A day ago on Friday morning, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was fighting an impression that his campaign was on life support, after key aides in multiple states resigned. The staffers were concerned in part because Gingrich and his wife Calista (a Luther College, Iowa graduate) took a two-week vacation in Greece, shortly after he kicked off his campaign with a six-day burst through Iowa. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad on Friday said Gingrich made a tactical blunder by leaving the campaign trail for the vacation, so his campaign is "in real trouble."
Gingrich advised he would relaunch, so to speak, his campaign with a major speech in Los Angeles on Sunday tomorrow. Tonight, his campaign has released excerpts of the speech to be given to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Some bits:
-- While the U.S. has won important victories in the war on terrorism, Gingrich says it is impossible to say 10 years after 9-11 that the world is a safer place.
-- He will criticize President Barack Obama for adopting a policy of "accommodation", using "political code words of those who wish to drive Israel into the sea."
-- He suggests the U.S. embassy in Israel should be moved to Jerusalem, which Gingrich said the Israel people will support. It currently is in Tel Aviv.
-- "We first need to acknowledge that 20 years of trying to negotiate peace with evil regimes and organizations dedicated to the destruction of Israel, and in many cases our own destruction, has been a failure, and the time has come to clearly and decisively take the offensive against them."
Gingrich has been known as a policy wonk, a 'think' candidate. Do you think this foreign policy speech will be a first step to ably right his campaign ship, or won't it get off the rocky crags?
