Posted on 01/31/2008 9:33:57 AM PST by SkyPilot
If the primary season reveals no decisive front-runner, and if conservative delegates head toward the GOP convention with the nagging feeling that our best candidate wasn't in the race, we urge them to consider acting on what so many Republicans and Reagan Democrats are thinking. Drafting Newt Gingrich is a real solution to the current leadership problem. Even as a vice presidential choice, Gingrich would solidify the ranks and reinforce the GOP's position as the party of bold ideas, but as a presidential choice he could bring about a truly needed Second Reagan Revolution.
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Are they daft ?
noway.
Never!
Newt is still guzzling AlGore’s climate-change Kool-Aid!
No, he turned into a newt, not a Newt.
Right, no way. Vote Romney. OR draft Hunter or Thompson. Newt is not the answer either.
Stupidest headline of the year. They’re making some kind of joke, right?
I’ve always like Newt, but I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in Hell that we’ll ever be Newtered...
Lock and Load.
Personal life choices screwed up Newt, nice guy, smart -
a waste of time talking about him running for President.
Is it too late for Dick Cheney to get in ?
Therin lies the rub!
Given the other choices ... I’m on board!
Newt has electability problems, and a few other minor issues — but compared to Romney or McCain, he’s Reagan reincarnated.
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With some of the stuff floating around FR think I need a tinfoil hat. Just say NO to Newt.
Wrong on all counts, IMHO.
I like Gingrich a lot. He is our itinerant philosopher, I like watching him in action as he takes his opponents apart and makes them like it. There isn’t anyone doing what he does, he goes on the road with his philosophical opposites, compliments whatever book they’re promoting, quotes from it approvingly, and dismantles them simultaneously, all with a smile on his face.
I love it.
But no one is going to draft anyone, its McCain or Romney. If its McCain, its a train wreck, there is no happy outcome. If its Romney, its 4 years of struggle to keep him from giving away the farm. Thats the plain truth of it.
Smart guy but completely unelectable.
“But no one is going to draft anyone, its McCain or Romney.”
Yep. I don’t see anybody pulling off an 11th hour miracle at this point. The last candidate that was drafted didn’t do so well.
Newt has jumped the shark just like McCain did.
I don’t trust bipartisan anything!
I don’t think so, Newt is not the same man (if he ever was anyway) he appeared to be in his “Contract With America” salad days.
Newt has great ideas, like English the official language, etc etc but he would never get elected against the dems.
why not ask if Mc Cain thinks English should be the official language along with many other questions the media are afraid to ask or won’t ask especially Fox?
Great...trading one moderate for another.
He does have great ideas and I think he is a brilliant speaker but I don’t trust him.
Newt missed his chance to be drafted around 40 years ago.
They will allow his past, personal history to remain in the past and will portray his life story with the evenhandedness and perspective provided all candidates.
The Left understands that it's really about what's best for the country, not which side wins.
The only way I can see myself voting for McCain is if he has a strong conservative (like Newt) in the second chair VP slot.
Isn't it?
I would be the same but then I think just how much of a hot head Mc Cain is, how he is so arrogant and never thinks anyone should question him
so in all that I think I still couldn’t vote for Mc Cain and to think I was so looking forward to voting in my first pres election since becoming an American
Oh. Dear. Lord.
Did you forget your sarcasm tags or is some one posting using your screen name?
Newt knows his stuff and he breaks it down into understandable language.
The next meeting of the draft Newt society will be held in a phone booth in Stone Mountain Ga. No reservations required.
And that is the least of it. He got dazzled by the Clintons--Bill, anyway. I can't remember how many times he spoke about Bill in amazement at his charisma, and said he (newt) just couldn't help himself in the face of the Clinton charm. Given Newt's propensity for straying, maybe he just envied Bill his coterie of admiring and willing women. Kneepads, anyone?
vaudine
If you need sarcasm tags you’re too stupid to post here.
Rush exposed Noot a few weeks ago as someone educated beyond his intelligence. A dufus who believes in a living and breathing conservative philosophy. No thanks!
No just no, but hell no.
Hell to the no!
Nah, don’t care much for Newt. Besides, they’d tear him apart in the campaign due to his somewhat ugly personal gaffs.
You can bet the farm...with all the Democrats, all the
Liberals, the blacks, Jews, gays, the non-Christians, unions, teachers, welfare moms, and 75% of the women....HILLARY will be the next president....take
this to the bank...
Last year I thought it would be good to have Newt run. But after conteplating the polarization of the electorate, and not in our favor, Newt would be the worst candidate to be the front-runner.
Her Thighness would win in a laugher just on the sympathy vote.
I think he'll have to. He'll need a solid conservative to shore up the base. He should also be relatively young, but that's flexible. Someone with no baggage (rules out Newt); you want a VP to bring you votes, not cost them.
Let me add to the NO vote.
Nope, a member of CFR. Instant disqualification in my book.
“you want a VP to bring you votes, not cost them.”
Newt as the VP will bring the conservative vote. Mcshamnesty doesn’t have that and we’re not just going to vote for him because he has an R after his name. We have to stand for something.
Some people have said put Condi Rice on as the VP. I’m just wondering if they are saying that because they are countering the Obama(black) Hillary(woman) thing. If so, it’s a ridiculous idea. We do not have to become democrats to defeat them. We defeat them with better ideas.
I would not be opposed to Condi on the ticket. However, I would have to hear what she actually believes first. I know that she is good on foreign policy. I need to hear what she believes in regards to social issues and fiscal policy.
I know I like what I hear about her views on gun control. She is totally against it and tells of the story of her father and others in Alabama patrolling the community as citizen militia with their shot guns. They could not get the police to contain or investigate crimes by the clan. She says that if they didn’t have gun rights, they could not be protected by the clan and had no help from the Jim Crow controlled sherrifs local politicians.
Ask twice a day.
Same answer.
Guess you told him!
Is the word Free on your home page a verb or an adjective?
Yeah ... a warm, smelly one.
It's from WND -- it's a joke, whether they meant to make one or not.
Not helpful. Can’t we do better? Apparently not, but why bother doing “as bad?”
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