[bert]

Newt is what everybody else is not. He is a thinker, a visionary. He doesn’t look at next week or tomorrow, he looks out 50 years or so.

He is a historian and knows well the mechanisms that were at work shaping events of the present. He is able to extrapolate trends over long intervals and visualize the results.

For that reason he can not win. People can’t keep up with his thought and find excuses for destroying him.

History is a process, not an event

[Kaslin]

Great post and so true

[GVnana]

A good description of the man. I read his book, "To Save America," and it is, literally, a blueprint to restoring the economy, reducing the size of government, and restructuring health care, among other things.

He is able to extrapolate trends over long intervals and visualize the results.

Presidential candidates -- the successful ones -- always seem to need a "big theme." "Hope and Change," "Morning in America," etc. I'm not sure Gingrich could overcome his "wonkyness" to deliver such an image.

That said, I'd vote for him in a New York minute against Obama. He is competent.

[PapaBear3625]

Newt is what everybody else is not. He is a thinker, a visionary. He doesn’t look at next week or tomorrow, he looks out 50 years or so. He is a historian and knows well the mechanisms that were at work shaping events of the present. He is able to extrapolate trends over long intervals and visualize the results.

Fine. He can be an adviser.

He has the vision. but not the judgment nor the ethics.