I’m tired of hearing “Newt is damaged goods”, “Newt has too much baggage”, “Newt is unelectable”, “Newt is irrelevant”, blah, blah, blah. BS. Obama’s coke use, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, and total inexperience SHOULD have made Obama unelectable, yet he won by a wide margin. Mitt’s “Romneycare” is worse baggage than any of Newt’s past issues.
A big part of winning the next election will be winning the public debate of ideas. If you could pick ONE candidate to debate Obama in (9) ninety-minute debates with NO moderator (...which is what Newt will force Obama to do...), who would it be? I bet 9 out of every 10 people here would want Newt Gingrich to be that guy. It means something to dominate debates in the way Newt does.
Newt vs Obama in a debate would be more brutal that Dick Cheney vs. John Edwards. Much more brutal. I really want to see that. I don’t care what the media says about Newt’s “baggage”. He has my full support.
I would love to see that debate. There is no doubt that Newt is really smart and in command of the facts. Given that every candidate has strikes against them, I agree that it is way too early to dismiss Newt and say he had too much baggage. We need to watch things unfold.