Is Newt Gingrich Threatening To Go Rogue And Leave The Party?

MIAMI -- If you listened carefully to Newt Gingrich's "concession" speech tonight, you heard the first strains of what could be an independent, third-party run for the White House if he doesn't get the Republican nomination.

Gingrich vowed that he would not henceforth run a "Republican campaign but a people's campaign" -- raising the specter, at least rhetorically, that his vision of his role in American history is too large and personal to be contained by a mere political party.

The former House speaker gave his fans a detailed -- very detailed -- vision of what he would do in the first hours and minutes of his presidency. It was as if all the grubby business of running for president were secondary to his imaginative thoughts about how he would run the world starting on January 20, 2013.

Gingrich depicted his march to power as a matter of a personal, direct relationship between him and the voters.

"If I become your president, I pledge to you my life, my fortune and my sacred honor."

Gingrich's vaulting ambition knows no bounds, and so, perhaps, does his plan have no limits for how he is going to get from here to there in the presidential race.

Comments

[Lori Day]

07:10 PM on 02/04/2012

Could there be a greater gift for Obama?? Oh please, please, please let this happen! Newt the Spoiler. Luv it!

[TFlint]

12:43 PM on 02/02/2012

Sacred honor ?

[Robert J Bartley]

07:42 AM on 02/02/2012

Please Mr. Gingrich run as an independant. We don't want Mitt Romney and the Republican party no longer stands what WE stand for. We need your fresh ideas and drive and determanation.

[TFlint]

12:46 PM on 02/02/2012

Guess you never read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." Never mind, you would need an IQ higher than zero to understand it.

[Bobbito]

12:51 AM on 02/02/2012

Newtie has already left...the boundaries of the earth that is, which was clearly defined by his psychobabble about colonizing the Moon.

One has to admire his drive, if not his solemn pledge. He had me till he got to the bit about
Pleading his sacred honor....

Gingrich has accomplished the truly unbelievable - he makes The Donald seem rational
( except for that hair )....,,.

[JWal196665]

12:44 AM on 02/02/2012

Newt doesn't seem to get the big picture, no one wants him for President. Then again Romney isn't any better, when he isn't concerned about the poor. Their ego's are so big they can't see what's happening, they have no plan or ideas, but are very good at baswhing each other and lying, what a pair.

[Lou on Vancouver Island]

07:16 PM on 02/01/2012

I knew the Mugwumps would return someday. Have kept my campaign buttons.

[hollyann1963]

06:34 PM on 02/01/2012

Threatens to leave? Would anyone actually miss him?

[TFlint]

05:35 PM on 02/01/2012

He will revive the National Socialist Party.

[jgrh]

05:23 PM on 02/01/2012

"Sacred honor"? As if.

[jokerdanny]

05:01 PM on 02/01/2012

he also announced that ev'ry day would be the first day of spring

[jokerdanny]

04:58 PM on 02/01/2012

my life, my fortune and my sacred honor...in no order of actual value

[jokerdanny]

04:58 PM on 02/01/2012

my life, my fortune and my sacred honor? what the hell does that mean?

[Cognitorsj]

04:52 PM on 02/01/2012

This isn't news. It is an editorial. Why is this even being posted? This is a "nonsense article".

[drhooper]

04:42 PM on 02/01/2012

Newt is not going to stand or lay down for this beat down Romney has been giving him. Not only that, Romney laughs about it when Newt didn't call him to concede. I believe Newt is so angry that he will work with the Democrats to bring Romney down. Let's GO NEWT!!!! I support you all the way!

[MarsAmbassador]

04:39 PM on 02/01/2012

"If I become your president, I pledge to you my life, my fortune and my sacred honor."

Save us all the trouble and give us your life now. But only after giving us all your money. Your honor? You don't have it to give.