Posted on 05/18/2010 6:37:58 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
80% OBAMA LOSES -- GOP COULD GAIN 70 HOUSE SEATS- LIKELY RUN IN '12
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gives President Barack Obama only a 20 percent chance of being reelected — and says he might be the one to give Obama the boot.
Gingrich, who this week published a book called “To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine,” said he thinks Obama has “about one chance in five of getting reelected.” and called him “the closest thing to Jimmy Carter I’ve seen.”
“Because he’s so radical, you’re now going to have, I think, the most consequential campaign since 1932,” when Franklin D. Roosevelt clobbered President Herbert Hoover, Gingrich said.
Giving predictions for November’s midterms, Gingrich said House Republicans will pick up “somewhere between 40 and 65 or 70 seats” — enough to gain control of the House. “I believe John Boehner will be speaker in January,” he said.
Gingrich said he even sees a chance of Republican control of the Senate. “If they can beat Barbara Boxer [in California], I think that [Mitch] McConnell is going to be the Senate majority leader.”
The former speaker said there is “more of a possibility now” that he’ll run for president than when he was considering the idea ahead of the 2008 election. He said he’ll decide in February or March of next year and will base the decision partly on whether there is “a potential to raise the resources to be a serious, major candidate.”
Gingrich said he and his wife will base the decision on two top factors: “Is the case for basic change clear enough, and powerful enough, that articulating it and carrying it is a legitimate part of my role as a citizen?” and “Is there a potential to raise the resources to be a serious, major candidate.”
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The holding hands with Pelosi and Hillary ain’t gonna bode well for his campaign.
Given Obama’s record, I’d vote for Newt in a minute; morals and all.
Newt, just stay a commentator. If you can’t tell, people don’t like the old guard establishment any more.
The RINO King...
Compared to what we have now Newt looks pretty good!
You're not getting a second chance.
I’d vote for Newt and expect another G.W. Bush.
He is a flip flopper, we need new blood not someone who will spend a majority of his time trying to be liked.
We need to retake Congress in November, impeach Obama and then try him for treason.
I don’t like Gingrich, but you have a point.
We can say what we want about Newt for now, but the man is a Historian and he understands what it means to BE an American.
I am not for or against...I’m just saying.
ditto.
you can’t trust neutered-by-the-clintons;
he agreed with rush’s feb 2009 comment that obama should fail,
but then reversed himself and apologized to the dems.
At this point in our history, I’d vote for Babe the Pig if he could beat Obama.
Sorry, Newt.
Another RINO in the White House would mean four more years of quasi-democratic rule, and we had our fill of that with the Bushes.
Thanks, but no thanks.
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