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Wheel him in! Let's see what he looks like! How old is this guy? He looked old to me when he was Speaker of the House. That was a long time ago. How old will he be in 2012, 2016, or 2020 (his last year in office after two terms)?
This is another tired old retread.

Additionally, after the heat that Edwards took over his infidelity, and the relgious fervor with which Gingrich went after President Clinton for his hanky panky, I hope Gingrich gets the same treatment for cheating on his wife.

Remember all those racist and homophobic comments this guy made?

This is a serious candidate? Your 'contract' has expired, Newt.

I challenge anyone out there to take 10 minutes out of their day and try to find 1 case, just 1 where SOCIALISM has worked. If you look up the definition of socialism it clearly states:a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole, (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles. Can anyone deny that this is the path BHO is taking us down! Im sure everyone who was on the Hitler bandwagon at the time can now look back and realize it was a mistake.

Please, Mr. Gingrich, run for POTUS! Our country needs you!

Now, I'm certain the libs are going to bash, about marriage infidelity and what not. Probably the only thing they can do.

I say… take a look at John Edwards, Bill Clinton, and the rest. He who is without sin cast the first stone.
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Uh, Bill Clinton was impeached, and John Edwards lost his bid for the presidency. Gingrich would get nothing less.

Newt, U are nut's! U was EX-Out of Sen.! Bush Jr did not help U.

I love how liberals scream about wanting equality for all. But as soon as you disagree with them, they resort to name calling. Take expat american for example, if I were actually a conservative (i am an independant), i would be extremely angry the way you characterize them, with the (SS). You my friend, are about as hypocritical as they come. And as far as any public official being drug through the mud, I think quite a few of Obama's picks have their own skeletons, they don't seem to think they need to pay taxes, but they don't mind raising everyone elses. Guess it doesn't matter when you don't pay.

worriedmom March 6th, 2009 9:28 am ET
'By the way, i was just informed that the so call increase I will get in my paycheck for April 1 has a problem. The tax table isn't changing so i will end up paying more when filing next year! So the small increase that I get I will have to ask that it be taken out for taxes nowso I don't end up paying next year! '
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worried mom- you obviously dont work, or if you do, you obviously know nothing about the taxes that come out of your check. the tax cut is just that- a TAX CUT- it doesnt change your income, it changes how much you pay in TAXES- your logic is like that of my five year old son. you will not owe more at the end of the year, unless you get a huge raise or dont withhold enough, just like always. DUH stop spewing that idiocy and go to work.

I'd love to see Gingrich and Limbaugh run. There wouldn't be a bigger Democratic landslide win ever in the entire history of the United States.

Is this going to be another one of those "contract with america" farces? You know, like the last one that you bragged so much about back in the day? The one that proved itself to be nothing more than "lip service" and total BS? I haven't forgotten! And I also seem to remember a little ethics violation that forced you to step down as Speaker of the House as well! You sir are a waste of time, my time, you're time, and the United States of Americas time! Buh-bye now!!!!!

Not a Newt fan, but at least he had a plan way back.

Repubs need something other than empty wind bags

I am a moderate conservative, and prior to Bush, tended to vote Republican, but not always. I really hope Gingrich doesn't run. The GOP needs to redo itself. They need to get away from the old, and start with the new, and no, not Palin

If they don't adapt and grow to the new way, they are toast, and won't get my vote. We need new ideas from both sides, and change. The Democrats appear to have already started, with Obama. They need to continue into the Congress, but at least they started.

Will the GOP follow or continue to be irrelevant?

The GOP: God's gift to progressive politics.

Wow.

The GOP has definitely been playing their "Greatest Hits of the '90s" CD this week.

Wow, the family values party wants to put Newt out there, great! He was carrying on an affair while impeaching Clinton for the same thing. Can you even see how hypocritical you Repubs are? How many others in Congress were doing the same thing? Who's going to be his running mate, David (I love hookers!) Vitter, or Larry (wide-stance) Craig? And you can have druggie Rush out there promoting you! (This from the party that gave Vitter a standing ovation in Congress when he returned after his, ahem, escapade.) Put that in your Contract with America! Pathetic.

Just when you think the Republican Party has sucken to it's lowest level, another slimeball emerges. The Republican Party has become laughable.

The Republican Party is made up of nitwits with huge egos.

Another failed Republican leader heard from...................

And the GOP Circus continues! I LOVE IT!!!!!

Newt who?

Newt scares the hell out of Liberals! Go get 'em Newt!!

is he all they have

He pled guilty to ethics charges, violated federal tax law and is exactly what the Rushpublicans need for a Obama 2012 landslide!! Welcome back President Obama 2012.

FreeNLovIt . Where are you, now that you escaped the Czar revolution of the USSA?

It doesn't matter who the Republicans put out there. They all follow the party line–Reaganomics. So Newt would be perfect, he knows the party line, he knows how to deliver the party line. It's all acting. They neither care what they say, or about the average person. They just want people to fall in line so they can control the government. Once they are in control, they do whatever it is they want to do, while dismantling any services that really help people.

The choice is yours America, I'd rather have a leader who cares, than one who pretends he cares, but really doesn't.

As far as I'm concerned, this is a moot point until Barack has served for 8 years.

Obama 2012
Yes we can, again.

Lots of skeletons in Newt's closet. He's just another ultra-right winger with ethical and moral problems. I hope the public hasn't forgotten how divisive he was when he was Speaker.

Ula Nejad Sacramento, Ca:
Open your eyes ears and read- I think you are in a stupor.
Hello!

gl, Pittsburgh. Look in the mirror and you'll see a racist.

I hope and pray that his does NOT happen, but if unemployment is at 25% and the DOW is at around 2000 in 2012, would anyone actually vote for Obama again? Just curoius. And no, I don't want him to fail.

Honestly, would someone please get this guy the white coat with the really long sleeves? Comparing himself to Ben Franklin? He's ready for the rubber gavel squad!

Poor Richard is doing back-handsprings in his grave!

do we really need another adulterer in the whitehouse.. i mean , if you are going to lie and cheat on your own wife, what does that mean he will do to the rest of us...

no newt!

Heaven helps us, the Republican party and the United States of America. Marlene in Mich

Oh Newt, please run in 2012. We need a "change"!

This is the man who ran Congress when the government ran surpluses. I dont care what you think of his personal life, he has the experience to get this country back on track. Besides no one cared about Obama's personal life with Ayers, Wright, Farrakhan, Pflegger, Rezko, Sinclair ect........

The former Newt McPherson was a devotee Isaac Asimov's science fiction, going so far as to see himself as a savior of civilization from some sort of cosmic catastrophe.Perfect leader for the GOP,they seem to be at home amongst the cosmos anyways.

I know! Newt & Rush should challange each other to a wrestling match! One of those ones where they're in a cage, ya know? The winner can be the leader of the GOP!

one more thing... was everyone aware our stock market made gains on Wednesday due to China's proposed 2nd stimulus package of another $500+ billion? so does this mean the communist country is governing our country? to say our president makes our stock market tank is an extremism... hello, this is a global economy and global recession?

You liberals all over this site never discuss policy for some reason. All your time is spent being spewing hatred towards the "evil" "out of touch" right. BHO, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd.....is this really who is running our country. WOW Its only a matter of time before America wakes up. Unfortunately I think the country is going to have to go through he** first. Before you libs go and blame this horrible economy on Bush please do us all a favor and do a little reasearch on the backgrounds of Frank and Dodd. It amazes me how these two are not under a federal investigation.

Are there any republicans out there who would like to be part of putting this country back on its feet?!?! Nope. You are all too busy licking your wounds, being whining little obstructionists and planning for 2012. Way to put Country First (or did you really mean to say party first).

Don't do too much thinking, Newt... YOU WON'T WIN!

McCain got 47% of the voting population (30% Hardcore + 17% Moderate)... you will end up with just 30..

Newt the man that wants everyone that has less then one oz of weed to be put to death.

The man that stated this I hats liberals thing back in the day, and he wants to become President. LOL

I don't think so.

Ok so they run Newt and the Obama strategy is still the same. Split the white vote and get 95% and 70% of the Black and Latino vote and win by almost 200 EV.

Also win the under 30 vote, the swing vote, and the women.

I doubt the Republican party will exist in its current state after the beating they are going to take in 2010. They will split in some manner or another.

There is a reason why they are setting the economy up to recover in early 2010, to give the voters a fresh glimpse of how well the Obama administration and Congress are doing their jobs. When people are employed and somewhat happy, it makes it easier to vote for the party who helped them be that way.

thanks Newt this is what the country needs. People he help Clinton become a great president. This is one smart man. I would rather have experience because what i have seen of the younger generations is cry babies-they can't handle rejection or defeat. This is one smart man and his business mind dam he is smart

Finally a serious republican candidate. Not going to vote for him; but, I could sleep at night okay if he won.

Ya know, You liberal clowns make me laugh. You rant about
Gingrich indescretions, and how you can't stand the man, and in the
same breath you speak of Clinton who did the same things, and
yet you were in love with him.
Help me out here! Is one a good guy and one a bad guy?? What's
the key ?

Hey anyone with a pulse that is representing the Republican party will win in 2012. I've had two months with this false Messiah and I feel like puking everytime he attempts to destroy a different sector of our economy (banking, housing, energy, etc..)

I can see the moderator here feels that 98% of the comments should be pro liberal Barack "killer of the American dream" and 2 % should be sensible solutions through Americans private sector productivity through Conservative values. Productive people made this country great, not the losers like many of the blogger on this site.

i knew he had plans for 2012 since late last year. a guy like him will not be this active and media-exposed if he didn't want the #1 job. but if he's onboard with the childish act of no constructive, innovative & new ideas for our country but chat socialism & play extreme right wing like their base support, most of the independents and moderate democrats will not support him.

i mean he needs to have 21st century mind and ideas which seems to be a Mt. Everest obstacle for the GOP 2012 presidential candidates.

Newt would be a great candidate. Just think if the McCain administration was in office now, there would be tax cuts for everyone, yes even the rich, since they pay a higher tax because they earn more, and our economy would be slowly coming back with people investing again. A good dream anyway.

"they can't lead themselves out of a cardboard box! "

If only the Newt Revolutionista's had left a cardboard box......If only he had a historians perspective. Of course if he can indeed, like Ben, get a kite to fly and attract lighning perhaps he could get a green bailout.

Let him run. Shaking all the skeletons outa his closet will be real fun. Like the woman he was playing with at the same time he was trying to nail Clinton for the Monica gig. Bring it on Newt. As morally bankrupt as the rest of the repugs.

