1 Boring Old Man

While he is unlikely to be electable, he is still the most dangerous man in America, so he’s worthy of worry no matter how remote his chances of holding office. He’s certainly been a prolific writer:

• The Government’s Role in Solving Societal Problems. January 1982
• Window of Opportunity. December 1985.
• Contract with America, December 1994.
• Restoring the Dream, May 1995.
• Quotations from Speaker Newt, July 1995.
• To Renew America, July 1996.
• Lessons Learned The Hard Way, May 1998.
• Presidential Determination Regarding Certification of the Thirty-Two Major Illicit Narcotics Producing and Transit Countries, September 1999.
• Saving Lives and Saving Money, April 2003.
• Winning the Future, January 2005.
• Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation’s History and Future, October 2006.
• A Contract with the Earth, October 1, 2007.
• Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works, January 2008.
• Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis, September 2008.
• To Save America: Abolishing Obama’s Socialist State and Restoring Our Unique American Way Stopping Obama’s Secular Socialist Machine, May 2010

Leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, he became a professional maybe Presidential Candidate. He did everything in his power to get people to want him to run [including funding a web-site named something like draftnewt.com]. He finally dropped out of the game in September 2007 when nobody cared enough:

Gingrich not running for president in ’08
September 2007

A spokesman for Newt Gingrich on Saturday said the former U.S. House speaker has decided not to make a run as a Republican candidate for the White House in 2008.

The abrupt decision was the result of legal advice received this morning, said Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler. Gingrich was told that it would be "legally impermissible" to continue as head of his non-profit American Solutions effort while operating an exploratory committee for president, a move that was to be announced Monday.

"Upon learning this, he made a decision," Tyler told the Journal-Constitution. "He decided it’s better to continue as chairman of American Solutions. The news came as Gingrich finished two days of workshops on national problems on the campus of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.

Only a day earlier, Gingrich’s advisors were saying that the former Georgia congressman’s entry into the race was made possible by the lackluster performance of former U.S. senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee…

Why is Newt Gingrich my recurrent top pick for the most dangerous person in America? He’s never done anything of note. He got a Ph.D. in history [thesis on "Belgian Education Policy in the Congo"], taught history at a small college in Georgia, spent twenty years as a Congressman [resigning to avoid an ethics charge], and philandered his way through a few marriages. He has no apparent  principles or visible signs of morality, saying and doing whatever needs doing to get where he wants to go. But we are fortunate that he’s such a moral cripple, because without his checkered record, he’d get himself elected to high office. He has a good head of hair and a convincing style that keeps him afloat.