Newt Gingrich plans to launch bid for Republican nomination in 2012

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Former House of Representatives speaker to formally launch bid to take on Obama – ahead of Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin

Ewen MacAskill in Washington | Wednesday March 02 2011

The former speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, is planning to formally launch on Thursday his bid for the Republican nomination to take on Barack Obama next year, the first of the candidates to do so.

It has been a slow start this year compared with the same period in recent election cycles. Sarah Palin, the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and other potential Republican candidates are holding back. The announcement by Gingrich, trailed by ABC News, might lead other candidates to join the fray.

Although the presidential election is not until November next year, the caucuses and primaries begin in January and the Republican hopefuls will have to spend much of this year campaigning.

Gingrich is scheduled to announce in Atlanta, Georgia, that he is setting up a presidential exploratory committee, the first stage in the process.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/02/newt-gingrich-us-election-2012

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Megalomaniacal delusions of grandeur that are inevitably going to fail, but whatever.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Announcement to be at Hartsfield Intl. Airport, a place with less baggage.

Newt is going nowhere anyway.

[sharesunited]

6. I enjoyed that!

[RKP5637]

2. He's gross! n/t

[elias49]

3. Newt has a little McCain in him

just won't give it up. Thinks he's entitled.
Screw him. His time is past.

[Terry in Austin]

4. "Government is the problem...

vote for me and I'll prove it!"

:evilgrin:

(tip o' the hat to Roy Zimmerman)

[onehandle]

5. Not a chance in Hell. It's a book tour. The opposition will be Romney/Rubio in 2012. nt

[Shiver]

7. .....

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[groundloop]

8. Maybe Newt and Sarah can go 3rd party

[left on green only]

30. Don't you really mean 3rd and 4th party?

Somehow I find it difficult to imagine Newt Getricher ever running on the same ticket with Sarah Trailertrash. And then of course there would be the ego question....which one of those fine folks would be relegated to the VP spot?

[The Wizard]

9. The sleazy prick

should be running for the border.

[Psephos]

10. No one will vote for him, and that includes most repugs. What a deluded loser. n/t

[PatSeg]

18. He's really not deluded

as he's not running to win, just to sell books and get some high priced speaking gigs. When the media forgets who you are, just run for president. The same goes for Sarah. She doesn't want to BE president (too much work and not enough money), she wants people to believe she's running so she'll still be considered newsworthy. I'm sure there will be others and it will be very entertaining.

[Blue_Tires]

24. thanks for getting to the crux of the matter

this is just one of those "cash in; drop out early campaigns

[PatSeg]

26. Exactly

I wonder if there is a republican out there who actually WANTS to be president. Even if there is, he/she probably wouldn't want to run against Obama. I think sincere candidates are holding out for 2016. 2012 will just be a huge media circus.

[defendandprotect]

11. Newt -- the notorious GOP propagandist -- good luck to us all--!!

No one is as adept at lying for the elites as Newt --

Remember when he left Congress, first thing he went to work on was

trying to suggest "The Chinese are Coming! The Chinese are coming!" --

perhaps fortunate that we needed their money -- and PNAC had put Iraq up

at the top of the list for war for OIL --

But you can see where the future lies under rw leadership!!

Violence, violence and more violence!!

:nuke:

[marasinghe]

12. there's a market in there, somewhere, for a quadrennial vaccine against this manner of pestilence.

toxin anti-toxin, i believe it is called.
the college kid was too nice on this faker patriot.
should've brought up his qualities of lying & deception, hypocrisy, disloyalty & betrayal, in so many words.
these scum don't deserve any kind of politeness. they always delude themselves into taking courtesy for weakness.

[applegrove]

13. If he won, which he will not, he would be the only other President, other than Reagan, to be

divorced. So much for family values.

[center rising]

14. Run Newtie run

You'll get destroyed by Obama, that is if you even get your parties nomination, which seems highly unlikely.

[pam4water]

15. Whips out my copy of rush limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot Turns to the Newt Chapter!

[SoapBox]

16. Barf...Hurl...Vomit...

...I want you to SO do it...BUT, I can't stomach
your voice and your filthy lies.

[mackerel]

17. Is he serious? Sure this country is nothing but godbothers

but they're principled godbothers. How many wives has he had?

[LawnKorn]

19. Newt Gingrich will be crushed in the primaries

I expect a string of Republican Presidential want-to-be's to crawl out of the woodwork and proceed to be regulated to the trash heap of political ideas.

This is actually a good thing, because the Republicans will spend all of their campaign cash in the primaries and have none in reserve for the general election.

It is going to be a fast walk to victory for President Obama in 2012.

[Bandit]

20. Remember Newt, "It is all about Character"

When you attacked Bill Clinton on the "Character" issue, it was about his lying about sex. He cheated on his wife so he had poor "Character".. In your own words, if he would LIE to his soul mate, he would LIE to anyone.. Remember Newt? When you swear an oath of fidelity in front of God and family and then break that oath, not once, not twice, but at least three seperate times, How can you possible expect us to believe a word you say?

[Renew Deal]

21. Another guy with no chance of winning a primary or GE.

He's a great target for Obama.

[bemildred]

22. What an arrogant fool.

Gingrich, if elected, would try to govern just like Ghaddaffi.

[HughBeaumont]

23. President Helmet.

THIS will be a comedy of errors.

[corpseratemedia]

25. why bother?

how delusional can you get? what a total waste of time and money - lives in another mindspace era.

[yellowcanine]

27. I just hope he doesn't flame out too early to do any actual harm to the Republicans.

That would be a real shame.

[Kingofalldems]

28. Is he gonna run on family values?

[Countdown_3_2_1]

29. The Dangerous thing about Newt is he is a good speaker.

This does not mean he is competent to lead, just that he projects a specific image.
That and his infidelity is old news. Everyone knows already.

Bottom line: Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. No mater what we will need to work for what we want.