2nd Question for Conservatives and Newt supporters, Since Newt seems to be gaining momentum, How will he ...?

What we may be witnessing is the second coming of Newt Gingrich, as he reprises his role as chief author of Democrat demise. As you may remember, that's precisely what he was in the mid 1990s. Back then he was the nimble-minded nemesis of Bill Clinton and immensely popular with the Republican base, a visionary who, as today, could express conservative ideas with almost unrivalled eloquence.

But not too many years later his star would fall -- and not completely without good reason. In 1993, Gingrich http://singlepayerhealthcarenow.com/2011/05/15/gin... supported a coercive individual health-insurance mandate, à la Obama and Romney, and he later bought into the climate-change con. And it has to make one wonder what kind of a core the man has; after all, how does a clearly intelligent individual make such bush-league mistakes in judgment? And then there is his personal life, which has raised even more questions about character.

Yet the electorate's memory is short. Remember John McCain? A year and a half before the 2008 election his campaign was in the tank, scuttled by an insane obsession with ramming scamnesty down Americans' throats. Nevertheless, the party symbolized by an animal that never forgets forgot all about this heresy and nominated him, anyway. And Gingrich's trespasses are far more that 18 months past.

Of course, if Gingrich does start to contend for first in the polls, he's going to receive the scrutiny he has thus far escaped; he'll no longer be the unchallenged professor lecturing at the debates. Nonetheless, the more he gets a chance to talk, the better he does.o_O

Newt's star, just like those before him, will rise for a while and then plummet.

He made almost $2 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while being he said a "historian."

He created a "think tank" corporation that made $37 million off the health care industry.

While he was leading the way to impeach Bill Clinton for infidelity, he was cheating on his own wife.

He was forced to resign as Speaker of the House because of felonious bribery charges pending against him. He had to pay a $300,000 fine for unethical practices.

No way would I ever vote for him. He's shown himself to have no scruples.

It is quite apparent to me that Newt and Romney are the brightest bulbs in the pack. They have the most experience and broadest range of experience on a wide spectrum of issues.

Each Republican candidate is better than Obama. Each brings something worthwhile to the table. I takes more than One Great Issue to make a President regardless of how we may feel about the importance of one issue. Therefore I will not support the others as willingly as I would those with the wide experience.

Romney is a RINO but if selected, I'd vote for him over Obama in a heartbeat. I dislike his big spending which gave him a bad reputation as Governor of "Taxachusetts".

Newt is my current choice as the candidate I'll vote for in the Primary election cycle because of his experience, his willingness to work with others, and his generally firm stance on issues regarding constitutional principles and economic logic.

I hate that we increased the debt ceiling, but Newt has a long history of standing up for Liberty and fighting for smaller, less invasive Government. Maybe he knew something we didn't when voting for that increase. (Maybe)

Remember his fights when Speaker of the House under Clinton?

I believe we can credit the Republican House of Representatives under Newt's leadership for the balanced budget the Left likes to claim was Clinton's legacy.

Put it this way: Republicans who initially thought he had too much baggage are now seriously reconsidering him. He may have voted for measures expanding govt in the past, but he knows now which way the prevailing winds are now blowing. Unlike Obama, who stoutly maintains that people want more government involvement in our lives. Our civil liberties continue to be eroded under Obama.

I like Paul's honesty and his position on domestic issues, but I don't know about his foreign policy.

I would like to see ALL people in Washington voted out of office and all Democrats and all Republicans voted out. Of course I do not want any Socialists or Communist voted in either.

The Democrats and Republicans have TOTALLY failed America. They have been impotent and incompetent.

Wall Street really runs the country. Wall Street owns the Congress.

Because of his pronouncements over the years, the impeachment of Clinton and his personal baggage the Democrats will successfully portray him as being too extreme and Obama will be re-elected.

Agree with Jamesr2d2. We've been hiring nothing but liars and thieves to run our country for far too long.

Newt and Obama could be best buds. Peas in a pod. Birds of a feather and all that.

Simply put.......even if we all gave Newt the nod............then what?

You're talking about putting NEWT, against Obama in the general.

I would laugh my head off. I thought the days of LANDSLIDES were over.............but Obama would CRUSH Newt to death. He may be the best shot republicans have...........but in a general.......he would get his azz WHUPPED.

President Obama will torch him in the debates and will cream him in the General Election.