{"id":3491,"date":"2007-09-29T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/gingrich-will-not-be-running-f.html"},"modified":"2007-09-29T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T16:10:00","slug":"gingrich-will-not-be-running-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/gingrich-will-not-be-running-f.html","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich will not be running for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised.  When I read<a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/blog\/g\/cb34a516-358d-48b6-ba32-89c68ff61630\"> this post<\/a> by Patrick Ruffini predicating that Gingrich was in, I was skeptical.  I figured he set the $30 million figure high so that he wouldn&#8217;t make it.  He doesn&#8217;t strike me as someone who actually wants to run for president, he seems like he just wants to be president.  I was going to blog about this earlier this morning and got distracted, now I wish I had because I would have looked pretty prescient, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two days after hinting he wanted to try for the White House, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decided he would not run for president, his spokesman said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> Rick Tyler said Gingrich realized he couldn&#8217;t run a political action committee &#8212; his American Solutions group &#8212; and form an exploratory committee to run for president as well.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;He will continue to bring the American people solutions to the challenges America faces through American Solutions, not as a candidate for president,&#8221; Tyler said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/09\/29\/gingrich\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Update<\/span>: Apparently, Gingrich was the <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/09\/29\/387278.aspx\">victim of McCain-Feingold<\/a>.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2007\/09\/29\/no-newt-for-prez\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised. When I read this post by Patrick Ruffini predicating that Gingrich was in, I was skeptical. I figured he set the $30 million figure high so that he wouldn&#8217;t make it. 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