Posted on 05/09/2011 6:14:37 PM PDT by xjcsa
ATLANTA (AP) --- Newt Gingrich, the House speaker who led a national GOP resurgence in the 1990s before facing ethics questions and resigning, is running for president.
Gingrich's announcement, made on social networking websites Monday, came after months of public flirting with a bid. He enters a slow-to-form GOP presidential field that has left some Republicans craving more options as they search for a nominee strong enough to credibly challenge President Barack Obama.
The former Georgia congressman, well-known to most Republicans, brings to the race a years-in-the-making political machine with ties to early nominating states as well as a network of supporters and donors. But his personal baggage --- he's acknowledged marital infidelity and has had two divorces --- could hinder his chances of winning the party's presidential nomination more than a decade after leaving the House.
Still, he spoke confidently of wide support.
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LOL! You beat me to it!
I’ve read plenty of posts on FR about people not voting for Romney because of his “cult”. Others, because of his politics, but many because of his religion.
Never. No way.
+1
The COS comment, perhaps verbatim as you have phrased it, has come up multiple times on FR. I can’t agree more that Newt would be the greatest pubbie thought factory ever to support a president.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think these losers running for POTUS, who must know from the getgo they have the chance of an ice cube in hell, are really jockeying for future assignments, be there in the media, K Street, or in the next administration, if their side happens to win, that is to say, the whole campaign’s purpose to keep one’s name in the news until the election.
You and me make two non-votes for Mr. AGW Believer.
Let him get it out of his system early - and then let it die.
Michael Medved will be oh so tingly.
His wives couldn’t trust him, why should we?
He's also a supreme serial adulterer and uber-RINO. Great credentials - not!
If only Pence hadn’t dropped out before he began. He’s the only one that really had me excited as far as a viable candidate. No one else comes close.
As soon as she gets cancer.
the fact that Romney managed to get elected in MA is enough reason for me not to vote for him....as a former resident of the state I wouldn’t want any former governor of Taxachussetts to be sitting in the oval office
only person I can see generating any kind of interest for me on the republican ticket right now is Sarah... hope she is just biding her time.
Newt WON’T be the nominee. He has too much baggage, is disliked by too many, and has burned too many bridges... like McCain. Oh, wait....
GOP is going to leave us with voting for someone who is undesirable vs. the muslim socialist undocumented worker resident
Sorry Newt, but NO. The establishment GOP is part of the problem that got us here.
Time for a new party (TEA) and new blood (that continues to be libeled against).
I think you've hit on a great description, xjcsa.
The answer to a decade and a half of wondering, "How can he be so smart and so stupid?!" summed up.
Newt? Sorry. Smart guy. RINO with TOO much baggage.
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