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Newt Gingrich goes nuclear: May enter race to foil 'pygmies'
San Francisco Examiner ^ | July 23, 2007 | Bill Sammon

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ego; election; gingrich; newt; noclass; pygmie; republican; vanity
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The press would have a field day, but I love the shot at that pathetic Mathews.
1 posted on 07/23/2007 2:21:55 PM PDT by Chicos_Bail_Bonds
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

Can’t say you’d get much support Newt. There are better men than you running.


2 posted on 07/23/2007 2:23:44 PM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

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.


3 posted on 07/23/2007 2:24:37 PM PDT by kjo
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds
The press would have a field day,

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.

4 posted on 07/23/2007 2:24:48 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: pissant

I like Newt but he’s damaged goods.


5 posted on 07/23/2007 2:24:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds
Newt should take a note from Thompson, if you go nuclear, do it against the enemy (as Thompson did with Moore), not your own..
6 posted on 07/23/2007 2:25:15 PM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

It is a pretty unimpressive field....
RUN NEWT RUN!


7 posted on 07/23/2007 2:25:51 PM PDT by cowdog77 (" Are there any brave men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?")
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

Run, Newt, Run! We need the entertainment!........


8 posted on 07/23/2007 2:25:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
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To: cripplecreek

I think Newt would be an excellent Cabinet member, but he’s not POTUS material.


9 posted on 07/23/2007 2:25:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

It’d be nice if he could care of the Pygmies, then beat those Macacas.


10 posted on 07/23/2007 2:26:26 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

I think Newt’s global warming delusion has softened his brain into mush.


11 posted on 07/23/2007 2:27:07 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats??)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

Uh Oh, Newt. Big mistake. Pygmies? I think not.


12 posted on 07/23/2007 2:27:21 PM PDT by Salvey (ancest)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds
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...These are not debates, these are auditions."

No argument from me there.

13 posted on 07/23/2007 2:27:44 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Dr.Deth

Newt is so smart ...except in his personal life. Too bad!


14 posted on 07/23/2007 2:29:42 PM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds
Upon more reflection, another thought is how arrogant this statement sounds.. Being president is about serving the people, not about being crowned in the eyes of Newt.
15 posted on 07/23/2007 2:29:51 PM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

I really like Newt. I hope he has a plan to make a comeback from his marriage debacles. I just don’t see how.


16 posted on 07/23/2007 2:29:58 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Dr.Deth

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


17 posted on 07/23/2007 2:30:37 PM PDT by sanjacjake
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

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.


18 posted on 07/23/2007 2:30:59 PM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds; 4CJ

More COWBELL...


19 posted on 07/23/2007 2:31:01 PM PDT by BlabItGrabIt (Get Away from the Blind Side of Life--S.R. Vaughn)
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To: Red Badger
I said Newt was going to do this 8 months ago. Sorry Newt, the money in the cookie jar is almost gone. At this late date (October) you would not have enough money to be competative.

Your a good man Newt. Now, get back to class and teach some History or write another book.

20 posted on 07/23/2007 2:31:12 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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