Newt Gingrich Slammed By Conservative Media Pundits (PHOTOS)

As Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls continues, the backlash against his campaign for president has begun. Prominent conservatives like Ann Coulter, George Will and David Brooks have started to voice concerns about the former Speaker of the House, comparing Gingrich to everything from a hand grenade to a 1960s-style reveler.

Peggy Noonan, writing in Saturday's Wall Street Journal, posited that most observations about Newt are accurate.

"Ethically dubious? True. Intelligent and accomplished? True. Has he known breathtaking success and contributed to real reforms in government? Yes. Presided over disasters? Absolutely. Can he lead? Yes. Is he erratic and unreliable as a leader? Yes. Egomaniacal? True. Original and focused, harebrained and impulsive -- all true," she wrote.

Here are some of the other criticisms levied against Gingrich in recent weeks:

Comments

[Makos62]

06:12 PM on 12/19/2011

Man, is Ann Coulter scary or what?

[wilsoncombatgrl]

03:33 PM on 12/19/2011

Ann looks like she could star in Tangled-GOP Style

[GoGrammie]

03:00 PM on 12/19/2011

Oh Newt. If only you knew the truth you MIGHT be able to tell it. You have real and I do mean real big problems when Anne Coulter who HATES Mitt Romney has such lovely things to say about you LOL. All true of course. Some people do know how to tell the truth even if I completely disagree. Wasn't but a month ago that Annie said that if the party didn't nominate Chris Christie, Mitt Romney would be the republican nominee and he would lose to Barack Obama. Looks like she'd rather have Obama than Newt to me!!!! God I hate to say this but "Anne Coulter you are oh oh ok right.

[tobo]

12:15 PM on 12/17/2011

All we hear is 'conservative media pundit' says this, another one says that. What happened to the Moderate republicans? Why don't they raise their voices? Or are they just scared their party will implode, and they will never ever be in charge of the USA again.

[GoGrammie]

03:03 PM on 12/19/2011

They are so afraid of the Tea Party that they awakened that they can't think straight. Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it. They did and look what happened.

[VioletDatura]

08:28 PM on 12/19/2011

Exactly right. The middle-ground Republicans know the Tea-Partiers are dangerous people.

[paid trawler]

10:44 AM on 12/16/2011

the flavor of the week, pompous vanilla philanderer, has been discontinued.

[Brett Tonaille]

07:26 PM on 12/15/2011

"Newt Gingrich is the "anti-Establishment" candidate only if "the Establishment" is defined as "anyone who remembers what happened the day before yesterday." "
Honestly - how can any Democrat top that?

[ash5114221]

12:58 PM on 12/14/2011

I think the Republican establishment is quaking in their boots over Newt getting the nomination. You already have ads by Ron Paul reminding voters in Iowa about Newt,and his past,his ego,his tendency to straddle both sides of an issue when it suits him. When alot of consertive pundits are sounding the alarm,and alot of Newt's cohorts from his speaker days arent shy about voicing their objections about him. Yeah,they all afraid that this guy might say or do something that will repell voters and before you know,theyre going Speaker Pelosi.

[Steven Rudin]

05:54 PM on 12/13/2011

I notice that no one, not even Republicans, ever mentions George W. Bush. He had a big role in getting us into the mess we are in now, but somehow the propagandists in the Republican party have managed to shift all the blame to President Obama. GW has been somehow erased from our collective memories. Maybe it is a a modern version of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" and we are in the dystopia alternate reality part of the film where GW gets his wish never to have been president at all.

[michaelnel4449]

11:13 AM on 12/14/2011

You are so right, just think if Obama had the same advantages as Bush when he stepped into the White House. Low unemployment, budget surplus, no wars, and millions of Americans who didn't hate him because of skin color.... I sure hope the GOP loses seats in the house.

