I believe Newt Gingrich has a good chance of becoming President.

[BlueManDude]

He is nothing if not a student of history - and he is running a Nixon (68) Reagan (80) and to a lesser extent Eisenhower campaign. He runs from outside DC, with no elective office tethering him to party orthodoxy. He is not associated with the failures of Bush and the GOP congress, he is free to critisize them and the party. He has always embellished his politics with a patina of futurism and innovation - in this way he can bill himself as "forward looking" and offering a "new direction" or "new ideas". Gingrich comes off as a heavyweight when compared to the likes of Frist and Allen. Imagine these people debating one another? Are you kidding me? Gingrich is not a moron (he is of course a radical huckster) and has awesome rhetorical abilities. AS for his personal issues - he's a Republican - these things don't matter.

If McCain falters or has a health problem Gingrich wins the nomination over the likes of Frist and Allen.


IMO the GOP nomination gives whomever gets it a better than 50-50 shot win it all, the odds go even higher if Hillary is the Dem nominee.

Dismiss Newt at your own peril. As bad as McCain would be - Newt would be intolerable.