Gingrich says he's more inclined than not to run (for president)

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he's more inclined to run for president in 2012 than not to make a bid.

Gingrich says he probably won't make a decision until late February or early March. But he says that talking to friends and thinking about such an undertaking have made him more inclined to believe that "it's doable."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/05/politics/p075316S47.DTL&tsp=1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Gingrich/Palin? God help us.

[liberal N proud]

2. Palin/Newt ticket

Palin will not settle for second this time around.

[Volaris]

28. She will if its the only option...

As much as I HATEHATEHATE what that man is selling, Newt does a damn good job of getting it sold. If he runs, he's going to take her apart in the Primaries, but he will spill a lot of Populist/Teabagger blood getting there. The only way back into the good graces of those people will be to offer her a spot on the ticket, and I don't think her Ego will let her say no.
Thats my 2 cents to this point, and circumstances change, (small aircraft fall out of the sky occasionally, as an example) but if anyone sees a different outcome, let me know, I haven't been here all that long and still not surefooted enough to predict what others might be thinking...b

[blue_onyx]

31. I agree...

that she would accept the VP position if offered it. In fact, she might prefer VP since there's not much actual responsibility compared to the presidency. The problem is nobody will offer her the position. There are other candidates who would please Teabaggers other than Palin.

I actually don't think Palin will run. She'll play with the media for the next year or so. She'll then announce she's not running and endorse the most conservative candidate on Twitter.

[Volaris]

33. who do you think would be able to

please both the establishment GOP and the Tea Party populists if asked to run as VP?
I get why some would think Huckabee would be a good choice, but would the Wall Street arm of the Republican party ever endorse him for high office? The reason I ask is because he seems to me to be enough of a Values Christian that he would actually raise their taxes to feed hungry people, and that will never be tolerated. It seems the only logical way forward is that it would have to be one of the State Gov's., Pawlenty maybe, or Nicky Haley(sp)(who hasn't had a national spotlight to make an ass of herself yet, but she seems INFINITELY smarter that Palin from what have seen of her)but I honestly cant think of anyone else...the GOP prospects seemingly are pretty thin this time around, theres no talent left in that party...
and I agree (right now) with your assessment that she is playing with the media, its the best way for her to make a pile of cash without having to contribute anything useful to anything=)

[blue_onyx]

34. I'm not sure...

who all the top tea party candidates are but Palin certainly isn't the only person they would support. Nikki Haley was the one person who I had in mind.

[Volaris]

36. Well it says something

that were both thinking Haley...Ill keep that in mind and let my lil brain chew on that for a while, and see where it leads me=) thanks for responding

[Crazy Dave]

4. If he were to get the nomination it would probably be Gingrich/Huckabee

I think Palin is going to make her own bid but will go down in flames very quickly in the primaries.

[PSPS]

19. Never Huckabee, he's poison -- pardons cop killers

[yurbud]

24. pseudo-intellectual conservative & ignorant demagogue. half of that doesn't work for the GOP anymore

it's got to be ignorant & ignoranter or the base won't show up.

Their primary debates will be about whose lapel flag pin is bigger, who can see Iraq from their front porch, and which minority is more dangerous, gays, Muslims, illegal immigrants, or anti-colonial half Kenyans.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

3. Yawn .... he's so 1994, even in his own party.

Just hot air to fill time on extended cable channels.

[old mark]

5. Than fat old shit weasel has been wanting to run since the 1990's and

there is NO WAY he will pass up this chance - his ego is too huge- he thinks America NEEDS him!


mark

[AlbertCat]

14. Than fat old shit weasel has been wanting to run since the 1990's and

... he's still saying the same lame contradictory crap he was spouting back then too. Absolutely stuck in time... and as old hat as a rotary phone. He certainly represents a step backwards... to a nostalgic time when things were good.... because Clinton was president. :eyes:

[old mark]

32. I have always been amazed that some people actually LIKE him!

He is one of the most personally repellent people in politics, IMO, and I can't understand his popularity...and you are right, his day is long past, he just doesn't realize that.

mark

[notadmblnd]

6. Make sure you check with the ex's, Newt.

Mr. Family Values is amazingly similar to Bill Clinton - both are pot smoking, draft-dodging adulterers from poor Southern families. Click on the allegation of your choice:

Adultery:
Callista Bisek. Anne Manning. The unnamed "young volunteer". Are we missing anyone?

