GOP leader Newt Gingrich said Sunday he is serious about running for president in 2012 and will make his decision by late February on March.
“I’m much more inclined to run than not run,” Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker and presidential hopeful, said on “Fox News Sunday.”
He also was highly critical of President Obama, saying his administration deserves some of the blame for a system in which a U.S. solider can download classified government documents, then disclose them on WikiLeaks.
“This administration is so shallow and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous,” he said.
Mr. Gingrich also said Mr. Obama is “still confused” about the meaning of the midterm elections, in which Americans ousted Democratic incumbents and elected Republican candidates in large numbers.
“There’s a gap between the clarity of [Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential] campaign and the competence of the presidency,” he said. “He acts as if nothing has changed. … He’s bobbing and weaving.”
He called 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a force “in her own right” and said he was “somewhere in that bunch.”
• Joseph Weber can be reached at jweber@washingtontimes.com.old.
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