Gingrich: Once More Into the Fray

[goobergunch]

Gingrich: Once More Into the Fray

By Ben Pershing and Lauren W. Whittington
Roll Call Staff

January 18, 2005

With a new book, a regular television gig and some well-timed presidential campaign speculation, Newt Gingrich is trying to prove that there can be second acts in a former Speaker’s life.

In the six years since he was forced to leave the Speakership for ethical and electoral shortcomings, the polymathic Georgia Republican has kept himself busy by thinking — about Medicare, Social Security, defense policy, the State Department, mystery novels, Civil War history and scores of other topics.

Lately, though, Gingrich has been thinking a lot more about politics and, apparently, about how he can migrate from the policy world back into the political world.

“I think it was all kind of planned,” said Jack Howard, a former Gingrich aide who now serves as president of the lobbying firm Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates. “I think he took a step back and did a lot of thinking on his own. ... He took kind of a time-out and did a lot of soul-searching, and now he’s starting to re-emerge.”

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[Zenlitened]

1. So much of what is wrong in America today...

... can be traced directly back to that horrible, evil little man.

:puke:

[liberal N proud]

3. He is the source of all the Clinton bashing

It all started in his little office on the hill.

[burythehatchet]

7. you give him too much credit

he is a dick, no doubt, but he's no different than the other assholes.

[MisterP]

11. well, he's the archetype

[GOPBasher]

2. I would LOVE to see Ginrich as the Repug nominee in 2008.

Barring Diebold's bullshit, it would be a landslide for us.

[struggle4progress]

14. Newt and Roy. eom

[sarcasmo]

4. Ethical and electoral shortcomings perfect for the morals party.

This guy would fit right in with these hyporcites. I think it would be easy to defeat and slam Newt with his ethical and electoral shortcomings, typical Republican morals.

[louis-t]

5. He took a 'step back' allright

To give short-lived memory of Americans a chance to forget his scandalous hypocrasy and crass, self-serving agenda. This man is a cancer on the rectum of US politics.

[Roland99]

6. One positive about Gingrich...

He was on Meet The Press last summer and said the Republicans had begun to abuse their power and that was what they hated about the Democrats when the GOP took over Congress in the early 90s.

They've became that which they hated.

[NEOBuckeye]

9. The Dems at their worst weren't as bad as these stupid Republicans

The biggest reason why the Democrats aren't still holding a majority in Congress today is complacency. At some point they became too relaxed and didn't see the growing movement on the Right to take control of the GOP and knock the Dems out of power.

[saltpoint]

8. Gingrich in 08? Doesn't seem as if he could muscle out --

-- Frist or Hagel or Jeb, or whoever else they're going to throw at us.

[xchrom]

10. there it is

the re-emergence of newt's political life.
i knew his absense wouldn't last -- and i had begun to speculations of a white house run.
personally i think it would be as a veep.

[Democat]

12. Media: Morals are the big thing now but ethics mean nothing anymore

Makes no sense unless you are a Republican idiot.

[Swamp Rat]

13. He has no soul to search...