Former insurgent presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has been trying to help Trump with his campaign by saying over and over that he needs to calm down and look presidential. In comments made to the New York Times, Newt says that he’s shocked Trump is being so Trump:

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who has frequently praised Mr. Trump’s insurgent campaign, said the front-runner had made a series of bewildering and irrational mistakes. Mr. Trump’s campaign, he said, had failed to evolve beyond the “personal gunslinger, random-behavior model” characterized by the candidate. “None of the mistakes have been forced, and nobody forced him to react negatively,” Mr. Gingrich said. “It’s almost as though he is so full of himself that he can’t slow down and recognize that being president of the United States is a team sport that requires a stable personality, that allows other people to help him.”







Bewildering and irrational? And that’s coming from NEWT!! I guess he thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, that all this time Trump was simply pretending to be an insipid, childish moron, and that he would stop as he got closer to actually getting the nomination. Newty seems shocked to find out, as a lot of us have been saying, that Trump is just irrational.

It may still be enough, Republicans say, for Mr. Trump to win the barest of delegate majorities before the Cleveland convention. But had he taken a more deliberate and less divisive approach in the past two weeks, Mr. Trump’s nomination might be inevitable, and he might be less wounded as a candidate in November. “He would be miles ahead of this kind of junk,” Mr. Gingrich said, referring to Mr. Trump’s feuding over Mr. Lewandowski and Mrs. Cruz. “I don’t understand it. I don’t think it works.” As it is, Mr. Gingrich said, “I think he has a real possibility of, having surged amazingly, to miss the golden ring.”

How the might hath fallen. I was a whole-hearted supporter of Gingrich in 2012 because I thought he was all about the actual principles of conservatism against the spineless pragmatism of the GOP establishment elite.

Now it looks like he is willing to jettison all of those principles as long he can throw the establishment out of power.