Christopher Orr highlights the best part of Newt Gingrich’s Fox News interview from yesterday.
CHRIS WALLACE: You’ve been flirting with the idea of running for president for months. And this week you said you want to see if you can get pledges of $30 million before deciding. How is that going to work?
NEWT GINGRICH: ….Next Monday, Randy Evans, who’s been my friend and adviser for many, many years, will hold a press briefing. Randy will spend the next three weeks checking with people around the country. If he reports back that, in fact, we think the resources are there for a real race…. then close to that we’ll face a very big decision in late October. If there aren’t enough resources, I’m not for doing unrealistic things.
WALLACE: But why even go through it unless, if you get the money, you’d run?
GINGRICH: I think the odds are very high, if we ended up with that level of pledges, we’d — I don’t see as a citizen how you could turn that down.
WALLACE: So you’d run.
GINGRICH: I think you’d be compelled to.
People say Hillary would fare poorly in a general election because she would energize Republicans. Newt Gingrich would do the same to Democrats, except times a thousand. So everyone get out your checkbooks and start mailing money to this Randy Evans fellow. Or just use newt.org. Winning the future!
