Gingrich May Run in 2008 If No Front-Runner Emerges

He seems like a disgraced piece of shit to me.

I mean a few years in control of congress and even his own party tossed him under the bus.

Three guesses why.

Not that I have anything personal against Hillary, but Gingrich certainly views her as beatable. Even by him.

And should be encouraged due to his divisive ability to
erode his base?

This asshole would be lucky to carry his family, let alone one state.

I think he'd give McCain a run, but I'm not sure which one would win the nomination.

People forget very quickly, and as much as I don't trust him or anything he says, Newt has the Clinton charisama, and can get people to like him very quickly!

I live in Ga. and Newt can handle a podium very well.

Ca he win the Presidency? I don't know. It depends on who the opponent is.

Until we point out Mr. Family Values has had three wives and numbers two and three he got involved in by cheating on the current wife and that he divorced the first one because she wasn't pretty enough to be first lady and served her the papers while she was in a hospital w/cancer. His ego will do him in.

GEORGE BUSH???? HAHA, he could never get elected. All we have to do is point out that he was AWOL from his military service, was the class clown in college, had several DUI's, and was a damn drunk until he was 40!

You see what happened there, don't ay?

that would have been enough to beat him

his first wife was his math teacher in High School. They married not long after he graduated. He was 19.

Of course, we know he served her with the papers in the hospital.

He was also quoted as saying "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." about his first wife.

Wife number two, he called her at her mother's house on Mother's Day and asked for a divorce.


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Newt, 57, secretly had been having an affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek, 34, whom he plans to marry next month in Alexandria, Va. That would make the blond-haired Bisek wife No. 3 for the onetime Republican revolutionary.

Toensing said there's no doubt that Newt knew all about his wife's condition (MS) at the time she went to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and was diagnosed with possible MS in September 1998, just before Newt announced he was giving up his job as speaker of the House and quitting Congress.
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http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Jul2000/PWMSNewtsEx.html

http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/99_columns/081799.htm



And let's not mentioned the 22 bounced checks while he was in DC, the fact that he married his first wife to get out of going to vietnam, the way he treated his own sister.

but what gets me, is that he was carrying on an affair with soon to be wife number three while he was leading the charge against Bill Clinton.

can y'all tell I really hate this man.

and I am ashamed that he actually lived in my city for a short amount of time.

scum, scum, scum.

he just, in a backhanded way, said he would. There are no front runners. He is thinking McCain is vulnerable too. Newt scares me, he can speak well and he has a charisma.

Served one of his ex wives divorce papers while she was in the hospital fighting for her life with breast cancer.

And maybe it's just a Georgia thing- because I don't see that he has ANY charisma at all. In fact, he comes across as condescending and something of a sniveler.

It would be great if he would run.

He is one worthless pile of shit.

Nutjob.

I desperately want to sign it.

C'est Moi!

points for steph miller fans that get it.
dp

Which I expect to happen then the Newt will jump in? Wow, talk about best of all possible worlds!

Twice divorced, a gay sister, and his extra-marital affairs would all help alienate conservatives and strengthen the Democrats.

Dammit, somebody get me some mental floss! And a squeegee. Bleah!

death for the nutcase fundie vote, although that's not enough to make any one of them the front runner, especially if McCain survives Iowa and New Hampshire. McCain has already won New Hampshire by a smashing margin in 2000 and is still much-honored there. The nutcase demographic has to get around McCain in New Hampshire to defeat him for the nomination.

I don't see Gingrich with an opening there.

On the so-called moderate end, Giuliani may have some appeal to some Republicans, but it's my hope that moderate Republicans will be as repelled by Rudy as I am. The guy is a thug. He hangs around thugs like Bernie Kerik. There are reports, many reported in the press, that NYC under Giuiliani involved extremely rough-edged "justice" for the powerless. I'm hoping "moderate" Republicans are the ones to reject Giuliani; fundies are going to hate him right out of the gate.

Gingrich has a possibility there, but not a big one. Outflanking Giuliani wins him only a minority of primary votes and not enough delegates to be a player.

Romney, no matter how loathsome I find him to be, is going to represent a lot of the votes Gingrich needs to have to compete in Republican primaries. Romney is new, strange, dorky, and vaguely charismatic -- enough possibly to take votes from both Giuliani and Gingrich.

Any success by Romney cancels the incentive for Gingrich to jump in.

Gingrich wants the nomination but I don't see how he gets it unless McCain, Romney, and Giuliani all step aside and Huckabee, Frist, Allen, and Brownback are all nabbed in a heroin brothel raid a week before the Iowa caucus.

before he can think about a national run...but i'm betting that poppy and his virginia farmboys are working their way thru the list.

the candidate of last resort...

"gee, if no one else is going to run - then I might as well do it..."

Dukakis looked far, far better in HIS tank photo, obviously, but the Republicans would loudly praise this Gingrich event.

last week. He got the most votes (40%) of anyone there of the true MN GOP activists.

Otherwise I will stand outside his campaign office with a "fuck you" sign until I'm arrested.

That will make a huge impact. What a productive way to utilize your freedom of speech. :sarcasm:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901444.html?referrer=email

Gingrich May Run in 2008 If No Front-Runner Emerges

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 10, 2006; A04



Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) expects to run for president in 2008 if the contest for the Republican nomination still seems wide open late next year, he said yesterday.....

"If at that point there's still a vacuum . . . then we'll probably do something," Gingrich said, adding that his policy pronouncements have more weight if he is seen as a potential presidential candidate. "If you're interested in defining the idea context and the political context for the next generation of Americans, which I am, the most effective way to do that is to be seen as potentially available."

Gingrich's entry would shake up a Republican presidential field that now includes Sens. George Allen (Va.), Bill Frist (Tenn.) and John McCain (Ariz.). Many Republicans still revere Gingrich for engineering the GOP's takeover of Congress in 1994, though members of his own party pushed him to resign in 1998 after his drive to impeach President Bill Clinton cost them seats in that year's election....

"The Gingrich model of an idea-led, contentious majority . . . is a lot better than a model of 'The Hammer.' A hammer is a relatively dumb symbol," he said, adding that now that DeLay is gone, "the House will become healthier with every passing week. You'll see an emergence of an idea-led Republican majority. The question is whether they'll do it fast enough to save the majority."

His corruption in the past fits in great with current Repugs. It'd give us a leg up if he got the nomination. I can just see him trying to appeal to Dobsonites when it is pointed out that he divorced his wife while she lay in bed battling cancer. Heck, even Hillary could beat him.

Last time I checked, he wasn't so popular.

...because this is such exciting news! :rofl:

it would be almost as fun as Al Sharpton's run (no offense Al.)