[SJackson]

My impression, there are very few candidates FR wants to see in the race.

Something about confronting ideas I suspect.

If Gingrich sucks, and many here have told me a man with a zipper problem can't be the nominee, he should be easy fodder for FR's issue based critics.

I'd suggest attacking him on his "green" agenda. It's actually quite creative, but not particularly well developed, thus something I wouldn't support.

[dirtboy]

My impression, there are very few candidates FR wants to see in the race. Something about confronting ideas I suspect.

No, more like confronting the reality of how much baggage the respective candidates are carrying. Newt needs a train of porters for his.

[dirtboy]

I'd suggest attacking him on his "green" agenda.

He's drunk the global warming koolaid.

But what made me realize he had gone Beltway native was his standing with Hillary a few years back and calling for a new federal program for improved medical records.

If I've learned ONE thing on FR, you NEVER let a Clinton anywhere NEAR private information.

[jdm]

If Gingrich sucks, and many here have told me a man with a zipper problem can't be the nominee

My step-dad says about Newt: "The guy just can't keep his c0ck down. If he could do that, he could be elected POTUS."

LOL -- I don't care who you are, that's an "interesting" way to put it!

[ckilmer]

I stood up at the National Review Summit back in March and told Newt that the way to go was for the feds is to announce that US national policy was to collapse the cost of water desalination and transport and thereby make it economically possible to turn the world's deserts green...and basically, double the size of the habitable earth. And oh also green deserts would replace the extra carbon dioxide with oxygen and reverse the work of the last two centuries.

I think Newt got it.

Sadly right now the standard model at the highest level is anything that fits into the NAU model. So the big boys now are talking about doing a Chinatown style water transfer from canada to the US west and Mexico.

I discuss the matter in a blog entitled Desalination VS Water Transfers I wrote two weeks ago.

[Tolik]

One of the striking similarities with Idol et al is that once people develop their sympathies, after a while they cheer for their guy/gal regardless of the performance. Only something very dramatic can move them away. Its like cheering for your home team. It may be full of problems, but its your team.

I admit that I am impartial to Newt. I like the fact that he comes up with agenda all by himself and can articulate it and persuade and win in a debate, and can lead (and I agree with his agenda for 80%+). His recent greening was painful for me, because I disagree with the skies are falling hysteria. His triangulating on it with market solutions is not strong enough stance for me. Also, I am willing to overlook his fallibility with the affair\remarriage because I don’t think the President must be a saint. I doubt there ever was one. I’d always prefer drinking, smoking philandering Churchill to any Chamberlain (I have no idea about Chamberlain faults, but you know what I mean...).