Gingrich considering a run in 2012, should decide by January 2011

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Newt Gingrich is too intellectual for the GOP base. He will do far better at drawing media attention than in drawing votes.

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Jake Tapper is fairly objective journalist
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=2937633

It's worth noting that Gingrich did not limit his comments about Clinton and the Democrats to legalistic allegations of perjury.

Constantly espousing family values even while he carried on an affair, Gingrich linked his party to wholesome family values and Democrats to, well, something else.

During the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Gingrich said, "Woody Allen having nonincest with a nondaughter to whom he was a nonfather because they were a nonfamily fits the Democratic platform perfectly."

In 1994, Gingrich linked Democrats to Susan Smith, a woman who had murdered her two children in 1991.

"I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things," he said. "The only way you get change is to vote Republican."

Now I remember what was so objectionable about Newt Gingrich: the moral grandstanding of a Distinguished Professor at some (unaccredited)  Bible School with the sexual mores of an alley cat.

At least alley cats have valid excuses: that they are alley cats.

When Newt Gingrich needs a definition of hypocrisy all he needs to do is to look in the mirror.

No chance to run as President. The quotes will be dredged up and used against him -- likely by Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

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Republicans won with a Former Vice President, a Former Governor, and a Former House Speaker could do it. Why not?

I mean, Dick Gephardt flopped on the Democratic side.  Being House Speaker is an entirely different ballgame in terms of donors, constituency, and support, than winning a presidential primary.

And those other "formers" were more relevant.  Like, Reagan and Nixon had both ran for president and barely lost their respective races long before they were cast into the "former" category.

There's also Jack Kemp, the ebullient ex-quarterback and eloquent Congressman. In most states other than New York, he would have had a good chance to become a Senator or Governor. He at least had the tools; he was (and probably still is) a fine orator.

He did run with Dole as the VP candidate. Dole lost badly, but what the heck? Kemp would have been a far better President than you-know-who... unless of course Karl Rove came up with some push polls (you know the sort of question):

"Would you vote for this man if you found that he was a member of the Communist Party/ has a mistress/has an illegitimate child (truth not mattering)?"