Gingrich Announces Candidacy

American Voices

May 11, 2011 | ISSUE 47•19

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is announcing he will run for president in 2012. What do you think?

Oh, that probably means he’s also in the market for a new wife. It’d be great if you could put a good word in for me. I’m disease free.

Lacey Hicks
Bell Captain
They're going to have a hard time filling his position as Liberty University's Dean of Rapacious Self-Indulgence.

Chris Barrow
Systems Analyst
Now I finally know what he was getting at all those times over the past few months when he talked about running for president.

Sam Demps
Looper

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