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  Gingrich talking, acting like a GOP standard-bearer
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Last EditedCOSDem  Aug 16, 2005 01:46pm
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News DateTuesday, August 16, 2005 07:45:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionFormer U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is doing two things that often lead to success for presidential candidates in Iowa's precinct caucuses.

First, the Georgia Republican is spending lots of time in the state. Don't be surprised if you see him in your county soon. Second, he has a strong conservative message.

You may agree or disagree with the ideas he offers, but there's no denying he's been doing more and saying more in Iowa - where the 2008 GOP presidential campaign will begin - than any other potential GOP candidate. (That includes the obligatory photo-op visit to the Iowa State Fair.)

Gingrich told a Rotary Club breakfast in Des Moines last week that the country needs to do things differently if it hopes to have a safe, prosperous future. "Real change requires real change," he said.

There "is an extraordinary danger of terrorists and rogue dictatorships literally ending our way of life" by exploding a biological nuclear device, and the United States lacks the intelligence networks to stop it." In the London bombings, "we didn't know they were coming. . . . We have no effective penetration of the enemy."

Part of national security is control of the nation's borders and coasts, he said, but "real control is going to cost you money."

"We're in a long war against the irreconcilable wing of Islam," he said. "I don't think we've come to grips with how serious and how deep this is going to be. . . . We can probably win in the long run, but the long run is 50 to 70 years." He said the nation can combat illegal immigration by using technology, such as iris scanning, to keep track of people entering the country.
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