Newt leading the Contract With America back in 1994...ah, the good memories! :-)
Truman's memoirs included an appreciation of the need for histororical appreciation in order to lead our great land.
Newt's a great thinker and philosopher -- a historian and intellectual. I don't think he'd make it in the general election. I'd like to see him sign up as Rudy's Karl Rove. I think they'd make a great team and a great administration.
He is my choice too. He has some personal history/baggage that I have never seen a satisfactory explanation that he or anybody else gives (and he will be attacked on that for sure). My problem is that I can't expect ANY politician to be clean enough to be kosher. So, if I have to overlook somebodies problems anyway, I choose him.