Gingrich's Secret Plan -- Political Wire

Gingrich's Secret Plan

Newt Gingrich has a "unique plan" for a possible presidential run in 2008, according to Fortune magazine. As he travels the country leading serious discussions about national issues -- with a focus on health care -- the article says Gingrich has a plan "where his big ideas, combined with his grassroots popularity, will produce a 'Draft Newt' movement. For the next nine months, Gingrich intends to promote sweeping solutions to the difficult issues of the day and see if the call comes."

His "epiphany" about a presidential run dates back three years, when he picked up a copy of Lincoln at Cooper Union. "The book tells the story of how Lincoln's lengthy 1860 speech in New York City -- an intellectually rigorous rebuttal of slavery's legal grounding -- wowed the Eastern establishment and transformed a gawky, badly dressed Western politician into a leading presidential candidate."

On the other presidential candidates, Gingrich says, "We're not in the same business. They are running for the White House. I am trying to change the country."

January 24, 2007

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