Gingrich talks of possible presidential run in 2012 (speech in Va.)

[underpants]

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/NEWT061_20090305-234402/223211/

Newt for president?

Newt Gingrich, the Republican former Speaker of the House, didn't rule it out last night in Ashland, before he was to address a packed house of 650-plus at Randolph-Macon College.

Gingrich and his wife, Callista, "will look seriously and we'll probably get our family totally engaged, including our two grandchildren, probably in January 2011, and we'll look seriously at whether or not we think it's necessary to do it," he told reporters during a sit-down interview before last night's speech.

"And if we think it's necessary we'll probably do it. And if it isn't necessary we probably won't do it."

"I see the party moving towards a whole new generation," he said.

"Right here in Virginia, the No. 2 Republican in the House is Eric Cantor, who I think is going to become Speaker of the House someday and is a great, great leader emerging."

"I think it's conceivable that by 2012 you could have a second Contract for America," he said.

[rurallib]

1. I saw him in Iowa in 2007 and there was no doubt he was running then.

Newtie, the human muppet.

[KansDem]

2. "Gingrich/Palin" for 2012!!! Now *that's* a ticket I could get behind...

:rofl:

[ddeclue]

3. Talk about an easy guy to beat....

Oh PLEASE God let it be Newt...

I lived in Atlanta for 12 years and this guy has soo many personal problems and he comes across as a pompous ass to the voters.

Doug D.

[niceypoo]

5. Most likely because....

...he is a pompous ass

[tekisui]

4. I've been calling it.

Newt will try to be the repuke savior.

[saltpoint]

6. In a room of elves, even a munchkin looks like a giant.

Newt will have to raise several million dollars relatively quickly. A case could be made that he can do this and also that he cannot do this.

He will have to be a more-than-just-regional candidate and establish a national network of support. Same argument -- a case can and cannot be made.

Not least, he'll have to defeat an extremely manic and money-thick Mitt Romney and the folksy, also-southern Huckabee, plus who knows who else.

Gingrich would save himself some disappointment, IMO, by accepting an academic post at some ultra-conservative college. He can be the lord of the faculty and likely live a lot longer than if he allows his ego and ambition to propel him into the 2012 GOP primaries.

I believe the mark of defeat is upon the belly of the Newt.

[AllentownJake]

7. Newt, Newt, Newt, Newt

They aren't that into you, they never really were. Do you remember how quickly they through you overboard in 1998?

[Cha]

8. I see newt is still full

of hot air.

[whistler162]

9. Let me get this straight.....

Mr. Newt "Dump your first wife while she is in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery" Gingrich might run in 2012 for the Republican Presidential nomination!

:silly: :woohoo:

[saltpoint]

10. 'am wondering if Newt's ambitions -- the realization of which runs thru the

Catholic Reagan Democrats and significantly Hispanic new Obama Catholics for any serious challenge to Obama in 2012 -- was signaled by his recent conversion to Catholicism.


The demographers speak. Newt listens.

[SKKY]

11. Well, someone has to be the sacrificial lamb, although for pure entertainment...

...I'd much rather see Palin run.