Posted on 07/23/2007 7:48:20 PM PDT by no dems
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."
People who read this also read: Newt Gingrich goes nuclear: May enter race to foil 'pygmies' ‘Soda bottle’ bombs explode at KFC Baltimore cop shoots, kills soldier Tiny Dog Saves Baby From Rattlesnake Astronaut Tosses Junk From Space Station "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."
Pressed by The Examiner about whether his political baggage renders him unelectable, Gingrich compared himself to a famous French statesman. "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 have no interest in the current political process. I have no interest in trying to figure out how I can go out and raise money under John McCain's insane censorship rules so I can show up to do seven minutes and twenty seconds at some debate." Still, he said he might enter the race before the deadlines to "start filing petitions.
No disrespect, but I hope I never see it again.
Burned bridges with whom?
No class? Be serious. He was entirely correct, the current runners are exactly that - pygmyies, and they are stunningly pathetic.
Burned bridges with whom?
No class? Be serious. He was entirely correct, the current runners are exactly that - pygmyies, and they are stunningly pathetic.
Yeah, recently I also started to feel like I have developed a cognitive dissonance when visiting many threads. Too much emotion, jumping on headlines, unnecessary or deliberate negativity, lack of historical perspective often derived from selectively distorted published historical "facts", and rigidity of opinions not based on or warranted by the real facts.
Otherwise good men and women continually voted for the lesser of two evils.
People hoodwinked into believing the ends justify the means. But what are the ends when the means -- voting for the lesser of evils -- leads to an evil end?
With each person saying their candidate is the lesser of evils, how can they all be right--especially since it begets evil? They cannot. Like religion. For each follower, their religion is the only true path to enlightenment. But how can every religion be the only true path to enlightenment? They cannot.
Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. The ends don't justify the means. (Those two sentences can't be honestly reconciled.) The ends justify the means only when the ends are intended to be evil. But somehow I don't think voters really intend an evil end to come from their vote. They just don't know any better.
Something to the effect of, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is a sign of insanity. I call it voters' collective delusion.
Politics is not the solution. Politics is the problem.
Begin the transition with voting each and every incumbent out of office. Shine the spotlight of honesty on them with the shamnesty immigration bill. Like what's happening to the global warming hoax.
Value Destroyers
versus
Value Producers
Great tag line!!!
Thompson 08!!!!!!!!
And not a very big hat, at that. Newt is a smart ass, and the whole world hates a smart ass. He is not electable as president. I doubt he could even have made Senator from his own state. And, by the way, who in hell is HE to call the Republican field pygmies? He has no sense of what is appropriate to say and when.
How about Hunter-Anybody Else!!
arrogant sob
I was going to reply to you, and then I saw your tagline and realized it would be in vain. Sorry to have roused you from your delusion. Won’t happen again.
The establishment speaks.
I agree, I’d be changing that tag line about now, I regret my first two votes let alone a 3rd?
Newt has to get on a stepladder to look a pygmy in the eye.
Did you watch the Kerry-Newt "debate" [read lovefest] on global warming? Newt stated that man was the primary cause behind global warming and that we needed to address it as an urgent problem. Newt and Kerry just differed on the means, not the basic premise.
"Before Kerry got a word in, Gingrich conceded that global warming is real, that humans have contributed to it and that "we should address it very actively." Gingrich held up Kerry's new book, "This Moment on Earth," and called it "a very interesting read." He then added a personal note about saving vulnerable species from climate change. "My name, Newt, actually comes from the Danish Knut, and there's been a major crisis in Germany over a polar bear named Knut," he confided.
The warm and fuzzy Gingrich surprised Kerry, who jettisoned prepared remarks that accused the former speaker of "marching in lock step with the climate-change deniers." Instead, Kerry found himself saying: "I've always enjoyed every dialogue he and I have ever had." He added that "your statement is very, very important" and gushed: "I frankly appreciate the candor."
Hi,
You have two problems with your latest article on Newt.
In both the online and print story, you say he called other Republicans ‘Pathetic’ ‘pygmies.’
In no part either version do you show the quote where he even used the word ‘pathetic.’ That’s fucking sloppy. He may have used the word in the interview, but you need to give the context? Why? Because you butcher the context of the other problem:
You take the term ‘pygmies’ out of context. He wasn’t meaning it as derogatory towards the other candidates. He meant it as derogatory of the situation and it was a quote from De Gaulle.
You combine these two errors in the lead and headline, completely putting words in Newt’s mouth and taking what he was saying out of context.
I’ve read you for years. This is just plain sad. I hope this is your editor’s fault.
You need to issue a correction.
I don't support Newt and think he would be an awful president. But this reporting is pathetic. PS - I'm told that I'm a troll by some kid on this website unless I follow every criticism of another candidate by stating who I am supporting. I support Willard in 08!
Maybe the guy drinks. The FReeper, not the president. Bush is so busy #$(&ing up, he ain’t got time to drink - and THAT’S busy!
Yup!
Sorry, I like Newt, one of the most brilliant conservative minds, but he would get burned at the stake by either Hillary or Obama.
NO ONE on the Dims side will forget impeachment or his philandering during it.
60%.
Let me see if I understand. The tickets Newt vs Hillary. Your either going to vote for Hillary, or just sit it out. Either way, I don’t like your options.
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