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DEL.ICIO.USA ‘middle-class’ Gingrich says the door is still wide open
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If Newt Gingrich runs for president, it will be as a middle-class shlub just like you.
As part of his “American Solutions” weekend, Gingrich is spending this entire day at the Cobb Galleria convention center. This morning, he spent a half-hour with Neal Boortz — the radio talk show was on site.
Gingrich spoke of his need to know if there’s $30 million out there for him, before he decides to run for president.
“If you’re middle class and you can’t have that level of resources when you go in, then you don’t stand a chance against governor [Mitt] Romney, who can can write a $100 million check personally,” Gingrich said.
But he admitted he still considers the gap in the Republican field to be unusually wide.
“I really thought that by the time we had the workshops at the end of September, that the space would be filled up. I frankly thought this would not be an open question,” he said. “Everywhere I go, people walk up and say we need someone who can debate Senator [Hillary] Clinton, we need somebody who can make the case for conservative values. So I think there is a bigger vacuum than I would have expected.”
About 50 people saw the morning episode with Boortz, including one fellow who was quickly ousted after shouting, “How much did you get for your soul?”
And after signing several autographs, Gingrich posed with Vonnell Whitaker, a local Hillary Clinton lookalike.
“You may have a long career,” he told her.
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