I’m trying to picture the Newt Gingrich victory speech on the night of the Iowa Caucuses. I can’t get past the need for him to have throngs of supporters waving flags in delirious joy while chanting “Newt! Newt! Newt!” That simply isn’t going to happen. Is it?
Or, writ larger, imagine his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Can you do it? I can’t. It still belongs, for me at least, in the unfathomable category, beyond my ability to even conceive.
Something very strange and unanticipated is going to go down. I have no idea what it is, but no one is talking about it right now. If Romney fails, things are going to fly apart and there’s no telling where the pieces will land.
