Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential Run

[Dos Equis]

He's definitely qualified, but I don't think I could vote for him.   

Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential RunFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he's seriously considering a 2012 run, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

FOXNews.com

Friday, March 06, 2009

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday he'd seriously consider running for president in 2012.

With the mantle of the Republican Party still unclaimed, Gingrich told reporters in Ashland, Va., before a speech to Randolph-Macon College that he and his family would examine the political environment in early 2011, and "look seriously at whether or not we think it's necessary to do it."

"And if we think it's necessary we'll probably do it. And if it isn't necessary we probably won't do it," he said, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Gingrich is one of several potential candidates talked about as the GOP struggles to grow its numbers following huge defeats in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

Gingrich placed fifth, with 10 percent, in a straw poll of possible 2012 candidates over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/06/gingrich-floats-possibility-presidential-run/

[LurkerNoMore]

You best cross your fingers and hope.

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  Snowball. Chance. Hell.

[Cap]

If he sees that things are bad enough he just might for the good of the party.  I hope he does.

[240 is Back]

newt was the only guy with the honesty to call the 2008 republican group a bunch of bums.

Won't be long til he chin-checks Rush and re-takes the reigns of the party.

[LurkerNoMore]

Newt/Crist would be nearly impossible to beat by anyone.

[Straw Man]

There's a higher probability of predicting the weather 4 years from now than predicting an election

[240 is Back]

Newt/Crist would be nearly impossible to beat by anyone.

but but but but but but but

Palin is sooooooooooo smart.
and Jindal is sooooooooooooooo ready on foreign policy.

please please please please please please can't they win?

[Soul Crusher]

newt was the only guy with the honesty to call the 2008 republican group a bunch of bums.

Won't be long til he chin-checks Rush and re-takes the reigns of the party.

Newt is like a mental machine gun and is a perfect guy to debate and defeat Obama.

[240 is Back]

Newt is like a mental machine gun and is a perfect guy to debate and defeat Obama.

newt would probably do VERY well in a debate against Obama.

He's definitely qualified, but I don't think I could vote for him.  

BB, why wouldn't you be able to vote for newt?

[Soul Crusher]

newt would probably do VERY well in a debate against Obama.

BB, why wouldn't you be able to vote for newt?

WWWHYYYY???

The list is long but people focus on style over substance.  Newt has more good ideas in one finger than Obama could ever dream to come up with. 

Newt is a mental giant.

[240 is Back]

newt is one of the smartest people in DC.

Obama is very smart.  Hilary is smart.  Mitt is smart.  Ron paul is smart.

Edwards, Richardson, Rudy, Thompson, Mccain, Palin = list of people who aren't real intellectuals.

Newt is very intelligent.  I think he would be a GREAT person to put some screws to iran and russia and other countries. 

[Straw Man]

newt is one of the smartest people in DC.

Obama is very smart.  Hilary is smart.  Mitt is smart.  Ron paul is smart.

Edwards, Richardson, Rudy, Thompson, Mccain, Palin = list of people who aren't real intellectuals.

Newt is very intelligent.  I think he would be a GREAT person to put some screws to iran and russia and other countries. 

No doubt that Newt is smart but he's also a neocon and a far right wing radical.   His ideas are old and his time has passed.

[Benny B]

No doubt that Newt is smart but he's also a neocon and a far right wing radical.   His ideas are old and his time has passed.

exactly

Please run, Newt! 

[240 is Back]

Methinks newt is smart enough to tone down the bush rhetoric, poll exactly what 51% of americans want to hear, and then trumpet it with his own conservative filter.

[Dos Equis]

newt would probably do VERY well in a debate against Obama.

BB, why wouldn't you be able to vote for newt?

I'm a little hung up on his hypocrisy in the Clinton impeachment scandal.  I think he forfeited his right to hold public office. 

He's definitely qualified and I think he would be a good president, but I'm not sure I could get past his conduct. 

[Straw Man]

Methinks newt is smart enough to tone down the bush rhetoric, poll exactly what 51% of americans want to hear, and then trumpet it with his own conservative filter.

He was making the same rumblings 2 years ago and didn't run

I wonder why?

Maybe he couldn't raise the money.  Maybe he know's he's poison and he would never survive public scrutiny.

Maybe it's because he sounds like this guy

[Benny B]

I'm a little hung up on his hypocrisy in the Clinton impeachment scandal.  I think he forfeited his right to hold public office. 

