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Everyone will see why he should be the Republican nominee in 2008. He is hands down the smartest and most articulate person in the Republican party. No one else is even close.

If you missed his recent debate with Mario Cuomo it is here: http://www.americansolutions.com/media/video.aspx In addition to it being an unfair fight, it is a crystal clear demonstration of how bankrupt the left is when it comes to ideas for actually solving problems that matter.

Imagine if Newt were the GOP nominee in the fall of 2008 and it came time for the debates. We could sit back, relax, crack a beer and watch him obliterate Hillary, Obama, or Edwards. Contrast that with the pins and needles we've sat on watching our nominee for the last... um... well, forever.

I'll guarantee you that any registered D in the Country would think that Cuomo cleaned that nasty old Gingrich's clock. If we were scoring it like a real debate, of course Gingrich won, but Cuomo was on message with every hot button emotional line, and the crowd loved it.

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Did you actually watch the Newt v Cuomo debate all the way through? Newt waxed old Mario like a surfboard.

Cuomo offered nothing beyond Bush hatred and higher taxes (ok, I grant you that's enough for most Dems). But ultimately, if your schtick is utterly devoid of real, workable solutions to health care, energy, social security, trade, national security, then voters will notice and you will end up in the trash can of history where you belong.

And as I said, by any objective, rational measure Gingrich won hands down, but that was not my point. He was on message for Ds and many Is and they aren't much on that objective and rational stuff.

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I have watched the entire video. Newt is spectacular! Mario has become a doddering old spouter of Dem talking points - at least as compared to the man that Newt complimented as the originator of "workfare". He misinterprets the 1st amendment, the ability of the executive branch to spend money not authorized by the legislative branch, spouts statistics about the number of uninsured without including the fact that up to half of them are illegal aliens, absolutely amazing..... And not a solution to be found.

I hope its on CSPAN. I wouldn't pay to watch it, but I would watch if it is on CSPAN.

...broadcast networks like ABC, NBC, CSB, FOX. I highly doubt that would happen though. Besides FOX, I can't imagine the drive-by media giving air time to someone who has a view different from Algore's.

Now for a real pipedream: broadcasting "The Great Global Warming Swindle" for all the masses to see.

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appearance at Cooper Union if we are scoring it on technical merit and as a real debate. But I'd be willing to bet that any registered D who watched it would think that Cuomo got the best of Gingrich; he was on message with all the emotional hot button lines, and got far more applause from the audience. That's the battle we have to fight on these emotional issues; we try to deal with them logically, the Ds deal with them emotionally, and that resonates with entirely too much of the electorate.

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That's not going to happen to any significant extent. You're wasting your time appealing to them by any means.

But poll Ds, Is and Rs on who won and I bet the numbers for Newt break 30%, 60 - 70% and 97% respectively. If most the Is believe Newt won and a significant number of Ds do while most all Rs do, then he won. It's sort of like Zogby's recent poll numbers on media bias.

“They chose dishonor. They will have war.” - Winston Churchill

Shines through once more.

Iran takes hostages right after Congress votes to withdraw. My, what a coincidence!

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...JFK could emulate Gore's Hollywood love affair by making a movie that combines "Scent of a Woman" and "The Color of Money" ... John Kerry stars in "The Scent of Money"?

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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox

NHC isn't much better.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

not whether the govt is going to throw cash down ratholes

"During my lifetime, all our problems have come from mainland Europe, and all the solutions from the English-speaking nations across the world." - Thatcher

I'd rather waste it on just about anything else besides "climate science, managing the response to climate change, and in developing new non-carbon energy systems."
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

"During my lifetime, all our problems have come from mainland Europe, and all the solutions from the English-speaking nations across the world." - Thatcher

but if spending some now stops us from spending hugely later, I'm for it.

You've stumbled onto the liberal argument for everything government wastes money on. Now you just need to call such spending "investments."
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

When was the last time you saw a nuclear reactor funded solely via private funds? Probably the last time you saw a privately funded sports arena or transit system.

Si j'etais le roi, les choses seraient differantes.

But when they were, they were funded like every other power plant, Debt financing by utilities. Whats your point ?
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

Since Carter outlawed breeder reactors, we have had the Greeners squeeling their heads of about any potential nukes because the only ones we can legally build here have the inherent problem of producing nuclear waste with a half life of a gazillion years.

Newt could argue the logic of allowing breeder reactors, which are clean and commercially viable. He could even point out that Kerry should like them (given his propensity for things French) since France produces about 75% to 80% of its power with breeder reactors.

Newt is great when it comes to offering up practical plans for achieving goals that genuinely solve problems.

Having Newt debate this topic anywhere in public has to be the Greeners' worst nightmare.

That is so not true. I HAVING A MASS SIGNING OF HIS CONTRACT FOR AMERICA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WHICH WILL GET PROBABLY MORE THAN 50,000 POLITICIANS TO SIGN FROM CITY BOARDS, TO STATE LEGISLATORS, TO FEDERAL CONGRESSMAN. That amount of signed on reform of positive solutions will ride him through any election primary or general.

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First I'd like to ask what it is that detracts from my credibility is it that my name has college in it? What ever it doesnt' make a difference.

Um because I have listened to every speech in the last 3 years and every major publication he has put out in the last year. And when you start off not taking him that seriously about getting the "nine debates for the last nine weeks" something that liberals wouldn't agree to, but then he does the Cooper Union dialogue and gets Cuomo to agree that he will pressure Democrat candidates to accept the debates before the primary I think Newt chose him because of a possible friendship between Cuomo and Hillary because he is powerful D in New York, and he got Russert to agree that he would ask each candidate that comes before him if they would agree to it and that he would get his colleagues to do that. All of sudden a simple idea from a non-office holding politician may change the way elections are done in the U.S.

Also the 2 contests he announced would potentially create a new picking pool for his advertisers and advisors. His height in the poles without announcing, etc. The Newt chants at CPAC and the line down the hall and around the corner for his book signings. All this points that he has the ability to get candidates on board with him. I mean how did he get all of the reps and candidates in 94 except 2 I think to sign onto the Contract.

Dont get me wrong I like and love Fred Thompson, but I am actually serious when I say that Newt may be able to accomplish more than Reagan even(and thats a bold statement) by uniting the congress with his election and the states and the local city councils.

HE

**Every speech HE has delivered as well* wow must be getting late making to many typos

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but it seems like most of the comments on Redstate are nothing but summarized guesses of the past, some of which are completely false. I make an educated guess about the future, and I need to back it up more because educated guesses of the future seem to draw more fire. I guess probably for good reason. Part of me just doesn't want to have to make each comment I make 4 paragraphs long. Yet again after watching Newt for a while what I can list to support my educated guess is that:
He has already had one successful Contract with America
He has drafted another one
He has workshops to get candidates and incumbents around the country to sign on to it planned for Sept 27 and 29
He has been successful in his small goals he has put forward in the last few years while holding no office
and that includes framing public discourse in particular states on English, on Healthcare reform, etc.
and a national discourse including a democrat, republican and media movement towards nine debates during the last nine weeks of the election. With that new reality Newt is the best debater we've got.

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