Is Newt Gingrich a serious canidate for 2008?
Gingrich just has too many negatives. People across the country don’t like him. His history is full of stuff the Democrats could use against him–in fact if he seriously throws his hat in the ring the REPUBLICANS will use his history to torpedo him. He is too cerebral for the GOP, too much of a brainy type. His positions are all over the map, some new, some old, some left, some right, and some just STRANGE. Gingrich made a name for himself with hyperbolic rhetoric. While he was Speaker of the House he said lots of really dumb things, stuff he really didn’t mean, just to get attention. He really is in large part to blame for the current generation of big-mouth political pundits. Without Gingrich there would be no Rush Limbaugh, no Ann Coulter, etc. In the end he dug his grave with his own mouth! He couldn’t even run for re-election to the House from his safe Republican district in GA. On the other hand, in a field of midgets a guy with 1″ shoe lifts looks like a giant.
