# Newt Gingrich to run for president - has he got a snowball's chance? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 9, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290 "2011-05-09T16:28:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/101 "2011-05-20T00:22:00Z")
[Newt doubles down on the bullshit again](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/05/newt-gingrich-medicare-paul-ryan-/1): > [@](#): > > GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told Rush Limbaugh on Thursday that he wasn’t referring to Rep. Paul Ryan when referred to “right-wing social engineering” during a much-criticized appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press… ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/102 "2011-05-20T01:01:23Z")
Well, that’s a big, fat lie. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/103 "2011-05-20T04:04:09Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Well, he may have stumbled a little out of the gate, but he still has plenty of time to get his game on. Describing Newt’s past week as “hav[ing] stumbled a little” is like the MP&HG Black Knight’s describing his loss of limbs as “just a flesh wound.” > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Heh. The sad thing is that he probably thinks he’s invoking that sort of heroic image. Black Knight: “I’m invincible!” King Arthur: “You’re a loony.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/104 "2011-05-20T04:08:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Rick Tyler > The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces. Colbert had John Lithgow come on the show tonight and perform this as a dramatic reading. Pretty damn funny. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/105 "2011-05-20T04:28:52Z")
In completely hilarity-related news, please please oh PLEASE great lord of bacon tell me that it’s true that Newt’s ringtone is [Dancing Queen?](http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-newt-gingrich-dancing-queen-20110519,0,7453968.story) ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/106 "2011-05-20T14:05:53Z")
All you naysayers obviously don’t understand the mass grass-roots appeal that Newt Gingrich possesses. Just look at his April 2011 fundraising effort. His PAC took in a whopping $1,040 for the month. That’s right – over $34 a day! Think of the number of first class stamps that can purchase! [http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/newt\_gingrichs\_former\_pac\_took\_in\_just\_34\_per\_day\_in\_april.php](http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/newt_gingrichs_former_pac_took_in_just_34_per_day_in_april.php) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/107 "2011-05-20T16:36:33Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > All you naysayers obviously don’t understand the mass grass-roots appeal that Newt Gingrich possesses. Just look at his April 2011 fundraising effort. His PAC took in a whopping $1,040 for the month. That’s right – over $34 a day! Think of the number of first class stamps that can purchase! He is just demonstrating that he is not beholden to moneyed interests! I think Obama got that much from the left arm of one of the guests at his last fundraiser. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/108 "2011-05-20T16:38:08Z")
I would bid more than that for Zsa Zsa’s amputated leg on eBay. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290/109 "2011-05-20T16:42:49Z")
That almost reads like an Onion article… How can the PAC afford to even hire a spokesman to make the statements about the fundraising, at that rate? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrich-to-run-for-president-has-he-got-a-snowballs-chance/581290.md?page=5)