I can see the moderator here feels that 98% of the comments should be pro liberal Barack "killer of the American dream" and 2 % should be sensible solutions through Americans private sector productivity through Conservative values. Productive people made this country great, not the losers like many of the blogger on this site.

so what, forget it you're not a people person....

Didn't take him too long to crawl out from under his rock. He is just another reason the Rushlicans need to find some new leadership and fast.

Oh yeah, if the stimulus bill works the GOP can kiss 2012 goodbye. You were opposed to helping people get back on their feet. What did you propose ... tax cuts. That's it, nothing else ... tax cuts. No answers.

This is the man that will get us out of this mess.

In addition, he was the reason we had a surplus during the Clinton years. He was running the show in Congress, not Nancy Pelosi that is essentially running into a ditch of enormous debt.

If Obama is a Socialist, Bush was a dictator. No matter the view of the POTUS the constitution is robust. There is nothing Obama can do to hurt this nation so just relax and let the man right the ship. Think of it this way, if you just relax and not clinch up so much it will not hurt as bad.

I'm all for it! The right wing clowns love to proclaim themselves as the party with family values. This is one less lie they'll be able to use.

And to the morons who don't understand that socialism doesn't equal communism – go back to school. With Obama's help, you can get yourself the education you couldn't afford. Turn off Rush Limbaugh, put your gun down, and read a book NOT written by Ann Coulter.

Yeah, right... This moron couldn't get elected President of the Dogcatchers, let alone President of the United States.

March 6th, 2009 12:49 pm ET

Probably 90% of you Kool-Aid drinkers posting comments linked in from TheRawStory. Speaking of original thoughts, take a close look at the page today…not a SINGLE headline about the market, or the disaster unfolding at the hands of BHO. However, 2 headlines on Rush Limbaugh, 3 stories about Bush administration witch hunts, 2 about nationalized healthcare, 2 about Stephen Colbert mocking Fox News anchors, 1 about prop-8, 1 about Michael Steele fumbling of the RNC, and 1 about alleged theft by a US officer in Iraq. These are truly the stories of our time. I mean, we're not heading for a depression or anything. The economy's not even a story even though another brutal jobs report came out today, and BHO's SOCIALIST – that's right I said it – economic policies are being clearly rejected by a once capitalistic system. Ahhh, the power of distraction.
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What are you so angry about? Your party got us here. How easily people for get who was in charge for the last 8 years. And don't give me that Democratic congress crap, they were the majority for 2 years and you were the majority for 6 ... you blew it.

You liberals, I feel sorry for you, and the way you think, I mean this is America, you have a right to think as you please, isnt it nice, Not someplace where you would be hanged or beheaded. And your still not satisfied, you want to make this country a socialist country, and you dont even appreciate what you have. What is it going to take, this country has always had a nearly two way party (with some liberals) but your losing ground, you thought putting this man in the White House would be a piece of cake for you, know learn your lesson and go to your corner. Its politics, this will not change. Hello its not what you know its who you know

Good we dems would like a shot a newt, he deserves to be drug through the thorns we would like a chance to tear him down too.

OMG...not him again!!! He has a lot of personal issues, but it seems the GOP don't have a problem with folks private lives when they are a Republican.

If the votes of those who contribute to society were the only ones counted, no Democrat would ever be elected.

Not saying that is what we should do, but it is a lot more moral that Chicago thug libs and their Acorn who pay homeless people to vote, illegally count the votes of convicted fellons, throw away the votes from our military, and have hundreds of lib counties accross this nation where the number of people who voted lib out-numbers the total population of that communist county.

Face it, if you vote lib you are saying that you believe in the values of Blagovich, Sharpton, Obama, Wright, and Ayers. Is it any wonder that so many libs are afraid to believe in a god?

Look out females! If Newt gets elected, he will throw you under the bus, like he did his wife who had cancer when he divorced her. A slimeball if ever there was one.

I agree with Rahm the Man when he states "We need gingrich, maybe not to win but into influence policy and fire people up." Indeed, the young generation needs to become apart of this time of history, but I'm not sure if Gingrich would be a great candidate for presidency in 2012. Even though it was an short interview, Gingrich didn't state any possible plans he would establish if he ran. He basically is going back and forth regarding if he will run in 2012, and me personally don't want to elect a president or candidate who is undecisive before he even starts to campaign. Gingrich maybe a wonderful person, but he needs to figure out what his going to do before making a public statement.

Dear God,
Please make Newt and Rush go away. Please? I can't take the hypocrisy and hate mongering!

WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. OBAMA WILL WIN A SECOND TERM IN 2012.

To Finally~yes you would have a point if not for the fact that this LYING CHEATING PIG was the ring leader on taking Clinton to the mat, all the while he was doing the SAME THING!!!!!!! UGG, did this old fart think we would forget that? HA, I am GLAD to see yet another failure from the gop past be handed up for an arse whoopin!

Oh, goody!!! If he decides to run (i.e. if it's "necessary", whatever that means) I cannot wait for the discussion about his own personal hypocracy! Yeah, Mr. "Family Values", tell us about how many wives you've had, how you didn't pay child support, and your own acts iof adultry. Let alone serving your wife with divorce papers while she was suffering from cancer! And oh yes-Mr,. Family Values: just what exactly did you ever do to support any of America's families????

Newt Gingrich:

- The man who served divorce papers on his wife while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery.

- The man who shut down the Federal government for the first time in history because he wasn't invited to sit in the front of the plane when traveling to Israel for Yitzhak Rabin's funeral (even Tom DeLay agreed this was the "mistake of his life").

- The man who had 84 ethics charges filed against him, including charges of violating federal tax laws.

- The man who became so toxic a political liability, his own party booted him out of the House Speaker position.

Sounds like the GOP is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one ...

But wait...isn't the GOP attempting to be hip and multicultural?

OMG! I almost fell out of my chair laughing! The poster who made the 'we're getting the band back together' is hilarious.

Listen, people do remember Newt from 1994's "Contract With America". Hopefully, someone will take Newt aside and remind him why he should not run. It would be a disaster for the GOP. Then again, they wouldn't know disaster if it was.....well, let's just say.....happening right now????

hoooohaahahahahahaha

I hope we can hang on until 2012.

Hey Kevin in Ohio, i would rather be a socialist, than living in a dictatorship, which we did have for 8 years. You call Obama a Socialist, look up the meaning.

He was in Columbus to talk about a recuit of Police officers that would have been laid-off before they even started. That is what this Socialist is doing. Think before you speak.

The neocons out there say about Obama highjacking the Constitution, think back to the Bush Administration, they did just that. Took away our rights and how do we know that he would not go back to that time, remember Newt was speaker of the house during the early years of Bush.

What about Newt's moral values ?, he was having afair when trying to impeach president Clinton.

Bring on Newt. If I remember correctly, he has been married three times and divorced twice. What was that House banking scandal that forced him to resign his leadership post in the House????????? He bounced 22 checks, if I remember correctly. I believe he also was behind in his child support.
Newt Gingrich sounds like the perfect Republican candidate!!!!

Would love to see Newt debate Obama on the issues.

Obama will run the country so far down by 2012, anyone running against him will win easily. Maybe its time for an Independent.

Newt and the republicans treat America like their wives. They tell them I love you and then turn right around and cheat on them.

I love the new line of b.s. the GOP is pushing, trying to say the liberals are 'racists', lol, that we're all going to be standing in bread lines (as opposed to grocery store lines) and that we are now all a bunch of socialists, lol! Since when did the GOP start taking it's cues from Alex Jones, et al.?

Freddy March 6th, 2009 12:35 pm ET
Ah, yes. The supposedly "progressive and tolerant" liberals are expressing their racist bigotry yet again. Keep up the rhetoric, libs, and help ensure a Conservative victory in 2010 and 2012.
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Take a look at the hundreds of videos of McCain/Palin conservative voters 'just being themselves' during the campaign.

By all means, keep showing the global media that poor white trash slack jaw 'Deliverance' bigots/conservatives still exist in the United States in 2009.

another member of the grand old party of NO i probably will or i proably won"t sounds like palin talking. ihope hes cleared this with the grand pooh pooh limbaugh

Since he is talking about getting his family involved, which family, his first, the second one he committed adultery with, oh I am sorry, he is a christian NOW and can preach to us sinners who support President Obama. Sorry, Newty. And please bring me the socialistic health service that I have paid for all of you to have. How dare me.

Newt would be a better president than Mr. I AM A BIG BUDDY WITH TERRORIST AYERS, I ATTENDED SERVICES FOR TWENTY YEARS AND DIDN'T KNOW WRIGHT HAD THOSE FEELINGS, I DON'T HAVE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, YOU CAN'T SEE MY SCHOOL RECORDS. What in the world is Hussien Obama hiding.

If Newt Ginrich is Ben Franklin, then David Vitter is Mr. Family Values and Larry Craig is Faithful Husband.

His running could give a whole new meaning to the term "character crisis."

And who says GOP is dead? Gingrich has been saying the right things, McCain doing the right things, Mitt, Pawlenty and Jindal comes up with the right strategies and Palin in the right place. Mind you, with crap shooters, and sharp shooters like Rush and Steele, that in my opinion is a helluva combination that at in end, together they will have created a political masterpiece. Everyone will sit back and say what a comeback. Gingrich and the boys did it for Clinton, he should now do it for himself and country. I say Go for it.

Kurt C. March 6th, 2009 12:24 pm ET

He'd be 100 times better than the stuttering doofus that's the President now.

In case you had not noticed, Bush is no longer in office.

@ christopher
Please get your facts straight. clinton left the white house with a deficit. funny how the democrats keep spouting lies until you all believe it.

Probably 90% of you Kool-Aid drinkers posting comments linked in from TheRawStory. Speaking of original thoughts, take a close look at the page today...not a SINGLE headline about the market, or the disaster unfolding at the hands of BHO. However, 2 headlines on Rush Limbaugh, 3 stories about Bush administration witch hunts, 2 about nationalized healthcare, 2 about Stephen Colbert mocking Fox News anchors, 1 about prop-8, 1 about Michael Steele fumbling of the RNC, and 1 about alleged theft by a US officer in Iraq. These are truly the stories of our time. I mean, we're not heading for a depression or anything. The economy's not even a story even though another brutal jobs report came out today, and BHO's SOCIALIST – that's right I said it – economic policies are being clearly rejected by a once capitalistic system. Ahhh, the power of distraction.

Where's a Portly Pepper Pot when you need one? Look around, it's not hard to find an American woman who fancies herself a (tortured victimized) queen.

The Con[SS]ervatives need a starting point from which to launch their next hate generation campaign.

Who's Calista? Wife #4, #5 . . . ?

