Exclusive: Newt Gingrich to run for the White House
After a rabble rousing speech to the YAF conference, the former House Speaker was asked whether he had booked any vacation time to visit the states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Massachusetts etc early in 2012. After batting the question away with humour, Gingrich seemed the think twice and with a slight glint in his eye, smiled and said there would be a decision to be made in January 2011.
Cue much enthusiastic applause.
Newt Gingrich's Contract with America delivered a balanced budget and the first tax cut in sixteen years back in the mid nineties. He has the ideas and potential backing and support to redraw the battle lines and throw the gauntlet down to the spend-happy democrats and the floundering Obama administration.
The Republican Party desperately needs a figurehead, a banner to come together under once again. Speaker Gingrich has saved the GOP once and it would be fascinating to watch him try do it again. The invisible primary is already well underway - perhaps the GOP nomination is exactly why a busy man would take time out of his day to talk to hundreds of young activists for a few hours.
He sure has hell didn't deny it.
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He won't run for a couple of reasons. Firstly he is too old and secondly he can't win and he knows it. Finally I don't think the Republicans are batshit crazy enough to have him.
At least he's better than Palin...
Rock on Newt.
If Dan Han reckons your a dude, your a dude.
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Will his pants stay up long enough or will he be sewing the seeds of love.....
and it was Clinton's budget, not his.
I agree with James here. It's also worth noting that he'll be an easy target for some third parties given that he left his wife when she had cancer. He was also having an affair with with a staffer during the Clinton impeachment hearings (as was Hyde et al). Will make it a little bit more difficult to throw that red moral meat to the base.
To say the least, I'm baffled why any individul would want Newt to run. He may well still have support amongst the GOP's base, but we're talking about a man who has at least twice as many skeletons in his closet as Guiliani. Not thanks. Give us Pawlenty.
Wasn't Newt the guy who went to a blue district in upstate New York a few weeks ago to take part in a charity walk and 20,000 turned up to see him? That really proves the guy has charisma and the ability to connect to ordinary people...
"Will make it a little bit more difficult to throw that red moral meat to the base."
The crazy evangelicals who supported Bush arent the Republicans usual voters...
Well, neither are the home school libertarians who support gingrich really, but anyway.
Gingrich isnt going to care if the Bush vote doesnt vote for him, it never normaly voted.