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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Newt’s all mouth, no action.
How so? We've had YEARS of the MSM defending Clinton over these same kinds of issues.
I concur with his analysis of the declared candidates.
They are so Dinosaur Media friendly.
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.
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.
Newt is about 10 years past his prime.
Gingrich was Borked by the media long ago and the average American voter only remembers Gingrich as somebody you need to be afraid of.
We can’t win w/o independents. i think Fred gets more of them than anybody.
I'm sure that reporter from Newark knew what the hell he was talking about.
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
Recipe for failure:
moonbat wing
eye of Newt
"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.
“”””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!
If the babes hate him...he’s not cool! End of conversation. [grin]
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.
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