Newt Gingrich has everything going for him except he has one major problem. He is Newt Gingrich

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/why-newt-gingrich-will-never-be-president/248456/

Why Newt Gingrich Will Never Be President

Nov 16 2011, 11:35 AM ET 1

Thin-skinned, self-regarding and with a long and tangled political and personal history, the former speaker's rise in the polls means nothing

Newt Gingrich has shot to the top tier in several recent national polls of Republican presidential hopefuls, becoming the latest beneficiary of GOP skepticism about Mitt Romney as well as the troubles of Herman Cain and Rick Perry.

But many Republican observers still doubt that Gingrich could ever be their nominee, much less president.

Undisciplined, angry, thin-skinned and unpopular with many Republicans, not to mention independent voters, Gingrich has up till now been running what many considered a vanity campaign to sell books and increase his speaking fees and national profile. No Republican operatives I've spoken with think he's a threat to become the nominee, even now.

[SheilaT]

1. Many years ago, when he was first

coming into public awareness, a friend said that his name sounded like an obscure but disfiguring skin disease.

[HopeHoops]

2. That's an excellent way to put it.