[stephenjohnbanker]

Not to me. Newt is too intelligent for the American people, has baggage, and believes in global farts.

[icwhatudo]

Newt is very smart and very slimy.

[EagleUSA]

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.

[Bullish]

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.

[TomGuy]

Newt is too intelligent

Too arrogant, maybe, but I wouldn't say he is too intelligent. After all, when he went up against a sitting president with charges of impeachment, he was the one who ended up resigning his House Speakership. And that was just one of the several scandals and problems associated with the former Speaker.

He can run, but he isn't going to get close to the nomination. If, by some change he does happen to get the nomination, the election would go to the Dems, even if they were running Donald Duck. Most of the Dems and many of the GOP didn't like him in the mid 90s; and that hasn't changed. At most, he might get 25% of the vote. Him as nominee would cause a GOP landslide defeat comparable to Mondale's 13 electoral votes in 1984.

[tiger-one]

His time has passed

[Larry Lucido]

Newt is too intelligent for the American people

He does know a lot, but his "intelligence" gets overplayed here. Lots of folks on FR could think circles around Newt.