Newt Gingrich is saying all the right things

Newt Gingrich really wants to be president. He has written books, is giving speeches, and showing up on all the news shows. He spoke this week at the American Enterprist Institute on terrorism saying, 'we are not where we wanted to be nor where we need to be'. Newt agrees with Rumsfeld's statement 'that critics of the Iraq war are tantamount to Hitler's appeasers.

On Newt's website you can see all the books he has written, his upcoming speaking engagements and media appearances, and his opinion on a variety of topics. Some topics are nanotechnology, government, global warming, terrorism, the military, education, energy, money, women, border control and immigration, poverty, God in the public square, and on and on.

Mr. Gingrich holds a doctorate in history and has written several books on the subject. Last year he wrote 'Winning the Future: A Twenty-First Century Contract with America'.

I [Frank Luntz] asked one Republican public affairs consultant to explain Gingrich's resurgent popularity. "He's saying things that people want to hear, with strength and conviction," the consultant said, "and he's saying them with a conservative framework." Gingrich has the background and the imagination, the consultant continued, to make a claim, once more, for leadership of the conservative movement. "The most important thing in politics is to be in motion," the consultant went on. "And he's in motion." source

Could Mr. Gingrich win a presidential election and if so, would he follow through on all his ideas?

At the American Enterprise Institute, he called for "absolute control of our borders," "decisive port security," a "civil defense effort which truly prepares us to minimize casualties in either a nuclear or biological attack," a "lot more thought and effort given to prepare the immediate responders for the more dangerous world we are facing," an "integrated system . . . which sets metrics and accountability," a "'one war' model in which everything in a country is done in a coordinated, integrated manner," a "new war budget," a "national security senior service . . . which would allow people to move across a range of assignments in the national security field," a "strategic energy policy which is explicitly aimed at making the Persian Gulf and the dictatorships less wealthy and less important," a "serious intellectual, educational, and communications strategy," and a "real role" for Congress to play in the coordination of all this. And that's only in the continental United States. Gingrich's speech included policies for Afghanistan (three bullet points), Iraq (four), and North Korea (three).

It also included policies for Iran. Gingrich said he opposes military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities because "I think it is inadequate." He wants to replace the Iranian regime, using a "Reaganite" strategy involving aid to rebel groups and diplomatic and economic pressure. source

Red Sky has an extensive history on Newt Gingrich as well as all the other potential presidential candidates for 2008. Go read them if you are serious about truly knowing the candidates.

In the latest GOP Straw Poll via bRight&Early, Newt seems to be doing ok. What do you think? Who would you like to see as president of the United States of America in 2008?

Comments

[shlemazl]

I vote McCain or Guliani! Shame I don't have a vote :-)

[Debbie]

Well, dt and Tommy, I got nothing but positive responses for the new colors on the day I switched over. Most folks said this design is easier to read than the black/white. Personally, I liked the black/white better myself. I may switch back.

[dt]

I like Newt ok. I would love to see Sam Brownback as President. As far as Newt goes, people really need to check in to his ties with the New Age movement.
Black backround was much better.

[Thomas Hamilton]

I like Newt, always have. If he had remained speaker I always wounder if the Contract With America would have been fullfilled rather than sent to the dustbin of history.

By the way, I like your old black background better.