President Gingrich?: Newt ignites speculation he's seeking White House

WorldNetDaily ^ | 4/17/05 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

Will the 2008 presidential race be a contest between Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich?

Speculation is spreading this weekend as the former speaker of the House is reported to be "plotting an eye-catching comeback," according to London's Sunday Times.

Gingrich, the Republican revolutionary who designed the GOP's "Contract with America" in the 1990s, is spending tomorrow and Tuesday in New Hampshire, before heading next month to Iowa, two states at the vanguard of presidential campaigning with their early primaries.

In fact, he mentioned both in a comment last week, stating, "If I want to be effective at defining the idea framework for 2008, there's nothing I can do that's more effective than go to New Hampshire and Iowa. That's the place to get your attention."

But when asked about a White House run, Gingrich replied, "That's a conversation we ought to have in the summer of 2007. The minute I talk about candidacy ... everyone is going to get into horserace baloney. From now until 2007 we ought not to focus on personal ambition."

It's been seven years since Gingrich has been in office, where he served as House speaker from Georgia.

"Is there a vacancy for an outsider? I couldn't agree more," Gingrich told the Times. "I think there's a huge vacuum in the Republican leadership. We're going to have a huge struggle over the next four years, but that's good. I'm delighted to be part of that ferment."

He dismissed suggestions the GOP might split between conservative and moderate groups, given no automatic successor to President Bush.

"We are the natural governing majority party of America today," he said. "There's far greater danger of the Democrats being a desert of intellectual barrenness than there is of the Republicans splitting up."

But he also warned against overconfidence.

"I think Senator Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee," he said. "She is professional, smart, systematic and she is moving to the center in a very rational way," noting neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton have lost an election in the past 25 years.

"Any Republican who thinks we are going to beat her easily does not have a clue about the history of the last 30 years."

In New Hampshire, Gingrich is the keynote speaker a GOP state party fund-raiser near Manchester. He'll also be at book-signings promoting his latest work, "Winning the Future," and visiting editorial boards of at least three newspapers.

"Is Newt Gingrich a contender?'' New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Warren Henderson asked the Boston Herald. "He is if he wants to be. He will command attention.''

When asked Thursday by the Nashua Telegraph about a White House run in three years, Gingrich did not rule it out.

"I'm not even thinking of 2008," he told the paper. "I am interested in moving the ideas a lot more than moving Newt Gingrich."

He gave Bush high marks for addressing the problems with Social Security.

"I admire the president's courage. He has taken up exactly the right issue, but it has not been done with the right focus."

He told the Telegraph Bush needs to zero in on present-day losses for young people who could be investing their tax dollars on Wall Street.

"You can't get the American people worried about a government problem 15 or 17 years from this time," he said.

Gingrich is looking to expand the Contract with America by stopping the slide toward secularism by the courts and government schools, and put the Creator back as the source of all liberties.

He also seeks the teaching of patriotic education, incentives for students to become math and science teachers, and more investment in intelligence to combat terrorists.

"These things are going to be hard," he told the Telegraph. "There is no magic bullet. There is no survivor TV show where you sit on a beach and say, 'Gee, let's win the contest and take this thing by next Tuesday. This is real-live survival. That takes time."

[Bommer]

Doesn't matter. He was divorced! Theres always 1 party guilty. Doesn't change the fact.

[Ann Archy]

Get real! Of COURSE it makes a difference. You SAID he CHEATED on Jane Wyan andhe did NO SUCH THING....ow apologize for not getting the facts correct.

[Bommer]

Your liar

"Reagan broke his to Jane Wyman. He turned out fine!"

Where did I asy he cheated?

[mlmr]

I cannot tell you how much I agree with you. this is not a man to carry the banner for the Republican party.

[Inspectorette]

How did he break his marriage vows to her, then? Please explain.

[panaxanax]

Any man that would serve his wife with divorce papers while she is in the hospital with cancer WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT of this country.

[mlmr]

He has too much baggage and I cannot see him nominated.