Most people talking against President Obama and hoping that he fails are Republicans. The President has been in office for just over a month and people talk like he has been in office for 8 years. We gave Bush 8 years and now President Obama is trying to clean up his huge mess. Guess what? Republicans want to go back to the Good Years with wars and tax cuts, under Bush. Obama is trying to take care of home first, the U.S. President Obama, keep spending our dollars; we need help. Republicans keep saying NO and fighting amongst yourselves.

Isn't Newt the guy that started the division between the Dem's and Rep's that is so rampant today? Isn't he also the guy that was trashing Clinton over Lewinski, when he (Newt) was also having an affair during that time? What's good for the goose is good for the gander...

There won't be a US by 2012. The mesiah is seeing too it.

Didn't he offer these same words for the previous election, and why didn't he think it was necessary with angry, old McCain running?

It is so sad to read some of these comments. I think some of them or torture to the American people. People when Bush was elected did you or did you not oppose of everything he did?

No. The only difference here that this President is an African American that is smart and have been studying this country in its economy distress since Bush was in office. At least he is smart enough to tell the American people what went wrong during the last 8 years and how we can fix it, but I don't hear no one offering any suggestions.

The Grand Obstructionist Party does not know how to run an economy.
Clinton handed Bush a surplus and he messed it up. My projection is that the GOP will be in a political wilderness for about two decades. Their base has shrunk drastically with no new ideas. All they talk about is tax cuts for the rich.

Oldt (not Newt) Gingrich wants to comeback with the same old conservative ideas, the same old Get Rich Quick for his Rushpublicans friends and campaign backers, and the same old, old, old, old philosophy: illegal mexicans and blacks are the problem in America. When are all those white conservative americans (and the few Uncle Tom asians, blacks and latinos) going to wake up from the mental fogg that they have been subjected to for so many years, when? Rushpublicans should lick their wounds to heal their problems rather than increasing their pain with sulfuric-minded candidates like Plushlimbaugh, Sarah Falin', and other non-patriotic hate mongers who want the country to fail. Rushpublicans are for themselves and nobody else.

My comment will be the same as before. Mybe this time you will post it. This guy is a joke.

He must be kidding – we got rid of this loser back in 1998 when he was forced to resign after the GOP LOST seats in the mid-term by running against the Lewinsky "scandal".

So President Clinton kept his job and maintained sky high approval ratings while Newtie (who was carrying on an extra marital affair) was forced to resign.

Poetic Justice – Go to He** Newt and take the rest of the right wing with you!

So, Gingrich, the poster child for hypocrisy everywhere is now deciding to run? What about Palin? I thought she had it wrapped up?

Isn't Gingrich the same guy, who as a dead-beat dad and wife beater, was salivating to get Clinton? I remember him saying he ws going to run Clinton out of office, when lo and behold, it was Newt who was sent packing and out of politics completely. I guess he's following the Nixon plan – go away for a few years and then have the nerve to come back, tanned and rested, and under the mistaken idea that your ideas count for much.

So, please, Newt, run.....run with Palin. I can't wait to hear you debate Obama.

Gingrich/Palin 2012 will bring this Christian country back to glory our founding fathers imagined ran by those who know how to use a gun and are not afraid to force the opposition to agree with us by any means. Man how many countries can say they are run by the vessels of god. America can surely say that with Gingrich/Palin 2012 we can join israel and annihilate the Moslem world and take what is rightfully ours. Manifest Destiny.

Can GOP bring someone from younger generation? The whole world is changing and need young blood. The whole GOP is still arguing socialism/communism that is completely out-of-touch in 21st century. Besides, they have no clue what they are talking about.

I would vote for Gingrich, he knows what he is talking about and doesn't need a teleprompter.

@Kurt C...u must have meant the doofus that just left the White House, he the one that could be compared to a bumbling idiot!

This guy is the conservative savior!? That just shows how bad things are for the right-wingers. Gingrich-Limbaugh sounds like some terminal medical condition.

Run, Newt, run. The hilarity that ensues will be entertaining.

Ah, yes. The supposedly "progressive and tolerant" liberals are expressing their racist bigotry yet again. Keep up the rhetoric, libs, and help ensure a Conservative victory in 2010 and 2012.

sorry Newt Grinderswitch, not going to vote for you. You're part of the two-party problem/scam. You're aslo a CFR cronie.

Check Newt character inventory first.......

If the last month and a half are any indication, anyone will be able to beat whatever Dem idiot is running. They're already shooting themselves in the foot, and showing that while they may be able talk of a 'pretty world where everyone gets along', they can't lead themselves out of a cardboard box! Look at it, the stock market is tanking, and instead of doing anything to fix it, they go after a radio host. What happens when we have a terrorist attack, they gonna go after Kelsey Grammar?

Hide your kids if newt runs

If it is necessary?? Necessary for what – to save us?? The arrogance of Gingrich that he will ride to our rescue by running for President – he failed miserably once to 'save us' with the Contract with America. To think he even believes that he would be a viable candidate...oh wait...he must be reading from the same script as Sarah Palin.

Newt Gingrich is the only one with a brain and common sense. He has
the right answers for our problems.

Dar, Colorado

I'd love to see it. Let's drag out all the old dirt and watch President Obama get re-elected by a land slide.

I don't agree with much of what Newt says, but at least he's sounding like an adult.

Look for a "historical" Democratic landslide in 2012.

The best pick would be Ron Paul. The problem with him for most sad Americans is that he is one of the last real men left in the US political scene and who dare to say it like it is and this scares wimpy politically correct and sensitive Americans. They need worthless pieces of crap like the chimp they love so much since that is like themselves. At this pace, with the continuing rate of decay, where will USA be in 40 years? Where it belongs!

He better have a lot of answers for why he left 2 wives in the midst of health/family crisis. He is of the religious right party but is now on his 3rd marriage and been caught cheating while his wife was in the hospital. Please can't the donothings do any better than this? Oops I forgot all they can do is rehash the same ideas and candidates. No new ideas, plans, thoughts, people. Sorry, we have been there done that and are worse off than before.

The Republicans Party consists of "nothings".

Oh no not again. If we had wanted Newt Gingrich we would have kept him when we had him. He tried to run last time but got no takers. Why would anyone want to hear anything he has to say? I know I sure don't. I don't want to hear anything from the Republicans who helped put our country in the mess we are in today. That includes Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay and Phil Graham. These guys created alot of the problems we are facing today. I want them all to crawl back into the woodwork and stay there. Americans don't need them or their services!!

Hey, anybodys better than obama. By the time 2012 comes along, even the people on this bias blog will be rooting for you.

This is the guy who started the verbal wars between Democrats and Republicans that divides this nation today. We need a healing voice in this country, not a voice of devisiveness.

Jim March 6th, 2009 12:10 pm ET : BRAVO well said. Thanks for educating the low information ditto head sock puppets who troll this board . Rush says Socialism so now they have adopted it like their new F word. Truly pathetic in an educated society when people cannot think for themselves.

Jus don't use the "Voodoo Economics" ya know, trickle down theory for your platform, as it DOES NOT WORK!

Peace

We are witnessing the end of the Republcian Party.....hopefully never to rise again.

To Dutch: Funny you said that he is not entitled to anything. You Dems seem to think you are entitled to others peoples money to bail at everyone. Steal from the people doing the right thing to give it to people who can't read their mortgage before they sign it. Socialism is great until no one has anymore money to steal!

We LOVE Newt! America needs this guy NOW!

For heaven's sakes...are you kidding? Fools rush in!

Give it a try old man... no chance..and make sure u choose Joe the Plumber or Limbaugh as ur running mate.

If liberal democrats do as they wish there won't be another presidential election.

Newt would be the perfect candidate for the Repubs – his past has hit on about all they stand for as they stand in judgement of others. They are getting desparate......

Will Rush let Newt run?

He'd be 100 times better than the stuttering doofus that's the President now.

This is funny... I mean I have never liked him but have always respected his smarts. However, I'd never vote for someone even remotely like him. Republicans simply should face it... They wont find the White House as their House in for a few decades. They stifled a Democrat President prior to Bush and that president ended up creating a budget surplus..Now they are attempting to stifle another one. The difference is that they wont be able to use a Lewinsky to do it this time.

Its a shame that so many will not take the time to listen to the man. He is a brilliant guy.

Oh please do run Newt! ….. the press will have a field day with your mistress/wife story.

Please teach us about being ' honest' 'faithful' and 'putting yourself first ' ..... we really need you.

By the way ... tell your wife ... # 2 or 3? .. that no matter if all her buttons are button up ... she still is known as THE MISTRESS. Saw her on Faux News and man did I laugh.

Oh yeah... Palin, Jindal, Huckabee and now Gingrich.... wow. What a great way to insure an Obama 2nd term. Run Newt, Run.

Hope his platform is not family values, or fiscal responsibility. Someone who shut down the government because he didn't get to exit Air force one for a photo op with Clinton couldn't even begin to handle the current crisis or the aftermath. Good luck recycling the old guard, that will keep the base chanting USA, USA.

This cannot happen. One giant step forward with Obama, one million steps backwards with this creep. Hopefully America is older and wiser, but then again, we allowed W to pollute the White House for 8 years so anything is possible.

In spite of my complete disdain for Gingich, the issue of politician's politicians running our country decade after decade is one of the problems we face. I feel the same way about many of the Dems who won't just go away ... like Hillary. We need young, fresh blood to make a difference in this world.

Old Fogey Newt is about as inspiring and a breath of fresh air as McCain was. Old ideas for an out of touch party; makes good sense.
He pled guilty to ethics charges, violated federal tax law and is exactly what the Rushpublicans need.

Gingrich plan = W's plan. There are absolutely no difference. W carried all his wishlist for the past 8 years and it was disastrous. Please, all elephants have BIG butts and they love to use their trunks to strangle innovations. We just got rid of Daffy Duck, Darth Vader and The Sith. The force is strong, but fight back. Dont go back to the dark side of the force.

Let's face it. The RNC will be a thing of the past!!!

Newt is not New, google him. The guy is unbelievable!!

Doesn't he have to get Rush Limbaugh's blessing first ?

Hey Kevin in Ohio,

You may not know it but there are lots of aspects of our society that are "socialist". Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are three that come to mind quickly for most people. And while many people think we should get rid of them there are plenty of aspects that people don't think of quickly that would be terrible if they would done by private entities.

Imagine if the police and fire departments were run privately. Or if our roads were owned privately, big businesses would have to own and maintain them but could easily put small businesses out of business. And the big own is the military. Would you like that to be privately run by the highest bidder, or having multiple private militaries opperating under the free market? I sure don't.

