"If, in mid-October, it's quite clear that one or more of the current
candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton-Obama
ticket, you don't need me to run," the former House Speaker said at a breakfast
sponsored by the American Spectator. "If it becomes patently obvious, as the
morning paper points out, that the Democrats have raised a hundred million more
than the Republicans, and at some point people decide we are going to get
Hillary unless there's a radical change, then there's space for a candidate," he
added. "So you'll know by mid-October one of those two futures is
real."
Asked by The Examiner if he was prepared to commit to a run, Gingrich said,
"I'm perfectly happy to do what I do," he said. "Whether that leads to the
presidency is the country's problem, not mine. ...
Pressed by The Examiner about whether his political baggage renders him
unelectable, Gingrich compared himself to a famous French statesman. "This is
like going to De Gaulle when he was at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises during the
Fourth Republic and saying, 'Don't you want to rush in and join the pygmies?'"
he said.
Somebody he'p me, what the heck is Newt talking about?
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