As Time columnist Joe Klein suggested last week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich continues to be a lot more interesting out of office than he was in, generating novel ideas about health care, immigration, presidential primaries and what President Bush should be doing (vetoing porky bills, for one thing). Of special note to Kansans is what Gingrich said when asked about intelligent design: “It’s a perfectly fine philosophy, but it has nothing to do with science and shouldn’t be taught in science courses.” As Klein concluded, Gingrich probably has too much baggage to win the White House, but having him part of the debate would be both fun and a “boon to democracy.”
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I can see him being tagged for a VP or Cabinet spot in the 2008.
As usual, the rudepundit says what I, CF, could only hope to say, about Joe Klein’s, um, ENTHUSIASM for Newt Gingrich:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2006/04/joe-klein-hearts-newt-gingrich.html
Joe Williams,
Cabinet, maybe. But if he wants VP, there’s the delicate matter of the wife he dumped, from her cancer bed, to marry his secretary.
Newt may have some good ideas from time to time but his involvement in the witch-hunt along with his wives will likely haunt him. If Broder thinks the country is ungovernable now wait until someone like Newt gets in.
CF beat me to the rude pundit post.
A reminder that the more delicate among us might have the vapors at the pundits, um, colorful language.
Klein would be an example of the MSM breaking its nose everytime the gop turns farther right.
“Gingrich is an idea guy”
Yeah, right, and my butt isn’t big, yellow & hairy; but is in fact very beautiful!”
Old too-bad-he’s-not-newtered does have some rep problems to overcome. Didn’t he leave the young wife that he left his wife who had cancer for, for yet another young staffer wife?
A great represntative for the party of morality and personal responsibility.
I wonder where many-times-married Newt stands on the so-called Defense of Marriage laws?
IF Gingrich’s “big” revelation for KS and for the country is that ID is not science, BFD.
What would have been a more interesting, thought-provoking, and potentially dangerous comment would have involved the cognitive dissonance one must have to hold the “philosophy” of ID as correct on the one hand, and the “science” of common descent on the other. What a waffler!! You can’t simultaneously “teach’ common descent in the schools and then, with a wink and a nod, say, for all intents and purposes, that “we’re only doing this because we have to. Go home to your parents or to your churches and get the real story after the bell rings”.
Defense of Marriage laws
Well dont you know the bible says gays should not marry?
It is apparantly silent on divorce and remarriage in situations like Newt’s where he just cant resist that young girl while is “starter” wife is in the hospital.
Newt isn’t going to run for high office. He’s much more effective in a free-thinking role. Has anyone ever heard of Milton Friedman? He’s a Nobel-winning conservative economist. Now take a guess where this conservative chose to live for the past 35 years.
Most of you would never guess this, given a 1000 guesses.
Try San Francisco, the most liberal city in America, if not the planet. Dr. Friedman is a conservative THINKER. He loves being in a cauldron of competing ideas and ideologies. It sharpens his mind.
I still have to think of Newt in a skirt and halter top. In spring colors. I ruined XXX’s lunch with that little mental picture one time. Beyond that I don’t think much of Newt.
Oh he might move to the left a little bit. But he’d still be in the right turn lane. The difficulties he has that are posted above are complicated by something else.
This guy frequently gets the credit for the GOP takeover of Congress. People are not happy with the Congress just now in those GOP hands. So while other Republicans can claim “I’m not one of THOSE Republicans, Newt really can’t.
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