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Gingrich says Palin will not be the future GOP leader By Alexander Bolton Posted: 11/16/08 01:05 PM [ET] Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Palin energized the Republican base after GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) tapped her as his running mate and she has tried to preserve her high public profile since Election Day. But Gingrich, an architect of the Republican revolution of 1994, took Palin down a notch, asserting that she would not become the party’s...

Both the Democratic and Republican National Committees are likely to have new leadership next year. Former Democratic Governor Howard Dean of Vermont is stepping down, having completely recovered from his unfortunate reputation as an erratic and wildly liberal 2004 presidential contender. As chairman of the DNC, he adopted a controversial "50-state strategy" that had the party pouring resources into states it normally didn't contest. His strategy paid off this year as Barack Obama won such states as Indiana and Virginia that had not voted Democratic at the presidential level since Barry Goldwater's landslide loss in 1964. Unknown yet is whom...

This may be the perfect week to reflect on a Presidential election and the nature of America. Veterans Day is a somber reminder of the millions of Americans who have fought for freedom and the more than one million who have died for that cause. It is also a good time to remind ourselves that we are Americans first before we are Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals. One of the reasons I feel this sense of being an American first is because of the example set by my father. Robert Gingrich spent 27 years in the United States Army,...

How bad off is the Republican Party right now? Ask Newt Gingrich. “The Republican Party right now is like a midsize college team trying to play in the Superbowl,” Gingrich told me Wednesday. “It is pretty hard to say our losses were because of John McCain’s campaign. McCain performed way above plausibility compared to where the Republican president was in the polls. We have to look honestly at what went wrong.” Gingrich, Republican speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, declined say who he wanted as the next chairman of the party. He said his main concern was the...

A behind-the-scenes battle to take the reins of the Republican National Committee is taking off between former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele. Neither man will acknowledge his interest in the post, but Republicans close to each are burning up the phone lines and firing off e-mails to fellow party members in an effort to oust RNC Chairman Mike Duncan in the wake of the second consecutive drubbing of Republican candidates at the polls. A bevy of backers for each man, neither of whom is an RNC member, say the committee needs a leader...

Washington Times reports the Republican National Committee (RNC) is looking for new leadership. Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich are the two most mentioned to replace the decent but ineffectual Mike Duncan. Newt is not the one. Don't get me wrong. I think he's a brilliant man and his brain is just the engine to drive the GOP to renewed victory. He just shouldn't be the face of the party. He is too polarizing. Half of the country hates him, quite unfairly I think, but these are the facts. The left has drawn horns and a pointy tail on him...

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money. The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes

Republican losses in Tuesday's elections should be blamed on Republican incompetence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in Indianapolis on Thursday. "When you've had the failures that we've had, when you've had the economy we've had and the Wall Street meltdown, it's a little hard to turn around and focus on what the campaign did," Gingrich said. "Any Republican who wants to talk only about the campaign misunderstands the great lesson of the last eight years: that you have to govern well to make a lasting majority." Gingrich made his comments before a Thursday night appearance at the Indiana Chamber...

Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has decided to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and is in talks with Newt Gingrich to win the former House speaker's endorsement, FOX News learned Tuesday. Steele declined to comment, but a source close to the situation said Steele would announce his candidacy as early as Thursday. The source also contradicted a report in Tuesday's Washington Times that Steele and Gingrich were competing for the RNC post. "There is no fight," the source said. "This tension between Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich is totally fabricated and, in fact, Gingrich...

Newt just shocked Hannity on his show by saying he is seriously thinking about running for POTUS and will let everyone know definitively in 2011.

Newt Gingrich is a Hard-Core Conservative.

In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years? To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House. Gingrich is far from a unanimous or even a consensus choice to run for president in 2012, but there is a strong feeling in Republican ranks that he is the only leader of their party who has shown the skill and energy to attempt a comeback quickly. Even one...

The word among GOP insiders here in Georgia is that Newt Gingrich is considering throwing his name in the hat to be the next Chairman for the RNC....

