Newt Gingrich goes nuclear: May enter race to foil 'pygmies'

San Francisco Examiner ^ | July 23, 2007 | Bill Sammon

[skinkinthegrass]

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[OB1kNOb]

Newt’s all mouth, no action.

[Centurion2000]

I like Newt but he’s damaged goods.

How so? We've had YEARS of the MSM defending Clinton over these same kinds of issues.

[longtermmemmory]

I concur with his analysis of the declared candidates.

They are so Dinosaur Media friendly.

[billybudd]

Pretty much my take on it. I like him, but he is not electable because of his past, both political and personal. I do love his attitude though:

he refused to "shrink to the level of 40-second answers, standing like a trained seal, waiting for someone to throw me a fish."

[ontap]

I think Newt doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell in being president, but the conservative movement of 1992 would not have happened if not for him so I am willing to cut the guy a little slack. He got us into power our recent batch of wusses are responsible for the 2006 debacle.

[riverdawg]

“Newt is ... soooo arrogant.”

He is the one most often mentioned by my conservative female friends when I ask them who, if anyone, among potential GOP nominees would cause you to sit out the election.

[TomGuy]

TRANSLATION:

Newt Gingrich has no campaign fund and no financial backers.

For months, Newt has been begging for the faithful to beg him to run, but so far, they haven't.

[BurbankKarl]

Newt is about 10 years past his prime.

[Polybius]

The MSM would go nuts. They HATE Gingrich. They would feature his personal life every single day of the campaign.

Gingrich was Borked by the media long ago and the average American voter only remembers Gingrich as somebody you need to be afraid of.

[Aria]

We can’t win w/o independents. i think Fred gets more of them than anybody.

[capydick]

"This is like going to De Gaulle when he was at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises during the Fourth Republic and saying, 'Don't you want to rush in and join the pygmies?'" he said.

I'm sure that reporter from Newark knew what the hell he was talking about.

[redgirlinabluestate]

And for those of you saying Gingrich is unelectable, Thompson and Romney are usually double-digits behind the Dems. Our most competitive candidate is Giuliani,

That is not true it at all. With a margin of error rate of + or - 4% it is a virtually a dead heat. Most of the country isn't paying any attention to the 08 election, half the country doesn't even know who Mitt Romney is yet, and nobody has begun campaigning in earnest against the dems. Both Thompson's and Romney's numbers are going up while Hillary's are going down. Support for Rodham Clinton in this match-up fell by four points since mid-June, while backing for Romney increased by one point and two points for Thompson. I bet it is even tighter now.

Possible match-ups - 2008 U.S. presidential election

Jun. 28
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
46%
Mitt Romney (R)
42%
Fred Thompson (R)
45%

Jun. 12
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
50%
Mitt Romney (R)
41%
Fred Thompson (R)
43%

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/16450

[windsorknot]

Recipe for failure:

moonbat wing
eye of Newt

[counterpunch]

"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.

When I read this, for a moment I thought we were going to see the Drudge headline Gingrich disses Fred Thompson. . . all over again.
 

[sodpoodle]

“”””Gingrich was Borked by the media long ago and the average American voter only remembers Gingrich as somebody you need to be afraid of.””””

Precisely - a Republic if we can keep it! Seems like we let it slip through ink-stained fingers.

Dammit!

[SergeiRachmaninov]

If the babes hate him...he’s not cool! End of conversation. [grin]

[ClaireSolt]

I spent most of the afternoon watching his briefing for American solutions. I understand what Tom de Lay meant when he said he was all over the map jumping from one thing to the next day after day. He’s an idea man in the sense that he likes ideas, but he is undisciplined in his thought and personal life. He want to make American hrealthier in very nanny state ways, yet there is real girth under that suit.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Be careful with the comments about pygmies, Newt. Small people with that title are black. The MSM, DNC and the Osama Obama campaign could easily twist that to be a racial attack upon Obama, though it would be a stretch to portray him as a Pygmy. Short Watussi, might work though.