavery.

Any attempt to paint him otherwise is unfounded on FACT. How prescient, and insightful is he? It’s even more profound if you hear him discuss what he was going to do as Speaker, after realizing what he accomplished. And then you realize how radically the GOP sold out to statism after he left – http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/those-damn-narcissists-like-newt.html

Some of our state party organizations have the same problem.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/11/21/GOP-Losing-Susan-Rice-Debate

If I condense what he says it goes like this: Once you give ground in a war its difficult to reclaim.
Again our failed messaging apparatus.
We should “own” the Rice story but nope. Its been recast without any real response .

If Newt were a Dem, he would have no negatives…

We collectively ignored (or railed ineffectively against) the Gramascian long march of the left through the universities and the institutions of both high and popular culture; allowing them to educate two, perhaps even three, generations of teachers and they in turn to indoctrinate three, even four, generations of students with values alien to those of the West. It’s not just the universities: virtually all of the museums and foundations and mainline churches founded and supported by men (primarily) imbued with a traditional ethic of individualism, liberty, and individual philanthropy rather than government, have been taken over by the left and dominate the cultural and intellectual world in ways that cannot even be easily described.

Until individual liberty and self-reliance sing to the American soul again — as they have in the past — we will not win. It’s up to us to figure out how to make that happen.

I think there is an opportunity: many young people are open to ideas of liberty, but confuse liberty with purely social issues of abortion and gay marriage.

Conservative values can never be imposed by the state successfully. They will predominate only when people individually decide they make more sense.

It is indubitably true that neither our consultants nor most of our candidates know very much: few know any history beyond the last electoral cycle or two, fewer know anything about the high culture of the West, and virtually none of them know anything about the ideas that animated the Founders, and which animate much of the classical liberal/conservative blogosphere.

But, as you point out, Gingrich is hopeless as a candidate or even public face of a conservative/classical liberal party.

We are all now fundamentally screwed by the second coming of the One and by being refusing to adjust to the changing demographics. The Newtster knew it would happen all along. Newt saw the long train running leave the station years ago. Kudos Newt. Bye Bye Grease Board Rove.

Too bad all the money spent on the Romney campaign wasn’t used to create private charter schools providing REAL fundamental education for our floundering kids. And also used to create conservative TV/Cable station and radio stations for Hispanics and Asians and …blacks…used to create a ROI for the future.

Let’s rid ourselves of PBS. Let’s create our own outposts of culture. We don’t need more political consultants or political “scientists.” We need artists, musicians, writers of fiction, playwrights and first grade Conservative think tanks. And I say, less numbers and more community.

We should all get a refund from the failed “sage” consultants. The money squandered on them is why I am a sore loser.

The losers – the people devoid of reality, the in the moment texters- won the election. Democracy allows fools to vote and vote they did.

I would seriously like to see Newt, Romney, and a few others, plus staff, go off and study two things. First, come up with ways to fight the standard Democrat demagoguing. The same issues have been around for decades, and we need something which works at the gut level.

Second, ways to connect with groups in ways which do not reject traditional values. An example would be “immigration reform.” That always comes down to rewarding people who broke our laws, repeatedly, by giving them a “path to citizenship” ahead of those who played by the rules. As the son of a legal immigrant who came for purely ecconomic reasons, this has always been a sticking point. You need a way to remind people that the rule of law is a significant part of what makes America great, and the lack makes so many countries Third World pits.

This used to be so obvious that nobody ever had to think about it. Now, expecting the law to matter means you are any number of evil “-ists.”

If only we could bottle their ineptness, and donate it to the Israel to drop on Iran.