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Former Sixth District Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy Wednesday via Twitter, as anticipated, and followed up with an appearance on Fox’s The Sean Hannity Show, during which he said President Barrack Obama will say whatever it takes to become president again because he can’t win on the truth, abcnews.com reports.
“He can’t afford to run in a fair election” – said Gingrich, who was also former Speaker of the House. “If he was on an equal playing field, he’d lose – on his record, on his values, on his beliefs.”
Gingrich (who has faced criticism of his own, including negative comments about his multiple marriages) said he expects Obama’s campaign to be aided by “mainstream media, left-wing billionaires, unions and the Hollywood crowd working to pump money into the billion-dollar Obama campaign” – reported abcnews.com.
Gingrich said also that he hopes to start another Contract with America, and thinks his presidency could balance the federal budget within five years.
Said Gingrich – “If you look at the collapse of Detroit and the rise of Texas and you say to yourself which would you like better: the [state] that had the most job creation in America in 10 years or a city which has collapsed. I know how to get the whole country to resemble [Texas]. President Obama knows how to get the whole country to resemble Detroit.”

Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich has spent the better part of the past decade making inroads with Iowa’s most powerful Republicans, setting the stage for what his closest advisers say will be a spirited run for the presidency.
The former U.S. speaker of the House, who made it official Wednesday that he is running for president, has high name recognition in Iowa. But some of the nation’s most highly skilled, well-known politicians have had trouble navigating the demanding waters of Iowa’s presidential caucuses.
Political leaders in Iowa who best know and revere him expect a two-pronged approach in the leadoff caucus state.
One track – He’ll spend a lot of time in Iowa, a route followed by most successful Iowa caucus candidates. That means ‘dozens and dozens’ of days in Iowa, said former Polk County Republican director Will Rogers, a longtime supporter and now an Iowa staff member for the Georgian Republican.
The other – Gingrich is already known to many Iowans, so he won’t have to the spend the time introducing himself that some of the lesser-known GOP candidates will. But the fiery and sometimes polarizing Gingrich of the 1990′s also must in some ways refine his political approach for 2012.
As a presidential candidate, he is likely to be more thoughtful and careful with his statements so they don’t detract from the complex solutions he’ll propose for such issues as the national debt and spending reductions, said Iowa House Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer, R-Garner, who will be his state campaign chairwoman.

David P. Brown: “Maybe it’s due to the poor showing of interest by viewers, or the absence of the top tier GOP contenders in the first Republican debate last week, but Newt Gingrich is entering the GOP presidential fray.
This guy is a great case study for psychologists. He’s a chameleon who has worked with Democrats on passing important legislation, yet also attacked them over the years with a venom second to none, including lying about President Obama’s record. Gingrich is currently on a tour of South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa  (the first three states that cast their votes for president) asking for forgiveness from the right-wing religious base for his past sexual promiscuity. Now, I believe in forgiveness from God, and hopefully from people. But Newt, who’s on his third marriage, was insisting on President Clinton’s impeachment for his cheating while Gingrich was also cheating on his wife.
Besides that blatant hypocrisy, he recently said he ‘strayed’ because he loved his country so much and was working so hard. Are you kidding me? Not to mention that the wife he cheated on was in the hospital dying of cancer. President Gingrich? I don’t think so.
The word in D.C. is the Republicans are scrambling because they don’t like anyone in their field, nor do they feel they can win. Actually, there’s a movement to draft New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Hey, how about a Palin/Trump ticket?
To be fair, some of the GOP presidential candidates aren’t yet known. Tim Pawlenty, a ‘common sense’ guy on many issues, says that despite Obama’s bump in the polls due to bin Ladens’ demise, most folks vote their pocketbooks; that recent trends are positive on job growth, but with unemployment at 8,9 percent and actually probably about twice that if you look at all the numbers government doesn’t take into account, Obama can be beaten.”