{"id":13056,"date":"2007-09-29T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13056.html"},"modified":"2007-09-29T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:10:02","slug":"gingrich-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/gingrich-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Newt Gingrich <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2007\/09\/28\/gingrich-edges-closer-to-run\/\">told supporters<\/a> that if &#8220;they pledge at least $30 million to his campaign over a three-week period starting Monday and ending Oct. 21, he will compete for the nomination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the effort is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070929\/ap_on_el_pr\/gingrich2008\">over before it begins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Newt is not running,&#8221; spokesman Rick Tyler said. &#8220;It is legally impermissible for him to continue on as chairman of American Solutions (for Winning the Future) and to explore a campaign for president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich decided &#8220;to continue on raising the challenges America faces and finding solutions to those challenges&#8221; as the group&#8217;s chairman, Tyler said, &#8220;rather than pursuing the presidency.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gingrich must not have had too much confidence in his chances; he&#8217;s ending a likely presidential campaign to stay on as chairman of a non-profit that no one&#8217;s ever heard of. (American Solutions is, apparently, a lucrative gig.)<\/p>\n<p>As for the GOP presidential field, Republicans hoping for a credible, compelling presidential candidate, who can swoop in and save the party from electoral ruin are just about out of time. Fred Thompson was supposed to be that guy, but he&#8217;s proven to be a surprisingly awful candidate &#8212; prompting the party faithful to give Gingrich a look.<\/p>\n<p>So much for that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Newt Gingrich told supporters that if &#8220;they pledge at least $30 million to his campaign over a three-week period starting Monday and ending Oct. 21, he will compete for the nomination.&#8221; Today, the effort is over before it begins. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}