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David Corn writes: "The other day an associate of Newt Gingrich surprised me: He told me there's a 97 percent chance that Gingrich will run for president in 2012. Really? I replied, with a laugh. Yes, he said seriously."

Newt Gingrich on 'Meet the Press,' 03/08/09. (photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

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+14 # Guest 2010-07-30 22:16

I have long likened Gingrich to a crew member on a ship who sneaks around tossing wrenches into the gears, then when he ship breaks down, raises hell about the running of the ship--and when it pulls into port, races to the company headquarters to report and complain about how bad the captain and crew were. I certainly hope his sorry record of deeds is brought out in to view this next cycle in his life. I wish him the worst! He certainly deserves it!

+5 # Guest 2010-07-30 23:21

If Newt Gingrich isn't an ELITE then I don't know who is!

+12 # silesian99 2010-07-30 23:42

Camus, National Security, and Afghanistan? Hahahahahhaha.

Gingrich himself could poll every single man, woman, and child in Afghanistan and fail to discover a single "idea," let alone one that "threatens" anybody farther away than the guy next door, save for one: "pinhead Republican d**chebag, get the f**k out of my face."

Ideas? In Afghanistan or North Korea, that threaten the United States? Like, "I'd like to someday own a pair of shoes" or "It's good to have meat at least once a year, if possible" ????

Gingrich actually passes for an intellectual in Georgia and in Republican circles, which is why that side of the aisle is so keen on killing education, whence real ideas actually sometimes come.

+6 # Guest 2010-07-31 01:22

Alas it's not a laughing matter in an electorate in which the wells of ill-will run deep enough to elect Richard Nixon, and (twice) Ronald Reagan, and (close enough for some ballot rigging to finish the job - also twice) George W Bush.

+4 # Guest 2010-07-31 03:27

The curious thing about Newt is that there seems to be an adequate supply of funding to keep him in the public eye, he is interviewed on every issue as if his opinions were really important, never misses a Sunday am opportunity and none of this super publicity comes with a free ride. His opinions change with shich ever way the wind is blowing. I wonder if he current wife ever worries about getting sick....

+7 # Guest 2010-07-31 04:25

Glad the article included Newt's extra marital affair while he was witch hunting Clinton. At the time, we also found out he had pressured his first wife to have an abortion so he could marry the next wife.

His - and many Republican's - new attack on internal threats (the comments that we "willfully blind to the nature of our enemies and the forces which threaten America." is an example of depravity. When UK born Islamist extremists became a serious threat, American Muslims said they felt more included in American society unlike the British us vs them culture. If Gingrich and other unethical Republicans, despierate for votes against a very fine moderate president, start terrifying voters and turning them against American Muslims, we destroy trust and communications among the millions of citizens who are Muslim and love our country.

+8 # Guest 2010-07-31 05:50

In my opinion, it was Newt's Contract with America which really launched the bitter divide in Congress which has escalated in the following years. He is a cancer best cut out for our survival. It galls me to see so many stations interview him as a pundit. What do Karl and Ed think about him?

+5 # Guest 2010-07-31 06:24

Newt's mother had a vision and named him accordingly...after a slimy bottom feeder that creeps through the darkest, dampest places in order to feed.

+4 # Guest 2010-07-31 06:27

Gingrich, as ruthless and cunning as he is, is still the same clown he was in the 90s. I hope he does get the Repugnican nomination in 2012 with Caribou Barbie as his running mate or Michele Bachmann as his running mate. Then he'll get the drooler's vote, but no one else's.

+2 # Guest 2010-07-31 11:43

With Newt on board, the enemy need not fear. If he is the best the GOP can offer, than even Obama might have a chance to win again. Newt is the type of bully that picks on women when they are on their death bed dying of cancer.

But he is proof that half of the US population is brain-damaged. They fear the future or whatever the newt (slimy lizard) tells them.

I don't even think the republicans like him.

+2 # Guest 2010-07-31 14:59

Newt gives amphibians a bad name.

+1 # Guest 2010-07-31 19:43

The idea of Newt running in 2012....HAHAHAHAHA!!!! What a total pissant he is! The Rethugliecons seem intent on outdoing themselves time and time again. Yes, let him run with Caribou Barbie and damn us all if he wins. It would be a cosmic joke beyond reckoning if he did run and then won.

+1 # Guest 2010-08-01 20:23

I'd like to see Tom Tancredo as his running mate.

0 # jptrujillo 2010-08-05 10:26

Hope he runs in 2012, making it much less complicated for Obama to be reelected. He's like a comedian who's hire for a goof laugh.

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