This is interesting:
Newt Gingrich has said he won’t make up his mind whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination until after the summer, but there are signs he is warming up to Fred Thompson as his preferred GOP candidate.
“I’ve always said it was unlikely I would run,” and if Thomson runs “and does well, then I think that makes it easier for me not to run,” he said in an interview with the Associated Press last week.
But on the same day as the interview, the former Speaker of the House’s communications director Rich Galen said he had signed on as an advisor to Thompson’s not yet official campaign.
In another possibly telling sign, Gingrich and his wife had dinner with Thompson and his wife at Thompson’s home in Virginia on July 16, according to The Politico.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/26/125706.shtml?s=ic
You’re right. That is interesting.