[joemensa]

08:33 PM on 12/19/2011

if that were the case, then Obama would have had a lot more to ruin

[Chinawanderer]

02:57 AM on 12/16/2011

Of course no one from the GOP/Tea Party is going to mention GW Bush. Because to do so would be to admit that the world didn't begin in Jan. 2009 when Obama became president; it would mean the crash happened under a GOP president. If they admit that they may have to admit that the economic thinking that got us to be the most unequal of the advanced nations where nearly half of the people are either poor or near poor started with their patron saint Reagan.

To admit there was a Bush is to admit to a past; to admit there is a past is to suggest that there is something wrong with their ideas,

[GoGrammie]

03:10 PM on 12/19/2011

You know what I thought was so funny? The absolutely relieved look on GWB's face as he left that mess he made and boarded Air Force One to go home to his ranch, or was that the white house? I get confused because he spent more time in Texas than in Washington. He KNEW that our entire economic system had just taken a dive but that not everyone realized it yet. That look of relief on his face instead of nostalgia should have been a clue.

[Adam of CA]

02:42 PM on 12/13/2011

With 99% of the bloggers accurately condemning Mr. GetRich, who are the people who approve of him in the polls?
A major disconnect between pollers and the rest of the viewers (Republican leaders and InterNet readers) of the Republican campaign spectacle is being aired by TV media. This false polling data may result in a surprise victory of Ron Paul in the Iowa caucus.

[runtwelds]

02:35 PM on 12/13/2011

I have a feeling he will be as close to the Presidency as when he was speaker of the house. At least then he was second in line. Now, not so much.

[Nina Spencer]

02:24 PM on 12/13/2011

The other day I was watching a show on the History Channel about the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 30's. What really struck me ( and frankly, scared the hell out of me) was the similarity of their tactics to what the conservative right-wing teabaggers and evangelical biblethumpers are currently doing. They wrap themselves in the flag and spout patriotic jingoisms, claim that anyone who doesn't accept THEIR brand of religion is the enemy and pretend to be all about the Constitution all the while whittling away at the rights that are supposed to be protected there. They claim that the SCOTUS has no right to judge what is or isn't contitutional and that the president has the right to make and enforce whatever laws he (or she) sees fit to make. A theocracy would be bad enough but a nazi theocracy?! I truly hope that Americans WAKE THE HELL UP, before it is too late!!

[rdk70816]

01:04 PM on 12/15/2011

I don't think the TEA Bag movement in any way resemble the brown shirts that helped put Hitler in power. In fact, if you are looking for similarities, take a long and hard look at the Occupiers. Learn to discern.

[Bigjimi]

01:29 PM on 12/17/2011

It's your party Nina that has become irrational,I'd describe you as:"we think we are so smart we obviously know how everyone should run their lives,with we're the only enlightened ones point of view".You favor the few over the many,The Godless over God,theory over reality. A mass of educated fools !! God forbid,if there was a situation where technology failed,and you couldn't use your Iphone and the grocery stores were empty and Starbucks had no coffee.90% of you kind would die of shame within 2 weeks !!

[Roy Bi]

02:19 PM on 12/13/2011

No love from established firebrands such as Coulter, Will, Noonan, Krauthammer, Brooks, etc., means no nom.

[driverstest]

12:40 PM on 12/13/2011

Any of the GOP candidates would be a better choice than the status quo!

[Cary D]

03:06 PM on 12/19/2011

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
Good one!!!

[Cooking2]

12:21 PM on 12/13/2011

Newt's swan song is about to begin.

[den1953]

11:35 AM on 12/13/2011

One has to wonder just how much money and prestige Newt Gingrich will have from the Republican Party for running interference for Mitt Romney, what point will he hit the skids and fool the American people to vote for him. I smell a Herman Cain moment coming for Newt and long enough to carry on until the Republican convention, what better way to distract the media from asking Mitt Romney for interviews that he gave like the one Mitt had on Fox News? Is Newt working with the Republican Party to protect Mitt Romney, that is possible so that the Republican voters will have no choice right up to the end to vote for Mitt Romney?