No, he's not. He's not perfect in the same way that a hurricane is "not perfect" weather for a picnic.
Seriously, is this a joke? It's insane that anyone wants to draft this RINO loser to run for the Senate. If he campaigns as well as he did for President he may by able to surpass Jim Gillmore in the getting your butt kicked by Mark Warner department. And in some parallel universe where he'd actually get elected he'd join the GOPE frontbench and "take it to Obama" just as well as he took it to Clinton.p
So you recommend who?
You know what the irony is here? We can't find any prominent conservative politician willing to step up to the plate in Virginia for a Senate race, yet TONS of prominent politicians in Washington D.C. claim to be "from" another state that they're representing, when it reality they live in northern Virginia 11 months out of the year. Liz Cheney pretending to be "from" Wyoming because he dad was Congressman there 30 years ago is a perfect example of that. Before Newt decided to reinvent himself as a devout Catholic from Virginia, he was another beltway pol who claimed to be "from" Georgia when he spent the vast majority of his time in Virginia. It seems to become pretty commonplace when these guys become comfortable and entrenched DC insiders.
Rick Santorum was yet another example, one of the reasons he got killed in his 2006 re-election bid is that he claimed to represent Pennsylvania, but he was living in Virginia year-round and his constituents knew it. I said for years that Santorum and George Allen should have swapped states after they lost their re-election bids, and Santorum could have made a comeback by running for local office in Virginia (obviously a senate race for Santorum is a non-starter after his failed Presidential bid though)
In short, since none of the politicians who admit to being "from" Virginia seem willing to do it, the only big name powerhouse politician you could run would be someone who has lived in Virginia for decades but claims to represent someplace else where they grew up.
HAHA, Newt's busy on CNN Crossfire 6:30pm EST with (Obama’s) Stephanie Cutter and Van Jones .
He isnt running for anything, Neither is Palin.