Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:33:07 PM
Newt Gingrich, who is currently behaving badly on the campaign trail, was heard to utter "Why would you want to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama?"
Let's take a look at history. Ronald Reagan ran for the Republican nomination in 1976 - and lost to Gerald Ford. He came back in 1980 and won. In 1984, he was re-elected in a landslide, both popularly and electorally - winning 48 of 50 states. A figure unmatched in history. Reagan went on to win the cold war.
Whether Romney would be another Reagan or not is debatable. What isn't debatable, though, is that it's not necessarily a bad thing to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to the eventual winner 4 years before.
Gingrich knows history. He knows what happened in 1976 and 1980. This is yet another example of his tendency to shoot from the lip, a very unpresidential quality.