Gingrich '08: The stealth candidate

[ProSense]

Gingrich '08: The stealth candidate

The controversial former House Speaker seems to throw his hat in the ring as a GOP presidential candidate, and promises that health care reform will be the big issue. An exclusive Fortune interview.
FORTUNE Magazine
By Nina Easton, Fortune Washington bureau chief
November 20 2006: 3:31 PM EST

WASHINGTON (Fortune) -- Even a crisp Guinness stout can't chill the note of exasperation coming out of Newt Gingrich's mouth. "You still don't get it, do you?" he asks.

The subject is the 2008 presidential race and whether the former speaker of the House will run. The news is that Gingrich is running, but not on any official campaign trail.

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While other potential competitors like Arizona Senator John McCain, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney build staff and hire consultants, Gingrich revealed to Fortune that he plans to create a draft-Newt "wave" by building grassroots support for his health care, national security and energy independence ideas - all of which he has been peddling to corporate audiences over the past six years. "Nice people," Gingrich says of his GOP competitors. "But we're not in the same business. They're running for president. I'm running to change the country."

In December, Gingrich will launch a 527 group, called "American Solutions for Winning the Future," that will enable him to raise and spend unlimited money on behalf of this effort. In January, he will conduct a strategy meeting with advisers. By next fall, he'll decide whether to make a bid official - a late start by any recent historical standard.

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Keep an eye out to see if Carville lands in this camp!

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Gingrich has an innate ability to sound reasonable and populist

The erst of the GOP field so far are simple hacks and illusory manifestations.

Gingrich is the real deal when it comes to framing an argument that appears more than reasonable and more than appealing to the masses.

Can he, in fact, win? Possibly, but I wouldn't count on it.

Can he hurt our side with his reasonable and reasoned sounding arguments?

Yes.

[NJCher]

8. I saw this article at CNN Money and burst out laughing

Stealth candidate. Yeah, right. Dream on, capitalists.

This man has no and I mean no charisma. He's loaded with baggage and while he might sound articulate in framing an argument, he lacks the ability to engage or charm the audience.

Cher

[Mojambo]

2. Can you say BAGGAGE? n/t

[Monkeyman]

3. To heavy to carry

[Cobalt-60]

4. Strut your funky stuff, Newt

This couldn't be better if Howard Dean paid this ignorant pigtard to do it.
This repulsive individual will drive people away from the Republicans in droves.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. On another forum, in the days before there even was a DU, my sig was .....

"Shewt Newt".

That was back before the cybergestapo was watching every one of our keystrokes.

[Old and In the Way]

5. He can run but....

he can't hide. His reality will catch up with him.

[gumby]

6. Just today I was talking about the Newt.

I said he is the best person for saying nothing in the most words I've ever heard.

It's like he's always on a schizophrenic rant. His utterances sound astute, they sound intellectual, they sound thoughtful... But, when you stand back and ask "What did that guy just say," there's nothing there.

Then you are left with the understanding that Newt is Nuts.

[Bitwit1234]

9. He's gonna to run on changing America

We see the results of that today. He changed it -- he destroyed it.

[BreweryYardRat]

10. Said it before, I'll say it again.

Newt needs to stick to writing fiction.

[kentuck]

11. Gingrich is playing coy....

He wants to be the candidate so bad he can taste it. But he's laying back...says there too many problems that need taken care of at present...may announce around next September...wishes to convince the right-wing nuts that they need him and hoping they will beg him to come back and save them...

[Fridays Child]

12. Slobodan Gingrich?

[smalll]

13. Don't worry - Gingrich can't win the Presidency -

his names are way too un-presidential: Newt??? Gingrich??? (Obama may have name issues as well.)

But mainly, there's no way America is going to elect a president who would win a Benny Hill look-alike contest!

Newt Gingrich, American Politician -



Benny Hill, British Comedian -

[LWolf]

14. Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.



Sorry. I can't help it; this is always what I think of when I hear "newt."

Keeping an eye on newt? Fine. If the Democrats in Congress handle themselves well during the next two years, the Republicans are in powerful trouble no matter who they run.