WSJ: "Newt Gingrich, the Ché Guevara of the right"

[DCBob]

It's the GOP Insurgents vs. Establishment
By GERALD F. SEIB

Mitt Romney, welcome to John Boehner's world.

Both men—one the presidential candidate just stung in South Carolina, the other the speaker of the House—are fairly conventional leaders attempting to ride herd on a restless Republican Party that seems more interested in insurgent leaders. Let's just say they are having limited success.

That's the real lesson of South Carolina's Saturday primary, where Newt Gingrich, the Ché Guevara of the right, always interested in leading a rebellion, smashed Mr. Romney, the Harvard M.B.A. interested in carefully calibrated, data-driven change. The South Carolina story—and the story going forward from here—isn't so much Newt vs. Mitt as it is the insurgents vs. the establishment.

more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204624204577176732170676546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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Interesting the WSJ would use the "Che" analogy.

The battle within is threatening to tear the party apart. It could not have happened to a more deserving group.

[Xipe Totec]

1. LOL!

ridiculous.

[WingDinger]

2. A Saul Alinsky radical, projecting that on dems.

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

3. One cannot fail to recognize the similarities between the GOP establishment's reactions to Gringrich

and the Democratic Party establishment's reaction to Howard Dean.

The reactions are both reflexive and predictable. From the beginning and for eternity, they shall remain the reactions of trepidation to the threat that insurgency is to power.

[DCBob]

5. Gringrich is no Howard Dean of the right.

Not even close.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Agreed...Gingrich is destructive, crazy, lacks morals and would devastate our country...

Howard Dean was a moderate governor who struck a chord with his opposition to the Iraq War.

Dean was sane. Dean was logical. Dean wasn't a bloated gasbag of human flesh.

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

12. ""Dean was sane. Dean was logical."

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Since you are unable to see the lone card on the table now, it would be irrational for me to think, that you were able to see the same card on the table then.

Unfortunately, too many look to Solomon for their wisdom, rather than seeking to find it for themselves.

In response, a key section of the Democratic leadership launched a ferocious campaign to crush Dean, putting more effort into attacking Dean than Bush!

http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article10.php?id=278

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

8. "Gringrich is no Howard Dean of the right. Not even close."

I pick up the ideological card of "right" and set it aside. Having cleared the irrelevancies, I prevail upon you to respond to the only card on the table: Reaction.

[elleng]

9. Maybe.

[Hawkowl]

4. Cool!

So does that mean the CIA is going to assassinate him?

[white_wolf]

7. So is Newt going to risk his life and give up his career to lead a revoution against a U.S. backed-

dictator? Otherwise, I'm not seeing the comparison, of course I can't read the whole article since I'm not a subscriber.

[joshcryer]

11. Maybe Romney is Castro in this analogy and wants to get rid of Newt forever.

Castro was threatened by Che and made him promise to bow out.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Sloppy journalism.

"the speaker"?

How about "a former speaker".

Sigh.