If he or Hillary were elected president it would be another 4 years of partisan hatred in Washington.

That is why I want Gingrich to get the rep nomination.

I want to force this thing into a full blown, wide ranging debate.

I want the type of people who fought long and hard during the Cold War against the side that usually portrayed US foreign policy as being in the wrong and excusing the reality of other nations to return to the debate fully.

Right now, I think the definition of the future in the US is being set. Whoever gains ground to a majority, if they can gain such ground, is going to set the conditions for the US in the world for the next 25 years.

We need somebody who can articulate why the US is not "the problem" in the world and why we need to sacrifice energy, materials, and blood to help build a better environment in the world not only for the US but other democracies as well.

They will attack Gingrich relentless and with a lot of venom, but I want them to have to do that – and I want others in the US to see Gingrich intelligently and articulately respond.

Right now, with the media as it is, the public is being pummelled from basically only one side.

Gingrich as the rep nominee can change that. The press won't be any more favorable to him than before, but the level of venom it will take to counter Gingrich's responses will point out in a way that will motivate some average citizens to complain about (and become more active about) how much the press works hard to guide our thoughts toward dem positions on the war and other policies.

For those interested, I just googled to try to find anything he has said about the US-SK alliance, and I came across this on the latest nuke deal:

http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=4087

Both McCain and Lieberman as has been shown by their recent views are not slaves to their parties are ideologies. They do what they feel is the right thing for the country. Neither of them has much of a history in dealing with NK issues, but if they were in the White House and continued to lead by doing what is right, that would mean they wouldn't be committed to the status quo in Korea because all of us following USFK and NK issues know the status quo is jacked up right now.

I think the Hillary/Obama ticket will have a heck of a time beating a McCain/Lieberman ticket. I think McCain will have a harder time winning his primary than beating Hillary.

Yesterday, I heard that Newt Gingrich is going to run for the US presidency.

I don't know if he has a chance to win. I think he might – which is odd since the press did all they could to obliterate him after he led the reps taking over the House in the 1990s.

If I were a young college student in political science, I'd do my Phd on the difference between the cheerleading press coverage Pelosi got after 10 years of rep control of the House and the out-n-out mission of devestation they media launched on Gingrich when the dems lost control after 40 years of rule.

I am sure the media is going to attack him this time as well.

But, it was already going to be one of the more bitter campaigns in history, and I have a feeling demonizing Gingrich might actually help him this time. The choices will be clear – at least.

And I have a feeling Gingrich will continue the push to scale down in SK.

I have no clue what Guliani would do, but I think Gingrich would say SK can defend itself and we need those resources (and he'd be tough on NK).