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Newt doesn't lack organizational skills. He balances budgets and reforms programs like welfare.

Time Magazine's Person of the Year: Newt Gingrich 1995

LEADERS MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE. EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.

All year—ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously—he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. Not so long ago, the idea of a balanced budget was a marginal, we'll-get-to-it-someday priority. Other urgent work needed doing: the Clintons’ health-care program, for example, which would have installed elaborate new bureaucratic machinery. Today, because of Newt Gingrich, the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when.

Gingrich has changed the center of gravity. From Franklin Roosevelt onward, Americans came to accept...

NEWT GINGRICH'S WORLD By LANCE MORROW Monday, Dec. 25, 1995

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983876,00.html#ixzz1iD3SsmPW

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Time mag is not a very convincing source here.

Newt is my guy so don't get me wrong. But you have to admit its odd for a candidate as experienced as Newt to find all his staff leaving him while he goes on a cruise with the wifey at a seemingly crucial time in the race.