Newt For President?

Last week I had the opportunity to attend an event at Liberty University School of Law (my law school) where the speaker was Newt Gingrich. The school brought in Speaker Newt to have a roundtable discussion with the students. I was particularly impressed with how intelligent Newt is and what his ideas about the country are. In a time of out of control spending, policies few want, and other bad ideas floating around by both parties, Newt has some very good, solid ideas to move the country along. When asked about whether he would run for president, he simply responded that it would be up to the people, and that if the people wanted him, he would consider it. He spoke to us at length about the inner party politics of how Washington works and explained to us why it is so hard to get anything done there. Hearing it from someone who has tried to effect change really made a big difference in how I think about it Washington. He mentioned the need to change the culture of Washington in order to be successful bringing about reform.