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you might ought to be careful what you wish for. Gingrich is going to be a player but he has carefully been laying out a plan that just might make him the favorite of a wide coalition of voters.
the guy is brilliant and a tactical genius.
He may be too polorizing now. Democrats did a good job of making him seem so in the past, but 4 years is a lot of time to rehab a reputation. Newt is working on doing just that.
If Gignrich gets the GOP nomination in four years, the White House will become a distant memory for Republicans.
Honestly I havent heard any new ideas from him But I think the republicans realize they are going to need a "super star" minority on the ticket to compete with Obama. They need to peel away some of the minority voters from Obama. More Asians and Hispanics would vote fo the republican ticket than they did this year if Jindal was on the ticket.
Republicans need more young people. Jindal would do better with the youth than Obama, as long as somebody like Huckabee wasn't his runningmate. I like Gingrich and his policies, but I agree with many of you that he's "too yesterday".
Democrats - don't count out Republicans yet. Your guy hasn't even been inaugurated yet. A lot could happen between now and 2012.
If Gignrich gets the GOP nomination in four years, the White House will become a distant memory for Republicans.
Old Gringo, as a republican I sure hope you keep that opinion because it will serve Newt well to be underestimated.
While democrats have forgotten about the former Speaker of the House, he has quietly been working to build a cooalition of people who cut accross all party lines and to identify what he calls Tri-Party or American issues.
To be an "American issue, it has to have a majority of Republicans, Independants and Democrats agree with the issue and the solution. To date, he has a list of over 100 issues that meet that standard and he has worked on the edge of the republican party to create an organization around those issues.
He has built bridges to innner city African Amerian groups that are trying novel approaches to education that are working and he has supported and embraced their concept and incorporated it.
Newt knows with his baggage that for him to be president, he will have to have a very long list of issuues that everyone agrees on.
but do me a favor, go to sleep and ignor Newt and hope we nominate him in 2004. That would make me happy. (by the way in 2004 I will be supporting Bobby Jindal for president)
but do me a favor, go to sleep and ignor Newt and hope we nominate him in 2004. That would make me happy. (by the way in 2004 I will be supporting Bobby Jindal for president)
Republicans need more young people. Jindal would do better with the youth than Obama, as long as somebody like Huckabee wasn't his runningmate. I like Gingrich and his policies, but I agree with many of you that he's "too yesterday".
Democrats - don't count out Republicans yet. Your guy hasn't even been inaugurated yet. A lot could happen between now and 2012.
One downside that hurt Jindal is that fact that at one time he was Hindu He actually wrote in an article: "I considered myself anti-Christian". That could come back and haunt Jindal in a presidential campaign. Bobby's first name is really Piyush but he adopted the name Bobby from the Brady Bunch.
Did he convert to Christianity? I don't know much about him but he seems promising. I ask because I live in a town where about 85% are Indian and I have seen very few Indian Christians.
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