Newt: I Told You So

Jonathan Bernstein is mildly miffed that now that Newt Gingrich’s self-inflated bubble is collapsing too few people are remembering those who always said this would happen. I quite agree. (Complete Newt-scepticism collected here.) As I said and still say:

Perhaps Republican voters aren’t yet willing to “settle” for Mitt Romney but despite the Union-Leader and all the rest of it, the great dog-abuser is still the prohibitive favourite, no matter what the polls say. This remains the case even as the press dwells on his rivals and finds ever more ingenious ways of suggesting Romney must be in some kind of trouble. The race needs a story and at the moment Newt’s main role is to provide that story. Fair enough, but not quite what’s needed to actually, you know, win.