Given Newt Gingrich’s strong debate performances, many strengths, and the state of the Republican field, he may no longer be toast.  (See my May 16 post Gingrich is Toast.) Speaker Gingrich is very smart, articulate, and highly knowledgeable, with extensive experience, wit, and guts. Stranger things could happen in a strange year in which the entire field has some amount of baggage. In the words of Brit Hume, “In this peculiar election cycle, who knows?”