The Position Finding The Man, Or The Man Finding The Position

"Nice people," Newt Gingrich says of his GOP competitors John McCain and Rudy Guliani. "But we're not in the same business. They're running for president. I'm running to change the country."

That's the stuff you like to hear.

"I'm going to tell you something, and whether or not it's plausible given the world you come out of is your problem," he tells Fortune. "I am not 'running' for president. I am seeking to create a movement to win the future by offering a series of solutions so compelling that if the American people say I have to be president, it will happen." So he's running, only without yet formally saying so.

Fortune magazine looks at Newt Gingrich's strategy to win in 2008: