I had not thought of that!
Excellent point!
Newt resigned for very similar reasons to what Sarah stated...
Hum, what say you Counterpunch?
What was that about quitters not needs to bother to run for President?
Newt did go on to do other things outside of political office... for 10 years now.
Perhaps he’s ready now to get back into elected office.
Perhaps not.
It’s up to him, isn’t it?
It’s not up to us to decide who runs for what office.
I think that’s the very thing that drove Sarah out of office.
Too many expectations and demands from her fans trying to plot her course for her.
But leaving congress after a long run and a climb to the top which has come to an end is different than abruptly leaving in the middle of your first and only term as governor. She doesn’t have much of a record like Newt did.
But if she can reenter politics at some point will depend on what she does after this, and how long she’s away.
She won’t be able to make a comeback before 2012, if that is what you’re hoping for. it would take years of reshaping her image, as Newt has successfully done.
But again, I don’t know that Newt would run for office again, or he would get very far.
It sure would make things interesting though if he did.
Lack of support from fellow Republicans in the face of lies and an all-out smear campaign at the very top. I will not excuse the personal stuff, only to say that unlike Vitter, who broke the law by engaging prostitutes and ought to have resigned, and Sanford, who lied to staff, ditched his security detail and abandoned his post and ought to resign, to name just two, Mr. Newt's foibles run along the judgment line, people shall have to determine accordingly.
But I continue to read from FReepers mis-characterization about the end of his first marriage, the end of his second, people are still getting the fine-business wrong. If those who purport to be Conservatives, well-thinking Americans can't get/keep this stuff straight, how are we to believe it will be accurately re-told by the presswhores to the General Voting Public should Mr. Newt decide to enter into a campaign, eh??
I do not see Gov. Palin as quitting so much as doing what is best for the people of Alaska, considering what it is costing THEM, money-wise and impediment to her ability to be effective-wise. My two lil' Lincolns.
See #77.