Do yourself a favor and learn the definition of words before you spout out your opinion. Socialism does not equal communism, like the Republicans would have you think. We have lived in a mixed economy for a very long time. Making it completely capitalistic would produce some unwanted results.

Newt Gingrich = Racism and Hipocracy. In my opinion, he is also morally bankrupt.

How did that Contract With America work out for you Newt?

I'll pray to every known god that Gingrich runs. This really highlights the lack of any viable candidates in the Republican Party. His unfavorable ratings are so low its not even funny. The Republican Party is the modern day Whig Party.

I thought Newt resigned in discrace in the 90's. Diddn't he mary a 22 year old intern? Why would we want him back? It shows a real void in the GOP to have to bring back. Its like the Dems bringing Carter back because he only had 1 term. Come on GOP, get well soon.

Newt must need some more girlfriends, he is known for affiars with all his women campaign staffers. Hey, Newt, what wife number are you on now? Have you discussed divorce actions with her yet, or does she not have cancer (that was your first wife). Please if this is the best the GOP can offer you really are in trouble!!!!

TOO Conservative.........can we be offered another choice??? How about Senators Collins or Snow ????

Newt/Palin in 2012......heck I was really hoping for Palin/Joe the Plumber but who knows.

Better than Palin –

The far right wing nuts still think whites are the only people living in America. He is too old and too racist to win the White House. Hey, racist big mouth you need more than your base to win the White House 2012 and you will be too old. You Repulicans are really nuts. What country do you right wing racist nuts live in. McCain tried this in lost. Get a clue for Old nasty racist McCain. We voted loud and clear against this. First you better start working with a minority President before you can start thinking about 2012 you nut.

If you want another adulterer in the white house after bill clinton, elect Newt!

Newt, I got news – you're no Ben Franklin. He never shut down the government, divorced his wife while she was in the midst of cancer treatments, or cheated on his second wife with an aide – at the same time he was trying to impeach the president for cheating on his wife with an aide.

On the other hand, it would be kind of fun to see Newt run as the leader of the "family values" party!

Newt is brilliant...... his rhetoric is a bit toned down.... But he's smart..... He's basically saying, if the economy is not back by 2011, I will find it necessary to run for Pres. If we're doing well, then I'll wait until 2016...... He wants Obama to succeed as well. His speech at CPAC, was good....... I want Obama to succeed only b/c he is good for our country, and the world......

Crawl back under your rock you ignorant, loud mouth, two timing tub of lard....and I'm not talking about Rush.....Newt you're a has-been. The US doesn't need your stale ideas and failed policies.

Newt will be neutered by Limbaugh.

This is great news for the Democratic Party. If there is a man with skeletons in his closet, this is it!

...Provided that Obama, Pelosi, & Reid don't destroy the country by then.

@ Brian Crooks "...new ideas..."

Ah yes, you have bought the myth of the new ideas. The DNC-RNC one party system has you fooled.

old idea – send troops to war in Iraq
new idea – send troops to war in Afghanistan

old idea – give corporations money through tax breaks
new idea – give corporations money

old idea – take lobby money (green)
new idea – take PAC/bundle money (same color green)

old idea – pork barrel spending
new idea – pork barrel spending but lie about it

Kevin in Ohio-

The biggest increase in government and move toward socialism was from the Bush 43 Bailout to the tune of $800 Billion with no checks and balances where the money went, but you already know that.

Oh, no! Looks like Newt just made it to the new Enemies of the Whitehouse list. Let the demonization begin! Time for Rahm to fire up the Obama-turned-Nixon trash machine.

It's not necessary... In any way share or form.

kaythxbai

Newt Gingrich's Skeleton Closet :

Mr. Family Values is amazingly similar to Bill Clinton – both are pot smoking, draft-dodging adulterers from poor Southern families.

Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated – "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time."
Does Newt have some kind of problem with women? He has said that he read a book called "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", and "found frightening pieces that related to my own life."

Kevin in Ohio, you're boring and approaching tedious fast. You never have anything to contribute, youjust throw cr@p and offer nothing constructive. Do you know the meaning of socialism? Why not prove that you're worth listening to instead of just posting negative rants.

Great run Newt you have plenty of baggage to bring up in the campaign. He was a great orchestrator of a message for the republican party, however he was hardly the poster boy for family values and morals. I don't think he is the answer. I believe the Republican party has to drop the religious right and come to the moderates who believe in science and separation of church and state. If they can find a normal representative (un-Palin,Jindal like) they could certainly pull conservative democrats and moderates alike. The problem is they have no message other than cut taxes and we know that it is a failed way togovern when you continue to spend the way they did these past 12 years.

I think Newt have some dirt that came out of the Monica Lawinsky mess. Newt is not a good idea, more brainstorming, come on with it.
Not Newt.

I think Newt have some dirt that came out of the Monica Lawinsky mess. Newt is not a good idea, more brainstorming, come on with it.
Not Newt.

I think Newt have some dirt that came out of the Monica Lawinsky mess. Newt is not a good idea, more brainstorming, come on with it.
Not Newt.

I think Newt have some dirt that came out of the Monica Lawinsky mess. Newt is not a good idea, more brainstorming, come on with it.
Not Newt.

Lol, this isn't 1994 Newt.

The diminishing influence for the neo-con & broad uber-convervative agenda makes you not-attractive to the large majority of Americans.

Just wait until your past voting record are scrutinized for months on end.

With all his failed marriages and his fooling around, I am sure he will get the family values conservative vote.

Good one Newt, I know you are kidding!!!!!

Please do!

That would secure a victory and increase the odds for a 50 state victory for President Obama's second term.

Those blabbering about "socialist/communists" are just repeating Rush & Faux News talking points ... repeating those new "scary" words again and again won't make them true.

As for Newt's wife – is the the one he cheated on while denouncing President Clinton ... just wondering ...

If he doesn't want to waste his time and ours, he'd better come up with better ideas than the failed "tax cuts, deregulation, and trickled down"

while the rep. base may welcome this news, gingrich may not be the answer for the party. when all is said and done, what trully won the race for the dems. has not been their base, but people who have gotten tired of both parties – independents. most independents are leary of politicians who are stubbornly catering to their base. gingrich may put up a good fight, but the party needs to think out of the box without trading in their core principles wholesale, for a stronger future.

Go Newt. Do it. The republicans are officially extinct. Run for office if:

*old
*white
*male
*pulse

I wonder if he will pick Palin as his running mate?

Don't worry Mr Newt, we will not need you. Maybe they "GOP" might let you run as a dark horse.

Oh Please. Another GOP full of HOT AIR man.... Go run for office in Iceland – maybe they can harness your hot air for something good.

Oh, PLEASE GOD, not again. -- We`re still trying to recover from the downhill spiral ya`ll started us in in the late 90`s. - I, obviously, haven`t forgotten---–

Honestly, who does Newt think he is? Rush Limbaugh?

Newt is one of the smartest the Republican party has to offer, but that doesn't change the fact that Republican policy is tired. If Obama can't get it done, our only hope is a new third party.

Newt is a smart guy but in 2012 we just won't need four more years of failed Reagan/Bush economic policies. They've been tried and they have failed. They are known to leave greater deficits, the rich richer and the poor poorer. For the good of the nation, Newt shouldn't run.

Run Newt! We need a real republican with conservative credentials as the nominee this time. McCain was the wrong man.

He can run and we will look another decade of democrat rule. Newt was having another woman when he was impeaching clinton. What a hypocrate?

Yes! Run, Newt, run! Maybe with Sarah Palin as a running mate! Maybe with Rush Limbaugh as advisor! Hot Dog, let's just kill the GOP once and for all!

I don't agree with all of your ideas Newt, but this Dem does respect you.

If Obama can't rangle in the Democratic party to start doing what's right for the people and not the party, I would seriously consider voting for you.

“I think I’m closer to Benjamin Franklin than to George Washington" In a long line of arrogant, self aggrandizing comments from Newt, this might be the apex/nadir. The certifiable scoundrel and modern architect for division politics who has had a direct hand in destroying this country comparing himself to a certifiable genius who had a direct hand in creating it.

Newt is a smart guy but in 2012 we just won't need four more years of failed Reagan/Bush economic policies. They've been tried and they

He's going to discuss it with which wife? First, Second or Third? God Bless those conservative christian right folks! I wonder If he ever re-paid Bob Dole that 300k?

He's going to discuss it with which wife? First, Second or Third? God Bless those conservative christian right folkes!

PLEASE RUN!! You've got enough skeletons in your closet to stock a Halloween store!!

OMG – What a terrible thing, just think "Gingrich"

Who want this womanizer?

I wonder which in his series of wives he'll be on then? Go ahead, Newt - you're so incredibly popular. Just recycle all of your old ideas and imagine that one of them will stick.

Eric Cantor speaker of the House? That means the Republicans would have to have a majority. Not going to happen anytime soon.

Newt, if you love your country so much, it is time to wait........Enough with campaign already!

Enough!

Is Calista the new, young wife that he dumped his sickly wife for? I always get confused. Spare us of Newtie and his family values.

...and the jokes from the Republican party just keep on coming.

Newt can forget it. He doesn't have a chance to get the Republican nomination in 2012.

Mitt Romney is the new Republican Messiah.
The Big Wigs who run the Republican party will package and sell Romney was a rock-solid, true blue conservative the same way that they packaged and sold George Bush to the American people.

During last year's Republican primaries, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, etc. were all openly shilling for Romney.
When Huckabee briefly took an early lead, they attacked Huckabee as a "Poularist" and Tax Raiser. When mcCain took the lead, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. savagely attacked him and called him a RINO and a traitor to the Party.
They will do the same thing to Gingrich.

By the time the Republican propaganda machine is finished re-creating Mitt Romney, the Ditto-Heads will think that he is the reincarnation of Richard the Lion Hearted, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Douglas MacArthur in one body.

Is Calista the new, young wife that he dumped his sickly wife for? I always get confused. Spare us of Newtie and his family values.

A very polarizing figure. He has high negatives yet also fairly high positives. He is a pretty good commmunicator and his success while Speaker of the House can't be denied.

Regardless, a good pool of candidates is what the republicans need to avoid another nominee like McCain.

...and yeah, 2012 is a long way off. Chill out with this stuff already.

Go Newt...it's already time for Obama to be kicjked out of DC!

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (affair, divorce, affair, divorce) is this really what America needs? He was married and having an affair while he tried to bring down Clinton over the Monica scandal.

oh please please run:

Newt/Palin
Newt/Jindel
Newt/Romney
Newt/Limbough
Newt/Joe the Idiot
Newt/Scrwocaugh
Newt/Cramer
Newt/Santelli
Newt/Dobbs
Newt/O'Reilly
Newt/Hannity
Newt/Steele

any of the above= Obama re-election, Nate Silvers says= 100 % correct!