He's definitely qualified and I think he would be a good president, but I'm not sure I could get past his conduct. 

May 2nd, 2007
    WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

    “The honest answer is yes,” Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. “There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There’s certainly times when I’ve fallen short of God’s standards.”

    Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton’s infidelity.

    “The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge,” the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton’s 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. “I drew a line in my mind that said, ‘Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept … perjury in your highest officials.”

    Widely considered a mastermind of the Republican revolution that swept Congress in the 1994 elections, Gingrich remains wildly popular among many conservatives. He has repeatedly placed near the top of Republican presidential polls recently, even though he has not formed a campaign.

    Gingrich has said he is waiting to see how the Republican field shapes up before deciding in the fall whether to run.

    Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged him for years as a result of two messy divorces, but he has refused to discuss them publicly.

    Gingrich, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, divorced his second wife, Marianne, in 2000 after his attorneys acknowledged Gingrich’s relationship with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide more than 20 years younger than he is.

    His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, ended in divorce in 1981. Although Gingrich has said he doesn’t remember it, Battley has said Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery.

    Gingrich married Marianne months after the divorce.

    “There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them,” he said in the interview. “I look back on those as periods of weakness and periods that I’m … not proud of.”

    Gingrich’s congressional career ended in 1998 when he abruptly resigned from Congress after poor showings from Republicans in elections and after being reprimanded by the House ethics panel over charges that he used tax-exempt funding to advance his political goals.

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he knew, as most ppl did, that 2008 was a change year.

recession, ramping down of an unpopular war, it was very similiar to 1988 when a hillbilly with a tang addiction managed to win election over the most powerful man in history, bush Sr.

newt, jindal, and others were smart enough not to throw their hats into the ring in 2008.  

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I'm a little hung up on his hypocrisy in the Clinton impeachment scandal.  I think he forfeited his right to hold public office. 

Mccain admitted cheating on his 1st wife.  You voted for him, right?

i'm sure Mccain's public stance on family issues was very far-right while he was delivering payloads in hawaii while poor sick wife stayed at home.  Also hypocritical, but that didn't stop ya in 2008.

[Benny B]

Mccain admitted cheating on his 1st wife.  You voted for him, right?

i'm sure Mccain's public stance on family issues was very far-right while he was delivering payloads in hawaii while poor sick wife stayed at home.  Also hypocritical, but that didn't stop ya in 2008.

McCain did not have to leave public office as a disgrace.

[Straw Man]

he knew, as most ppl did, that 2008 was a change year.

recession, ramping down of an unpopular war, it was very similiar to 1988 when a hillbilly with a tang addiction managed to win election over the most powerful man in history, bush Sr.

newt, jindal, and others were smart enough not to throw their hats into the ring in 2008.  

I think if he thought he had a snowball chance he would have jumped.  

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/20/magazines/fortune/newt.fortune/

[Dos Equis]

Mccain admitted cheating on his 1st wife.  You voted for him, right?

i'm sure Mccain's public stance on family issues was very far-right while he was delivering payloads in hawaii while poor sick wife stayed at home.  Also hypocritical, but that didn't stop ya in 2008.

McCain was not holding public office when he cheated on his wife.  Major distinction.  He wasn't leading some worthless crusade against the president while flushing my tax dollars down the toilet.  He wasn't being publicly critical of another political leader for cheating on his wife, while he was doing the very same thing.   

When you hold a position of public trust, the standards for your public and private conduct are much higher.  That's why I have such a problem with people like Newsome, the L.A. mayor, etc.

[Straw Man]

McCain was not holding public office when he cheated on his wife.  Major distinction.  He wasn't leading some worthless crusade against the president while flushing my tax dollars down the toilet.  He wasn't being publicly critical of another political leader for cheating on his wife, while he was doing the very same thing.   

When you hold a position of public trust, the standards for your public and private conduct are much higher.  That's why I have such a problem with people like Newsome, the L.A. mayor, etc.

Bum - I don't see why that makes a difference.

I agree with you on the worthless crusade, hypocrisy, etc.. but If you have a problem with adultery then why would it make any difference whether the person was an elected official at the time or not.  I find that to be an odd distinction. 

[Dos Equis]

Bum - I don't see why that makes a difference.

I agree with you on the worthless crusade, hypocrisy, etc.. but If you have a problem with adultery then why would it make any difference whether the person was an elected official at the time or not.  I find that to be an odd distinction. 

I already explained it.  You are free to agree or disagree.