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Newt Gingrich Confirms Dinner With Fred Thompson
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ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich R-Ga., confirmed that he and his wife Calista recently had dinner with Republican presidential-candidate-in-waiting Fred Thompson and his wife Jeri.
"Yes, we had a very nice dinner with Jerri and Fred…," Gingrich said Sunday in an interview on Fox News.
Gingrich did not answer a question about whether he would endorse Thompson if and when the former Tennessee senator enters the race, but said he believes Thompson will be "a very formidable candidate" in a Republican presidential field that features several strong candidates.
"I think Republicans have three major choices in Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson," Gingrich said.
Asked why he did not include John McCain -- who ranks second in most national polls of Republican presidential hopefuls -- in his list of viable GOP candidates, Gingrich alluded to Republicans' anger with John McCain over a host of issues.
"I think Senator McCain has taken positions so deeply at odds with his party's base, that I don't see how he can get the nomination, " Gingrich said.
Gingrich also said he expects to see a Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama ticket on the Democratic side, but that he thinks a Republican will defeat the Democrats.
As for his own '08 intentions, the former speaker offered only a small sign.
"If in fact, after we're done with our workshops in American Solutions in September, if there is a vacuum and if there's a real need for somebody to be prepared to debate Senator Clinton, then I will consider running. And I think we'll know that in October."
July 29, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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Gingrich is polling 5-7%. That's not much, but if he endorses Thompson, Thompson will get a few more votes in the primaries. Both are strongly against the Amnesty program that McCain and Giuliani and Brownback would try to put through. And both are for enforcement of existing immigration laws. That's certainly good.
But Gingrich has some terrible character issues working against him. If Thompson would put Gingirch on his ticket in the VP slot (as many are suggesting), that would likely cost Thompson a lot of votes in the general election.
There are several other candidates running that have issue positions close to Thompson's and that likely would be far more acceptable in the VP slot to most voters than Gingrich -- for example, Hunter, Huckabee, Paul.
Posted by: Jhopolong | Jul 29, 2007 4:52:51 PM
Speaking of Fred Thompson, of the one's spinning political rhetoric, why hasn't anyone mentioned the ethics of Thompson taking $370,000 with him when he left office and then promptly paying the largest part of it to a consulting company owned by his son? I know it was campaign contribution money, and his to do with as he saw fit, but, I think if I were a candidate for a political office and needed the advice of a consulting firm, I certainly would have looked for another avenue that would have avoided even the possibility of a possible unethical impropriety.
Posted by: GC | Jul 30, 2007 9:50:09 AM
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