Gingrich Predicts Clinton-Obama Ticket

[The_Professor]

Gingrich Predicts Clinton-Obama Ticket
 
Jul 29, 11:17 AM (ET)

 
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats will nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton for president in 2008 and Barack Obama will be her running mate, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicts.

The GOP will have three "formidable" choices in Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson, said Gingrich, who is considering whether to get into the race.

Gingrich is ruling out John McCain's chances among the Republican contenders.

The Arizona senator "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 Sunday in a broadcast interview.

 
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Gingrich said he had dinner recently with Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and actor who has set up a political committee that allows him to raise money for a presidential bid. An official launch is likely in September, after the Labor Day holiday.

Gingrich said he expects Thompson will enter what is shaping up as a competitive race for the GOP nomination against Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, and Giuliani, a former New York City mayor.

"I think that either Mayor Giuliani or Governor Romney or Senator Thompson would be a very formidable opponent for what I expect will be a Clinton-Obama ticket, and I think that there's a possibility that will work," Gingrich said.

In the fall, Gingrich might decide to jump in, depending on how the Republican candidates are faring against Clinton, the New York senator.

"If there is a vacuum and if there's a real need for somebody to be prepared to debate Senator Clinton, then I would consider running. I think we'll know that in October," Gingrich said.

"But these three are serious people," Gingrich said, referring to Romney, Giuliani and Thompson. "They're working very hard. And if they can fill the vacuum, I don't feel any great need to run."

Gingrich spoke on "Fox News Sunday."

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[BT]

I think it more likely that it will be a Clinton-Richardson ticket.

I also think looking at the GOP field Giuliani is placed nicely in the middle.

[fatman]

I think it more likely that it will be a Clinton-Richardson ticket.

That would be a wise move, Richardson might pull the Hispanics from the border states (even Texas maybe?) and the Cubans from Florida.That said, I've always liked Richardson as a candidate, he's not as polished as the others but doesn't come across as dishonest or as slimy as some of the others (Edwards for example, I can't stand the guy, he just looks so....lawyerish).  Not to mention that other than Romney and Giuliani, he's the only one in the race with any kind of executive experience.

I also think looking at the GOP field Giuliani is placed nicely in the middle.

I admit that I like Giuliani too, a fiscal conservative who is pro choice and pro gay.  He comes across to me like a man in the Nelson Rockefeller or Richard Nixon mode, a non-conservative Republican.

[The_Professor]

Well, I like the fiscal conservatism....'bout time!

[Christians4LessGvt]

newt is probably correct
there is some risk with a clinton/obama ticket, but also an upside
if edwards was less flaky hillary would prefer him
newt is wise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN9cqtJTvF4

[_JS]

Wow. Way to go out on a limb Gingrich! I think people were predicting Clinton/Obama in December 2004.

Seriously, predicting VP choices is next to impossible this early in the race. Clinton is no sure bet either.

I really cannot see Giuliani as being electable. He has so many skeletons in his closet and the religious right would practically cease to exist if they sold their souls to support him. The only electable Republicans I see at this point are Romney and Thompson (if he runs).

One advertisement in the GOP primaries of Giuliani living with a gay couple while having an affair with a star of the Vagina Monologues and he has little hope of winning any Southern state with a closed primary.

[The_Professor]

newt is probably correct
there is some risk with a clinton/obama ticket, but also an upside
if edwards was less flaky hillary would prefer him
newt is wise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN9cqtJTvF4

It is still not clear to me what Obama brings to the ticket. Hillary will already get the black vote. Someone enlighten me, please.

[Christians4LessGvt]

It is still not clear to me what Obama brings to the ticket. Hillary will already get the black vote. Someone enlighten me, please

you must be kidding?
obama appears to be an articulate wonderful speaker
obama is a nice looking fellow
obama is an "outsider" that many are looking for these days
obama would most likely present a nice image to attract the youth vote
obama will energize the black vote that normally does not turn out well
obama will be a "feel good" vote for alot of whites that have guilt
obama would be a huge huge huge "media darling"
and last but not least it appears Obama can raise lots of MONEY$$$$$$$$$$$$

[BT]

I doubt Obama would settle for second fiddle.

[Christians4LessGvt]

I doubt Obama would settle for second fiddle.

and make history?
plus hillary if elected won't serve 2 terms
she is looking old

[Xavier_Onassis]

plus hillary if elected won't serve 2 terms
she is looking old

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What a catty remark.

Hillary looks like a fortysomething healthy woman. She sure as hell looks younger than Reagan at any time in his political career, or Olebush when he ran the first time, or John McCain does now, and several centuries younger than Barbara Bush.

[The_Professor]

I doubt Obama would settle for second fiddle.

Oh, I don't know. Some nut might want to make history by knocking off Hillary and then HE'S THE MAN.

[Christians4LessGvt]

I doubt Obama would settle for second fiddle

would hillary accept second fiddle on an obama ticket?

[The_Professor]

MT's mortgage says NYET!

[yellow_crane]

I think it more likely that it will be a Clinton-Richardson ticket.

I also think looking at the GOP field Giuliani is placed nicely in the middle.

On Meet the Press, someone said they thought that South Carolina will loom large, and it may well be between Giuliani and Romney, and that hence the evangelicals would now be forced to choose between abortion and Mormonism.

It points out that the evangelical terrains are changing, and that many of them are now a herd without a herder.

One big tangential benefit--now we all get to see them realize that the world is indeed complex, and that now we get a chance to see them think, instead of parrott.