A Road Rarely Traveled by Paul R. Hollrah

As we look forward to the presidential election of 2008, many pundits are already predicting that the Democrat tide will continue through 2010 or 2012. Even former House Majority Leader Tom Delay has predicted that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the next President of the United States.
I think he’s wrong…dead wrong…because a Gingrich-Rice ticket could easily trump a Clinton-Obama ticket. Imagine a flustered Hillary Rodham Clinton, who rarely says anything publicly that might limit her ability to flip-flop later, locked in debate with Newt Gingrich, who is more conversant on the issues, foreign and domestic, than any other major political figure of the past fifty years, and whose public pronouncements are invariably rooted in common sense, reason, and historic reality.
And imagine Barack Hussein Obama, the new schlickmeister of the Democratic Party, a literal neophyte in the world of international affairs, attempting to engage Condoleezza Rice in debate on contemporary world history and the consequences of American foreign policy. In either case, it would be like a cat toying with a cornered mouse.
For those who haven’t noticed, the former Speaker is following what appears to be a most unique path to the presidency, one which my limited knowledge of American politics tells me has never been tried before. Gingrich is heading an organization called American Solutions for Winning the Future. The organization’s web page tells us that it is “a unique non-partisan organization designed to rise above traditional gridlocked partisanship, to provide real, significant solutions to the most important issues facing our country.” What is unique about “American Solutions” is that it will focus on:

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