After 33 years of marriage, I think the old timer was right!
Posted on 11/15/2006 8:39:52 AM PST by ConservativeMajority
Now that the 2006 midterm elections have almost all been decided, political observers are turning their attention toward the presidential sweepstakes in 2008. It will be the first race since 1952 that doesn’t have an incumbent president seeking re-election or vice-president looking for a promotion, leaving the field in both parties wide open. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and John Kerry top the list of about a dozen Democrats considering a White House run and Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are the names most frequently talked about for the Republican nomination.
With the official end of the 1994 Republican Revolution coming just a week ago, some have been openly wondering if the architect of the Contract With America will return to the political stage to once again lead the conservative movement with a bid for the White House. After attending an event with Newt Gingrich last night, it appears that the former House Speaker is not running for president - he’s waiting to be asked to serve.
Gingrich was interviewed by a restrained Chris Matthews and revealed the depth and breadth of his knowledge of American history. Gingrich, once a college professor, lectured the audience about how leaders like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt might deal with today’s problems and political environment. Woven into his responses to the over-matched talk show host, was an unmistakable affirmation of conservative principles that were abandoned by the Republican Congressional leadership just deposed.
More striking was Gingrich’s outlook for the upcoming presidential campaigns. He suggested that the current lack of effective leadership in both parties is the result of negative campaigns that appeal to the lowest common denominator. Gingrich believes that real leaders will emerge when “things get bad enough” for Americans to stop responding to the politics of personal destruction and seek candidates with a strong, defined, inspirational message. The underlying premise is that those who seek power will be turned aside in favor of someone who seeks to lead a nation.
It is clear that Gingrich believes he is such a man, as do I. He’s not running for anything, but it seems that he is waiting for his country to call.
So we lost your vote to the commies
I'd vote for Newt. He sure beats the current crop
Well, his comment could be taken two ways. I'd say that Newt is being low key.
When I'm on a project, I sit in the background, listen, and offer my assessment when asked. I don't stand up and jam my opinions down peoples' throats. Look at Kerry running in '04. "Reporting For Duty!" I would call that "arrogant."
Exactly. If he wanted to serve the Republican cause so badly he would still be Speaker.
Stop being a heretic and we'll forgive you.
That would be the time to have it.
I am a social conservative. Stop being so ignorant and condescending.
Id be for him, but you all know as well as I do they would be dragging his ex-wives and every piece of dirt from his life into the media.
Well, I'm a Christian and I don't know any other Christian who has denegrated Mr. Romney. Don't paint us all with such a broad and untrue brush. M
And there is never forgiveness in our ranks? Nobody knows what he went through in that relationship but Newt; and even if he was a selfish pig, does he ever get forgiveness and can he ever move on?
If we wait for a perfect person before we throw our support behind someone, we will be waiting a long time. Newt is an intelligent politician (almost an oxymoron). He speaks and acts thoughtfully on most issues. I would vote for him were he our choice in 08.
The story is that he divorced his first wife while she was in the hospital dying of cancer, which with the proper spin sounds cold and inhuman. Then, he had an affair with his assistant and was divorced from his sweet second wife, Maryanne, after the MSM got wind of it and splashed the news all over creation. In shame he resigned his Speakership just after winning reelection, turned tail and ran from Washington. His assistant later became his third wife.
All this in light of his forcing his Democrat predecessor, Speaker Jim Wright, from power for corruption in a suspicious book deal that might have been a payoff.
"Someone call him"
What's his number! I'm in!
(But how can he win, if he won't run....he obviously needs some money in his bank before he can even begin to make a move in the primary)
After 33 years of marriage, I think the old timer was right!
Newt, ole' buddy, better throw some spanish peanuts in your co'cola...you gotta long wait til that comes from me.....
pro-life and for traditional marriage only.
your post is almost entirely incorrect -- down to the spelling of the name of wife number 2.
God forbid that conservatives support someone who got divorced and remarried, like say, Ronald Reagan?
Has he buggered 17 year old pages? Has he drowned any staffers? Has he sold secrets to the Chinese? Has he perjured himself in court? Has he taken profits on the sale of land he doesn't own? Has he made deals for bribes with FBI agents who were posing as Arabs? Has his boyfriend run a gay prostitution ring out of his house?
Exactly what "baggage" does he have that precludes him from getting elected?
I think that the problem with perceived "baggage" on the Republican side is more aptly described as a problem that Republicans have defending themselves. If it were me and I were getting attacked like some of them have, I would turn the table and point out that while yes, I did fall out of love with my wife and into love with a staffer, at least I never drowned her.
No candidate is perfect. We just have a problem fighting back and pointing out the Dem's hypocrisy.
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