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By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Newt Gingrich And The 2008 Election

Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Newt Gingrich And The 2008 Election — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:26:32 +0000

[...] As I’ve written before,? of all the potential candidates for the Republican nomination in 2008, Newt Gingrich is the one that interests me the most. Intellectually, he is so far above the likes of John McCain and Bill Frist, that there really isn’t any comparison. And, unlike many other candidates, he seems to be the only one talking about the future of the country in a way that shows he really cares about it. [...]

By: SteveKielt

SteveKielt — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:39:15 +0000

I’d encourage all of you to visit http://www.draftnewt.org and help organize the movement for real reform in Washington.

By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » The Gingrich Gambit

Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » The Gingrich Gambit — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:46 +0000

[...] I’ve written before, though, about the possibility of Newt Gingrich as the Republican nominee. And it looks like Ham feels the same way I do: [H]e has ideas?the real, concrete kind, the kind the Dems haven?t seen since they started spending all their time mustachioing Bush portraiture in new and inventive ways?and he articulates them well. [...]

By: Ed Levin, Jr.

Ed Levin, Jr. — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:22:07 +0000

I very much want to vote for Newt Gingrich.

I have been deeply frustrated by his failure to declare himself a candidate. Does he intend to participate in the early primaries, or just wait for a “vacuum” to “emerge”? Newt is so well informed and so good on his feet that I believe he can defeat any Democrat who “emerges” but he’s got to get in gear. In particular he’s also got to give early and potent competition to the likes of John McCain. Suppose there’s no “vacuum” because McCain is the front runner!?

John McCain has treated the First and Second Amendments in our Bill of Rights like his personal doormat. If McCain is the Republican candidate I will give serious consideration to voting Libertarian.

I expect the Republican Party to give us a proactive, truly conservative candidate (and spare us the so-called moderates), but the party needs someone capable in order to do it. How long does Newt intend to stay on the sidelines?

By: Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:05:47 +0000

James,

I figured that’s what you were talking about, and my point remains. Time has passed, people foreget. It may still piss-off the Religious Right, but they have to decide if they want to win, or if they want to be right.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:56:05 +0000

Actually, I’m not talking so much about the political baggage from his time as Speaker but the rather despicable circumstances surrounding his two divorces. Not exactly the personification of Family Values.

By: KipEsquire

KipEsquire — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:34:20 +0000

Well, he’s far more electable than Frist, Allen or Giuliani. And he would be a far less toxic president than McCain, who is just plain scary.

But I disagree with you about Hillary Clinton. I don’t think she is inevitable, and besides: if she is the Democratic nominee, then the Republicans win in 2008, regardless of who the nominee is.

Which could make the primary process very, very interesting.