Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may have lagged in the polls until recently, when he shot ahead of former frontrunner Rick Perry to land third behind Herman Cain and Mitt Romney in a CBS/New York Times poll released Tuesday — but he said Monday that his fight to get the nomination will be an uphill battle, but he’s got a lot of life left in him. While speaking with voters in Maquoketa, he compared himself to Bruce Willis‘s character in “The Sixth Sense,” “whom everyone else knew was dead but him,” saying that he’s still the candidate with the most experience and best ideas, and he expects his campaign to be “resurrected.” We all know Newt’s a movie buff — he recently admitted that he and wife Callista are big fans of “The Hangover” — but he might want to brush up on his cinematic analogies here, since the character in the “Sixth Sense” never actually comes back to life. (Still, there’s always the chance it’s a serious comparison, and — like Bruce’s character in the movie — Newt’s still the only one who doesn’t know he’s dead.)
