[OKIEDOC]

I am a Newt fan most of the time but to tell you the truth he would not win with many moderates.

[Darkwolf377]

No Newt for the same reason no more Bushes, Clintons or Gore--in a nation of about 300 million people, we need new blood, not yet another rerun of the past.

Or, simply put: Too much baggage.

[NordP]

I like a man with ideas and the firm conviction to do something about them.

He's been in the private sector long enough to know how to actually get things done. He's been in the D.C. bubble long enough to know how to make things happen.

I can only give praise to someone who is jazzed about being a real part of the solution.

P.S. And I LOVE his interest and knowledge of history - so we don't repeat our mistakes ;-)

[rvoitier]

With all due respect sir,

"...with his impeccable conservative credentials"

Leaves wife on deathbed to marry the other woman--check
Has lesbian daughter--check
Helps broker tax-funded bailout of Mexican elites when peso collapsed--check
Can't communicate his great ideas--check

Having gotten that off my chest, I'd like to live in Newt's world.

[Poincare]

Newt is smart, but not as smart as he thinks, and that is dangerous. He jumps to conclusions that are not logically warranted. He needs some humility, and not just as a hat to wear.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Why not Newt?

Because Newt's a freak.

He's not as much a freak as McCain, and he's certainly not as much a freak as Hillary (not even in the same league), but he's still a freak.

That's my recent opinion of him, anyway.

[Candor7]

Newt would be fine, if he had been a soldier and served his country as a young patriot, as Duncan Hunter did. Newt is not prepared to do battle with the illogics of international Islamic Fascism, the illegal alien issue, the Russian incursions into the Arctic,or the Chinese economic hegemony, which threaten our nation.

Why not HUNTER?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Because he is just another CFR goon.

[AlaskaErik]

Why not Newt?

Too much baggage.

[muir_redwoods]

" Why not Newt?"

Because, despite all of his good qualities, he has perhaps the highest negatives of any Republican and is virtually unelectable.

[MNJohnnie]

Because he is an unprincipled opportunist.

An in the closet elitist who would sell his own mother if he thought it would get him a vote. If he is so willing to sell out now on Global Warming, Iraq etc, what would he sell us out on in office?

Newt is the Right's Bill Clinton. A glib, unprincipled attention whore who will do what ever the polls tell him to do. Newt has more in common with Hillary Clinton then any average conservative.

[nyyankeefan]

newt sidled up to the piaps....

he has as high negatives as she does!!!!

newt should just continue to write books!!!

[NonValueAdded]

Waaaaaaaay too much baggage. Idea man? great; leadership skills? he already crashed and burned.

[wgflyer]

I don’t think Newt is presidential material. He performed badly as speaker, given the momentum he came in with. He has great wisdom, but was unable to lead. It would be better to have him as an adviser.

[jer33 3]

I’ll agree with another poster that Newt would better serve as an adviser than as President. If the man could not honor his vows to his wife before the Lord, then why would be believe that he would act honorably as President. On the other hand... Go Hunter:-)

[\/\/ayne]

Because I never heard Gingrich explain if he was or was not being blackmailed to keep evidence out of the Judiciary Committee hearings during the impeachment beginning.

He stonewalled everything except the Monica stuff nobody cared about and we all wondered why? Why wasn't Billy Dale subpeonad for Travelgate and Filegate? What about John Huang? Juanita Broaddrick?

Pornographer Larry Flynt bragged he had information on Congressmen having affairs and they better not impeach Clinton or he'd use it. Later Gingrich suddenly resigned and it turned out he was one of those having an affair with a staffer while concentrating on Clinton's minor Monica related crimes.

Every time I see him on a TV show I change the channel. I really don't care what he says anymore. Perhaps he does have some good ideas, but it's too late for that in my mind.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Newt Gingrich would have no chance of being elected president. America has moved too far into socialism. Gingrich believes in Constitutional rule of law, the free enterprise economic system, private property, personal freedoms and liberty and that the U. S. should maintain a strong national defense. Furthermore he believes we should protect our national sovereignty and preserve and protect traditional American values.

[ArkansasBushfan]

Why not Newt, because he is a jerk. Let him go teach history.

[GBA]

I was a Newt fan until he had his global warming coming out “debating” with John F’in’ Kerry.

[ex-snook]

" Why not Newt? "

He's a neocon empire builder.