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Fred Thompson's gone. Duncan Hunter's gone. All these people are gone. Huckabee could become Huckabeen — gone by next Tuesday. So could Rudy after next's Tuesday's Florida primary. All of a sudden you've got this Republican primary coming down to McCain, Romney, and Ron Paul. With all this uncertainty, just where can a conservative go? All of a sudden radio talk-show hosts, who reflect the opinions of grass-roots conservative voters, are all over the lot, hammering on Rudy, hammering on Romney, hammering on McCain, and hammering on Paul. Listening to them you get an idea who they want or don't...

Catherine Herridge just had a FOX NEWS ALERT, confirming two separate sources say Gingrich will NOT run for President in 2008.

My friend and all-around brilliant political analyst Patrick Ruffini deduces that Newt Gingrich has decided to enter the 2008 presidential race. He takes a look at Newt's pledge scheme and figures that Newt only needs to find 14,000 donors to contribute the maximum $2300 in order to reach the threshold of $30 million Newt demanded as a prerequisite to opening a nomination bid: Newt would need only 14,000 of his fans to flood the site with $2,300 "pledges" in order to declare a broad public groundswell for his candidacy. Sound far-fetched? You've seen what Ron Paul supporters do. You think...

WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich has shilly-shallied over a presidential bid for more than a year. In May, the former Republican House speaker said that his candidacy was a "great possibility." In June, he put the chances at "4-to-1 odds" against. So when Mr. Gingrich told a Fox News program Sunday that he would "feel a responsibility to run" if his aides could rustle up $30 million in campaign pledges in October, the questions only sharpened: Is he serious about running for the Republican nomination or just drawing attention to his newest cause as the party's gadfly in chief? His latest...

Newt Gingrich is telling Republican insiders that his decision in September whether to run for president in 2008 depends on the progress of Fred Thompson's imminent candidacy. If Thompson runs a vigorous and effective campaign, Gingrich says privately, he probably will not get in the race himself. If Thompson proves a dud, however, the former House speaker will seriously consider making a run. That implies that the others in the field look to Gingrich like losers in the general election. A footnote: Gingrich has weighed in more heavily on the immigration issue than any of the major Republican presidential hopefuls....

America offers great hope for those who believe rightly that the world is a very dangerous place. Partisan bickering in Washington, DC is at an all time high which has prevented our great country from leading in this dangerous world. It has also left our government in a very anemic state where mismanagement, as seen from the recent Hurricane Katrina fiasco, will become all the more commonplace in the future. We need change. Of those considering running for President in 2008, every one of them has an inherent problem that will not allow them to address the real challenges that...