So who is the new Newt? Who helps the Republicans take back congress in 2010 like they did in 94? Where's the next Contract With America? Newt had been setting 1994 up for years, who has been doing that legwork now? Who can we help? Who do we get behind? We need to start now, today.

THERE are profound reasons to believe the McCain-Palin ticket offers a better future for most Americans than the Obama-Biden ticket. Barack Obama is a very smart and sophisticated liberal who will appoint activist, left-wing judges to the courts. The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that saying "one na tion under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. Imagine this anti-religious extremism spreading through the rest of the court system in a wave of Obama appointments. John McCain can be expected to appoint judges who respect the vital role that religion has historically played in American public life. Beyond the courts,...

Newt was just on the Hannity show and he still thinks McCain is very much alive in this election. The release of the 2001 "redistribution of weath" tape has the opportunity to change the race during the last week...

Given large Democratic congressional majorities, President Barack Obama would swerve to the radical left and adopt a temperament similar to his fiery and controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Newt Gingrich predicted Sunday. “If Obama went in and had a moderate House and a moderate Senate, he would probably be a very moderate president,” Gingrich said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” “And his temperament would lead him to much more like [Chicago Mayor] Richie Daley than like Rev. Wright. He’s not going to have that,” said Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and titular leader of the...

Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich reacted this morning to Colin Powell's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arguing, "What that just did in one sound bite... is it eliminated the experience argument." Powell, the former secretary of state, announced his long-awaited endorsement Sunday morning, explaining that he is backing Obama "because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of this campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities – we have to take that into account – as well as his substance – he...

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives. That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print. This year's election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That...

America this October is like a patient who has barely avoided a massive heart attack. We have no strategy for recovery, no strategy for economic growth, and no strategy for holding accountable those who have created this mess. We're also far from out of danger. If we do not create an economic recovery program, we will be facing another bailout next year. To put it another way: We can mop up water all we want but if we don't fix the leak we will simply have to keep mopping. Similarly, we can pass a bailout, but if we don't fix...

Gingrich Denies Whipping Against Bailout September 30, 2008 4:00 PM ABC News' Teddy Davis, Arnab Datta, and Rigel Anderson Report: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that he did not personally urge members of Congress to vote against Monday's failed Wall Street bailout bill, disputing a report made earlier in the day on MSNBC by correspondent Andrea Mitchell. "MSNBC is just wrong," said Gingrich. "And it is probably wrong deliberately. It is a stunningly dishonest network." "I believe that if they would simply look at what I released yesterday, if they look at what I said on 'This Week'...

Newt Gingrich has gone on the record with a solution to the crisis that is the best I have seen so far. Rather than pass a $700 billion bailout, suspend the accounting rules that are causing the liquidity crisis to begin with. In the past few years, accounting rules changed and these changes are in part causing the current crisis. Specifically, the problem is mark-to-market accounting where all assets are required to be valued at current market prices. If the market is temporarily depressed, it can cause an artificial crisis. Let me give a silly but simple illustration. If you...

Last night Newt stated on Greta that the CEO of Goldman Sachs was the only private company represented at a meeting concerning bailout of AIG with Tres. Sec Paulson (former CEO of Goldman Sachs) and that Goldman Sachs had exposure of 20 billion dollars with AIG.The Newt stated Bush should fire Paulson. That this was a huge conflict of interest.Anyone hear more about this?

1)Newt, please post tonights interview with the Greta V. on YouTube. America needs to hear it ASAP! 2) Suspend mark to market now! 3) Paulson must resign tomorrow. 4)Can any Freeper's fill me in on the meeting Paulson had reagrding saving AIG knowing Goldman Sachs had 20 billion dollar stake in it? Is this true?

Gingrich's four-point plan includes: (1) suspending immediately mark to market provisions (the accounting practice of valuing a financial position in an investment at its current market price) in the hopes of stopping the downward spiral in asset values and eventually replacing it with a three year rolling average; (2) repealing immediately Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 accounting law Gingrich described as "an enormous drag on small business"; (3) setting the capital gains tax rate at zero "matching the Chinese and Singapore" (to encourage private capital to flood into the market picking up properties without the taxpayers being at risk); and (4) passing...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said the Wall Street bailout plan pushed by President Bush signaled the “final collapse” of the current administration. “The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary [Henry] Paulson at Treasury,” Gingrich said. “It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.” The former Speaker reiterated his call for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. “As long as Secretary Paulson...

