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Newt Gingrich Eyes 2012 Run
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 03/06/2009 8:43:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: RobertoinAL
Thanks, I forgot to ad John Bolton to my list.

Michelle Bachman/Sarah Palin?/Duncan Hunter/Tom McClintock/Tom Tancredo/John Bolton

41 posted on 03/06/2009 9:09:29 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (FUBO, he says we should listen to our enemies, but not to Rush)
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To: Sub-Driver

Proof that narcissism is not the sole province of the Democrats....


42 posted on 03/06/2009 9:11:36 AM PST by r9etb
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To: maxter

“Open primaries next election?”

That’s one I’m torn on. I lived in a state where the Dems closed out everyone but Dems. The R’s had open. They gained many voters for years that way. But this last election...with many Rino’s running didn’t turn out so well with everyone being able to pick the ‘R’ candidate.


43 posted on 03/06/2009 9:12:52 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Sub-Driver

spare me. I think the issues are zipper control and blowing in the wind on most issues of the day.


44 posted on 03/06/2009 9:16:32 AM PST by sleepwalker (Palin 2012)
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To: GeronL
which party?

Global warming party

45 posted on 03/06/2009 9:17:49 AM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thanks but no thanks, Newt.

This party needs new blood, not recycled candidates.


46 posted on 03/06/2009 9:18:49 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Let the 2nd American Revolution begin!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

I won’t vote for Gingrich, and don’t expect him to be the nominee. If he is the nominee, hey, the damage is done, I won’t be voting in 2012. Or at any time thereafter, because, as I said, the damage is done. And I don’t like saying that, but Gingrich has been and would be a disaster, and we don’t need to take credit for the Obama disaster — since the best case scenario would be, Gingrich would win the White House in 2012 and then be cornholed by all his good friends across the aisle in Congress.

Gingrich came up with a great winning strategy in 1994, then squandered its results, and IMO *knew* that he was doing just that. He’s one of those nice third-rail type politicians who will reinforce negative stereotypes against Pubbies and conservatives, and sell both categories down the river in his hunger for power.


47 posted on 03/06/2009 9:19:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Sub-Driver

Two words.....

NEW BLOOD.

All of these “Has Beens” including Mr. Newt are yesterdays news.


48 posted on 03/06/2009 9:20:17 AM PST by Rebel Wolf (Not pounding my guns into plowshares)
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To: GeronL

lol


49 posted on 03/06/2009 9:35:05 AM PST by freeplancer
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To: All

He’ll get my vote. He’s more conservative then you think he is. Yes, the Pelosi commercial was a bad idea, but at least he can go toe to toe during debates.


50 posted on 03/06/2009 9:35:20 AM PST by excalibur1701
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To: excalibur1701

At least Newt Gingrich is an unapologetic true conservative!


51 posted on 03/06/2009 9:37:14 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day.


52 posted on 03/06/2009 9:38:54 AM PST by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Not my first choice, but not my last either. Newt has one thing that is sorely lacking in this party and it is ideas and intellectual capacity.

Great tactician, but a lot of baggage. I'd vote for him over Romney, McCain, and Huckabee.

53 posted on 03/06/2009 9:40:16 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Obama = Jimmy Carter II)
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To: SunkenCiv

Newt Gingrich and Dick Morris belong in the same category.


54 posted on 03/06/2009 9:48:57 AM PST by ValerieTexas
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To: Sub-Driver

For all his shortcomings, Newt is an intelligent guy. But if he wants any chance at a political future he needs to come clean on any and all of his mistakes and apologize, then lay out a clear plan for small-government conservative governance. But he’ll probably still not get far.


55 posted on 03/06/2009 9:54:05 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: Sub-Driver
Is he going to be making any more TV commercials with liberals?

Newt, old man, you were valuable in 1994. But not now. Take some time off and learn fly fishing or how to play the clarinet.

56 posted on 03/06/2009 10:14:55 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Sub-Driver

give him credit for contract with america but sorry, he is unelectable.


57 posted on 03/06/2009 10:16:36 AM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: Sub-Driver

'nuff said.

58 posted on 03/06/2009 10:18:45 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Another loser.


59 posted on 03/06/2009 10:18:56 AM PST by mulligan (A)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

even if he didn’t make any mistakes he is fundamentally unelectable. He’s like Rush: a bit too much in certain areas...


60 posted on 03/06/2009 10:19:52 AM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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