In what could be seen as a sign that Newt is heavily considering a run at the Presidency, the former Speaker has hired a pollster and fundraiser -- two roles "crucial to a typical campaign team," Politico.com writes.
The two new additions are for American Solutions for Winning the Future, a group founded in December by Newt that will aim, in a bipartisan manner, to find ways to solve any number of issues, including health care and education. The two staffers could also serve another purpose: to give hints to other potential staffers to not join the Giuliani, McCain, or Romney campaigns just yet.
It would appear that the pollster, Matt Dabrowski, will play a similar role to that of Frank Luntz's during the formation of the Contract with America. Luntz recently published his latest book, Words That Work
One of the more interesting stories in Major Garrett's An Enduring Revolution: How the Contract with America Continues to Shape the Nation is that as Luntz was preparing the 10 planks of the Contract, he listed them in descending order of popularity among swing voters -- so, for example, the first item listed was the balanced-budget amendment and line-item veto.
But when it came to the second-most popular -- Congressional term limits -- Luntz listed it last so that people would see it in case they just read the first and last items.
With the hiring of two campaign staffers, even if they are just for American Solutions, it would appear that there is growing traction for the type of ideas Gingrich is pushing. And if that's the case, just as it was in 1994 with the Contract, then on January 20, 2009, the former Speaker just might be inaugurated as the next President.
We can hope, and this news certainly makes it more likely it's not a false hope.
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