Posted on 10/18/2006 10:25:32 AM PDT by rob777
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has quietly positioned himself for a comeback to head the Republican Party as early as 2008.
GOP sources said Mr. Gingrich does not plan to run for president, but intends to be available as the savior of conservatives dismayed by candidates who seek to move the party to the left in the aftermath of George W. Bushs presidency. Over the last few months, Mr. Gingrich has become the favorite of conservatives and has outlined a new vision for the GOP that seeks for the party to return to the moral clarity of the late President Ronald Reagan.
I believe that whatever the results of the November elections, Newt will become a major force in the GOP for 2008," a senior Republican Party strategist said.
Mr. Gingrich has already become the choice of conservatives and the Christian Right. He has won the Human Events presidential straw poll for September, topping the list for the second month in a row.
The achievement marked a major boost for Mr. Gingrich. For much of 2006, Mr. Gingrich trailed Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, in the poll, but last month Mr. Gingrich led the House member by 31 to 17 percent.
Among conservatives, Mr. Gingrich is more popular than senior allies of President Bush and members of his administration. In the Human Events poll, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dropped to sixth place with 6.68 percent. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the president's younger brother, reached 3.37 percent in the presidential straw poll.
GOP sources said Mr. Gingrich decided to raise his profile in 2006, with the publication of a weekly newsletter and the gathering of a brain trust. Over the last few months, he has been campaigning for Republican candidates and commenting on both domestic and foreign issues.
On several issues, Mr. Gingrich has taken positions that differ with that of the administration. While Mr. Bush has urged diplomacy to deal with a nuclear North Korea, Mr. Gingrich has been calling for regime change that echoed the Reagan era and the president's efforts with then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the late Pope John Paul II to undermine the communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
"When you look at a country such as North Korea, you see tremendous poverty," Mr. Gingrich said in a radio interview last week. "You have to believe that there are thousands of people who might want to collaborate with the West. We're remarkably bureaucratic. Rather than work with the North Korean government, we ought to be cooperating with those willing to smuggle food into the country. We have to recognize what a bad dictatorship this is."
GOP sources said Mr. Gingrich will most likely not run for president in 2008. But they said he would seek to represent the conservative wing of the party, the endorsement of which would be regarded as crucial for any GOP nominee.
"It's obvious that in 2008, the party will move away from the Bush era and will be looking for a change in direction," another GOP source said. "I think Newt will be in a position to lay out a strategy that would appeal to both conservatives and old-line Republicans."
and before reagan, it never had one who was divorced.
she passed away several years ago.
Newt Gingrich/ben Stein in 2008
"The US has never had a President who was married three times."
Especially when two of the marriages were to the aides he was cheating on the previous wife with.
A man who will cheat on his wife will cheat you too. I don't trust cheaters.
Well, if he runs, you won't have any choice. It will be the main thing written about him.
"Are you referring to girl #1 or girl #2, since he is now on his third wife.
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Doesn't matter. He cheated on #1 with #2. Then he cheated on #2 with #3. He's a serial adulterer.
If a scientist found the cure for cancer, but was divorced 3 times, would you still take the medicine?
If a realtor could sell your home in this market, but was divorced, would you let him sell it?
Newt may or may not be great in a relationship, I don't know the specifics, but the man is very knowledgable in history and has a great conservative and realistic view of how our government should run. He's a great candidate and if the people here can't get over his marital troubles, then we will all lose in the end.
Newt Gingrich/Ben Stein in 2008
Newt Gingrich/Ben Stein in 2008
or
Ben Stein/Karl Rove, talk about demoncrap blood vessels bursting like gangbusters!!!
Neutered Newt still alive? Hmn!
You are completely ignoring Newt's involvement in this discussion. It is almost as if he is a passive observer and couldn't shape the discussion as he chooses, which couldn't be farther from the truth. If Newt were to run again it would be with something like the Contract with America. The media wouldn't have a choice on whether on not to discuss that. Newt has had several years to lick his wounds and prepare for the next round. It isn't 1999 again.
Any Republican who complained about Clinton's marital failures and thinks Newts are no big deal is a hypocrite
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Allegations of rape and Oval Office sodomy might account for the different points of view.
Wow...how is one worse than the other? A lie is a lie regardless(whether under oath or not).
Yes!!
No one can deny that Newt made some brilliant moves in 1994. Trouble is that at the first whine from the liberals, Newt chose to resign. How are we to believe he would not do the same thing, if he were President?
Infidelities aside (and I'm saying that ONLY for the sake of argument), Newt got rolled pretty badly on the government shutdown. No one that inept in the face of opposition -- even, or perhaps especially, unfair opposition -- should be President.
As much as I admire Newt's intellect and ability to take it to the dimcrats, I do sense that Gingrich's Achilles' heel is his desire to be liked.
He has been so banged up by the media as the scourge of all scrooges that I know he just couldn't make the tough decisions behind the Oval Office desk.
That was Clinton's fatal flaw (apart from that other one), and I fear Newt suffers the same disposition to please.
He's been married THREE times.
Newt walked the walk and talked the talk.
He did the stand up thing when he resigned.
unlike clinton.
Now that we KNOW and he has fallen on his sword, we can evuate his qualifications. The measure of a man is his deeds. When Newt had done wrong he then did the correct thing to right the wrong as was appropriate for his station.
However Newt can make a difference, in fact a R majority makes it an even better launch vehicle for him.
(remember the picture of all the elephants at Captiol Hill.)
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