Why Leaders In The GOP Are Reluctant To See Newt As President

Even some GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill are voicing their concerns about him and have been reluctant to endorse the former House speaker.

"I saw the damage he did to the Republican party and to the Congress. And I think I owe it to my constituents and to the country not to allow that to happen again," noted Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.

"If he did that as speaker, I'm really concerned about what he would do as our nominee for president," he added.

As a member of Congress in the late 1990s, then representative and now Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., organized a failed attempt to oust Gingrich as speaker of the House.

Graham said he believes Gingrich has matured since then but still won't give his endorsement.

"I think he's leveled out as a person and all of us, even his worst critics, would say that Newt is a guy that can really hold a room," Graham said.

Gingrich's Republican critics say he had a million ideas as speaker, but many of those were a distraction.

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What Part Of This About Newt's Leadership Is True

What a relief it must be to be free of Gingrich’s iron hand. For principled Republicans, it’s been four years of captivity. Turn back the clock to October 1994, when Newt and his pollsters put together the “Contract With America” plot. The media described its ten points as alarming and
reactionary. Actually, it was thoroughly conventional in every respect, and
in some ways actually contrary to the ideas discussed in local campaigns.

The national media focused on it, but in fact, the Contract didn’t figure
strongly in House elections. The candidates that year were campaigning on,
and won on, radical themes of obliterating government and devolving power...read more at

http://www.wnd.com/1998/12/6776/

Gingrich Wanted An Open Marriage-True or False? Shopping For Helpmate For The Presidency?

Newt Gingrich wanted an open marriage, former wife Marianne Gingrich said in an interview with ABC News.

Excerpt:

 The former Mrs. Gingrich says Newt began to plan a run for President at the time of the divorce and told her that Callista "was going to help him become President."

 Read this and the other two articles and pray it is wrong...

Newt and Callista Gingrich-Who Will Come First--US or Callista? Is There Truly A Servant's Heart?

The Good Wife

Can Callista Gingrich save her husband?

by Ariel Levy January 23, 2012

Excerpt:

...Olson told me, “I certainly remember saying, ‘Callista, please be careful—nobody wants to see anybody get hurt.’ ” But she said that she felt concern rather than disapproval. “We grew up where there was a moral code, so I don’t think anybody thought, Oh, this doesn’t matter; it’s no big deal. But we’re also fairly nonjudgmental, because that would be presumptuous.” (When Olson came out as a lesbian, she told me, Callista was similarly open-minded.) Olson was surprised that her friend had fallen in love with the architect of the Contract with America: “Initially, you certainly go, ‘Wow, this doesn’t make a lot of sense.’ But, as we’ve gotten to know him, he is not only married to my friend, he is my friend.”

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Newt Gingrich-The Quest For the Presidency?

The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich

by Gail Sheehy
Vanity Fair September 1995

Excerpts:

"I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to." Newt Gingrich is coaching me on writing about himself. Ten years ago he was arguably the most disliked member of Congress...

...he remains an untested national commodity. Maybe that explains the big presidential tease, which will continue as long as he can hold the spotlight. "If there were a large enough vacuum, then obviously I'm willing to consider it," he said in July.

... Meanwhile, he is honing his evangelical skills on a 25-city P.R campaign bankrolled with a loan from Rupert Murdoch and designed to sell his new book To Renew America --and himself.

But his greatest presidential stumbling block may be right under his nose. At home, Newt's second wife, Marianne Ginther Gingrich, tells me she doesn't see herself in the First Lady's job. "Watching Hillary has just been a horrible experience," commiserates Marianne. "Hillary sticking her neck out is not working."

What happens if Newt runs?, I ask.

"He can't do it without me," she replies. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy" --she giggles at her naughtiness. "I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything...I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be."  More...