OPINION:
Republican primary voters, if the polls are to be believed, have an innate propensity to naively convince themselves they are taking expert aim at a Democratic presidential candidate with the nominee they select - only to discover in the general election that, by their selection, they have shot themselves in the proverbial foot.
From the Bob Dole and John McCain examples they will have learned nothing if, in that same inclination, they send Newt Gingrich to face President Obama in 2012. The thought of the morning after Mr. Obama’s re-election is vomit-inducing. Nonetheless, despite the clear reality that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the best hope of unseating this president, the GOP in pigheaded manner is threatening to coalesce around the one candidate cunning Democrats are licking their chops over as they wait to eviscerate him: Newt Gingrich.
Mr. Gingrich is, at this perilous point, a worse candidate than either Mr. Dole or Mr. McCain was.
MELVIN LAVERT
Rockville
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