Gingrich To Launch His Own Presidential Draft Web Site
Newt Gingrich is poised to enter the presidential contest on Monday with an interesting device: A self-made draft site.
The site will ask people to pledge money for his campaign if he were to run, and will lay out his ideas for the country.
And if he does officially declare, Gingrich will campaign in an unorthodox way, too. He'll skip the group debates, considering them to be useless pageants, and will instead challenge the others to one-on-one dialogues. Instead of sound-bite TV advertising, he'll mail DVD's to voters in the early primary/caucus states, in which he'll present his views to them in a lengthier format and ask for their support.
So is this for real? Gingrich is not actually forming an exploratory or "testing the waters" committee, so he can't directly fundraise — thus the pledge drive. Will this snowball into something bigger with GOP activists uncomfortable with their current choices?
Now if he can just come up with that 30 million.
September 28, 2007 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Democrats should totally "pledge" to support Newt in this race. It will only help get more Democrats elected if Gingrich joins in.
September 28, 2007 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, brilliant idea Kiva. I need to go pledge to max out for Newt!
September 28, 2007 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha!! When's Newt's book coming out: "If I Ran"??
September 28, 2007 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kiva is so right. Nothing would be better than Newt running. Think I'll head on over there and pledge $27.5 million-- $30m would just look too suspicious.
September 28, 2007 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
This will sink everyone not currently in the top tier and probably Fred Thompson as well.
Will wins in Iowa and New Hampshire carry Romney to the nomination, or is a big state strategy now possible that helps Giuliani?
September 28, 2007 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would like to help Newt with a negative amount. How much postage does he pay on a business reply envelope?
September 28, 2007 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go Newtie! You're the man America needs right now, and nobody knows that better than you. The only question left is how big a check I should write. I haven't quite decided on that yet.
Hey, why don't you just tell us how much the ex-wives are chipping in, and I'll use that as a baseline, m'kay?
September 28, 2007 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd put my personal contribution for The Evil Newt in the mail, but I just raked out the litter box yesterday and I am short of Republican Love to send him.
September 28, 2007 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every $ pledged to Newt is a $ less going to other GOP candidates (at least until this plays out, which could be some months). So it appears to me that this tactic is helpful to the Dems.
September 28, 2007 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a disingenuous gasbag. As Adlai Stevenson said, "Have you no decency, sir?"
September 29, 2007 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gingrich isn't going to run. He is just grandstanding. There is no surge of excitment that surrounding him like the Barack Obama candidacy. There is no urge for him to run like Fred Thompson. He has no staff, no field volunteers, no organization, no campaign fundraisers etc. etc. Now he stating he needs to raise $30 million dollars in three weeks. Mitt Romney is the best fundraiser for the Republicans and the most he has raised in the a quarter is around $20 million. Gingrich has to raise something like $1.2 million a day, with no fundraising appartus. He comes across as an idiot when he makes these predictions. All Republican Candidates are getting beaten handily in the fundraising by Hillary and especially Barack, who is raising in a quarter what the top Republicans haven't raised during their candidacy.
Gingrich is doing this for attention. He isn't running.
September 29, 2007 1:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Newt should get lots and lots of pledges, but then similar to the republican pledges let's just let him hang and figure out that a pledge isn't a done deal. Hell I would give a million dollars to Newt if he would let me have a no bid contract for something, damn two million I feel that strongly that Newt is uncorruptable or stupid whichever comes first. Make that delusional, he has the ability to form coherent sentences so at least he is a step up from the current doofus.
September 29, 2007 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Seriously, folks, LET'S ALL GO PLEDGE when this site opens {"by Monday" I think the original article said}.
September 29, 2007 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Newt is just hopelessly in love with the sound of his own voice.
October 1, 2007 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hail!
What do you think about love? >:)
October 9, 2007 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink