Gingrich To Run In 2012?
Unlikely, but he’s making noises yet again.
From C-Span via Politics Daily:
C-SPAN: “If you were to run, what factors would you take into account? What would lead you to think about running?”
GINGRICH: “Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we’ll decide, if there’s a requirement as citizens that we run, I suspect we probably will. And if there’s not a requirement, if other people have filled the vacuum, I suspect we won’t.”
Here’s the thing…Newt knows he’d never win. His personal skeletons are simply too numerous and he doesn’t have mainstream appeal.
Still, as a VP candidate? I could see a Romney/Gingrich ticket being compelling to fiscal moderates.
See, Gingrich is like Cheney and Biden in that way. You’d never put him up for the top spot because he couldn’t win, but having that brain power behind the top guy/gal? All of a sudden his personal skeletons melt away…even though he’s still a heartbeat from the Oval Office.
Here’s the question: Will he or won’t he? And why?
(Photo: Getty via Daylife)
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He won’t, because his perennial threat to run is where he draws his continuing power and influence. Or at least I’m assuming that’s what explains his unfortunate omnipresence on every cable show on my TV. Because I can’t for the life of me figure out why we are forever polling a disgraced former speaker who holds no current office for his brilliant insights on politics.
The man who had the chutzpah to have an affair on his cancer-stricken wife while he was trying to run Clinton out of office and thought telling everyone he shut down the government b/c he had to sit at the back of Air Force One was a good idea – this is the guy they’re counting on to lead them out of the wilderness? Yeesh.