Draft dodger

Dead-Beat Dad

Family Values? Pressing Wife for Divorce in the Hospital

House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks

Book Deals: Murdoch's $4.5 Million wasn't the first

GOPAC sleaze: Taxpayer subsidies for his partisan campaign course.

Corporate reward: $2,500/month to Newt's wife

Who Owns Him?

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

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I'm not one of them.

[monmouth]

7. Please, please.. A Dem landslide...Even pubs can't stand him..n/t

[somone]

8. Maintaining his public profile to justify his speaking fees

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. bingo!

Gingrich is, and always has been, a huckster.

[Ozymanithrax]

9. Gingrich...Your lackadaisical candidate..

Who promises that you can booth shit and get off the pot.


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[Joe Bacon]

10. And he's more inclined to dump his current wife for another mistress

:rofl:

[chelsea0011]

12. The more, the merrier.

[nyy1998]

13. hahahahahaha-For President? hahahaha

That's hilarious, what a pathetic POS and he thinks he could run for President, that really made my morning.

[Dr.Phool]

15. Just go away Noot.

You're a has-been, and should have been a never-were.

What a monumental ego this asshole has.

[Old and In the Way]

16. None of the usual suspects seem to be able to get more than 20% of the Republican vote.

That's going to make the Republican primary very interesting. It's going to take a lot of crazy rhetoric and some serious reputational assassinations for one of these jokers to come out on top.

[lunatica]

17. barf!

[DavidDvorkin]

18. Using the word "run" in an entirely metaphorical sense, of course

If he ever really ran, he'd quickly have need of some of that nice medical insurance he presumably still has as an ex-member of Congress.

[egoclothes]

20. yipes!

[aquart]

21. Why? Is he not cheating on his current wife at the moment?

on edit: Has the Viagra stopped working?

[Lugnut]

22. Go away, Newt.

Who wants you to run anyway?

[Greybnk48]

23. That would be like a Lou Costello/Roseanne Barr ticket.

Except Lou Costello was funny and Roseanne Barr is smart (and not as nasty as Palin). I'm shooting for buffoonery and sarcasm. LOL

[UTUSN]

25. One of his exes said she can destroy him with one interview. n/t

[savalez]

26. I'm more inclined than not to not vote for him.

[dballance]

27. Same here.

[JDPriestly]

29. We got a call from someone asking if we would support Gingrich

for president and if not, why not. My husband gave the caller an earful as you can imagine. Be on the lookout for these calls. Think through what you will say. Let's nip this in the bud. I will never forget that interview with Gingrich's mother. The seed does not fall far from the tree in that family. If you haven't seen that interview, be sure to watch it.

[Douglas Carpenter]

30. i suspect he would be a far, far weaker candidate than even Palin

A lot of Palin's appeal is that a lot of tea party types, fundamentalist and other working class right-wingers think that she's just "the girl next door". A false sense of working class populism actually has a number of people thinking that she understands ordinary working people. Her born-again, waiting for the rapture Christian thing appeals to a number of people.

Gingrich's persona radiates nastiness, amorality, arrogance, obvious hypocrisy and elitism. And he says just as much batshit crazy nonsense as Palin - if not more so.

[sofa king]

35. Yes, but he's evil and highly ambitious.

He's spent the past decade deeply entwining himself with fundraisers, news outlets, conservative media, and political leadership. He'll use every connection he has, every form of coercion, every dirty trick, every media twist to place himself where he wants to be.

And then he'll lose, because he's an asshole.

[Imagevision]

37. When the timing is right Jeb Bush will come out of the woodwork...