Posted on 05/14/2007 10:24:54 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
>>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!
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