Gingrich calls GOP Presidential Candidates 'pygmies'

Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, NEWT GINGRICH, told the National Examiner that he 'may have to step in' to beat the democrats Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama.

Dismissing the current batch of GOP Presidential candidates, Gingrich called them a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies."

"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."

Gingrich compared himself to a famous French statesman. "

This is like going to De Gaulle when he was at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises
during the Fourth Republic and saying, 'Don't you want to rush in and join the
pygmies?'"

he said.

Is this guy for real? With his excess baggage, does he seriously think he has a chance at the GOP nomination?