Newt on a "democratic" race

Newt Gingrinch on the democratic primaries.

Excerpt

Democrats are headed for a trainwreck in campaign '08 that threatens to produce a tainted Democratic presidential nominee and, worse, a divisive and delegitimized presidential contest.

Recall that when Michigan and Florida moved up their primaries in defiance of Democratic Party rules earlier this year, the party bosses decided to punish them by unseating their delegates. The Florida and Michigan primaries were turned into beauty contests.

At the time, it seemed like a good move since everyone assumed that the Michigan and Florida delegates wouldn't really matter in the nomination battle. The conventional wisdom was that one Democratic candidate would emerge early in the contest, and arrive at the convention with a comfortable margin of delegates for the nomination.

But the one constant in campaign '08 so far is that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Instead of a sprint, the Democratic race has turned into a slog. And it's now looking more and more likely that the Democratic presidential fight will not produce a clear and decisive winner.

Hey Newt, let me clue you in on something; everything democrats touch is a train wreck. Have you ever looked at our inner cities?

What about the New Mexico vote which took all of nine days to tabulate. Wait until the Ohio mess gets going and who's running that election? If you guess democrat, you get a gold star.

The fact is, the democrats in general can't run businesses or governments so what makes you think they can run an effective primary process.?