If Delay shines through this problem, he would be a great candidate. We need a candidate who can stare the Dims down and win.

[pepperdog]

Unfortunately you are right. There is no way Newt can be resuscitated into an acceptable candidate. Mores the pity. He is a brilliant man, but some conservatives think that he kicked them in the teeth with his "zipper problem". I know of one conservative woman who might even vote Dem if Newt were to run--that is how outraged she was. No, we need to find someone else.

[Liz]

Jane Wyman has consistently said---and all of the Reagan biographies confirm---that she asked for the divorce---that Ronnie did not want the marriage to end.

Ronnie was devastated long after the marriage was dissolved......at Jane's insistence.

[jla]

Newt stirs up a lot of dissension in the G.O.P. ranks.

[Liz]

I trust that a better candidate will come forth. We have too much at stake to run with someone who lacks integrity.

As Jer33 3 suggests, Gingrich has too much negative moral baggage---as does Guiliani. These two might have made it through a primary before 2004. Now, it's a new day. The political bar of integrity is very high in response to the cultural decline and moral degradation our Nation has experienced through liberal secularism. This map tells the story. We need candidates who can attract this vote.

The impact of 2004 Values Voters---the Catholic, Black, and denominational religious vote----is so striking, even Hillary is trying to look like Mother Teresa.

Conservative pro-life Christian voters made monumental contributions to GWB's 2004 vote totals. Pres Bush won with 63 Million Votes (13 million more than 2000).

The map, though impressive, conveys the misleading impression that blue state Catholics voted for Kerry (a CINO).

According to EWTN "The World Over Live" analysts, with the exception of VA, where Catholics spit 70/30 in favor of Bush, the majority of Catholic voters split 55/45 for Bush.....a whopping number of votes since Catholics number about 52 million Americans.

According to CNN exit polls, Bush voters included 38% of union members, 40% of those with union members in their households, 42% of those earning $15,000-$30,000, 44% of those who earn under $50,000 and 44% of Latinos, 45% of youth (aged 18-29), 13% of liberals—even 11% of Democrats voted for Bush.

2004 Election polls indicated 34% called themselves conservative, 21% liberal.

The National Association of Evangelicals represents 39 million churchgoers. There are an estimated one billion Catholics around the world, and according to the Church of England, there are 70 million Anglicans. America's census bureau said 159 million US citizens describe themselves as Christians.

If you look closely, the map appears to place the insignificant "Other Voters" in the ocean.....that's accurate, because "Other Voters--RINO Republicans" were on cruise ships while the rest of Americans were home working.

(MAP UPDATE Bush won Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico later.)

[Inspectorette]

I think most of us who loved President Reagan knew that - I was just wanting to see what Bommer was talking about when he/she said that President Reagan had broken his marriage vows. Hmmm - wonder where Bommer went?

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for the ping! I was privileged to hear Senator Allen speak yesterday morning at the GOP Convention and he was awesome. He is conservative, religious, and a man with integrity. Senator Allen had the support of the Oklahoma activists following his speech. One of the best speeches I have ever heard.

[Liz]

It was a testimony to Regan's integrity that even working in Hollywood with all the accomodating starlets hanging around, he never strayed from the marriage bed.

[firewalk]

I will not vote for him...

[30-06 Springfield]

You might want to have a talk with your namesake cousin. Tell him he needs to write a book or two and live happily ever after.

[Salamander]

Just because I'm an amphibious hillbilly doesn't mean I know or am related to all the *other* amphibians in the swamp....LOL!

What kind of person names their kid "Newt" anyway?

[Zivasmate]

Newt will never make it to the White House; his political
electibility is past its prime. But I'd love to see Bush push
for newt to replace Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the UN. Or am I dreaming?

[cubreporter]

all that being true, ther had to be some other reason that Gov Bush did not intevene. I do not with my whole heart, soul and being believe he just let her die. You may but no amount of articles will ever convince me of that. There is more to it than you or I know but...I know it was not lack of caring on Gov Bush's part. No way, no how.