That's bad, certainly. I saw all I needed to see when learning of his pattern of jettisoning wives who have serious illness, as though they're spent stages on his rocket-launch ascension into orbit (note what that clearly implies about his ego, which is one reason I used that metaphor).

Oh yes, I agree. His ugly past will come up and turn off the “values voters”, who should make up his core base. He also made too many enemies in Washington while he was Speaker.

My prediction is, however, that he will run anyway because he is 99% self-absorbed narcissist- so he won't realize how poor his chances really are.
Remember he divorced one of his wives because she wasn't “pretty enough to be a president's wife”.

There, Sil. Sip, sip.

That was a fabulous decision, in 1996, when Bill Clinton had Americans' contempt and was doomed.

Interestingly, if anything, Gingrich is something like what passes for a lighter-weight “Old Guard” now.

Agreed. He seems to me to belong, if he is useful, in the GOP party management or leadership.

Note that it means not necessarily the top spot (replacing Michael Steele, currently). Image problems.

(I still believe it would be more effective for the GOP to outsource policy strategy right now to Heritage.)

Now, the person who shouldn't be surprising anybody if he were to run in 2012 is obviously Jeb Bush.

Clinton left a budget surplus.
Bush/Cheney pissed it away.
Who was more conservative?

A republican Congress controlled the purse strings and left a surplus.
A republican Congress then pissed it away during the Bush Presidency.
A democratic Congress continued to piss it away under the Bush Presidenct
A democratic Congress then tripled that deficit amout under the first year of the Obama Presidency and is forcast to repeat this in 2010. A 1.4 trillion dollar record shattering deficit.

You might make a case for divided governments managing the money best, but to try to claim credit for the democrats for a time period where the GOP controlled the purse strings is utterly silly.

Actually I rather hope Newt runs, or Palin. It would be nice to put one's feet up and sip lemonade the next election cycle. Anyone who can even remotely be tied to Bush/ Cheney will be like shooting fish in a barrel. All that has to be done is air the connection/loyalty and “poof”, it's over..

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Not a chance in hell. Simply because he is completely worthless and the world already knows it.

They need a young bright governor. Someone completely detached to the old guard or BushCo.

If a man makes a vow to his wife and violates it, why would anyone assume that he wouldn't violate any other oath, like the oath of office? The man is narcissism incarnate. What idiot would vote for this specimen to represent them? Only a fool.