Is Newt Going to Run? (Candidacy Floated by Some Conservatives)

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2662371&page=1

Is Newt Going to Run?
Gingrich Candidacy Floated by Some Conservatives

Nov. 20, 2006 — He's been out of office for eight years, since resigning from Congress under an ethical cloud.

Yet, last month, he polled third behind John McCain and Rudy Giuliani among likely Republican voters. And he's been making headlines with his criticism of the Bush administration and the GOP leadership.

It may seem improbable, but Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, undone by numerous ethics charges and sinking popularity, is emerging as a potential contender in the 2008 race for the White House.

For some conservatives dismayed over the state of the GOP, especially in light of last week's election debacle, Gingrich looms as an attractive possibility. They don't trust McCain due to his independence streak, they worry about Giuliani's liberalism on social issues, and they're concerned that conservative candidate Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, doesn't have much name recognition.

[NNadir]

1. God, I hope so.

I hope he gets the nomination too.

I want an overwhelming Dem landslide in 2008.

[MADem]

6. Me, too! Mister "I Wed Three Wives" and got BJs while excoriating Clinton for doing the same!

Talk about a waddling, incessantly talking, writ-large representation in hypocritical family values!!!

[NNadir]

15. Clinton had three wives?!?

We all know Clinton had a BJ, but I didn't know that he was up there with Newt in number of wives.

[MADem]

17. No, Clinton only had the one wife.

Newt has two separate unelectablity issues.

The first is three wives.

The second is BJ's with his staffer, Calista (now wife three, at the time, simply covert paramour), in the Speeeeeeeeeeak-Ahhhhhhhh's chambahs ... and he should have locked those doors to keep wandering staffers who ratted him out to wife two out! Calista had to stipulate to 'sexual contact' with Newt on the witness stand in order to avoid being questioned in detail about precisely everything that she and Newt did. Newt got taken to the cleaners by Number Two as a result of his indiscretions. Serves him right.

[hippiechick]

9. GMTA !

:applause: Run Newt, RUN!!! :applause:

[central scrutinizer]

2. Oh, please, please do

It's hard to imagine someone more reprehensible

[flamingyouth]

3. What a laughing stock.

He'd be a great candidate - kind of like Pat Robertson was in '88.

[n2doc]

4. Newt/Rudi 2006

The multiple marrage ticket! It's a natural!:rofl:

[whistle]

5. Let Newt run, he apparently needs another dose of humiliation

:kick: Newt smells like "wet chicken":yoiks:

[triguy46]

7. Oh yeah, bring us another dose of family values...n/t

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. He started running a couple of weeks before his meeting with Hillary

Remember how he teamed up with her about "reforming" the high/rising costs of medicine by streamlining patient information? It was his opportunity to display an ability to work with the evil-incarnate as well as her opportunity to show she can still conduct business with an archenemy.

[lpbk2713]

10. I'd like to see that happen.

That sleazebag would make a real good spoiler for all the other gopper candidates. And I'm sure it would endear him to all his other fellow goppers immensely. :eyes:



Ed to add: He might want to consider Krazy Katie Harris as his running mate. Now that would be a perfect match.

[NanceGreggs]

11. Talk about the bottom of the barrel ...

... but I guess when they narrowed down the possibilities -- no pedophiles, no one under investigation for corruption, no one LIKELY to be under investigation between now and '08, no one with a throttled mistress -- the field to choose from was seriously whittled down.

[NOLADEM]

12. RUN NEWT RUN

That guy would be SO damn easy to defeat in the general election, we could run Kucinich/Sharpton and win. (NO offense guys, love you both)

Some wonderful quotes from Newt:

"If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. "

"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. "

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much."

"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. "

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."


“All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves.”

"We have 6,000 years of written historical experience in the Judeo-Christian tradition. We know the rules that work. We know that learning, study, working, saving, and commitment are vital. That is why Republicans would replace welfare with work."



Some of his better deeds and strengths:

-Served his wife with divorce papers while dying of cancer in the hospital.

-Was cheating on one wife with a House aide while the Clinton impeachment was underway.

-Corrupt as shit.

-He took a $4.5 Million book advance he was forced to return.

-To wit, he had 84 ethics violations filed against him during his stay in Washington and paid over $300K in fines to Congress. That's quite a jacket.

-Hilarious verbal gaffes. His class on the difference between men and women detailing how men are designed to hunt giraffes and other gems are so damn funny, in addition to being credibility destroyers.

-Architect of a failed revolution. He predicted the Repukes would pick up 30 seats in 1998 under his leadership. They instead lost five, the poorest results in 34 years for any party not in control of the White House, according to wiki.

-Despised by woman generally. So, that's not good since women got the vote. During the impeachment, he had a 28% approval rating among all likely voters.

All I can say is RUN NEWT RUN!!!!

[sarge43]

13. Ooooo, talk about a freebie campaign.

All the Democratic nominee would have to do is hold up that NY Post cartoon of Newt having the tizzy about traveling on Air Force One.

[gratuitous]

14. Welcome to the Silly Season

Anybody with name recognition gets floated right about now, and the names people have heard of (surprise!) get some support. McCain, Giuliani and Gingrich are polling the high numbers right now, and they have about as good a chance as I do of being the Repubulican nominee in 2008.

And somebody at ABC will pick up a paycheck this week for writing this drivel.

[dicknbush]

16. OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE>>>>

The Dems could raise enough money to last until the presidential election in 2024.

[lpbk2713]

18. Could we start a 'Vote for Newt' campaign?

He could be to the rethugs like Nader was to the Dems.