I like most of what Newt is saying. He is indeed the Man With The Plan. Very good plan, I can add.
Is he the one to implement it? Maybe not. But how many winning coaches are there who can actually do what their athletes do when they implement the coach’s plan?.. (even when the coach used to be an athlete himself, in his prime? - very few top level athletes become successful coaches, ... but I digress ...)
In the group of 2008 candidates nobody can see the big picture like Newt. What I really would like to see is Newt not as President, but a very-very close President’s adviser. Lets say Fred/Duncan team with Newt as NSA.
Since you bring it up, I would like to see a Thompson/Hunter presidecy, with Duncan Hunter as a working Veep in charge of getting the Southern Border fenced and manned and the Northern Border patrolled and controlled. IOW, I would like to see a new approach to the office of president, where a good veep is employed to get things done on a domestic or foreign front, making the veep more than a stand-by. I can see Newt as the ideas man who runs the behind the scenes maneuvering. But he would make a great Sec of State with greater authority. He might even make a good CIA director. Whomever is the Republican candidate should plan on utilizing Newt’s brilliance to the max ... he wants to help make us more secure, so we ought to let him! Put him to work for US again, he’s making enough off of his excellent books and novels.