We have less than a month before the Iowa caucuses and Newt Gingrich is in Iowa. He has said he is not a candidate for president. He says:

“This is not about being a candidate,” Mr. Gingrich insisted in an e-mail exchange yesterday with The Washington Times. “It’s about the issues in the proposed platform, including English as the official language of government.”

Mr. Gingrich said 87 percent of Americans favored the English language plank in a national poll his nonprofit AmericanSolutions.com sponsored at a cost of $428,000.

The former speaker said his appearances in Iowa this week are “about a single-page flat tax” (82 percent), a “moment of silent prayer in school” (94 percent) and the “death penalty for anyone carrying out a terrorist act in the United States” (79 percent).

Mr. Gingrich said “this is a center-right country caught between an incompetent right-wing party and a ruthlessly organized, energized, militant, minority left-wing party.”

All of which is brilliant Gingrich crush-the-dems strategy.

But the article speculates that he is running for Vice-President, and with stuff like this, there is no doubt he wants to be, and should be, the veep.

The former House speaker who flirted with a Republican presidential nomination run earlier this year said in a C-SPAN interview on Sunday that he might accept being the presidential nominee’s running mate if offered.

“Depending on the circumstances, I’d be honored to be considered and under some circumstances, I’d probably feel compelled to say ‘yes,’ “

The press has so vilified him over the years (precisely because he is so destructive of liberal dogma) that the regular joe will be shocked at how stunningly articulate and reasonable Newt is when the press can’t select all of the sound bites. The Main Stream Media has set the bar so low for Newt, that when he fails to come to the debates with a welfare baby’s arm in his mouth, the general public will be pleasantly surprised.

Then there was this little tidbit.

Bill Crocker, Republican National Committee member from Texas, said, he “cannot picture Newt being anybody’s No. 2. He has also said he would accept a draft for the Republican nomination for president if it was a true draft. I can much more easily see him in that role.”

It is amazing that the Republican field is so fractured this late in the year. It is because each guy brings one or more, but crucially, not all, of the Reagan ingredients to the campaign. Newt clearly has more of those ingredients than any one of them. I would bet that if Newt announced this afternoon that he would accept a draft to be president, he would win Iowa and the nomination.