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Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006 5:45 p.m. EST
Gingrich Plans Massive Outreach


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is telling associates that he’s launching a major new grass-roots movement to recapture the soul of the Republican Party, and quite possibly the White House.


Gingrich says that the effort will be much larger than his founding of GOPAC and his creation of the Contract with America.

The Georgia Republican is spearheading a program called "American Solutions for Winning the Future” in an effort to revitalize the GOP with Ronald Reagan conservatism.



This is the third time Gingrich has led a drive to steer the Republican Party toward traditional conservative values. In 1986, Gingrich took the chair of the Republican political action committee GOPAC and transformed it into an effective tool for electing conservative candidates. The stated theme of GOPAC was "a conservative opportunity society replacing the liberal welfare state.”


GOPAC was a key element in Gingrich’s rise to the leadership of the Republican caucus in Congress.


Then in 1994, as House Minority Leader, Gingrich was a co-author of the Contract with America, a conservative political platform that helped the GOP gain 54 seats in the House and end 40 years of Democratic majorities there.

Gingrich’s new program echoes the title of his 2005 book, "Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America.”


Sources close to the former speaker say Gingrich believes the Republican Party has once again lost its way, and needs to refocus its agenda with an eye toward regaining Congress in 2008.


Stepping back into the political spotlight could help Gingrich’s presidential aspirations as well.


He recently told an interviewer that he won’t decide whether to seek the White House in 2008 until September of 2007.


But insiders predict Gingrich could throw his hat into the ring if a true Reagan conservative doesn’t emerge as a likely GOP candidate.


For the time being, he’s playing his cards close to the vest. "I am not ‘running’ for president, I am seeking to create a movement to win the future by offering a series of solutions so compelling that if the American people say I have to be president, it will happen,” he tells Fortune magazine.


Gingrich said he plans to build grass-roots support for the health care, national security, and energy independence ideas he has been promoting for the past six years.
 

kolanuraven

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He'll run....and my guess is that he'll surprise you!

He seems to be much more level headed since he got out of office and got his divorce crap settled.
 
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kolanuraven said:
He'll run....and my guess is that he'll surprise you!

He seems to be much more level headed since he got out of office and got his divorce crap settled.

I agree...He kind of has become the elder statesman for the Republican party and the "contract with America" type conservativism that the common folks wanted...Too bad so many on the Hill and in the White House were too arrogant- or to sold out to the Corporate World- to realize that and didn't follow a little more of his advice.....
 

kolanuraven

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He was the definition of arrogant for awhile....while he was chewing on Clinton....THEN....life turned around and bit him in the arse...he calmed down REAL QUICK!!
 

Steve

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He'll run....and my guess is that he'll surprise you!

he might run, and even though I personnally like him and what he tried to do with the contract to America,...his past will come back to haunt him.....

Ethics charges

Gingrich was accused of hypocrisy and unethical behavior when he accepted a $4.5 million advance as part of a book deal, in light of his previous role in the investigation of Jim Wright. Following the accusations, Gingrich returned the advance.

Including charges related to the book deal, Democrats filed 84 ethics charges against Speaker Gingrich during his term, including claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes and using the GOPAC political action committee as a slush fund. All charges were eventually dropped following an investigation by the Republican-led House Ethics Committee. However, Gingrich admitted to "unintentionally" giving inaccurate information to the House Ethics Committee during the course of the investigation. The committee did not indict him on charges of intentional perjury.[9] The matter was settled when he agreed to reimburse the Committee $300,000 for the cost of prolonging the investigation. The payment was described as a "cost assessment" and not a fine by the Committee.[10] He also agreed to not "spin" the story in the media, but admit publicly to his transgressions.

On January 10, 1997, the New York Times printed a story that revealed Gingrich, in collusion with other House Republicans, planned to abrogate his agreement by misrepresenting the ethics violations he committed. The story was supported by quotes from a taped phone conversation between Gingrich and his fellow Republicans. A firestorm of controversy ensued, with Republicans insisting that the privacy of the participants in the conversation has been breached, and others insisting that the public has a need to know about Gingrich's intent to violate his agreement with the Ethics Committee. The couple who taped the conversation, John and Alice Martin, who claimed that they "lucked" into it over their police scanner while driving in their car and who "just happened" to have a recorder available, pled guilty to charges surrounding the taping and paid a $500 fine. Five years later, Democratic representative Jim McDermott publicly admitted that he leaked the tape. Republican John Boehner, one of the participants in the conversation, sued McDermott for $10,000 in civil damages; as of May 2006, that court case is in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, possibly heading for the Supreme Court. Many media organizations and watchdog groups support McDermott for political reasons; claiming that if Boehner prevails, the ability of news organizations to reveal embarrassing and potentially criminal behavior of government officials will be drastically curtailed.[11].
 

kolanuraven

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...and that makes him different from 98% of DC how? He's just one of many with ' dirt' on their shoes.....I doubt it will really matter much.
 

nonothing

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If he truely is the best man for the job,then I hope He wins.....Its time to put good solid leaders in the pres.chair,be them .DEM or REPUB.....
 

Steve

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.and that makes him different from 98% of DC how? He's just one of many with ' dirt' on their shoes.....I doubt it will really matter much.

Maybe that is the point he is not different the the rest of DC.....

be it the primaries, or the general election it is a point the liberal media, and all his opponents will say over and over until it becomes the only point heard......

that and his having been married three times.,.... "He married his first wife, Jackie Battley, in 1962, and divorced her in 1981. Gingrich married his second wife, Marianne Ginther, in the fall of 1981.[2] They divorced in 1999, after revealing that he had been having an affair with a House aide, Callista Bisek.[3] Gingrich and Bisek were married the following year."

he may be the best conservative for the job, but he has two problems ethics violations and lapses in moral judgement....
 
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nonothing said:
If he truely is the best man for the job,then I hope He wins.....Its time to put good solid leaders in the pres.chair,be them .DEM or REPUB.....

I agree- and I'm not sure if he is the right person...His past may always leave that doubt of his honesty....I'd truly like to see someone that can work with both Dem or Repub, Liberal or Conservative- and remembers that more policy or law is made by compromise, than bull headedness and arrogance- and that you have to stand behind those promises made in the compromise...Something the current administration has forgot on some issues...

FDR appointed a Republican to be his Secretary of War- something that then was seen as a very smart move to keep the country united during the war...Today they almost call it heresy if you talk to someone from an opposing party....
 

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