Did anybody just hear that? I do believe we are going to crash no matter what, Newt said many folks (with real money) believe so and Glenn Beck echoed his comments.

Watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening. We are being told Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has a plan which will shift $700 billion in obligations from private companies to the taxpayer. We are being warned that this $700 billion bailout is the only answer to a crisis. We are being reassured that we can trust Secretary Paulson "because he knows what he is doing". Congress had better ask a lot of questions before it shifts this much burden to the taxpayer and shifts this much power to a Washington bureaucracy....

You must watch this 10 minute 55 second video Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Financial Take on the $700B bailout from On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.

Watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening. We are being told Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has a plan which will shift $700 billion in obligations from private companies to the taxpayer. We are being warned that this $700 billion bailout is the only answer to a crisis. We are being reassured that we can trust Secretary Paulson "because he knows what he is doing". Congress had better ask a lot of questions before it shifts this much burden to the taxpayer and shifts this much power to a Washington bureaucracy....

Good post on NRO from Newt: "Watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening."

Educating the Media Elites on American history. Video at link

Thirty years of Republican tax policy have now completely eliminated federal income taxes on the poor and lower middle-income Americans, and almost eliminated them on middle America. The latest data from the Congressional Budget Office and the Internal Revenue Service show that the lowest 40 percent of income earners as a group actually receive net payments from the federal income tax system. (They get 3.8 percent of total federal income tax revenues instead of paying any income taxes.) The middle 20 percent of income earners pay 4.4 percent of federal income taxes. Thus the bottom 60 percent of income earners...

This was the happiest convention I have attended. In seven conventions going back to 1984, I have never seen delegates as happy. I have seen them eager, energized, committed, determined but the underlying mood last night was sheer joy. There was joy that Senator McCain had had the courage to pick Governor Palin. There was joy that she and her family had come through the week of attacks smiling and eager to campaign. There was joy that Governor Palin's Wednesday night speech completely vindicated Senator McCain's choice. There was joy that 37 million Americans had seen her speech. That is...

This is a three minute clip from last night's convention. If you don't have three minutes, just watch the last minute. It's priceless.

Gingrich "bitch-Slaps" MSNBC's Allen Over Palin An MSNBC Reporter tonight learned a very important lesson about political Journalism, you don't mess with Gingrich. Fresh from the evenings activities Gingrich was approached on the convention floor by MSNBC's Ron Allen who said to the former Speaker, "But to be fair, her resume is not something we're familiar seeing with presidential candidates." This didn't sit well with Gingrich who strongly replied (video embedded above): It's stronger than Barack Obama's. I don't know why you guys walk around saying this baloney. She has a stronger resume than Obama. She's been a real mayor,...

Former congressman Newt Gingrich attends the second session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 2, 2008. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)

Newt just broke out a brand new, king-sized, can of industrial-strenght whup-ass on completely speechless MSNBC reporter. The reporter challenged Newt on Palin's experience. Newt blew, asked him when the MSM was going to give up spouting that baloney and then went through the most concise, most compelling litany of why she is eminently more qualified than Barack Obama. At the end he challenged the reporter to name ANYTHING that Obama has done that compares with her actual experience and the reporter demonstrated the ultimate deer in the headlights look. It would be so nice to have a clip of...

Wow.... Newt just offered the most eloquent example of what's at stake... He stated that Palin is the most dangerous person to the left since Clarence Thomas... In her defense, he compared the MSM's obsession of Palin's husband's DWI to Obama's cocaine use... He clearly said, if the media wants to, they can discuss the Ayers connection... They also discussed 3 NYTimes front page exposes...

