03-01-2007, 16:06
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Newt Gingrich
If he runs for President, would you support him?
http://www.newt.org/default.asp
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03-01-2007, 16:33
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Yes, but I do not think he could get elected POTUS these days.
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03-01-2007, 18:03
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He's extremely intelligent. Was the first I heard to propse a 21st Century Transformation of State Dept.
He's just way to devisive to get elected as #1 on the ticket...perhaps too devisive for even #2.
Was thinking about this last night. I think Newt serves the Repubs best by going far right to make other Repubs look more moderate.... 
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03-01-2007, 22:21
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I am still holding out hope Newt will run and make an announcement in September.
http://www.draftnewt.org/
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03-01-2007, 22:32
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I prefer this site:
http://www.draftthereaper.com
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03-01-2007, 22:37
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Agreed - That would be the best choice.......
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03-01-2007, 22:43
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January 31, 2007
By Matthew Bigg
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Wednesday he would wait until September before deciding whether to run for the Republican party's presidential nomination and described that race as "wide open."
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03-02-2007, 05:57
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Would work but the election would need to be limited to only those who actually have gray matter in their skulls.
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03-02-2007, 07:01
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I hope he run's and I think he would win. I just heard on the radio about a recent poll. It asked republicans, "if you had to vote today for a republican nominee for president, who would you choose." Newt got 41% the next closest was giulianni, but he was way behind.
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03-02-2007, 08:49
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Newt would get my support. I think we could use a little devisiveness. I feel the Democrat gains in the House and Senate were due more to the Republicans forgetting who they were and not sticking to their principles. I wonder if Americans can pull themselves from E! long enough to do some serious critical thinking about the direction our nation seems to be heading?
The last POTUS from GA made us look bad, and I'd like us to have a little redemption. 
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03-02-2007, 14:16
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Newt is a brilliant man.
But like all of the leaders in the modern conservative movement, he's full of it.
The champion of "family values" has been married three times, and banging a congressional aide (now his wife) while he was married at the same time he leading the Clinton Impeachment. The Starr report which ushered in the impeachment proceedings cost taxpayers $40 million, interestingly enough the 9/11 Commission had a budget of $15 million, I swearing we are fooking amusing ourselves to death! But I digress.
It would be interesting to see if the same zeal is going to be applied Newt’s service record like it was to John Kerry’s or Bill Clinton’s nonexistent record. Newt received a student and family deferment at the age of 19 when he got married. And whom did he marry? One of his teachers! Seeing as how the modern conservative leadership could careless about fiscal responsibility I’m sure they’ll turn a blind eye to his bouncing 22 checks as a congressman
Did I mention he served his wife divorce papers when she was in the hospital getting treatment for her cancer?
But at least he’s better than those liberals! They want to smoke meth and bugger your son; they want to turn our nation into an atheist-muslim Woodstock style orgy of multiculturalism. The rapture is near!
Did I mention how I think he is brilliant?
Zinni/Mattis for 2008!
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03-02-2007, 15:11
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Newt would get my vote.....
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03-02-2007, 15:27
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Yes I would vote for him. I also believe he will announce his candidacy after all the RINO's continue spending the next 7 or 8 months battering conservatives with the present "I'm really one of you...really!" speeches/interviews. As they say in politics timing is everything.
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03-02-2007, 18:13
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Originally Posted by tk27
Newt is a brilliant man.
But like all of the leaders in the modern conservative movement, he's full of it.
The champion of "family values" has been married three times, and banging a congressional aide (now his wife) while he was married at the same time he leading the Clinton Impeachment. The Starr report which ushered in the impeachment proceedings cost taxpayers $40 million, interestingly enough the 9/11 Commission had a budget of $15 million, I swearing we are fooking amusing ourselves to death! But I digress.
It would be interesting to see if the same zeal is going to be applied Newt’s service record like it was to John Kerry’s or Bill Clinton’s nonexistent record. Newt received a student and family deferment at the age of 19 when he got married. And whom did he marry? One of his teachers! Seeing as how the modern conservative leadership could careless about fiscal responsibility I’m sure they’ll turn a blind eye to his bouncing 22 checks as a congressman
Did I mention he served his wife divorce papers when she was in the hospital getting treatment for her cancer?
But at least he’s better than those liberals! They want to smoke meth and bugger your son; they want to turn our nation into an atheist-muslim Woodstock style orgy of multiculturalism. The rapture is near!
Did I mention how I think he is brilliant?
Zinni/Mattis for 2008!
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Is this an attempt at humor, or are you trolling again?
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03-09-2007, 09:34
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Is this an attempt at humor, or are you trolling again?
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Gingrich Had Affair During Clinton Probe
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards."
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Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged him for years as a result of two messy divorces, but he has refused to discuss them publicly.
Gingrich, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, divorced his second wife, Marianne, in 2000 after his attorneys acknowledged Gingrich's relationship with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide more than 20 years younger than he is.
His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, ended in divorce in 1981. Although Gingrich has said he doesn't remember it, Battley has said Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery.
Gingrich married Marianne months after the divorce.
"There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them," he said in the interview. "I look back on those as periods of weakness and periods that I'm ... not proud of."
Gingrich's congressional career ended in 1998 when he abruptly resigned from Congress after poor showings from Republicans in elections and after being reprimanded by the House ethics panel over charges that he used tax-exempt funding to advance his political goals.
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