CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER -"NEWT GINGRICH IS DONE."

With his usual savvy flair Charles Krauthammer makes a statement on the candidacy of Newt Gingrich in light of his flip flop on a mandated health care law and his attack on Paul Ryan's medicare reform. Newt has since apologized to Ryan and backtracked on his mandate statement on Meet The Depressed but the damage has already been done and Krauthammer may be right that Newt is done also.

It is a shame that Newt has become his own worst enemy already. Although I did not think he would get the nomination, I like Newt and his grasp on most issues as well as his intelligent solutions to many which would have made for an interesting debate as well as forcing others to step up to the plate in a way they may not have before his entrance into the race. But now Newt has almost made himself irrelevant and has a lot of work to do in order to dig himself out of the hole he as jumped in.

Ken Taylor