Gingrich: ‘More of a Possibility Now’ I’ll Run for President
**Posted by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Newt Gingrich has made a concerted thrust back into national politics lately with statements such as “Obama is the most radical president ever” and “the closest thing to Jimmy Carter I’ve ever seen” (Obama’s only a tool belt, a rabbit attack and a couple dozen Benoquin treatments away from being virtually indistinguishable from Jimmah).
This opposition to Obama caused the “will he or won’t he” chatter to start, and now Gingrich is admitting which way he’s leaning:
The former speaker said there is “more of a possibility now” that he’ll run for president than when he was considering the idea ahead of the 2008 election. He said he’ll decide in February or March of next year and will base the decision partly on whether there is “a potential to raise the resources to be a serious, major candidate.”
Not to pop his trial balloon, but if Gingrich runs, like many other conservative type voters, I’m going to have a serious problem shaking Gingrich’s involvement with Nancy Pelosi in “We Can Solve It.” The harsh winter we experienced in the U.S. is largely being blamed on how quickly conservatives cooled to Newt after that announcement aired. The science is settled.
And the “We Can Solve It” spot wasn’t just a one-off “I had too many beers and a tainted county fair elephant ear and made a horrible political mistake” kind of thing. Later on, Gingrich urged the GOP to “work with” Pelosi, and just last month at the Heritage Foundation, Gingrich again defended taking Pelosi’s hand and climbing aboard the Goretrain:
No matter how much conservative rhetoric Newt puts out there, this is a self-inflicted political wound that Gingrich doesn’t appear to care to heal by primary season.
Taking action on “climate change” is the left’s excuse of choice for the implementation of socialist policy, so Newt needs to understand that calling Obama “radical” while at the same time endorsing the modus operandi for instituting that radicalism leaves conservatives — and many voters in general — scratching their heads.
I’m just afraid that, no matter what Newt says or does from this day forward, when I’m in the voting booth and see his name, this is the only picture that’ll be in my head:
Newt can give all the scathing speeches against Obama and his radical agenda he wants, but until his actions start matching his words — and that will include full repentance for either falling for, or being a willing participant in, the great “global warming” hoax that was created to be nothing more than the main vessel into which all our money and freedoms flow — I won’t be reeled into his corner any time soon.
The candidate I vote for will be one who pledges to blow that vessel to bits — not help construct it.
**Posted by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
 |
Nevada Caucuses Open Thread; Update: Romney Wins
February 4, 2012 04:30 PM by Doug Powers
139 Comments
Trump to Make ‘Major Announcement’ in Nevada; May Endorse Gingrich; Update: Romney
February 1, 2012 10:09 PM by Doug Powers
157 Comments
Florida Primary Open Thread; Update: Romney Wins
January 31, 2012 07:24 PM by Doug Powers
163 Comments
Fly Them To the Moon. Please.
January 27, 2012 12:32 AM by Michelle Malkin
114 CommentsGingrich channels open-borders SEIU; Rubio rebukes; Update:Newt retreats
January 25, 2012 10:56 AM by Michelle Malkin
155 Comments
Pelosi Doubles Down: Gingrich Won’t Be Elected — There is Something I Know
January 24, 2012 11:06 PM by Doug Powers
119 Comments
South Carolina Primary Open Thread; Update: Gingrich Wins
January 21, 2012 05:45 PM by Doug Powers
311 Comments
Gingrich Tells South Carolina Man He’d Talk to Al Sharpton
January 21, 2012 04:26 PM by Doug Powers
60 Comments
Categories: Newt Gingrich
Patterico
» NYT hails the safety net: Poor hardest hitJustOneMinute
» I Guess I'm Still Stuck On StupidGateway Pundit
» White House Says They Won’t Budge on HHS Birth Control Mandate: “Our Position Is Clear” (Video)Gateway Pundit
» Sarah Palin on HBO Palin Movie: I’ve Created More Impersonators Than Obama’s Created Jobs (Video)Weekly Standard
» ‘No Precedent for the Government Ordering Private Companies to Offer a Product for Free’Riehl World View
» Whitney Houston: If I should stay I would only be in your wayPatterico
» Rick Santorum and the two playbooks
As I’ve said before, people are starting to get it.
The question now becomes whether enough people will get it in time.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I can’t and I won’t.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Good opportunity to agree with Phil. Not only is there nothing conservative about him, there is nothing even laudable or noteworthy about him. He is a morally bankrupt, leadership challenged short paragraph in a sad chapter of history, and needs to stay there.
The couch scene with Nanny hawking Cap and Tax ought to have been the stake in his heart. Don’t watch Hannity much – but didn’t Hannity even call him out on that??
Newt won’t get my vote.
He is exactly why the GOP loses elections. Old political hacks who will say and do anything to get elected.
Newt played a conservative for a few years but since he left office he has been all over the place. He senses yet another chance for self-aggrandizement with the weakest incumbent ever facing reelection in 2012 and he figures “why not?”
