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Gingrich To Launch Campaign Next Week
National Journal ^ | May 1, 2011 | Tim Alberta

Posted on 05/01/2011 3:20:12 PM PDT by StatenIsland

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich plans to officially enter the presidential race early next week, he told Hotline On Call before Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner.

"I'll be in by the 10th or 11th," Gingrich said, without elaborating on where or how he would announce his candidacy.

Gingrich had previously hinted that his announcement could come this week, telling reporters in Philadelphia on Thursday, "I would just say to folks who are really curious: Watch Facebook and Twitter in the next week. I think you'll have all the information you need."

But Gingrich walked back from that statement on Saturday, explaining that he hasn't yet completed the long and complex process of untangling himself from a web of business ventures that would complicate his candidacy in the eyes of the Federal Election Commission.

Gingrich spokesperson Rick Tyler cited those "business entanglements" and "contractual obligations" last week in explaining that Gingrich would not participate in the first GOP primary debate in South Carolina on Thursday. Participants in the debate are required to have filed paperwork for an exploratory committee with the FEC, which Gingrich has been unable to do.

Gingrich, whose campaign will be headquartered in Atlanta, will address the Georgia Republican Party's annual convention on May 13.

If he declares his candidacy earlier that week, Gingrich will have the rest of the month set up nicely for early state campaigning: He visits Iowa on May 20 to keynote a fundraiser for the Ida County GOP, and travels to New Hampshire on May 25 for a meet-and-greet reception at the Manchester home of former Senate candidate and conservative kingmaker Ovide Lamontagne, whose Granite Oath PAC is hosting a series of receptions for Republican presidential contenders.


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To: StatenIsland

Just got back from a funeral and then this!


21 posted on 05/01/2011 3:37:18 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: StatenIsland

Oh, how EXCITING.

Seriously, why bother, Gingrich? You KNOW the pictures of you surfing the couch with Nancy will kill any chances. Or are you just doing this in order to get some nubile young interns to hang with each day for a few months? We know how much you like that.


22 posted on 05/01/2011 3:39:33 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: StatenIsland

Go pound sand Newt, we ain’t buying it anymore.


23 posted on 05/01/2011 3:39:39 PM PDT by Captain7seas (FIRE JANE LUBCHENCO FROM NOAA)
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To: StatenIsland

24 posted on 05/01/2011 3:40:58 PM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Joe Boucher

LOL!


25 posted on 05/01/2011 3:41:17 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Lazlo in PA
That picture right there is all I need to see to confirm I will not be voting for Newt.

For me, it's Sarah Palin or nobody.

26 posted on 05/01/2011 3:46:18 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Ronin
I could agree to that. The man is smart and the good Lord knows we can’t afford to waste brains and talent — but his character issues preclude the Presidency.

Newt's an "idea" guy. Problem is, a lot of his ideas are bad: global warming, bi-partisanship, his commitment to marriage, etc.

Newt, then, is best employed as an "idea guy" by somebody who can sort thru and reject the bad stuff, but champion the good stuff. Making him a cabinet secretary actually requires that he run an organization -- which is beyond Newt. Instead, he's the quintessential "kitchen cabinet" guy that a President can ignore if he/she needs to.

27 posted on 05/01/2011 3:49:00 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: okie01

I kinda like him as UN Ambassador. Let him put his caustic wit and prickly-pear temper to good use.


28 posted on 05/01/2011 3:51:53 PM PDT by Ronin ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves" -- Bertrand de Jouve)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

He is overexposed to the BELTWAY virus, and is insensitive to the folks back home. He is the spoiler who compromises like the pros, and end up with more of the SAME.


29 posted on 05/01/2011 3:52:32 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: StatenIsland

He just isnt listening, is he? How many times do we have to say “dont bother Newt”, before he buys a clue?


30 posted on 05/01/2011 3:53:01 PM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: StatenIsland

Snowball
Hell

Get real, Newt!

No one can forget the image of him sitting on the couch with Pelosi yacking about globull warming.


31 posted on 05/01/2011 3:56:10 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (PALIN 45 The cure for "meet the new boss, same as the old boss.")
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To: StatenIsland
Newt has had his day. I thank him for his service, but that couch sit down with Nancy Pelosi, and a forum where he spoke so glowingly about FDR?

He is a reach-across-the-aisle type now, I liked him better as a bomb thrower for our side!

32 posted on 05/01/2011 3:57:41 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: StatenIsland
Gingrich To Launch Campaign Next Week

Why?

33 posted on 05/01/2011 3:58:27 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98)
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To: StatenIsland
Did he another new wife or something?
34 posted on 05/01/2011 4:03:08 PM PDT by McGruff (When it comes to Obama's birth certificate. Trust, but verify.)
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To: StatenIsland

Sad.


35 posted on 05/01/2011 4:06:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Under Islam, there is no separation of church and state. The church IS the state.)
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To: StatenIsland
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich plans to officially enter the presidential race early next week

You mean the two or three phone calls we've gotten already have been ~unofficial~ phone calls! How many ways can we say "not newt, not ever".

36 posted on 05/01/2011 4:06:17 PM PDT by LSAggie (Caring for a liver dog--It's not for sisses)
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To: lowbridge
How many times do we have to say “dont bother Newt”, before he buys a clue?

It's probably going to take a couple of single-digit showings in the primaries.

37 posted on 05/01/2011 4:09:36 PM PDT by BCEagles
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To: All
Gingrich is guilty of more than just having an affair. He allegedly handed his first wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatment. And he was involved in an affair with his current wife, Callista, when she was a young staffer in his office in the mid-1990s — as he was pursuing impeachment of President Clinton for lying about an affair with a young White House staffer. It's a perfect storm of infidelity, callousness, arrogance and hypocrisy.

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/04/26/newts-greatest-liability

38 posted on 05/01/2011 4:09:36 PM PDT by McGruff (When it comes to Obama's birth certificate. Trust, but verify.)
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To: StatenIsland

I was hoping this was humor but unfortunately it isn’t.


39 posted on 05/01/2011 4:12:44 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: StatenIsland

Is going to revive Bob Dole to be his running mate for another stumble for the White House?


40 posted on 05/01/2011 4:17:57 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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