It's ironic that when former aides or colleagues of prominent Democrats opine on the presidential race, for example Donna Brazile, who appears both on ABC and CNN and ran Al Gore's 2000 campaign, they are never asked to do a mea culpa about potential bias or conflicts. They just comment away on Democrats, Republicans, issues or whatever they like. That's fine, because for once I'm not going to try to explain my objectivity when it comes to a man I spent many years working with and have known since 1979. I've praised him and occasionally pushed him around a little...

COMMENTARY: Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Rep. Nick Rahall, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress who oppose producing more American oil are in a bind. They know voters are hurting from high gas prices and overwhelmingly want the government to allow more American oil production. But they can't side with the American people and risk upsetting their left-wing base. So they needed a way to make us think they support more drilling - while effectively preventing us from ever drilling a single new well. They think they've found a solution: a proposed "use it or lose it" law on...

Win Free Gas for a Year� From: Dave Ryan, American Solutions (info@americansolutions.com) Sent: Wed 8/13/08 8:49 PM To: Dear xxxxx,Congress is failing to adopt a long-term American energy plan, and it's standing in the way of developing more American energy now. Politics is once again trumping common sense in Washington.Since Congress is not doing its job, American Solutions would like to offer one lucky American a break - free gasoline for an entire year!Today, we are launching a video contest called "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Nothing." We call it "Pay Nothing" because that is exactly what the winner...

When House Speaker Pelosi abruptly and literally turned off the lights in Congress on August 1st and sent the members on a five-week vacation, she thought she was doing something clever. C-SPAN can only broadcast Congress while Congress is in session. If there was no session, there would be no cameras to cover the debate over providing relief to American families from historically high gas prices. If there were no C-SPAN, Americans would never get to see the Speaker and the anti-energy left's stubborn refusal to lift the ban on offshore drilling, refusal to lift the ban on drilling in...

Newt Gingrich speaks on the House Floor! Republicans are not just standing strong, they are growing in number and strength. Also, the story of HOW this ALL BEGAN and the media outlets who BROKE the news, and LEAD THE CHARGE!

We have the left rattled and on the run. For proof, consider three developments from late last week. But first, I want to make a special announcement. Many of you are probably following the story of how House Republicans are staging a protest in the House Chamber, demanding that Nancy Pelosi call the House back into session in order to vote on The American Energy Act, an "all of the above" energy strategy that includes more drilling, funding for scientific breakthroughs, as well as common-sense conservation efforts. (More info on that story below.) Tomorrow at 10am, I will meet with...

My sentiments exactly, as I’ve made clear more than once before. We already knew who his top pick was; his second choice will come as no surprise, given his reasoning. Who he means by “boring, normal, mainstream Republican white guys� is left unsaid, but I think we’re all on the same page.

I have two grandchildren, ages 5 and 7. If you're a parent or grandparent yourself, I challenge you not to think about a child you love when you read what I'm about to tell you. I challenge you not to share my disgust with the barbarians who use the blood of innocents to further their political agendas. And I challenge you not to share my contempt for the bureaucrats who think they can appease them. For the governments that think their actions don't have consequences. For the politicians who think that something - anything - good can come from allowing...

Newt Gingrich gave an excellent speech at the First Baptist Church in Atlanta, entitled "Rediscovering God in America". It can be viewed here: http://www.intouch.org/site/c.dhKHIXPKIuE/b.2287421/k.944D/This_Week_on_TV.htm

I suggest that John McCain pick Newt Gingrich for Vice President and that he announces that Newt will be in charge of US Energy Independence and Drill Now push. This would be a very clear signal and statement to the electorate that McCain means business with respect to getting American Solutions (Newt's organization) into the mainstream of American government.

This week I want to do something a little different. Although my Winning the Future message has always been directed at all Americans, whether they consider themselves Republicans, Democrats, or independents, today I am directing my message specifically to Democrats. And my message is this:The American people have spoken. Are your leaders listening?Over 1.1 Million Americans Call on Congress to "Drill Here, Drill Now" We really had no idea, just 35 days ago when we first posted the "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" petition here, that we would provide the spark that has ignited a fire among frustrated, struggling...