Now its Gingrich turn

[Johnnybags]

Gingrich wants $30 million to run


Freddy T is sounding like a death prattle so the desperate Repubs look to Newt? Who is next, Homer Simpson?

 

[Dustancostine]

Where is he going to get it?

Maybe the Fed can print it up for him.

 

[ne1buthilary]

how much did deathbed fred raise in his "testing the waters" period?

 

[davidhperry]

Gingrich wants $30 million to run

Where are you hearing this?

 

[ne1buthilary]

front page of yahoo.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_po/gingrich2008

i also just saw it on cnn i believe

 

[Green Mountain Boy]

God help us

 

[devil21]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_po/gingrich2008

 

[Slugg]

Gingrich wants $30 million to run


Freddy T is sounding like a death prattle so the desperate Repubs look to Newt? Who is next, Homer Simpson?

I view it as a good sign. It shows desperation and confusion in the Republican party. To me, that's the signs of change. If it's for the better or not remains to be seen.

 

[JMann]

Newt is no Ron Paul but he is choice two for me.

 

[angelatc]

This reminds me of Oral Roberts, the preacher that said if he didn't get 8 million in donations, then God was going to take him home.

He was coming up short of the day of reckoning, then some darned fool up and donated the shortage.

 

[ctb619]

Newt is no Ron Paul but he is choice two for me.

you must be joking

 

[Zydeco]

Newt is just more CFR trash. Slugg is right, this is a sign that the establishment is very, very worried.

 

[JMann]

you must be joking

Nope. There is no one even close to Paul but Newt is a least a very smart person with a firm grasp of history. There is no Democrat that I would vote for for president as I do not want to become a slave to the state and every other Republican in the race doesn't seem to have an original thought.

The LP will probably put up an unqualified candidate in the mold of Brown and Badnarik. For some reason the LP can not get someone that has actually held a significant office and will turn 33% of US population that like libertarianism into less than 1% of the vote.

 

[ctb619]

Newt Gingrich supports military interventionism and the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of the war on terrorism. He has some great rhetoric about limited government, but when it came time to put up or shut up as speaker of the house he compromised his principles. I will not vote for the lesser of two evils.

 

[Elwar]

One poll (ya, I know..) I saw a while ago had all of the candidates and Ron Paul had a decent showing in one of the side polls...then they threw Gingrich into the mix and that decent showing went away.

I think it was along the lines of, of the Independents 8% were for Ron Paul...but when they threw Gingrich into the mix that 8% went down to 1-2%.

Gingrich was the only candidate that hurt his percentage when thrown in.

Sure it's just a poll, but a lot of people probably see Gingrich as the guy who gave us the Contract with America, which was pre-neocon days.

 

[LibertyEagle]

This reminds me of Oral Roberts, the preacher that said if he didn't get 8 million in donations, then God was going to take him home.

He was coming up short of the day of reckoning, then some darned fool up and donated the shortage.

Yeah, but when he did, he recommended Oral use part of the money to seek professional help.

Do you remember all the bumper stickers around that time?

"Send Oral to heaven in '87", wasn't it? I hope I got the year right.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Sure it's just a poll, but a lot of people probably see Gingrich as the guy who gave us the Contract with America, which was pre-neocon days.

Yeah, and I don't get why they would still like him. He lied about the contract. He IS a liar. Why would anyone trust him again? He is the consummate insider.

 

[kalami]

30m in a month and a half? What the hell is going on? Clinton, who is cleaning house in fund raising, just makes over that in 3 months.

 

[paulitics]

gingrich would secure a win for Guiliani.

 

[DjLoTi]

whats the infatuation with newt? I've always seen him to be a shady, tricky tool. people really fall for it.

this stunt is no different. he's not gonna raise 30 mil. lol. what, he's giving it like a month? yeah, ok. what a tool