Libs here hate him which means he is a good man.

Please do run, you will be crushed.

The Republican Party is out of power, ideas, and leadership. There is a very serious vacuum when the intellectual leader is Rush and the latest candidate for president is a washed up political hack like Gingrich.

No big deal.............z.z..z.z.z.z.z...Yawning.

The RNC fired all the communications staff then went and told about five or six who were deemed "indispensable," that they weren't really fired and that they should stay on for another month but not tell their soon-to-be-former colleagues."

The country, and the Republican party, needs Newt. Perhaps we can re-visit 1994 (in 2010) so that mid-term elections cause Republican gains in both the House and Senate. Hopefully, he'll eschew Sarah Palin and other non-substantive types who actually end up hurting more than helping him.

LOL. Newt, you've had an affair and you support gay rights I'm not sure the conservatives will pick you because they don't believe people of high moral character do things like that. If they choose you over Romney, I'd be very, very surprised.

Nutty Newtie for President? Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Shake that GOP tree too long and all the nuts will fall out!

Please save yourself the trouble and Insult NEWT, we all know that the republican party will soon be obsolete and a minority in American politcis in 2012.

Gingrich is the past. He needs to stay out of politics – he has nothing to offer.

Hmmm, I wonder why he didn't run this past election? Could it be he already knew that no matter who was elected there was no way they would be able to fix the mess the republican party created? ...and by party I mean political party, not the party the rich enjoyed while they had their idiot-in-chief, BU$H.

Newt Gingrich would be a good for Republican Party.

Too old. The GOP needs younger not older.

Yeah, good luck with that.

“And if we think it's necessary we'll probably do it,” he said. “And if it isn’t necessary we probably won't do it.”

In other words, we will see what Obama's numbers are and if they are bad then I will give it a try.

Please, please, do it! We desperately need a two-timin', bomb-throwin', trash-talkin', ideolog zealot in the WH!

Talk all you want Newtie ... it's not going to happen! The GOP is bankrupt when it comes to producing a leader the Country will rally around and our political persuasion is bankdupt as well. You are just a slimmer Rush Limbaugh.

Not if the Democrats have anything to say about it.

I really wish he run, this will be fun. Is he really read for people to get into is cheating ways?

HAHAHAHAHA another right-winger wacko....

Run Gingrich run so Obama can beat the snot out of you. We know all of your dirty tricks and we are not going to stand around and let you have all the fun the democrats can play the game too. The republicans are in the land of the lost. We will call all of you the lost boys. Keep following Rush and let him lead the party further down the road of destruction.
Obama 2012

Great Newt, either you will or you won't- -Brilliant!!

and what would make it neccesary? Well, You don't have my vote. Not that it matters. There are still people that would vote for another moron.

OMG–SOMEONE OPENED THE COFFIN LID...

Another unsuccessful retread. Great, make it easy for the
Dems.

Great, another Contract on America

Is this the best the Republican Party can come up with? Read the book "Conservatives without Conscience" by John Dean to get a little insight into people like Newt before blindly following like sheep, please.

Good luck, dude. You will need it. Your views are so polarizing it's truly awesome.

So funny, when the Republicans lose it must really hurt. Heck all they are talking about is the next Presidential Election which is only in 2012.....oh but it's what year now??? Humm.....2009! Can we just all get along and work together for the greater cause!!! A better USA

Gingrich is old news. And the worst thing about old news, is old news that didn't work.

Republicans are under the impression that if Democrats screw up, the pendulum will swing back their way. Do they think we've forgotten the last eight years? Or for that matter the last 30 years? What makes them think we'll go running into the arms of the party of hate? The party whose only idea are the same tax cuts that emptied the nation's coffers?

This is it. This is our last chance. There is no plan C.

Good! The Republicans think they can do better, so let them try! They had 8 years to get it right and failed! All that happened was dig our hole deeper, allow big business to rip everyone off; get more of our troups killed; do NOTHING about the environment.; etc. etc. etc! Our president is doing everything possible to get the best of the best to solve the problems he inherited. The only thing the Republicans are doing to help is sulking in the corner, not voting, presenting a united wall against everything presented. Is this what we cal the UNITED States?It's a lot easier to find fault with what is being offered, than being part of a solution.I hope the voters will remember their DO NOTHING TO HELP people, the next time they vote!

who

Poor soul. Just what we need. A loser.

The last thing this country needs is loser Gingrich running. This liar was unmasked years ago, and needs to stay retired. The GOP has enough problems with "oxycontin Rush", without this. On the other hand, President Obama wouldn't even have to campaign to win.

I shudder at the thought of this man running for President. I would be downright horrified to know that he could win.

Mr. Gingrich has quite successfully shown that he's able to 'kick up dust' in support of a change agenda, and equally incapable of managing the consequent responsibility and oversight required to settle things into place in alignment with that agenda.

It's easy to point fingers and complain, and even propose a plan, for which he deserves credit, and as he experienced, VERY difficult to maintain that discipline once in possession with the reins of power and the means to execute on the plan's main points. On this he failed visibly, resulting in his resignation from the House in 1998, and the Republican party that I knew and once respected became nothing more than a corrupt and bought party of special interests that remains rudderless and bereft on ANY new ideas, and one that has played a major role in enabling the stresses present within our domestic, economic and foreign circumstances.

As a Democrat, I say, 'Yes, please run Newt.' I'd love to see Obama see his success all the way through.

Don't forget to ask Limbaugh first.

Isn't this the same hypocrite who was going after Clinton over the Lewinski scandal while at the very same time was married and was boning his girlfriend on the side?

The "family values" party never ceases to amaze us now do they?

Enough already with the Republican't jokes!!

Smart articulate man.

It may actually not be necessary to run becos Dems led by president Barack Obama will be there for the a very long long long time. I mean over 100 years.

I hope you understand.

Newt, somehow I don't think the American people want you as their president.

Stay home you old wind bag your a flash from the past and let's keep it that way.

Regardless of what you think of the man, Gingrich is one of the most simple, succinct, effective and eloquent speakers on either side of the aisle.

He may have his personal demons, but policy wise, this man is no dummy. He is the man that gave birth to the very economic policies that Bill Clinton later laid claim to, AFTER they were proven successful. Bill Clinton owes his entire economic legacy to Newt Gingrich.

Obama can talk, talk, talk a big game. But when its all said and done, Obama just has lots of pretty words. Actions speak louder than words, and results speak even louder. Newt's pro-growth and pro-people policies of ending welfare and balancing the budget have been proven to produce prosperity. Which do you think will best feed your family? Pretty words or prosperity?

You have an ice cube chance in you know where, Newt!

The GOP is looking more and more like a desperate group of thugs. Newt doesn't stand a chance in hell..especially with his scandalous past.

Yeah, parochial, regressive policies from a parochial, regressive Republican party are exactly what this country needs again. That will definitely be prime-time entertainment...

Oh big surprise. He WROTE A BOOK, and toned his rhetoric down. That should give you a clue.

Who cares he's still the same guy who SHUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOWN BECAUSE CLINTON DIDN'T TALK TO HIM ON AIRFORCE ONE. He hasn't been gone that long, we know exactly who he is.

GO NEWT!

Hes as relevant as palin. He is a blow hard that also hates ALL Americans that are not like him. Hes a fear and hate monger. I am loving all these polarizing boobs the repukes keep putting up for consideration, and watching each and every one of them get shot down. The party needs to go away and lick its wounds in private. They have ZERO chance of winning anything, and yet they continue to rant and rave about everything and offer NOTHING to help. LOSERS ALL of them, whinning anti American LOSERS! I must say though, its all good for the Dems. I am loving it....Thank God I am not a repuke, losing like this must suck!

He has my vote. He is the ONLY one who makes sense and has the experience needed. Most importantly, he has the ability to fix Obama's mistakes.

Thanks, just what the Republican party needs is another Moron. Did Mr. Conserative dump the latest wife to achieve this yet? She should be real scared.

What will FOX news do without it's favorite guest? I suspect FOX will get a room next to the Oval Office. Please say it isn't so!!!!!

Oh please do run Newt! ..... the press will have a field day with your mistress/wife story.

Yes! This is the PERFECT ticket - especially if the overblown idiot adds Palin as his running mate. The PERFECT guarantee we'll see four more years for President Obama to complete turning the mess created by the Republicans around.

Republicans are famous for pointing fingers at previous administrations. I don't buy it. Even if it's true that means for EIGHT YEARS the problems created by the PREVIOUS administration were ignored. Either way it's a horrific failure.

Run, Newt, run! Announce your support for "family values" and show the American public how much you care about them. It will only help the Democratic party grow in strength.

How on earth would one determine that it was 'necessary' for them to run for the office of President of the United States. If he wants to run, he should run.

Another radical extremist republican wanting to run for president. Why doesn't Limbaugh run as his VP nomine. If any one of the two would run it would be like having Hitler run or Bush again another village idiot. We were republicans but the last presidential elections we have voted democratic our whole family has. The republican party has gotten so extremist it is like having Hitler in the White House (well we did have Hitlers twin in the White House for 8 years). When will the party get moderate and get away from these religious extremist, biggots, and big corporate greed CEO's? Jim Hall Kansas City Missouri.

i AM A cANADAIN MARRIED TO AN AMERICAN. I LIVED IN THE US FOR FIVE YEARS AND WAS APPALLED AT THE INEQUITIES OF THE US HEALTH SYSTEM. I TAKE EXCEPTION TO THE LADY I JUST HEARD CLAIM THEH US HAD THE BEST SYSTEM IN THE WORLD FOR THEIR SENIORS. I KNEW OF SENIORS IN THE STATES WHEN I WAS THERE WHO WERE PAYING MORE THAN 1/2 THEIR MONTHLY INCOME FOR THE MEDECINE. I AM A SENIOR IN CANADA NOW, GET GOOD MEDICAL CARE AND PAY THE FIRST $100 A YEAR OF MY DRUG COSTS AND AFTER THAT IT IS COVERED. THERE IS NO WAY WE COULD AFFORD TO LIVE IN THE STATES EVEN THOUGH MY HUSBAND'S FAMILY IS ALL THERE. WILMA IN CANADA

I think that Romney/Gingrich 2012 would be an excellent ticket.
Or Gingrich/Romney.
Just not Obama 2012. As long as Obama is not a 2-term president, I'm happy.

2012 is a long time away. Welcome back Mr. Gingrich. Where have you been?

The world is becoming more and more globalized. An intelligent administration that appreciates a global perspective will be required for the United States to compete economically while keeping its people safe.

