Gingrich: '08 GOP candidate must offer "dramatic, bold change"
Just one day removed from President Bush's Iraq speech and some of the most well-known Republicans are already running for cover. is one of them:
"If you don't represent real change, you just gave away the 2008election," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who led theRepublican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994 and now isflirting with a White House run.
Gingrich cited the Iraq war, the failed federal response toHurricane Katrina two years ago and the inability to control U.S.borders and illegal immigration as evidence of a need for a completeoverhaul of the U.S. system of governing.
"Now that may or may not make the White House happy. But I thinkthat's the whole point about making a clean break," Gingrich told agroup of reporters over breakfast.
He added: "I believe for any Republican to win in 2008 they have to... offer a dramatic, bold change. If we nominate somebody who has notdone that, they get to be the nominee but there is very, very littlelikelihood that they can win."
It will be extremely difficult for any of them, with the exception of Ron Paul, to differentiate themselves from the President on his Iraq policy. They may try during the 2008 election. If they do, Democrats will simply go to the video and point out all the flip-flops.
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