I'm keeping an eye on the Gingrich campaign and I think he can appeal to the conservatives that look at the front runners and want something else. His "Green Conservatism" has a chance of appealing to moderates concerned about the environment as well. All Newt needs is the money. Do you agree or do you think he doesn't have a chance in Iowa of becoming the Republican nominee?
2007-08-08 16:51:20 · 11 answers · asked by Joel S 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
I don't think he has a snowball's chance in hell of winning a bake-off, let alone a primary. I think he pissed off way too many in the past, and it has left an awful taste in their mouths when it comes to him.
Sorry - just what I think.
2007-08-08 16:56:29 · answer #1 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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. 8^)
2007-08-08 16:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, he is not a real candidate because he has not declared. He is nothing more than hypocritical backup to all of the unpopular Republican candidates. If the real candidates are doing that bad, what does that say about the undeclared backup with basically no organization will do? Maybe if he apologizes some more to evangelical preachers on a national stage about his infidelity during the Clinton impeachment and keeps trying to use Liberal ideas for his campaign, he will gain more popularity from the conservatives. I would love to see how he is going to raise enough money in a matter of months to beat candidates who have already raised tens of millions of dollars and have met thousands of voters.
2007-08-08 17:09:23 · answer #3 · answered by Reality is a perspective 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, particular, he can end the interest of destroying u.s. -- with the intention that we haven't any middle type, purely hundreds of tens of millions human beings ravenous to dying interior the streets, whilst 0.a million% very own each little thing. His settlement ON u.s. handed -- because of the fact democratic electorate stayed abode. That became in basic terms between the series of Republican strikes that has led to the present financial disaster, and the long-status disappearance of a comfortable middle type (to no longer point out environmental destruction). The questions isn't no count if, with a compliant Congress, Newt can get his schedule by, the question is why could everybody vote for an schedule that impoverishes ninety 9.9% of the inhabitants, and leaves us no longer something positioned poisonous water to drink, and deadly sludge to respire?
2016-12-11 14:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are talking about another adulterer, like Rudy Guiliani. After all the noise the Republicans made about Bill Clinton's infidelities, how can they nominate a man with that kind of record? The moderate middle, which decides the results of every election, will not tolerate that kind of rank hypocrisy.
Surley the GOP knows that. Both men are nonstarters.
2007-08-08 17:26:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't have a chance and that is a good thing.
He says that because of terrorism we need to reconsider the idea of freedom.
He's waaaaaaaaay out there.
"All Newt needs is the money" actually all he needs is everything else. He has money. He needs personality, likability, a better name and some sanity.
2007-08-08 17:21:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newt stands about as much of a chance as Ronald Reagan. Rightfully so.
2007-08-08 16:54:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newt is a very smart guy who isn't afraid to think big. I do not think he would make it in an election though and I do not think he really wants to.
He would be a great advisor to whoever does get elected in some capacity though as he has some pretty good ideas to try.
2007-08-08 16:57:43 · answer #8 · answered by sociald 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He will have to enter very quickly. As for candidates that are undeclared, Thompson has gotten alot of support assuming he does run. With 3 viable candidates already, Rudy, Romney, and (Thompson??), It doesnt look likely.
2007-08-08 16:56:14 · answer #9 · answered by Glenn M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's not going to run for president. He will fade into obscurity, we won't hear about him anymore until he dies, and then it will just be one sentence in the news ticker.
2007-08-08 16:58:08 · answer #10 · answered by Duffman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