On Friday, Joe Ramagli's column ("The United States needs another Reagan") told us that what we need in 2008 is another Reagan.

Capital idea.

But his politician of choice for the role of Reagan Part Deux, Newt Gingrich, is severely lacking in the qualities one would hope to see in a presidential hopeful.

In late November 2006, Mr. Gingrich spoke to a crowd of around 400 state and local power brokers at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner.

At this very event, an event that celebrates the freedoms which the First Amendment guarantees, he had the audacity to attack this most vital tenant of a free society.

The idea of limiting free speech and restricting the use of the Internet in order to "meet the threat of terrorism" is appalling.

After all, if the terrorists hate us and want to take away our freedoms, why is Newt so willing to surrender them?

I've got to admit, while Sen. Hillary Clinton tries to lie her way into office, Gingrich is honest about his anti-American agenda.

The First Amendment is so important because it guarantees our most precious freedoms: freedom of worship, speech, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievences.

Also included in Gingrich's treasonous speech against what our veterans have fought and died for -- and I'm talking about the veterans of 1776, a real war for liberty and freedom -- Gingrich urged that the U.S. "engage Syria and Iran" while in the same breath, "we have failed in Iraq."