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renate

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5. what could be more gratifying to someone who craves power than his position?

Reply to BlueDemKev (Original post)

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 03:57 PM

Mar 2012

Well, I suppose actually having real power, or being the front-runner. But it looks like he and he alone can decide who will become the Republican nominee before the convention. Pretty heady stuff.

The entire Republican establishment is waiting with bated breath to see what he will do. Probably all kinds of promises are being made by both the religious wing and the Rovian wing. I think it'd be kind of fun to have some of the most powerful people in American politics kissing my ass, and I don't have a pathologically enormous ego like Newt's. He's loving this.

I think his staying in the race has precisely zero to do with any sincerely held values and everything to do with being a kingmaker.

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Thoughts on Gingrich Staying In the Race... [View all] BlueDemKev Mar 2012 OP

He's in it to build up his speaking, consulting, and media fees. It's about the $$$$ SharonAnn Mar 2012 #1

The simple answer is it's his HUUUUUUUUUUGE ego... RedSpartan Mar 2012 #2

I think it is all about his little penis. SDjack Mar 2012 #3

He's a narccicist . RDANGELO Mar 2012 #4

what could be more gratifying to someone who craves power than his position? renate Mar 2012 #5