Posted on 04/12/2005 11:40:25 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Unelectable, with too much personal baggage and too much ideology. He should just return to the class room where he really shines, and forget about running for president.
Name a Republican who is electable this go round?
The pickin's is slim.
Its going to be tough going. I don't see anyone and Newt cannot win a presidential election. Alot of people DO NOT like him!
Newt winning the primaries would be "centrist" Hillary!'s dream come true.
I agree. That would ensure another Clinton WhiteHouse!
I'd love to see him run. I like him much more than any other candidate I've heard mentioned so far.
Rep.Mike Pence is very electable-Once people know who he is.
What ideology is that? Certainly not conservatism.
“Apart from Ronald Reagan, there has been no voice more clarion in the conservative movement than Newt Gingrich in the last 25 years,” said Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus of about 100 conservatives in the House. “I know that conservatives because of their respect and affection for him are going to take a real hard look at Gingrich.” Pence said conservatives would also consider carefully Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) should they decide to run for president, as many political observers expect.
Pence recalled his days as a House candidate, driving around the district listening to GOPAC tapes of Gingrich explaining how to communicate the tenets of conservatism.
“The man has a genuine gift for inspiring passion for conservative ideals,” Pence said. “That used to come across on tape.”
You gotta love Pence.He is far to nice to EVERYONE.He would
find nice things to say about his biggest enemy.It is impossible not to like Pence personally,even the liberals think he is a decent man.
When I read this I thought, are we THAT desperate in choosing a leader in 2008 that we would have to choose Newt Gingrich? Isn't there anyone else?
However, I do not see Newt winning the presidency, nor even the nomination. This is not to say he isn't smart or visionary.
The media would be after him in a full-court press, it would galvanize the left in ways we can't even beging to imagine, and a fair number of people would be turned off by his personal life.
This is also why I do not see Rudy Guiliani running.
On the other hand, I WOULD like to see Mike Pence run. He is conservative, honest, genuinely nice, and has no baggage. The only thing he lacks is national name recognition, which I don't know if he can get prior to the primaries.
It is right in front of your face:MIKE PENCE
Don't know him! He's not well known outside of his state like most Senators and Congressmen (except for the lousy ones like McCain and Frist). These Congressmen and Senators need to come out more.
Anything that pushes the race to the right, makes it more competitive, and challenges canidates, while preparing them for the general election is a good thing.
That said, Newt would be better off as a political operative rather then as a canidate, he's more suited to fill a "Karl Rove" type role as an advisor, he lacks to much as a canidate.
THAT I totally agree with.
Those characteristics got Clinton elected twice!
Only because the conservative vote was split and the GOP candidates hired the single worst campaign director ever.
I like Newt. That having been said, he's got no shot.
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