Newt Gingrich to announce 2012 run on Wednesday
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., speaks as his wife Callista looks on during a meeting with Gov. Nathan Deal in the Governor's office Thursday March 3, 2011 in Atlanta.
/ AP Photo/John BazemoreFormer House speaker Newt Gingrich will announce on Wednesday that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, a spokesman told CBS News.
Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler said Gingrich will announce the decision on Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday, and will sit down for an interview with conservative Fox News pundit Sean Hannity on Wednesday night. He plans to make his "first announcement speech" at the Georgia Republican Party convention on Friday.
This is actually the second time Gingrich has signaled he would enter the race, having suggested he would announce a run in March before backing away amid concerns about addressing financial and legal entanglements before filing with the Federal Election Commission.
The then-Georgia congressman became a household name when he led the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, though he would step down amid criticism four years later. In the years since he has cast himself as a thought leader in the Republican Party, and has recently been raising money and laying the groundwork for a presidential run.
Gingrich will enter a wide-open Republican field in which he is one of only five potential candidates who has polled in the double digits. The others are Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney; only Romney is seen as a sure entrant into the race.
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In fact, the Cons must be Communists since they want massive redistribution of the wealth. To the few at the top.
Whatever a guy does with his hormones is his own business
until
he tries to pass himself off as something he is not
Chances are that would go for things besides hormones as well.
Is that all you libs have? some affair and divorce a decade ago? please tell me you have more than "he got a divorce"
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Well, ok, someone who had extramarital affairs during TWO of his marriages might be a bit of a problem for the family values party. But no, that's not all we've got. How about that he led a shutdown of the government? How about that he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations? How about that his own party drummed him out of the speakership? Is that enough for you?
He's a loser whose radical conservative ideology is so far right it's scary. If foul, dirty politics is what you are into, then Newt's your guy.
At that time, his own party described him as a fire-breathing bomb thrower, more interested in right-wing grandstanding than in fostering bi-partisanship&.
Gingrich is about as unlikable as a candidate can get. It's amusing that some still see him as a sane, credible visionary, but he comes across as an arrogant, obnoxious pseudo-intellectual who thinks he has the answer to everything.
His dangerous exaggerations and fear-mongering are disgusting. It seems he's always trying to "out-boogie-man" the next guy ... who can tell the biggest falsehood to get the crowd into a frenzy.
Newt has made an art of "spreading fear" and telling outright lies if it will garner support. Most of his followers are the types that refuse to fact-check and will take everything at face value, without question. Being the authoritarian that he is, Newt would have a field day with the weak-minded who won't or can't do their own research. It's scary to think of him being in charge of anything.
It would definitely put the voters in a mental conundrum!
The epidemic of divorce even among Christians threatens Christ's church.
The Bible is very clear about divorce. "What God has joined together let no man try to separate"
Four times..in each of the Gospels Christ stated clearly his opposition to divorce. There are more clear references in the Bible to divorce than to abortion or homosexuality.
Electing a man who has been divorced 2 times and broken God's commandments 2 times is unacceptable. Electing a man who now lives in an adulterous state is unacceptable.
In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left his first wife after having an affair with Marianne Ginther.
In the mid-1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer
Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior. They continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal when Gingrich was a leader of the Republican investigation of President Clinton for perjury in connection with his alleged affairs with Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky.
A man with a history of hypocrisy and infidelity cannot be the leader of the free world. Even Obama is a better family example than Gingrich.
If ever there was an INSIDER trying to run for office, the TEA PARTY has a tatoo for Newt's forehead. Just look at the record for the government money and contracts money NEWT poured into his own district to have had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation when he rose to Speaker...bet that is not the solution he would promote to the rest of America.
Go for it, NEWT. Your contract with America never got off the ground and selling the same shoes all over again would be wonderful to hear how you re-package your message of do nothing.
LOL!!!!! The healthcare bill that we have right now is a COMBO of what Romney passed as Governor and what the Repubs were peddling in 1994!!!! They called it "The Healthcare Mandate" back then, but was WAAAAY more Socialist than what we have now.
Run Newt Run!!!!!
Ask most Republicans today and I'll bet they still think he's an untrustworthy, obnoxious bag of hot air.