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Newt Gingrich: 'Great Possibility' I’ll Run
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Posted on 05/14/2007 10:24:54 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Monday, May 14, 2007 1:39 p.m. EDT

Newt Gingrich: 'Great Possibility' I’ll Run

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said there is a "great possibility" that he would join the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

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To: hopespringseternal

>>He could have been a great republican leader if he could overcome his narcissism and his pants coming unzipped.<<

True. And that by definition is not leadership.

Sadly, Newt it guilty of visions of self-grandiosity and of desire that trumps conviction. Both halmarks of a weaker individual. Changing the way you view the world is one thing. Holding a world view and selling it out for pleasure or power is quite another.

I’m all about forgiveness on a personal level, but politics isn’t so forgiving.


21 posted on 05/14/2007 11:01:16 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: familyop

Conspicuously absent from that poll is Fred Thompson.


22 posted on 05/14/2007 11:25:34 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (Run, Fred, run!)
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To: The Worthless Miracle; All
Isn’t he kind of a has-been? Seriously, I know he has a following, and I respect him, but if it’s between Osama-Obama and Newt, I just don’t see people getting excited about Newt. Just the way america is now- flash over substance.

Who do you see them getting excited by on our side? If not Newt, then another has been like Thompson? I don't think so. Let's face it, the choices are terrible: pretty faces or RINOs or true conservatives with no charisma who cannot appeal to swing voters. The exception might be Thompson but he has the extremely heavy baggage of being out of office for a long time and I think it is only 50-50 that he will run.

People call Newt arrogant and maybe he is, but he is also self-confident and comes across like someone who would not falter in a crisis, meaning like a leader. Newt is by far and away the most intelligent and best communicator of the pack (including Rudy).

On the other side it's not going to be a lightweight like Obama but someone extremely crafty like Edwards or Gore. Given the current choices I think Newt has to be seriously considered for 2008.

23 posted on 05/14/2007 11:25:56 PM PDT by Northern Alliance
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To: icwhatudo

If Newt was all that smart, he would realize that he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hades.


24 posted on 05/14/2007 11:30:07 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Bullish

If you can have knowledge of the very worst things that all of these candidates have ever done, I bet Romney aint looking to bad.


25 posted on 05/14/2007 11:57:31 PM PDT by jilley
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To: TomGuy
He can run, but he isn't going to get close to the nomination. If, by some change he does happen to get the nomination, the election would go to the Dems, even if they were running Donald Duck.

Agreed.

26 posted on 05/15/2007 12:07:56 AM PDT by paudio
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To: CheyennePress
>>>>>Nor does he have the appeal that Romney has.

That is funny.

Newt hasn't even announced he's running, yet he still remains even with or ahead of Romney in most national polls. And Newt is far more conservative and intelligent then Romney. Romney raised more money then any Republican did in the first quarter, but he remains stuck in 3rd and 4th place. Newt may have a significant amount of personal baggage, but Giuliani has even more!

27 posted on 05/15/2007 12:16:00 AM PDT by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: AlaskaErik

...and Ron Paul.


28 posted on 05/15/2007 12:18:44 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

No chance in hell, but is helpful from the sidelines.


29 posted on 05/15/2007 12:24:30 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Bullish

Blows them away in what way? morally? Condemning a sitting president for adultry while he was doing it too? HelOOo?.

Bottom line, Newt is a smart guy, very smart. But he just a conservative politico, and most effective that way. He is just looking for purpose for his later years. Its like you being the smartest guy in the room but nobody cares and you don’t know why. Just doesn’t have that auora. But a smart guy. did I say that already?......just in case, very smart guy.


30 posted on 05/15/2007 12:28:11 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
>>>>>Condemning a sitting president for adultry while he was doing it too?

That is NOT true!

Newt remained concentrated on Clinton's charges of perjury, his lying under oath. In fact, most Republicans didn't focus on Clinton's sexual adventures in the Oval Office and the bathroom sink. Newt's adventures were outside the Capitol building. Minor peccadillo`s at best.

Newt was directly responsible for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thats why the Dems and the LMSM went after him so hard. Newt saw the handwriting on the wall and he was burnt out with politics anyway.

Newt gave the GOP control of Congress for the first time in 40 years and advanced a strong Reagan agenda in the Contract With America. Newt's forgot more about history and current political events, then any of the other candidates on the GOP side --- COMBINED! LOL

And he has strong support among FReepers too. Check out the FR polls.

31 posted on 05/15/2007 12:43:35 AM PDT by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
correction:

Newt's forgot more about history and current political events, then any of the other candidates on the GOP side ever knew --- COMBINED! LOL

32 posted on 05/15/2007 12:53:14 AM PDT by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Newt is as bad of an “Internationalist” as Bush has turned out to be.


33 posted on 05/15/2007 12:55:23 AM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Reagan Man

lol. that WAS funny.


34 posted on 05/15/2007 2:22:15 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: stephenjohnbanker

His time has passed


35 posted on 05/15/2007 2:23:10 AM PDT by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: Reagan Man

he even paid back the loan Bob Dole gave him.

I have always liked Dole. Never got a fair shake in his run for office. Not to warm, but MAN could he politic in his day.


36 posted on 05/15/2007 2:23:41 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

With his “baggage” that we all now know about(adultery, hypocrisy) Newt couldn’t win a statewide race in Georgia much less a national one. Didn’t Thompson win a recent straw poll there? On top of that Newt’s as poisonous to a substantial portion of the electorate as the Hildabeast is.

He would be a sure blowout loser if at the top of the ticket and a substantial drag on a ticket if at #2.

Newt’s time has come and gone

So sorry.


37 posted on 05/15/2007 3:27:44 AM PDT by Neville72 (uist)
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To: Bullish
Newt blows away the rest of the RINOs running by a country mile.

True and I was with him until he signed on with the whole anthropogenic global warming thing. Newt will bring historical perspective to the race, though.

38 posted on 05/15/2007 4:35:10 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Newt is too intelligent for the American people

He does know a lot, but his "intelligence" gets overplayed here. Lots of folks on FR could think circles around Newt.

39 posted on 05/15/2007 4:38:23 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
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To: Coldwater Creek

My thoughts exactly!


40 posted on 05/15/2007 5:47:55 AM PDT by srmorton (Choose Life!)
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