This is why I hope that Palin campaigns as the front runner. Her defeat will set in motion the beginning of the end of the blind xenophobic isolationism and John Wayne apple pie holier-than-thou cowboy attitude of conservatives; because The United States is not the center of the world. And Jesus Christ wasn't a white man, nor was he an American.

Could you imagine a pres named Newt? Canada here I come...
Hasn't this guy done enough harm to America?

THIS IS COMMING FROM A MAN WHO BELIEVES ALL CHILDREN OF SINGLE PARENTS SHOULD BE PUT IN A ORPHANAGE.

AS A SINGLE MOTHER, YOU DON'T HAVE A CHANCE!

Gringrich is, without a doubt, the smartest politician out there. The media has and will continue their hatchett job on him because he is a conservative and they know how good he might be.

I think that he would be a LOT BETTER than what we have now.

No surprise here. I think the GOP has a better chance of posthumously running Ronald Reagan in '12 against the dems. Or even Rush Limbaugh (naw, he wouldn't stand a chance against Reagan either).

Great! The "family values" supporter can run on a platform of hypocrisy.

We also got some important 2010 news yesterday from Louisiana: (1) a new poll finds that David Vitter is vulnerable in both the primary and the general election but (2) two top-tier challengers announced they will NOT run. If there is a GOP primary here, it would obviously be a huge part of the party's ideological war.

The one question I'd have for him is, during the time you were castigating then president Clinton for being an important politician who was having an extramarital affair, you've admitted you were an important politician who was in the process of having an extramarital affair. My comment is "Huh?".

In Benjamin Frankllin's words:
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

and:

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

THANK GOD!

2012 CAN'T GET HERE FAST ENOUGH!!!!!!!

Mitt and Newt....2012.

Of course by then Obama will be the Emperor ot the United Socialist States of America.

Are you kidding me? Newt Gingrich lost credibility by hypocritically going after Clinton while doing the same thing himself.

HELL NO!

Another mad man again talking about 2012

Cantor? Boehner's yes-man? Speaker? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I would like some one to explain this to me. The libs. are always ranting and raving saying that the republicans are for only the rich. What about all the rich dems. Is it o.k. to be a rich dem. but not a rich republican?

Yikes!!!!! Just what we need in this country another failed old, politician. Didn't we have him in the Congress with the "Contract with America"?? For gosh sakes he is part of the problem we are facing now.

He might parade as a fiscal conservative, but the right-wing social nuts of his party will chew him up. How many divorces & affairs? Based on his track record, Calista may be an ex-wife by 2011. The Dems will have a field day with him too. He's full of hot air and nothing else.

Isn't it Newt who was having an affair when he was also involved in the impeachment of then President Bill Clinton over sex charges?

Newt Gingrich divorced his wife while she was in a coma in the hospital. Since his term as Speaker of the House the Republican Party has been in a tailspin going from the majority party in the House and Senate to a useless in minority in the House and Senate. So considering people's "revolution" against his party since he left office, I doubt anybody will take him seriously. Religious types can't vote for him since he has been divorced and since Jesus said the greatest sin was adultery which he is guilty then their religion dictates they cannot support him. The majority of Americans that voted his "revolution" out of office will not vote for him again. So basically that leaves a mere 12% of the population who will vote for a Republican regardless of whether they have a pulse or not.

Gingrich / Huckabee 2012!!!!!

I guess I should have addressed the subject at hand. I am just trying to get the word out about disability. We have a President now what is all this garbage bringing up the next election. Just like everyting else it is a political ploy. Shut up everyone who even wants to get into this subject we do not want to hear you.
Lea

Be scared Obama. He has innovative policy ideas and EXPERIENCE. Gingrich in 2012!!!

I am a loyal Democrat and oppose many of Speaker Gingrich's political positions on various issues. However, I respect him because he actually stands for something. Whatever one's feeling about his politics, I think many people admire him for his convictions. I don't want the Republicans to win in 2012, but I believe Mr. Gingrich would be a formidable opponent to President Obama, or any other Democratic party nominee in 2012.

Loser.

I'm to young to remember this guy, but.....his first name is newt...HAHA.....LOL!!!

Please, Mr. Gingrich, run for POTUS! Our country needs you!

Now, I'm certain the libs are going to bash, about marriage infidelity and what not. Probably the only thing they can do.

I say... take a look at John Edwards, Bill Clinton, and the rest. He who is without sin cast the first stone.

Mr. Gingrich, your common sense, inteligence, and fiscal responsibility is the shot in the arm that America needs.

PLEASE run for POTUS!

The republiklans are always fond of presenting candidates who have marital problems, been married several times, candidates like Pain-lin with pregnant teenage daughters, cheating spouses like Newt Gingrich who was cheating on his wife with Carlista, that he is now married to!

The hypocrisy of the republiklans and Newt Gingrich cheating on his wife with Carlista, while attacking Bill Clinton for the Monica fiasco is mind boggling!

The audacity of the republiklans to swear by the bible, stay on drugs like Rush Limbaugh and talk of family values and abortion, while denigrating women, spewing hate & bigotry is a bad leadership model for any American to follow let alone vote for!

Finally, it's time to lay to rest the GOP!

Good for him...whatever he decides, then good for him.

Republican's family values continue ... didn't this guy sleep with his school teacher!! I love this conservative crappy values.

I used to respect Newt until he turned out to be another GOP hypocrite, persecuting someone santimonously while he was engaged in his own affair. I could no longer trust him after that, especially for the highest office in the country. No thank you.

Oh joy; another Limbaugh!!

The real question is how Newt and Rush get along. Otherwise Newt is just spitting into the wind.

This country seems to presently be jumping out of one frying pan, into another, then back again...seems as though musical incompetent presidents is in vogue now or that is what we are looking at. The best thing to do would be to stop spending money and let people all go into business on their own, doing the thing they can do best...forget jobs and forget a longwinded government that is driving this country to HELL!!!

Gingrich would be a tough sell. Even to his own party. In spite of the fact his opinion is sought by a great number of networks, mainly Fox, he is still not liked that much by the majority of Americans.

Mark
Eugene,OR

The author of the "contract on America" and the hypocrite who trumped up an impeachment charge based on infidelity while he was cheating on his terminally ill wife is going to be running for federal office?

Good, America will finally get a chance to strike back.

Go away Newt; your self-promoting, elitist obstructionism was bad for America before and we don't need it back.

Looking forward in '12.

If you want a womanizer who cheated on his wife, committed ethics violations and lost his speaker post in the house because of his indisretions, then he is your man for the job.

He fits right in with most members of Congress.

The GOP, that party of values, would consider a serial philanderer as their candidate? It wouldn't surprise me. Why not also consider Rush Limbaugh, a thrice (at least) married, and convicted drug user as his running mate?
Talk about "do as I see, and not as I do!".

Benjamin Franklin chased many women, too, but he never left his first wife while she was laid up with cancer in the hospital to marry his second. And he never cheated on his second wife with a Congressional aide and then married her, his third wife. Newt, you are absolutely no Benjamin Franklin. That's insulting to Franklin and our great history.

Gingrich would be an excellent choice to have. He has ideas that are logical, common sense, and represent real change for every citizen. I hope he runs. As a country we need to evolve from Demecrat and Republican to "who will do the best job for the people". This man, I believe has the talent to do it.

Run Newt run. Maybe then you can find out how popular you are. Last time I checked when your name came up, people did not like it. I don't know why, I got a good idea but.... Run run run. Our economy needs the money being exchanged

How dumb!!! Newt Gingrich's ego has taken over! He obviously has a firm belief in lost causes.

When compared with Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity or Dick Cheney, Gingrich sounds to be a saint. Otherwise, he is terrible.

What makes this guy think anyone would want him. He was thrown out of Congress, the contract with America was a farce, he's a has been for the last 15 years. When he went after Clinton, wasn't he having an affair at the same time?

Gingrich' "negatives" are so high because he is a bad-tempered and caustic individual. Regardless of his political views, he's not the right personality for the WH. He's a natural outsider, leading the angry and displaced as a mob.

ok who cares about this old man.

You have got to be kidding! This is not the direction the GOP needs to go – not Gingrich, not Cantor, not Jindahl, not Limbaugh(even worse choice) but to Pawlenty or Crist.

No Newt you can't win!!! We need someone new, Not you!!! Are we ever going to learn Reps? Are we?

Concerned Republican.

so thats the new face of the RNC. Newt Gingrich. LOL

Oh please....he is the ulimate hypocrite!

if it's necessary we will, if it's not necessary we won't, save yourself the time and money gingrich, it's NOT necessary.

This will go nowhere. By the time 2012 rolls around, no one will have any stomach for the Republicans who devised the "Contract on America" and led the nation into political chaos. The face of American politics is going to change rapidly and there will be no place for the old partisan back-biting that defined politics in the 1990s.

No Newt is good Newt.

If this warmed-over political corpse is the best that the GOP has to offer, let's swear in President Obama for a second term now.

Wow, first Limbaugh is the face of th GOP and now Newt is planning to run. More gifts for the Democrats.

Newt is one of the most partisan people in the US. Were there no Republicans awake during the last election when voters were crystal clear that they were tired of the type of politics that Rush and Newt represent?

Bring it ON Newt! A polarizing right wing nut-bag versus what is rapidly becoming a centrist administration. Bravo! It's WAY past time that the true majority of the country (those of us in the center) had a pragmatic administration to get us out of the lunacy of past ideological governments. I predict that your middle name will become "GOP sacrificial lamb", roasted on the spit and served with spicy couscous. Mmmm, I'm savoring that already! (I'm sure that your ex-wives are too!)

Nightmare !

Newt will lead our party to victory against the American people.

Now that's true vision. A 'traditional values sleazebag' with a knack for dividing the country rising to the top of the Republican Party? What a deep bench. We've turned a corner.. a 360 degree corner.

Oh, please........Adulterers belong in a confessional not the White House.....

If you look at the last 40 years, there have only been 2 politicians who ever actually subscribed to, and followed to a tee, the doctrine of Reaganomics, which calls for lower taxes, and spending cuts, and Reagan wasn't one of them.

Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich.

And for those few years in the mid to late 90's, we had lowering unemployment and Budget surpluses.

Why is he talking about that now? He should have waited. Now he will be marked as the Obama fighter for 4 years. He will loose before the race even starts.

Just what we need another serial adulterer. If his wives coud'nt trust him why should we?

At this point. Any warm body that can balance a checkbook is better than Obama.

Sure, why not?

Resurrect this political cadaver and the "Contract with America" too!

We all know how well that worked out, right kids?

