I’m not sure that’s the wisest word for Newt Gingrich to use about other men given his own rotundness and short stature. And he’s no Degaulle. But I think he is correct about the current GOP crop being no-hopers, except for Ron Paul, whose iconoclastic positions give him a chance against Hillary:
“If, in mid-October, it’s quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton-Obama ticket, you don’t need me to run,” the former House Speaker said at a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator. “If it becomes patently obvious, as the morning paper points out, that the Democrats have raised a hundred million more than the Republicans, and at some point people decide we are going to get Hillary unless there’s a radical change, then there’s space for a candidate,” he added. “So you’ll know by mid-October one of those two futures is real.”