Because he toyed with the media about running for President four years ago, there has been a lot of deserved skepticism about how serious Newt Gingrich is about running for the Republican nomination for President in 2012 – and he didn’t really clarify the issue this weekend.
There’s no doubt that the 67 year old would like to be President – but it costs a lot of money and energy to put in a full fledged effort, and the possibility that he would be a viable candidate to defeat Barack Obama, based on his extensive baggage, both on a political and personal scale, remains a large question mark.
But it was Gingrich’s responses to two questions posed by Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace that exposed him as being unprepared to be a credible candidate.
The first was on the obvious: How Gingrich, like so many of his conservative brethren, suffers from such a visceral disdain for Barack Obama and his policies that it obscures his own real feelings on any public policy issue. Translated? If Obama is for it, you’ve gotta be against it.
On the biggest story in the world right now, the U.S. and its Europeans (and Arab) allies engaged in Libya, Gingrich literally was for the U.S. creating a no-fly zone before he was against it, forcing him on Sunday to give a tortured explanation for his obvious contradiction in his opinion (not the first time for Newt , just the latest and most baldly explicit).
Despite his skills, Fox News Sunday interview exposes why Newt Gingrich won’t be a serious nominee for President (video) | Daily Loaf
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