Why can't the Republicans find a 2012 frontrunner? In this week's Newsweek, Howard Kurtz writes on the sorry state of the Gop field-and why nobody's emerged as a credible threat to Obama.
Newt Gingrich moved slowly through the halls as excited onlookers kept stopping him for photos and thrusting paper at him for autographs, each trying to briefly bask in his celebrity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Gop's Race Backslide
He had spent the day whacking President Obama on everything from energy to Egypt, but when I asked about his real agenda at the popular Conservative Political Action Conference-floating an actual candidacy-he turned cautious. "You have to decide whether it's something you feel compelled to do," the former House speaker said, "and if it's absolutely your duty to do it." In short, he wants to be wanted by a party that isn't sure who or what it wants.
As all manner of pols,...
Newt Gingrich moved slowly through the halls as excited onlookers kept stopping him for photos and thrusting paper at him for autographs, each trying to briefly bask in his celebrity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Gop's Race Backslide
He had spent the day whacking President Obama on everything from energy to Egypt, but when I asked about his real agenda at the popular Conservative Political Action Conference-floating an actual candidacy-he turned cautious. "You have to decide whether it's something you feel compelled to do," the former House speaker said, "and if it's absolutely your duty to do it." In short, he wants to be wanted by a party that isn't sure who or what it wants.
As all manner of pols,...
- 2/21/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
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