The news story:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday he’d seriously consider running for president in 2012.
With the mantle of the Republican Party still unclaimed, Gingrich told reporters in Ashland, Va., before a speech to Randolph-Macon College that he and his family would examine the political environment in early 2011, and “look seriously at whether or not we think it’s necessary to do it.”
“And if we think it’s necessary we’ll probably do it. And if it isn’t necessary we probably won’t do it,” he said, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Certainly, Gingrich is one of the most intelligent men in American politics, but I think his negatives are waaaay too high for him to actually win, should he secure the nomination. On the other hand, he’d swiftly raise the level of debate in the GOP primary were he to run, even if he didn’t get the nomination. And if Obama is riding high in 2012 (highly unlikely), then a Gingrich campaign would shred Obama, even if Obama won in the end – nothing like having a real intellect take on a phony like Obama.
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