Newt's not running- but he's influencing

Although the Fmr. Speaker Gingrich has not entered the race for President, he's doing exactly what most Americans can't. He's changing the debate and the discussions today's candidates are having.

When ever Newt is questioned about the race, he consistently says that he wants to push policy ideas to candidates of both parties in hope that they will adopt them. If they do, he says "I won't need to run".

Although he's received little recognition for these policy ideas in the media, Republicans (and even some Democrats) are starting to pick up on his language and ideas.

Romney stated today in New Hampshire that a federal ID card for legal workers should be put in place. While that's not a new statement for Mitt (he started pushing for it a few months after Newt went public about the federal gov't vs. the private sector), his following statement is almost word-for-word Newt genius. He admits the federal government likely couldn't enact such a policy, he believes it "should be outsourced to the people that do this for a living... companies like MasterCard or Visa".

In Iowa, straw poll attendees could see Rep. Duncan Hunter speak about the border with Newt Gingrich. Also, Huckabee's speech included Newt's talking point about how the federal government can't find 12 million illegals, but FedEx can track millions of packages across the country. The punch line is "so why don't we send every illegal a package?" and Huckabee delivered the message perfectly.

As stated earlier, Giuliani stated that America doesn't need liberal solutions or conservative solutions, but rather "American Solutions". Hillary nearly used that statement word-for-word in her speech today.

It's possible that after the American Solutions workshop is over, Newt's ideas will be so well adopted, that he will not need to run for President. He will have changed the country and the presidency, all without having to go through the gauntlet that we have for an election.