Robert Novak reported today that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich suggested to former Senator Fred Thompson that he announce his candidacy using video.
Gingrich reportedly said that he will not seek the nomination if Thompson enters the race. The former speaker has said in the past that he did not wish to be one of many candidates perched for a debate. He has also said in the past that he would only run if no other candidate was running away with it.
Thompson is expected to appear at the September 27 Republican presidential debate. In June, Paul Curtis noted an Associated Press report that suggested Gingrich would file the necessary paperwork for an exploratory committee on September 30 and decide to enter the race by November 6.
It is easy to argue that no candidate in the Republican field is emerging as the clear choice of Republicans. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The GOP base is so confused and dissatisfied with their range of choices that the presumptive front runner status hat has been on three, nearly four different candidates since January.
It started with John McCain as the presumptive front-runner but his stance on immigration hurt him to the point of irrelevancy. Rudy Giuliani then assumed front-runner status until a recent barrage of damaging news about previous appointees and his phony credentials as a credible counter-terrorism nominee. This summer, Thompson flirted with a candidacy that really showed GOP dissatisfaction as he shot up in the polls. He has since waited forever to enter the race that it was a missed opportunity to capitalize on this mountain of support that Mitt Romney moved into front-runner status in recent weeks.
4 Responses to “Novak: Gingrich Advises FDT to Announce via Video”
matt’s love letters to Rudy Giuliani on this site are so ridiculous that I’m starting to believe matt might be Rudy himself.
romney leads in iowa and NH, rudy leads in SC and florida, the latter being far better due to haveing far more delegates and being held much closer to super tuesday, where rudy has gigantic leads in every top delegate state from california to new york.
despite spending as much money and organization in SC as he as in iowa and NH, romney remains in low single digits, unable to compete with giuliani, who also leads romney by double digits in florida, which has more delegates then all the early states combined.
try as you might orteeeega, your ilk simply cannot stop rudy.
and noah, im starting to believe you’re the real noah, because your rambling posts sound as if they were written by a babbling drunk.
Something to say?
orteeeega slips in more rudy smears, saying rudy was the front-runner until recently ?!?!?! well orteeega you should head over to realclearpolitics and check the polls again, because rudy’s support is in double digits over his closest competitor. thompson has zero chance to mobolize and fundraise at rudy’s level, mccain has flamed out, and romney cannot compete in the big states. deal with it orteeeega, you and your silly ilk are banking on hillary, the candidate with the biggest negatives in political history, to beat america’s mayor.
nice ‘phony credentials’ line you slipped in too. it must really eat at you that your top tier has zero executive experience, zero military and foreign politicy experience, zero leadership-of-any-king experiecne. no wonder you cry so much at the site of rudy’s double digit leads and incredible favorable ratings.
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August 26, 2007 at 11:25pm