Will Newt Endorse Fred?
Written by Nate on June 30th, 2007Robert Novak has a column in Human Events that seems to indicate he might just do that. Newt has said he would make a decision in September on whether he would run for the nomination and that decision would hinge on if there was a true conservative leader running that he could support. Fred Thompson seems to be the man Newt has been waiting for.
Newt Gingrich is telling Republican insiders that his decision in September whether to run for president in 2008 depends on the progress of Fred Thompson’s imminent candidacy.
If Thompson runs a vigorous and effective campaign, Gingrich says privately, he probably will not get in the race himself. If Thompson proves a dud, however, the former House speaker will seriously consider making a run. That implies that the others in the field look to Gingrich like losers in the general election.
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“Fred Thompson seems to be the man Newt has been waiting for”
Please… Newt is probably pissed off that Thompson stole any chance that he had to run by stealing his story line: Candidate (of ideas not politics) comes out of nowhere to save the day
Now Newt will just try to jump on the winning bandwagon
On the bright side for Newt: If his new wife gets sick he can leave her and marry some new 20 yr old staffer without any political reprecussions
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Surely, one cannot lead by walking away from the calling of our time. We have many of conservatives who are too lazy to take on the defeatists on the War. So these conservatives have taken to bashing other Republicans for the time being.
Hey Newt, that doesn’t sound like a plan to win the future to me.
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Joe . . . what? When the GOP establishment gets its head out of its ass and actually starts fighting the war, then we can talk, until then it is all just hot air. Most conservatives I know are angry with the GOP right now because of the war (in both Iraq and Afghanistan) and how it has been FUBAR for a long time now.