He’s a pro.
Unfortunately he needs an army of bellhops to carry his baggage.
You know, you’re right of course. I think most everyone here at FR would agree that he is the smartest candidate and best debater, but that his political and personal behavior has been terrible since the Contract with America. I will say this, and you will probably disagree with me, but Barry Hussein Soetoro Barack Obama has baggage a million times worse: fraudulent birth story, homosexual, cocaine addict, Chicago street thug and bagman, liar extraordinaire etc., etc. Who would rather have running this country right now? Newt or Barry? Sure I’d rather have Palin running it. But geeze, talk about baggage and the mulatto commie still got elected! Could Newt do worse?
I’m tired of hearing “Newt is damaged goods”, “Newt has too much baggage”, “Newt is unelectable”, “Newt is irrelevant”, blah, blah, blah. BS. Obama’s coke use, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, and total inexperience SHOULD have made Obama unelectable, yet he won by a wide margin. Mitt’s “Romneycare” is worse baggage than any of Newt’s past issues.
A big part of winning the next election will be winning the public debate of ideas. If you could pick ONE candidate to debate Obama in (9) ninety-minute debates with NO moderator (...which is what Newt will force Obama to do...), who would it be? I bet 9 out of every 10 people here would want Newt Gingrich to be that guy. It means something to dominate debates in the way Newt does.
Newt vs Obama in a debate would be more brutal that Dick Cheney vs. John Edwards. Much more brutal. I really want to see that. I don’t care what the media says about Newt’s “baggage”. He has my full support.