Gingrich Says No to White House Bid

breitbart.com ^ | Sep 29 01:15 PM US/Eastern | LIBBY QUAID

[DelaWhere]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday.

"Newt is not running," spokesman Rick Tyler said. "It is legally impermissible for him to continue on as chairman of American Solutions (for Winning the Future) and to explore a campaign for president."

Gingrich decided "to continue on raising the challenges America faces and finding solutions to those challenges" as the group's chairman, Tyler said, "rather than pursuing the presidency."

[maine-iac7]

Newt as about our only hope

He couldn't even gain enough support to run - how would he get elected?

[Singermom]

So you guys are all ready for more of the same then.

He was about our only hope for new ideas that really worked.

There are no R candidates that are able to implement real change.

So gear up for more of the same. We will be complaining about the same issues for the next 4 years.

[miliantnutcase]

Hillary’s VP?

[EDINVA]

“As opposed to that LUGGAGE RACK Hillary!”

Hillary isn’t running in the Republican primaries .. huge difference as to behavioral expectations of the parties’ primary voters. She gets lots of sympathy and kudos from her base for ‘standing by her man,’ about whose moral shortcomings they don’t care one iota.

[FFranco]

It’s too bad Newt’s deeds, both personal and political, never lived up to his intellect.

[George W. Bush]

In other news, I said no to Pamela Anderson wanting to pleasure herself with my hot body.

[dandiegirl]

I like Newt, but just don’t think he has the charisma to win. It seems to take alot of that in the national elections. He also seems to want to play nice with Hillary when she would absolutey skewer him. We need a candidate that will play nasty with Hillary because we are all sick of the Clintons getting away with everything. The republicans NEVER say or do anything about them and therefore have lost the respect of the base. She needs a strong, competent candidate that is NOT SCARED of her.

[Cannoneer]

And there in lies the rub. I am not proposing or defending Newt, but identifying the disparity. A disparity the certainly elevates one party and fingers another.

[yield 2 the right]

RON PAUL!!!!

[Cannoneer]

And there in lies the rub. I am not proposing or defending Newt, but identifying the disparity. A disparity that certainly elevates one party and fingers another.

[yield 2 the right]

regarding post # 29: Just kidding!!!

[Leo Farnsworth]

Voice: “Can I get an: ‘AMEN?’”

A cast of 250 million American citizens: “AMEN!!!!”

[xarmydog]

Some one must have asked he not be the Ross Perot in this election.

[Fishtalk]

Please understand I do NOT wish to fight with you. But your response...that bit about way too much baggage, is almost knee-jerk when it comes to Newt. And I hear it a lot so it’s not just you.

I wonder why?

So okay Newt got a divorce somewhere back. I also heard that he told his wife about the divorce while she lay on her death bed or some such.

so what?

Rudy’s got three marriages under his belt, one with his mistress of yore. That kind of thinking means nothing anymore. And that bit about telling her on the death bed, if there’s any truth to it, which I doubt as, come on....I just know that story has caveats to it we don’t know. Frankly it sounds just like a Clintonian smear.

As to all the hoopla over this Newt candidacy, or lack of same, I really think Newt was blackmailing somebody. And I think that somebody was Fred Thompson.

Which is all speculation on my part, please understand. But if Newt had thrown in and requested money over the Internet he would have really put a hurting on Fred.

Now as to why Newt was blackmailing somebody, I think he’s looking for a VP slot. I’m thinking he wants a VP slot with Fred Thompson. What a pair those two would make, huh? I can see that duo leading to a Republican presidency for the next 16 years.

And if that Newt so-called “baggage” really exists what better way to throw it off than having been a VP for 8 years?

I think Fred Thompson would not commit to Newt as VP and Newt was pulling out the stops. Newt’s not going to sit this election out is how I see it. Either Fred took him or he was gonna run.

Well hey it’s a year to the damn elections, we gotta amuse ourself someway. We’ll know if I’m right if Fred picks Newt as his VP.

I’m just saying ...

[do the dhue]

And he is co-author of a book coming out next month called “A Contract with the Earth” (Johns Hopkins University Press), which sketches what he calls “a green conservatism.”

He is gearing up to promote his new book.

If his new book is anything like the following, I will like it. But I got a feeling that I won't:

[Paperdoll]

I just hear Newt Gingrich say that the reason he cannot run is because of McCain-Feingold, which is, he said, very anti-middle class. Fred Thompson was instrumental in pushing McCain-Feingold through. M-F makes it harder to have a middle class candidate. He wouldn’t endorse anyone.

[bereanway]

Agreed, Newt had to know as much well before this announcement. Evidently the support out there wasn’t sufficiently fired up and thus the $30mm goal prolly wasn’t going too well.

[skinkinthegrass]

...of course, Republicans Obey the law(s), while the Democrats ignore/willfully break any law(s) (Norman Hsu, Charlie Trie, the Raidys...et al) if they're 'inconvenient'.....and the MSM Press marvel @ that Democrat widespread practice and not reporting it or spiking any attempts

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t know if it’s lame. He was asking for “pledges” of money, not money, but some lawyer must have convinced him that even asking for pledges would violate campaign laws.

[TBP]

So what happens if Randy Evans actually gets those $30 million in pledges?