Gingrich wants to campaign for God instead, because suddenly, he's righteous.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he can't be bothered with campaigning for the presidency right now, because he's on a mission to save American civilization from the gravest crisis it has faced since the Civil War.
Moreover, he told the New York Times that he's seeking nothing less than to restore God to a central place in American government and culture and is putting aside running for president for the time being.
That however, does not mean that he's ruling out a run for the White House in 2008 -- it's a just that it will have to wait while he concentrates on his mission. Gingrich says he thinks politics is a distraction from what he insists are mortal challenges facing the United States.
"Taken together, the challenges we face are greater than any since 1861,� Gingrich told the Times. "No party, no movement has a grip on the scale of the changes we need to make to survive as a civilization. The most important slogan for the next quarter-century is �Real change requires real change.� �
According to the Times, Gingrich's mission includes creating a new political action committee (PAC) to try to identify the changes America must make to survive, an effort he added, that would be 50 times as ambitious as the PAC he used in the 1980s and 1990s to train hundreds of Republican politicians and build a personal fund-raising domain. He promises his new effort will be a 10-point Contract With America for the 21st century, which includes Social Security privatization, electoral reform, radical streamlining of government, and "patriotic education� for schoolchildren and immigrants.
It calls for a re-entry to America of the "creator from whom all our liberties come� and the appointing of judges who understand "the centrality of God in American history.� He told the Times the new PAC, the American Solutions for Winning the Future, will be organized as a 527 group, named for a section of the tax code that allows for raising and spending unlimited money with minimal disclosure. He said he hoped to raise tens of millions of dollars through the committee to find bipartisan solutions to the nation�s problems. He added that any candidate of any party who wants to join in the effort would be welcome.
As for his presidential ambitions, Gingrich explained to the Times that he would not make a decision before September. He acknowledged that September is late to begin a serious presidential run in the current system, but noted that John F. Kennedy did not declare his candidacy until January 1960 and that Ronald Reagan entered the 1980 race in November 1979.
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Yet another person, who porked his secretary while his wife was on her deathbed, and got busted for ethics violations decides that he has found God. They ain't the needle in the haystack. They are the haystack.