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The one everyone’s talking about: Mark Steyn dissects Newt in ‘National Review’

December 19, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

Mark Steyn writes:

In the eve of Iowa it seems the Republican base’s dream candidate is a Clinton-era retread who proclaims himself a third Roosevelt, with Taft’s waistline and twice as many ex-wives as the first 44 presidents combined; a lead zeppelin with more baggage than the Hindenburg; a self-help guru crossed with a K Street lobbyist, which means he’s helped himself on a scale few of us could dream of.

For this the Tea Party spent three years organizing and agitating?

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