'nuff said.
Not as long as he buys into the “man-made global warming” Gaia theology.
Newt would have made a good candidate last time and is certainly needed to set a conservative agenda this time.
'nuff said.
We saw this movie. It started out with some great action scenes, but by the end, it was all whining and idiotic sex scandals. Can’t the RNC come up with any new plots?
Newt has already said that he’s not interested.
Forget about Newt. We need new blood. We need to look into the future not he past.
He was in a position a long time ago to prevent the GOP’s socialist slide.
Maybe Newt, Nancy and Hillary can get together with Algore and be kinder gentler compassionate anti conservatives.
A cupie doll could have run the DNC in 2008 and been just as successful.
The Republican Party was leaderless, without message, and they nominated the biggest wimp-ass candidate (sorry McCain, I salute your integrity and service heroism in Vietnam, but in politics you stink .....) in history.
Even Bob Dole had more spunk and substance than McCain, and at least Dole didn't insult church-goers and conservatives every week like McCain.
Seriously, I am still convinced Romney was the GOP's best chance. Romney, despite whatever miscues he might have made in Mass 15 years ago, has the most going for him in 2008 .... looks, articulation, he LOOKED presidential ... as evidenced by the endorsements and support he got from Limbaugh, Hannity, Weyrich, Rick Santorum, Tancredo, Bob Jones III, Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter....
... and thousands of other very smart conservatives who wisely looked beyond the hateful anti-Romney invective which was spewed on FR and in southern evangelicle circles.
The GOP will never become a powerful leading party if it continues to reject decent Republicans like Mitt Romney simply because he is Mormon, or because he made a statement about gay rights 20 years ago, or whatever.
I'm still ticked, because what we ended up with is a decimated conservative Party headed up by the most anti-American President we've ever seen....
WHAT THE FREAK were conservative voters thinking in Fla, California, Iowa, and elsewhere when they picked McCain???
I'm still shellshocked.
Yawn
Newt may be good on political theory and strategy but when it came down to the arena Bill Clinton played him like a cheap fiddle. Let him write books and stay on tv where he belongs.
We need someone from OUTSIDE Washington,DC ....
If only for perception’s sake....
People just don’t want a leader who has been involved in getting us into the economic, energy mess we currently have.
Newt is certainly smart, but should take a behind the scenes roll.... which is where he would probably be more effective anyway.
Yes. His reputation is now as an erratic, wild liberal.
Newts whining would drive a grown man to drink.
Newt is irrelevant in the Republican party going forward.
He has become a moderate/liberal idealog.
Newt (a.k.a. Gasbag)
Newt Gingrich would be a great choice to lead the RNC.
There are many reasons, and having a man who once led a mid-term victory of 50 seats *IN THE EXACT SAME SCENARIO WE ARE IN TODAY* is a great choice, perhaps the best choice.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/11/newt-gingrich-for-rnc-chair.html
Without a leader who ‘gets it’ our efforts to rebuilt the party will be valiant but futile.
To that end, I think we need to draft Newt Gingrich to be RNC Chair:
1. He embraces the use of new technology
2. He shows he ‘gets it’ when it comes to leveraging grassroots networked movements, as shown by his American Solutions effort.
3. He is the most articulate spokesman we have and is high-profile enough to be able to represent the face of the Republican Party and carry some weight. He is a recognizable figure to unify the GOP that has no natural leader at this time. He can go toe-to-toe on Sunday talk shows, can and is already a draw for audiences.
4. Being an outsider of the past 8 years and a critic of Bush administration, he is not tainted by administration’s failures and subsequent unpopularity. He has critiqued the execution of the Iraq war, opposed the bailout, and been critical of administration on spending and immigration. In short, he stands with the people on issues that the Bush WH lost popular support over.
5. He has never wavered from solid conservative principles, taking popular and correct stands, on drilling, on the bailout, on spending, on fixing Iraq, on immigration. He has credibility with the Republican base.
6. He engineered the 1994 victory, and 2010, in our best-case scenario, could and should be a similar repeat. Who better to win in this situation than to bring out the man who won this type of battle before.
Newt should get a real job for a few years and then come back.