it’s part of a standard set of speeches he’s been giving for a good while now.

Good call. I guess just because he hasn’t come up on my radar doesn’t mean he hasn’t been doing bombing runs elsewhere.

Two other points on this: if we view Gingrich as part of a larger connect the dots scheme, we look for tracks laid down elsewhere - such as this latest plane bomb scare.

Also, I wonder if they are intentionally pushing Newt’s rhetoric out as far as possible to make him sound extreme, only to reign him in later or pull in a more moderate replacement. But meanwhile, they let him get the ideas out in the open to percolate…

He’s been speaking in public on this exact same agenda for easily over a year now, at political socials, on CSPAN, on O’Reilly, on CNN, wherever. He’s mentioned the WWIII analysis a looooooong time ago, it’s part of a standard set of speeches he’s been giving for a good while now.

And he’s always maintained he might throw his hat into the 2008 Presidential ring if the conditions are right to his mind, or at the very least run as an “ideas candidate”.

These aren’t dots as much as heavily scribbled lines.