From your Flag Page, Newt would be an Alpha Male Sheepdog.
My question to you is as follows: “What will be the effect of Newt Gingrich’s Presidential Campaign on the Republican Party?”
My assumption is that EVERY Republican Presidential Candidate has an effect, for better or for worse, on the Republican Party.
I’d like to read your comments.
I don’t have any idea what effect he would have, I do have an impression that he would not be as smothering of the conservative side as our GOP Presidents so invisibly, always are, Palin’s faction and conservatives would make gains under Newt, I don’t know the results of his out reach to the non-republican voters, but I do think that he would truly seek to enlarge the party, not just talk about it, which may not be totally pleasing.
I think there would be massive nasty fights with Newt, but that he is a big thinker that would do a superior job of managing those bloody internal fights, and keep the blood shed to as low as humanly possible, considering the level they are going to be at.
A Newt Presidency will be one of dramatic change, that means a lot of what we saw in the 1990s, and sometimes it will be conservatives taking the hits, I think that most of his battles will be with liberals of course, but under Newt I think that we will be shocked to see just how joined at the hip the political class of Washington is, regardless of the party uniform they wear.
Newt was fighting a messy war in the 90s because he was trying to break through the crust, his Presidency will be the same in that way, but he will have his experience as the speaker, his 20 years of analyzing and study since then, and he will have the Presidency, he could be a real history maker.
Correction or addition to Alpha male sheepdog:
Newt's mother was a Daughtery from the Donnybrook Clan
His biological father was a Mac Phearson
His step/adopted father, Gingrich, was a career military man
Therefore: Newton Leroy Daughtery-MacPhearson Gingrich is a Gaelic Warrior
Are those war pipes we're a-hearin.