Newt Gingrich Hits Candidates For Campaigns and Pollsters

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are “demeaning the presidency” by focusing on the race rather than ideas.

“We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an entire year raising money in order to offer non-answers, so they can memorize what their consultants and focus groups said would work,” Gingrich said.

. . . Guess He Forgot About his Own

He’s not a presidential candidate, but Newt Gingrich is definitely running a national campaign.

His tax-exempt political organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future, has hired a pollster and a fund-raiser.

Winning the Future “has all the ear-markings of everything you need to run,” said Matt Towery, an Atlanta pollster and former Gingrich campaign chairman. “It is my belief that Gingrich will run for president.”