I could vote for him with the main reason being our Country is going to hell in a hand-basket. He knows it.
He has actually been pretty honest about the global warming stuff and said that it was a mistake and he was wrong. As for his “baggage,” a lot of that was really just Dem innuendo. They basically made him resign because he had been successful at getting the Contract with America passed and they were out for blood, so they used a completely trumped up concern about sales of his book (which was neither illegal nor unethical) to attack him.
The biggest problem, IMHO, is that it’s not certain that the GOP establishment would support him. It was basically the GOP and not the Dems that took him down earlier. The GOP head honchos were actually embarrassed by his success and accused him of not being conciliatory enough and being too partisan, and when the Dems attacked, the GOP just cut him loose.
The question is whether the party heads will accept him again. I don’t think they will. They want a Romney/Cain ticket and I think that’s what we’re going to get.
“The conventional wisdom is that Newt has too much personal baggage, but does it really matter?”
NO....not when people learn and change from their mistakes. From what I can see, he has. I also like that Mr. Gingrich GETS the WHOLE picture of what needs to be done (this includes not only restoring our free enterprise system, but re-shaping thinking on what it means to be AMERICAN and have real freedom, rebuilding our national security, developing sound foreign policy)....
...AND....the fact that it will be difficult, with the left fighting such change the whole way. He seems to have FULLY thought this out. I LIKE it!