I’ll tell you why not! I am tired of self-serving, narcissists claiming to serve the people while they line their own pockets and feed their own egos at MY EXPENSE!
You are OLD NEWS, Newt! Go sit on a couch with Nancy but do it elsewhere.
Geez! it’s like a 50′s horror movie, he is the The Thing That Would Not Die. All he would do in 2012 is put the final nail in the GOP coffin and insure a Obama win in a landslide from all the voters, like me, who would stay home. He ‘s presidential material only in his own mind.
Sarah is bigger bagging more important RINOs this election season. She can bag RINO Newtie in 2011, just a few facebook posts and he will be toast.
Whoops, late, I meant to say, Sarah is bagging BIGGER RINOs, it is late.
Gingrich in 2012? (perhaps the Mayan calendar makers stopped there to hurl)
Hmmm
You had great potential, but we have moved on.
Let this be a lesson from a tea partier Newt.
Can you win….nope!
America has had it with arrogant elitist politicians, especially those that look down at the voters until they are suddenly needed again at election time.
Two words for Newt:
DRUG TEST!
Newt is so full of himself. Moderation will not return American to prosperity.
All I’ll say is that there’s
*more of a possibility now*
that Gingrich will end up on
the same dumpheap as Romney for 2012.
If Gingrich were to be the Republican nominee, Obama would win big time. Way too many people have had it with his antics.
There’s no way in hell I would vote for him. No way.
I hope republicans can see that he’s a no win situation.
O.K. Folks. I have read all your comments now and I have to agree…Newt is a first class RINO and a hypocrite to boot. I wasn’t aware of Newt’s divorces. Yes, I knew he had married before. But to dump two wives who were ill? I didn’t know that. Also, some of the other issues he is wrong on…I guess I haven’t been as informed about that man as I thought. Sometimes I am wrong. Not often, though!
I do think that he hasn’t a prayer to get the nomination anyway. Having said that, I didn’t thing McCain had a prayer either and look what happened. Vigilence!!
Vigilence!! And proof-reading!
I didn’t
thingthink McCain…Gingrich is going nowhere. He’s just wasting his time.
I used to like him…. but now after the couch commercial with Nancy, some nice comments about Hillary and bunch of other stuff—I now can’t stand him.
Newty is in it for Newty, he is the political chameleon that buries our potential as a country and as a society. Newt must exit stage left along with Arlen & Mclame.
Don’t trust Newt to defend U.S. sovereignty.
Don’t trust Newt to secure U.S. borders.
Newt is a globalist who sometimes talks a fairly good conservative talk, but who has before and would again stabbed conservatives in the back to further the globalist agenda (like the AGW fraud).
On May 19th, 2010 at 7:52 am, jangar said:
AMEN!
We need to be just as radical and just as agressive with our agenda (Conservative, Constitutionalist, reduction of Federal Govenment size and power) as the radical Democratic Socialist Communists have been with theirs.
Obama proudly proclaimed that the Democrats want a “fundamental transformation” of this country. Everything the Democrats have done since taking back power has been consistent with the Program of the Communist Party USA.
We want a a “fundamental transformation” of this country, too… back to the vision our Founders had when they pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to create a nation, under God, where our Government defends, not restricts, our God-given (endowed by our Creator) inalienable rights.
No compromise with Socialists/Communists! Return to our foundation.
There, that fixes it.
Great – another wrench in the system that will help keep Herr Obama in office for another term.
This guy is completely naive if he thinks he has a snowball’s chance in hell against The One
This OPPORTUNIST makes me GAG! No, No ,NO a thousand times NO!
But…but…but Fox loves him!
Newt, baby, you make us vomit. Get out of our way! We’re trying to save our country!!
I like 25% to 33% of what Newt claims to believe in.
Newt’s main problem is that the 66% to 75% of stuff he really believes contradicts and offsets the 25% to 33% of what he claims to believe in…
Sitting on that couch with San Fran Nan may have been the stupidest thing he has done in 3 years. But I think it revealed his lack of any core principle.
Sarah has made some significant mistakes but her gut reaction seems to be toward conservative principles. Newt’s gut reaction is toward whatever he thinks is best for Newt at the time…
We have had enough of that to last a lifetime.
He may have great thoughts. He may have helped to get the House in 94. But at the end of the day, Newt is about Newt and if that means being a political whore, he will be that in a heartbeat.
Yes. TiminPhx. Newt is the classic political whore and always will be. He’s just another old politician who can’t stay away, but you know he’s meeting secretly with other “globalists” planning the new world order. Please, vote no on Newt!
Politics is just a big game to Newt. He gets up in the morning, puts on his “political-face-of-the-day”, and heads out the door to catch every photo-op he can.
Newt is as phony as a three-dollar bill. If his name is on the ticket I won’t vote for him any more than I would vote for screwball McCain.
Can’t we get the hell away from these damned phonies??