This miscreant left office in disgrace and is now hailed as some sort of statesman?

Oh the insanity of it all.

Ding!

RUN!!!

Having heard Gingrich speak and read his books, this guy's got the right ideas at the right time. He'd be a GREAT person to run against Obama...

RUN, NEWT!

We wouldn't be dealing with Newt if the progressive media hadn't supported such an economically inept liberal president. Thanks alot CNN...

This shows how low the Republican party has sunk. Maybe they can have a Newt/Rush ticket?

We now got Obama and are wanting him out that soon? And to say the least, the idiots now want Gingrich in '12? This country is on maximum overdrive at warp speed and on on autopilot to boot, to the bottom of the turlet...Dayum,,,lemme outta here!!!

Please Newt – It is necessary.

You'll bring the pendulum back from the far left at which it currently resides, while keeping it from going to the far right of the previous 8 years.

Gingrich / Limbaugh 2012 ! ! ! The only team that can unite the country with fresh new leadership and avoid gridlock in Congress.

the recycled family man who cheated on his wives, bring em on

Never thought I'd say this, but Newt would be a relief in 2012. Probably can't win, but would stand up to Limbaugh. Let's see as Sarah "Palins" in comparison.

Please Newt don't waste your time. Your politics are truly a thing of the past.

please....we need new blood, not the old corrupt ones.
You might as well vote for Nixon again.
Say goodbye McCain, Kennedy, Byrd and the rest of the fossil club
enjoy your billions while its still worth something.

Please let him run so that the American people can finally put a nail in his coffin and spare us any further news coverage of him. Go ahead. Make our day dude.

If Gingrich is the best the GOP can come up with in 2012 then Obama will get re-elected easily!

HELL NO!

Newt is a BIG TIME closet BIGGOT. All any one has to do is listen very carefully and you can tell he's hiding it deep inside. His response at the REPUBLICAN CONVENTION to the BLACK reporter asking him question revealed his true color or lack there of.

HELL NO..HYPROCRIT. HE CRITIZED BILL CLINTON FOR BEING A CHEAT KNOWING VERY WELL HE TOO WAS NO DIFFERENT.

LIAR..

Newt would be a smart, effective President.

Oh please! His time has come and gone. Doesn't anyone remember why he left? In scandal. On the other hand it would insure a second term for President Obama.

I literally cannot even think about this possibility...it makes me shudder. If Newt were to ever get elected....I'm really moving to another country.

I'm watching the morning news as always-poor heidi every question she has asked the guests today, shifted all around but never answered. it's what's wrong with government today, it's time for all of congress and lawmakers to do it right for the first time in their elected careers. our country is in trouble people, do what you were elected to do forget about pet projects and what's in it for you. pretty soon you will not have to worry no one will be working and paying taxes and you will not have to fight over the tax money comeing into the government.

Dear Newt:

Who cares?

Signed, America

If it's necessary? As in, if Palin doesn't get her act together, or Mitt gets too centrist, or Rush isn't available? And how will he cover up his past pecadillos, the ones that got him on the wrong side of the base? If he had been paying attention, McCain's one divorce cost him support; Gingrich has two. But go ahead, keep that conservative mantra out there...just remember, conservative policies got us into this mess, and no one expects Obama to be able to fix it in 8 weeks! (Except Hannity and Rush, and Pat Buchanon, of course.)

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would love to see Newt run in 2012.

LMAO. Please let this loser run, that means their won't be any compettition in 2012. newt is old school and not even the young repubs will vote for this clown.

I will always remember how Mr. Gingrich treated his first wife.

Don't forget to bring your mistress Newt. This should be too funny having Newt who "contributed" to his country so hard to impeach Bill Clinton and he too had a mistress. What a joke.

Awesome.

Pure conservative family values, forward thinker right there.

Can't wait for the 2012 RNC circus. Let's see now...

The Alaskan MENSA prize winner, The Newt, The guy with the magic underpants, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood (Jindal).

Oh, and I forgot they are getting progressive, so we can throw in the angry golden parachute woman (Carley), and if we get really lucky
and the law will change the Terminator.

Have I forgotten anyone?

This is an all-star lineup of months of entertainment. I'm setting my TiVo as we speak.

Peace.

"if we think it's necessary"... There is no instance in all the alternative universes where Newt running, or even opening is mouth again, is necessary

And hateful liberal remarks will follow momentarily.

Gingrich is mulling a White House bid in 2012......Plz just say NO!!!

I wouldn't vote for him, but I actually think he'd be the best candidate for the GOP.

You have my vote Mr. Speaker!! Please run!

Wait, isn't Mr. "Family Values" the guy who served his wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer? I hope the Grinch does run, it will ensure an easy victory for Obama. What is the matter with the Republicans? Can't they understand that the world has changed and we no longer want to see a bloated white man spouting ultra-conservative ideology in the White House? Hey, why not Grinch and Palin?

Cool...he will probably be on his fourth wife by then....

GO NEWT!!!!! You got a vote here for sure!!!!

What makes him think he'd be any better than Sen. McOutrage? He looks like a warlock, sounds like a reformed KKK member, and is just one notch above Limbaugh. What does he mean when he says "if he thinks it is necessary?" Does he mean "if he thinks it's necessary" to get his butt whipped worst than McOutrages?

Newt is what America needs. A man with some common sense and not idealogical extremism ruling his judgment.

Please Run ......... We need a true conservative in the Whitehouse. But then again it might be to late to save the USA from the liberals.

Repubs are so wishy washy

God Help Us All if he does run. Didn't he cheat on his wife?

Wow - I thought this guy went away. I read one of his "what would happen if" historical fiction books about Pearl Harbor. It started out okay, but took a serious turn to the bizarre at the end. I was fortunate to be reading a library book that an elderly man had placed a note in. It stated "from here on is strictly fantasy, there was no 3rd attack on Pearl and the fuel dumps were not destroyed". I laughed and realized that Newt likes dealing in fantasy and changes facts to suit himself. I had enough of his nastiness when he was Speaker and would NEVER vote for him for President.

“And if we think it's necessary we'll probably do it,” he said. “And if it isn’t necessary we probably won't do it.”

political talk for "will run only if I can win"

better check with the "leader" of the republican party first (rushbo).

Did he get the nod of approval from Rush? Better ask.

IN short, no way!

CAN WE PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT 2012!!??? WE JUST HAD A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

Gingrich is a true fiscal conservative! It was his congress that balanced the budget. Bill Clinton just signed off on it and only because of public support! All the sheep think Bill was such a economic wonder. NOT!

Is he out of his mind??? There are only about 25% of the population that is left claiming to be republican! And I can say this because I was - WAS a republican for 40 years!!! NO MORE!!! They have destroyed MY country and I pray President Obama and his team can get us out of this mess!!!

I admire anyone who has the ambition to run for high office in this country. These are troubling times with difficult decisions ahead for us all.
Regrettably, Mr. Gingrich had his chance as Speaker of the House and failed the country miserably with the Contract with America that produced not only broken promises across the board (e.g. term limits, fiscal responsibility) but also brought day-to-day government to a standstill.
He simply will not be able to run on his record in the US House of Representatives – and that leaves precious little otherwise...
The old adage that 'character is destiny' I believe applies when we look closely as to why his leadership failed in that effort.

Talk about going from bad to worst.

Man, I can't wait to vote for the guy who after a length affair served divorce papers to his wife when she was in the hospital for cancer.

Newt Gingrich is a narrow-minded,self-absorbed megalomaniac who has never been qualified to be president . The United States needs 8 years of Barack Obama followed by 8 more years of Hillary Clinton and a Democract-controlled congress for 16 years to undo the damage caused by Bush & the Republicans.

He should run as Rush Limbaugh's VP candidate. Then we should all move to Canada. And they said Barack was the anti christ!! I think these guys would even give the anti christ the creeps. Every time I see Rush speak I expect him to pull out his cape and fangs. The guy is the most despicable man since – well, Newt Gingrich.

Mucho Groucho
NYC

Please, could we have a 6 month rest from Presidential campaigning?

bring it

Another loud mouth fool.

it is a splendid idea. Newt should run. it's time we had some strong conservative leadership from the Republican party.

Our country is going down the drain. Anybody but O-duh-ma in 2012!

I'll vote for you.......................gladly !

That would sure make it easy for a landslide by the Democrats!
PLEASE run, Newt!

He can't be serious! If I am needed??? What would we need him for? Wasn't he thown out DC once for his conduct or am I confusing him with some other right wing hypocrite ? (Rush Limbaugh) This is just more blah blah blah to bring down President Obama's successes. Today it is Mar of 2009. Why do we all stop worrying about 2012 and rally around our leaders and try to work out solutions to our problems. Focus on what you can do today Newt. If you do nothing then you continue to be part of the problems!

I'd vote for him over President Obama any day.

Pleez!!!!

Dear God Please and it will be another win for the Democrats. Stay home and sit the one out Newton.

do it Newt, we need a man in the white house....especially one with a brain.

Oh great – that's all we need, another divisive campaign full of yelling, screaming and name calling. Can't we catch a break from the vitriol and get some real options?

Hopefully the Libertarians will come out strong from the GOP implosion and we'll see a campaign that is substantive for a change.

Newt Gingrich is without a doubt the biggest egomaniac in politics. He just can't seem to get the message that he is over. I feel sorry for the GOP. This is all they have to offer, Newt and Rush...

Agree more of a Benjamin Franklin. Most will tell you that Thomas Jefferson really wasn't that great of a President. Smart and good at developing ideas but not a leader. WOuld be a great adviser or WH Chief of Staff. Of course anything is better than the crew running the show now. I could go to an insane asylum and get better than the lot in charge now.
One good thing the Market is up today. We need to cross our fingers and hope Obama, Biden and/or Geithner don't open their mouth.

from a die hard republican. Thanks but not thanks.

Double standard Newt, he was committing adultery at the same time he was trying convict Bill Clinton for adultery. He will represent the republicans well.

As a Democrat, I hope he runs. Newt Gingrich is viewed by Democrats in the same light as the right views Al Gore (i.e., a hypocritical wonk better suited for a professorship than the Presidency). He is the Boris Yeltsin of the Republican Party: a hero that led them to a new era when the Party needed one, but unable to avoid the dustbin of history once his movement grew bigger than he was.

I love the fact that all the Repubs are getting the band from 1994 (Limbaugh, Gingrich,...) back together for the 2012 election. We've been down this conservative road before...look how badly it ended. Are the American people really going to be dumb enough to trust these guys again?

newt could run on health issues like how he left his wife who had cancer for another woman. Nice guy. A real humanitarian.

