Former Speaker of the House and master of humility Newt Gingrich is definitely maybe running for US president. To those of us who have a modicum of familiarity with the guy, it sounds like a very bad joke. In fact, you shouldn't joke about things like that. Ever.
Nevertheless, he's contemplating a run. Gingrich recently made the following comments about a possible run for the presidency:
Pressed by The Examiner about whether his political baggage renders him unelectable, Gingrich compared himself to a famous French statesman. "This is like going to De Gaulle when he was at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises during the Fourth Republic and saying, 'Don't you want to rush in and join the pygmies?'" he said.
Not only is Gingrich's grasp of French modern history impressive, but the parallels between Charles de Gaulle and Newt Gingrich are obvious.
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