You're watching an utterly irrelevant, shallow television celebrity [Chris Matthews] dominate everybody who claimed they want to lead the most powerful nation in the world -Newt Gingrich

Heeeeeeere's Newt!

Dismissing the GOP presidential field as a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies," Newt Gingrich hinted Monday he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. . . ."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." Asked by the Examiner if he was prepared to commit to a run, Gingrich said, "I'm perfectly happy to do what I do," he said. "Whether that leads to the presidency is the country's problem, not mine."

(Emphasis supplied.) It sure as heck would be our problem if Newt became President. Thank Gawd there is no chance of that. h/t atrios.