Before this place is completely overrun by the liberals, I just want to say that Newt is one heck of a political strategist and a great man who is searching hard for solutions to America's problems. I hope he tries to run.

Newt didn't play football because they couldn't find a helmet big enough to fit his head. His head is still too big. However, it would be interesting to see Newt vie with Palin and Jindal to see who best represents the reborn Republican party.

I have one thing to say, Ha ha ha ha ha ha. that is funny, i never considered Newt a comedian.

He won't get my vote

Yawn? Another GOP leader who will be willing to represent the Wealthy, and not "We the People". Another GOP leader who will tell us one thing and do something else, continue to expand the size of the Government, and continue to enslave many generations of our citizens going forward for many generations.

I don't agree with him on almost anything, wouldn't vote for him and think he is the biggest hypocrite in the world........but I'll agree that he is alot better at making an arguement than most on the right, has alot more actual ideas than most on the right and has a better sense of where this country is politically than most on the right.

Newt Gingrich looks like he's older than Mc Cain, is this a joke he's gotta be over 100 years old?

Be prepared for a bunch of liberals commenting on Newt that have never listened to anything he said beyond the hatcheted sound bites they heard from Oberman or Rachel Mad-cow...

Newt would be good, I know most Libs will hate him, hell you'd hate whoever it is no matter what so your opinions are worthless. Just remember he ran the house when your beloved Clinton balanced the budget with a republican led congress.

Our belief is that Gingrich is, politically, a very spiteful person, with a frighteningly, smilin' facade, that fiercely filters his fiendish feelings from his heart, fertile with ferocity. But, let's leave it to the people to judge. Fox news channel will have a diametrically opposite opinion.

A Gingrich presidential bid would die quickly. He carries too much historacle baggage.

He has my vote. Anyone would over this liberal spending obamby.

Hot Dang...the republicans really want to loose. Wouldn't it be nice. No republican party to deny, delay and obstruct the recovery of this country. There was an article about life on other planets and boy I hope like the devil there is not a political party just like the republicans there.

That's funny.

Can't wait for this, Americans (most anyway) are sick of these right wing nut jobs, a man who touted family values serves his dying wife divorce papers in the hospital so he could continue his affair with an intern. The man quit in disgrace and now he wants to be President of a defunct party...bring it on!!!

I blame Gingrich and his idiotic Contract on America for the high level of partisanship we're suffering right now. He wants a one-party system like Russia used to have and North Korea has now, and he thought Bush was doing a good job.

Talk about a landslide.....

Obama 75% Gingrich 12% No shows 13%

Forget it Newt, you have as much marital baggage as Rudy G.
Americans are just not into adulterers.

But you're a great history professor.

Wow, the republicans just keep sending out their A Team. McCain and now Gingrich. Who's next, Bob Dole? Is there any one relevant person in that party under the age of 60? Here's hoping the Alaskan Bimbo runs in 2012!!

Can't wait to hear more of the Gingrich family values and morals if he runs for President. Is Calista the woman who caused him to serve divorce papers to his wife while she was dying with cancer? Or how about that affair he had while harpooning Clinton over the same. Yep, Republicans family values and morals will be hard at work again.

I think I speak for the American people when I say we hope it isn't necessary.

Newt is an ideas guy. Even bad ideas get the candidates talking about the issues instead of the American Idol fluff that usually plagues the campaign trail.
That said, America is not yet ready for a candidate with Newt's personal background.

Calista, is that the one he divorced his dying wife for? Nothing like a guy who delivers divorce papers to a woman lying in a hospital bed.

I hope not. Talk about a nut-case!

Are you kidding me Newt?????
Obama just got sworn in less than 6 weeks ago. You are a thorn in his side, you are just SO dang negative!!! jeez! I don't care if you are thinking about launching a 2012 campaign, let the man run this country. Obama won the election fair and square, give him a chance!

go newt

Oh, God. This just gets better and better. Who next? Reagan's ghost?

Nutty Newtie wants to run for President? Bwa-Ha-Ha-Ha! Keep shaking that GOP tree and all the nuts will be falling off!

You know what, instead of always thinking about the next election, the Republicans should articulate solutions that are going to help America TODAY (besides tax cuts, No to every Obama solution, tax cuts, more tax cuts, and some more "no").

With their offering of their power, decision-making abilities, and their very careers to the alter of Limbaugh, they may not make it to 2012 at this rate. They need to change and adapt, and quickly if they hope to compete for America's trust.

It's only been 40 something-odd days since Obama took office, and already he has kept most of his campaign promises and delivering sweeping and correct results at warp speed. The Republicans better get on board, or they will find themselves increasingly marginalized.

Much of the problem with achieving bipartisan action today is a direct result of Gingrich's actions when he was House Leader. He deliberately marginalized senior moderate Republicans and gave chairmanships based on their ideological purity. When the Repbulicans took over the Senate, the process was repeated. As a Pennsylvanian, I was particularly disgusted by the description of our light weight junion senator, Rick Santorum, as the third most important Republican in the Senate, when our senior Senator, Arlen Spector was clearly more thoughtful, principled, and courageous (Congressional Republicans can't even stand up to Limbaugh!) The Republican Party will not revive until they realize that Gingrich and his followers' quest for ideoogical purity have reduced their party to a small group of true believers who have deliberately and industriously excluded the vast majority of Americans.

Yup just what the country needs, a 3 time wife cheater exspousing "Family Values". I wonder if Newt plans on serving divorce papers to Calista when she's in a cancer ward...

This is the guy who brought us "The Contract on America" – he's the last person on earth who should be President – including Caribo Barbie...

You know what, instead of always thinking about the next election, the Republicans should articulate solutions that are going to help America TODAY (besides tax cuts, No to every Obama solution, tax cuts, more tax cuts, and some more "no").

With their offering of their power, decision-making abilities, and their very careers to the alter of Limbaugh, they may not make it to 2012 at this rate. They need to change and adapt, and quickly if they hope to compete for America's trust.

It's only been 40 something-odd days since Obama took office, and already he has kept most of his campaign promises and delivering sweeping and correct results at warp speed. The Republicans better get on board, or they will find themselves increasingly marginalized.

finnally we will get someone who will get this country back to basics

G.O.P... Grand OLD Party... OLD ideas that don't work, and OLD white men out'f touch with reality...

By definition, the cure for what ails America would NOT be more of the disease!!!

Newt Gingrich is an adulturous draft-dodging HYPOCRITE. The country does NOT need more of the same!!!

Absolutely no way Gingrich will be president.

It's amazing how republicans come out to say they are running to solve America's problems but don't seem to remember all the damage they have done in the past 8 years. Newt should give us his solutions now to solve our problem and we can consider him for President if that works. The problem is that ALL republicans think that lower taxes and deregulation is the only answer to everything.

Sorry...I'll stick with Obama

That Jerk ??NO Way!!! Some more of BUSH Policies?

If this country lets this snake bite us twice, we deserve whatever we get. I can't believe he has the nerve to show his face again, but, then again, this is the party that has so many Christian values, its leader is a pill popping thrice divorced, racist pig, so I don't put anything past them.

Gingrich is an agenda driven pol who will do only what he and his party want. He will have no regard for what the real, common-sense Americans want for this country.

Actually, that's what we have now. And had before him. And before him. And before him. And before him. And before him. And before him.

His running mate will be Rush.
He would tap Ann Coulter for Secretary of State and Karl Rove for Chief of Staff.

You know what, instead of always thinking about the next election, the Republicans should articulate solutions that are going to help America TODAY (besides tax cuts, No to every Obama solution, tax cuts, more tax cuts, and some more "no").

With their offering of their power, decision-making abilities, and their very careers to the alter of Limbaugh, they may not make it to 2012 at this rate. They need to change and adapt, and quickly if they hope to compete for America's trust.

It's only been 40 something-odd days since Obama took office, and already he has kept most of his campaign promises and delivering sweeping and correct results at warp speed. The Republicans better get on board, or they will find themselves increasingly marginalized.

YES!

Oh, please Newt do it.......please run for President of the USA and screw it up just like u did to Georgia! Both U and Russ are what's best for the Republican party, don't u think? CB

Dream on NEWT. Don't waste your time or money running against President Obama.

Considering Newt Gingrich's personal life I would not use the phrase "flirted with the idea". Considering Republicans are supposed to be the "family values" party if Gingrich gets the nomination I would put the final nail in that coffin. This is that guy that was calling for Clinton's impeachment regarding an act of infidelity while he was engaging in acts of infidelity. His slogan will have to be "Hipocracy over Hope".

Good. The sooner Republicans prop up a list of candidates to throw their hats in already, the faster Obama will be able to campaign against them with evidence of not acting bipartisan.

Obama in another landslide 2012.

Is Gingrich the best the Republicans have? I say NO to another GRAND OLD PARTY wife cheater.

I am a life long Democrat and I must say that even I am starting to feel sorry for the Republicans. It is truly a sad day when your only option is Newt at the top of the ticket.

Won't it be difficult for Newt to play the "bi-partisan" card if he is a declared "partisan?" Still, it would be interesting to have his grandchildren involved; after all, they are the ones holding the IOUs.

What we are seeing today in the curent economy are the fruit of the seeds sown by Newt's "Contract on America" . America has moved beyond his failed ideas. Let's keep the failed ideas of the past in the past!!!

Go for it! Like Joe Kennedy said to Jack. If not you, then who? If not now, when? I t may be too late to save ourselves if you don't bring about your 12 points to a reality ASAP.

Bring it on.

Another point. If this is the best the Republicans can offer, then they really are done.

You've got to be kidding me. This guy is the boob of all boobs. Anyone remember the racial comments he made that almost got him evicted from Washington. This person is bad news for everyone. We don't need anymore corrupt politicians fleecing America.

Another loud mouth nut.......Repubs need somebody NEW whose NOT tied to their failed policies.

Newt would be a good candidate. but that is 4 years away and anything and anyone can become a shining star. By the way, i was just informed that the so call increase I will get in my paycheck for April 1 has a problem. The tax table isn't changing so i will end up paying more when filing next year! So the small increase that I get I will have to ask that it be taken out for taxes nowso I don't end up paying next year! Guess we got snockered again!!!
this bites!

Awesome! Run, Newt, Run! The way to counter young voters and new ideas is clearly to recycle a candidate who hasn't held office in 15 years and who offers the same stale ideas he used in the 90s! Good call!

This is the best news the republican party has gotten since last nov.

Just because you're Newt Gingrich doesn't mean you are entitled to anything. You are part of the do nothing party.

Newt, it will absolutely be necessary! GO FOR IT! And get rid of this socialist/communist society once and for all.

We need gingrich, maybe not to win but into influence policy and fire people up.