Alex Massie compares Gingrich to Kerry:
Nominating Gingrich – that is, choosing the guy who makes you feel best about your team and doing so for kicks and the hell of it – might almost make sense if he were tasked with challenging a nigh-on unassailable incumbent. But the Republican nominee has a decent shot at winning the White House. This is not 1984 and nor is it 1972 or 1964. Selecting Gingrich would be an act of unpardonable folly and a declaration that the Republican party has lost its political bearings. That's fine but it's not serious politics. Newt isn't Kerry, he's Howard Dean. (And worse than that: he's also Newt!)
John Heilemann, on the other hand, likens Romney to Dole and Gingrich to Buchanan:
It wasn't just the Establishment rallying around Dole that slayed the dragon that threatened to trample over him; it was Dole himself suiting up in chainmail and running a sword through Buchanan's heart. If Romney can do the same to Gingrich, he will have earned his party's nomination — and if he can't, he never deserved the fucking thing in the first place.
The Dish 