Posted on 07/23/2007 2:21:48 PM PDT by Chicos_Bail_Bonds
WASHINGTON - Dismissing the GOP presidential field as a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies," Newt Gingrich hinted Monday he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
"If, in mid-October, it's quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton-Obama ticket, you don't need me to run," the former House Speaker said at a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator. "If it becomes patently obvious, as the morning paper points out, that the Democrats have raised a hundred million more than the Republicans, and at some point people decide we are going to get Hillary unless there's a radical change, then there's space for a candidate," he added. "So you'll know by mid-October one of those two futures is real."
Asked by the Examiner if he was prepared to commit to a run, Gingrich said, "I'm perfectly happy to do what I do," he said. "Whether that leads to the presidency is the country's problem, not mine."
Gingrich mocked Republican presidential candidates for subjecting themselves to a May debate hosted by Chris Matthews of MSNBC's "Hardball."
"You're watching an utterly irrelevant, shallow television celebrity dominate everybody who claimed they want to lead the most powerful nation in the world," he said.
Gingrich ridiculed "the idea of 10 or 11 people standing passively at microphones," and said he refused to "shrink to the level of 40-second answers, standing like a trained seal, waiting for someone to throw me a fish."
He added: "These are not debates, these are auditions. By definition, the psychology of an audition reduces the person auditioning and raises the status, for example, of Chris Matthews."
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Can’t say you’d get much support Newt. There are better men than you running.
The MSM would go nuts. They HATE Gingrich. They would feature his personal life every single day of the campaign. Remember what the media did to him in ‘95 when he came in as Speaker. Compare that to how they have treated Pelosi.
They will have a field day now matter who it is. I for one...hope its Newt!He has the smarts, cajones, and vocabulary to take those idiots down.
I like Newt but he’s damaged goods.
It is a pretty unimpressive field....
RUN NEWT RUN!
Run, Newt, Run! We need the entertainment!........
I think Newt would be an excellent Cabinet member, but he’s not POTUS material.
It’d be nice if he could care of the Pygmies, then beat those Macacas.
I think Newt’s global warming delusion has softened his brain into mush.
Uh Oh, Newt. Big mistake. Pygmies? I think not.
No argument from me there.
Newt is so smart ...except in his personal life. Too bad!
I really like Newt. I hope he has a plan to make a comeback from his marriage debacles. I just don’t see how.
Newt has a penchant for words..that sometimes turn
around and bite him...would I vote for him? Yes, also
anyone else,. that runs the gauntlet, and is the nominee JK
Stay home Newt... the DBM will take away face-time for other VIABLE Republican candidates in order to ridicule you. You have no chance in hell of winning a general election... and if you think differently... you ain’t as bright as they say.
More COWBELL...
Your a good man Newt. Now, get back to class and teach some History or write another book.
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