Posted on 05/14/2007 10:24:54 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Monday, May 14, 2007 1:39 p.m. EDT
Newt Gingrich: 'Great Possibility' I’ll Run
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said there is a "great possibility" that he would join the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
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Not to me. Newt is too intelligent for the American people, has baggage, and believes in global farts.
Newt is very smart and very slimy.
He doesn’t have much chance in winning, but he will be a great conductor of all of the liberal BS that’s bound to be generated via the press and DNC.
And if nothing else, Newt will raise the level of debate,while at the same time force the Dems to answer some of the tough questions they would otherwise be given a pass on.
Run, Newt,Run!
This could get real interesting. Newt is smart enough to present the REAL ISSUES that are important to Americans, does not give a damn about the MSM, and would out-class Hitlery in a microsecond. He is a patriot, clearly a conservative in the right dimensions, is articulate, and would do the right things for our borders, the immigration DISASTER...and would spit in the eye of slimey socialist trash like Pelosi and Reid and Kennedy.
Yes, this could be interesting.
Any Republican running has “baggage”.
In fact, (as Rush says) even if they don’t have baggage, the drive by media will assign them baggage.
Newt blows away the rest of the RINOs running by a country mile.
He will be hounded and hounded about his “hypocrisy” (dems words not ours) during the Clinton administration. We will all go back to 1999 (or whatever exact year it was). Will we have to hear from the women he cheated with? Yes interesting indeed.
I’ll file this in “Interesting but Bad.”
Newt’s a much better color commentator than he ever was a quarterback.
please don’t run. You cheating on your wife and dating a woman much younger than you who works for you is not good for the conservative base. Yes, your personal life should not be a factor but it is and the dems will exploit this to the planet Jupiter and back. You soiled your reputation and all you did as speaker does not mean jack now.
VP, maybe......Prez, no way!
I don’t think so. Newt’s not the figure Fred Thompson is. Nor does he have the appeal that Romney has. He’s just another face in the mass.
Sure, he has had some great ideas, but his time came and went. I’m not interested in more baggage. We already have enough on our side.
One thought..........
Newt may not get the nomination for presidency but if he gets significant numbers at the primary, that may translate into support for the V.P. slot or a heavy weight advisor in the convention for the Republican Adminstration.
It’s all about power!
I agree.
“Newt is very smart and very slimy”
Verbatim : )
He could have been a great republican leader if he could overcome his narcissism and his pants coming unzipped.
| GOPUSA Poll |
| Which candidate has the best chance of winning the 2008 Republican presidential nomination? |
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Sam Brownback Bill Frist Newt Gingrich Rudy Giuliani Chuck Hagel Mike Huckabee Duncan Hunter John McCain George Pataki Condoleezza Rice Mitt Romney Tom Tancredo Other Total Votes: 14051 |
| GOPUSA Poll |
Isn’t he kind of a has-been? Seriously, I know he has a following, and I respect him, but if it’s between Osama-Obama and Newt, I just don’t see people getting excited about Newt. Just the way america is now- flash over substance.
Yes,just imagine!
Like I said, he can't win,but he can be a lightning rod that draws the liberal BS to himself, and directs it back on them.
Newt isn't afraid to turn those kind of questions around and shove them back down their collective throats, making the MSM look foolish, while getting his point across.
He would be able to say what others can't say without jeopardizing their candidacy!
>>He could have been a great republican leader if he could overcome his narcissism and his pants coming unzipped.<<
True. And that by definition is not leadership.
Sadly, Newt it guilty of visions of self-grandiosity and of desire that trumps conviction. Both halmarks of a weaker individual. Changing the way you view the world is one thing. Holding a world view and selling it out for pleasure or power is quite another.
I’m all about forgiveness on a personal level, but politics isn’t so forgiving.
Conspicuously absent from that poll is Fred Thompson.
Who do you see them getting excited by on our side? If not Newt, then another has been like Thompson? I don't think so. Let's face it, the choices are terrible: pretty faces or RINOs or true conservatives with no charisma who cannot appeal to swing voters. The exception might be Thompson but he has the extremely heavy baggage of being out of office for a long time and I think it is only 50-50 that he will run.
People call Newt arrogant and maybe he is, but he is also self-confident and comes across like someone who would not falter in a crisis, meaning like a leader. Newt is by far and away the most intelligent and best communicator of the pack (including Rudy).
On the other side it's not going to be a lightweight like Obama but someone extremely crafty like Edwards or Gore. Given the current choices I think Newt has to be seriously considered for 2008.
If Newt was all that smart, he would realize that he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hades.
If you can have knowledge of the very worst things that all of these candidates have ever done, I bet Romney aint looking to bad.
Agreed.
That is funny.
Newt hasn't even announced he's running, yet he still remains even with or ahead of Romney in most national polls. And Newt is far more conservative and intelligent then Romney. Romney raised more money then any Republican did in the first quarter, but he remains stuck in 3rd and 4th place. Newt may have a significant amount of personal baggage, but Giuliani has even more!
...and Ron Paul.
No chance in hell, but is helpful from the sidelines.
Blows them away in what way? morally? Condemning a sitting president for adultry while he was doing it too? HelOOo?.
Bottom line, Newt is a smart guy, very smart. But he just a conservative politico, and most effective that way. He is just looking for purpose for his later years. Its like you being the smartest guy in the room but nobody cares and you don’t know why. Just doesn’t have that auora. But a smart guy. did I say that already?......just in case, very smart guy.
That is NOT true!
Newt remained concentrated on Clinton's charges of perjury, his lying under oath. In fact, most Republicans didn't focus on Clinton's sexual adventures in the Oval Office and the bathroom sink. Newt's adventures were outside the Capitol building. Minor peccadillo`s at best.
Newt was directly responsible for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thats why the Dems and the LMSM went after him so hard. Newt saw the handwriting on the wall and he was burnt out with politics anyway.
Newt gave the GOP control of Congress for the first time in 40 years and advanced a strong Reagan agenda in the Contract With America. Newt's forgot more about history and current political events, then any of the other candidates on the GOP side --- COMBINED! LOL
And he has strong support among FReepers too. Check out the FR polls.
Newt's forgot more about history and current political events, then any of the other candidates on the GOP side ever knew --- COMBINED! LOL
Newt is as bad of an “Internationalist” as Bush has turned out to be.
lol. that WAS funny.
His time has passed
he even paid back the loan Bob Dole gave him.
I have always liked Dole. Never got a fair shake in his run for office. Not to warm, but MAN could he politic in his day.
With his “baggage” that we all now know about(adultery, hypocrisy) Newt couldn’t win a statewide race in Georgia much less a national one. Didn’t Thompson win a recent straw poll there? On top of that Newt’s as poisonous to a substantial portion of the electorate as the Hildabeast is.
He would be a sure blowout loser if at the top of the ticket and a substantial drag on a ticket if at #2.
Newt’s time has come and gone
So sorry.
True and I was with him until he signed on with the whole anthropogenic global warming thing. Newt will bring historical perspective to the race, though.
He does know a lot, but his "intelligence" gets overplayed here. Lots of folks on FR could think circles around Newt.
My thoughts exactly!
VP, maybe......Prez, no way!
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We have a problem. We need a candidate that can:
1. BEAT HITLERY.
2. Is conservative to the extent of protecting the Constitution, our borders, national defense, government taxation and spending, and will control the socialist agenda.
Any ideas ???
“Lots of folks on FR could think circles around Newt”
A couple hundred, methinks.
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