Newt

Anyone hear Newt Gingrich making the talk show rounds promoting his new book "Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America"?



I caught him on Hannity last week (Maybe it was earlier this week - don't remember?) and he was on Dennis Prager yesterday. I have to say that his original Contract With America was inspired, and I plan on purchasing his new book today. Gingrich is an amazingly intelligent guy with a encyclopedic knowledge of history, of course, these two things make him enemy number one to democrats... who managed to push him out of the house speakership on ethics charges (read: SMEAR CAMPAIGN) he was later exonerated of. God knows we can't have an intelligent politician with original ideas that are rooted in our country's history...

Of course, as memory serves, he was a bit of a loudmouth on personal responsibility issues, and he had some of his own faux pas that came back to really bite him in the ass (something comes to mind about glass houses). Anyhow, on this disjointed commentary, all I was trying to say is how darn PRESIDENTIAL he sounded.

Is Newt jockeying for a run in 2008?

There is some really great stuff available on his website for public consumption. I would recommend two items:

(1) An ARTICLE entitled "The Conservative Movement at the Crossroads."

(2) A SPEECH (audio) entitled "The 5 Challenges America Faces"

I wish putting up his interview with Prager wasn't a gross violation of copyright, but it is, so I can't. If you're interested, you can buy a download of that particular show for $12.00 (Wednesday, June 8) although I think subscribing for an entire year is less than $60 and worth every penny... and I plan on writing more about Dennis in a future post.

Really, the speech linked above has a lot of the same material as the Prager interview. But, it is a speech, and there is no interactive quality to it, but it is very good. It's an MP3, so download it and slip it on your iPod. Don't have an iPod? You need one. Go buy one.

Anyhow, it's too bad that such wonderful oration and writing aren't coming from a GOP candidate who is a bit more commercially palatable. I'm not sure Newt has the kind of presence needed to win a presidential election. Just his name is enough to kill a candidacy... "President Newt."

Hm, I digress.

Anyhow, that's what's on my mind this morning. Thank you all for reading and for your comments. I appreciate it! One of the new friends I have met through this site has a quote on her blog that says "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." That's pretty profound and utterly true, but at the same time it's nice to see that people are actually taking the time to read my opinions and musings. Thanks!