Gingrich Hijacks 'Straight Talk Express'


Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM  
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With John McCain busy sucking up to the GOP base, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is sounding an awful lot like the maverick McCain appeared to be in 1999.

Speaking to a medical convention in Washington, D.C., yesterday, Gingrich repeated an earlier promise to decide in October whether he'll run for president in '08. "If someone has sealed off the nomination by then, I'll relax," he said. If not, "I'll probably run."

The current system of candidates declaring almost two years before the election is "nuts," he said.