[federal__reserve]

If Newt wins, we lose, and it’s amazing to me that this has to be said at Free Republic.

I am new here and even I am shocked at the "love" Newt has found on FR. Most troubling to me is like you said, he believes in "Government can solve problems" thing.

His 3 marriages and adultery aside, his complete lack of real world main street business experience, his partnering with extreme liberals such as Sharpton, Pelosi & Hillary, and his rejecting Paul Ryan's courageous plan to trim spending, scares the xxxx out of me.

On the plus side there will be no one better than Newt during the one on one debates with Obama. Obama might just refuse to debate, and then it won'[t matter. I also think Newt has a very useful role to play as the president's liaison with congress.

[HMS Surprise]

Newt would win the debates, but he would lose the election imho. Gingrich carries a lot of baggage, and his wife looks like a freak. I personally don’t care about that, but it’s lunacy to not consider such items when you are choosing. Many people will vote against him for mundane reasons like that. It’s just human nature.

[vaudine]

I'm confused about Newt and marriage. He first married an older woman, former teacher of his in GA. While she was in hospital, he divorced her, remarried. Wife #2 came to DC with him; he left her for a staffer, I thought, married the staffer. But as I recall, this woman was younger than Calista is. I thought he cheated on the ex staffer wife and THEN married Calista. That would be wife #4. Where is my history wrong?

vaudine

[MHGinTN]

Tell me what you find incorrect in the following video of Newt explaining his new Contract agenda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_hd23sdf4CE

[freedomfiter2]

Even here, people seem to approach politics like a horse race where the only thing that counts is that you are backing the one that gets the nomination.