Sept. 15, 2007 (LPAC)--Newt Gingrich, who probably thinks he's the most brilliant man on the planet, offered up his advice for the Republican presidential candidates during a media breakfast, yesterday. According to the Washington Post's Dan Balz, he said "I believe for any Republican to win in 2008, they have to have a clean break and offer a bold, dramatic change..." The clean break is, of course, from George W. Bush and everything the Republicans have done over the past ten years or so, but none of the present crop of candidates, he said, meet that test. What the Republicans need, he said, is an American version of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, who "boldly" broke from his party's leader, Jacque Chirac, to win election.

Gingrich, the fuehrer of the 1994 "Conservative Revolution" in Congress, who had to leave his post as Speaker of the House in disgrace, was one of the most ardent supporters of the war in Iraq, cheerleading, with Dick Cheney, the idiotic Bush into making the decision. Now, he is blaming Bush for the quagmire. Gingrich has murmured about running for President, but can't write his own check, and can't raise the funds.