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Newt’s a brainiac, and he’s well into his sixties. It’s to be expected that his full record will contain something for everyone to lament.

I’d urge everyone to view this montage of Gingrich comments from the Thanksgiving Family Forum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeRhTjvAkuQ

The comment that most impressed me there was this:

“I had to recognize how limited I was and how much I had to depend on [God]...if you said to me we were electing somebody who believed that they by themselves were strong enough to be president I would tell you that person terrifies me because they completely misunderstand how weak and how limited any human being is.”

Gingrich deserves a fair hearing and I say that as one who was initially reluctant to give him one. After having done so, I think we have an excellent candidate. He has the courage to fight, the skill to fight, and he knows the nature and weaknesses of the enemy like no other candidate in this race. He knows himself at last. He knows the need of God in our lives.

Also, I think that as a 70-year-old President, Newt will be a far different person than he was as a 50-year-old congressman. They’re two utterly different political roles and he now has an extra twenty years of wisdom. Yet politically he was conservative then, and still is. Maybe he has saved his best for last!

He’ll be, at the very least, a capable commander-in-chief. Wouldn’t surprise me if he became one of the greatest.