Posted on 02/11/2007 9:05:26 PM PST by B Knotts
The "Republican Revolution" of 1994 has become a faint glint in America's rearview mirror, but in the aftermath of the GOP's midterm thrashing, chief architect Newt Gingrich contends there's no better time than now to "re-launch the movement of Goldwater, Reagan and the Contract with America."
In the run-up to Labor Day, when he'll decide whether to vie for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, the former House speaker plans a kind of anti-campaign, vowing to eschew 30-second sound-bites in favor of a grass-roots, locally focused effort to apply conservative solutions to problems, and, ultimately, "force change" on Washington.
"We ought to spend all of 2007 as Americans talking about solutions," he told WND before speaking at the recent National Review Conservative Summit in Washington.
Conventional wisdom says any serious candidate for president in 2008 needs to enter the race now, but Gingrich considers that nonsense.
"It is way too early," he told WND. "This entire process is a full employment act for consultants. It has no meaning to reality. It drains the candidates, it focuses them on fundraising – how can you possibly have a rational campaign in February of 2007 to explain what you will do in 2009?
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"This idea that you've got to run for an entire year to get permission to run for an entire year, to finally get permission to have the country mad at you just strikes me as nuts," Gingrich told WND. "And people who want to go run should run. But I think it's a very banal way to spend a year of your life, and I think it actually weakens your ability to understand the country and weakens your ability to gather the ideas we need to govern."
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I assume he'll have a book to sell this summer.
That's nice but I don't recall any mention of protecting
pre-born infants from the butcher's knife in the last
Contract for America and I don't expect to see one
in this sham either.
Thanks for the links!
Are you having problems believing Newt is pro-life or are you upset it's not a part of this Contract?
Newt IS electable.
Some will never vote for him.
Many.. MANY will listen to what he has to say, and the majority of them WILL vote for him if he decides to run.
Still, with Hannity pushing Guiliani and with "Mad Jack" McCain waiting in the wings, I'm willing to give Newt a chance.
I would like to vote for a conservative.
I'm upset at 40 years of killing 50 million innocents.
Time to do more than posture like the repubs do every 4 years.
Enough is enough!
So what is your solution? Who is your pro-life favorite for 2008?
Tancredo
So when Tancredo finishes toward the bottom of the pack, are you done or will you support another candidate? Is he the only pro-life candidate?
I'd love to see a guy like Tancredo win, but it ain't gonna happen.
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