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Newt: Palin's Not It in 2012

Group of frontrunners will emerge, Former House Speaker predicts

By Drew Nelles, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 16, 2008 1:48 PM CST

(Newser) – Newt Gingrich predicts that Sarah Palin will not be the Republicans’ 2012 presidential nominee, the Hill reports. “I think that she is going to be a significant player,” the former speaker of the House told Face the Nation. “But she’s going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players.” In other talk shows:

Arnold Schwarzenegger will do all he can to help President Barack Obama, but not as a Cabinet member, the Hill reports. “I am the first one to go and do everything that I can, as governor, and as a state, to support his administration,” he told This Week.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told Fox News Sunday that the GOP needs to adapt as voters move away from the right. “We have to be a conservative party. But we have to apply those principles in the context of a changing country,” he said.

Michigan Sen. Carl Levin told Meet the Press that GM Chairman Rick Wagoner should resign if it would secure $25 billion for the auto industry. But Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez insists the Bush administration opposes giving any bailout cash to the Big Three, Roll Call reports.
A lack of GOP support casts doubt on a Detroit bailout, with Arizona Republican Jon Kyl told Fox News Sunday that "companies fail every day and others take their place. Just giving them $25 billion doesn't change anything."

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will serve out the rest of his term rather than joining the Obama Cabinet, he said today. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says the GOP needs to change as the country changes. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., supports a bailout for the foundering auto industry. (AP Photo/The Detroit News,John T. Greilick)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich doubts that Sarah Palin will be the Republicans' 2012 presidential nominee. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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She’s going to be a much bigger story in the short run. But, I think, as she goes back to being governor and as she works in Alaska, you’re going to see a group of governors emerge, not just Sarah Palin. - Newt Gingrich

[Automakers are] a dinosaur, in a sense. I would like to see them become lean and hungry and innovative. - Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby

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Nov 17, 2008 8:47 PM CST

The only thing Palin did was stir up the least attractive, least thoughtful, least educated members of the GOP. Those, who, like her, can't think for themselves. Let's hope they crawl back under the rocks she lured them from under, and that she does the same. If someone like that was a Democrat, I'd say the same.

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Nov 17, 2008 2:09 AM CST

Newt in 2012 or Palin in 2012? Sounds wonderful,I can hardly contain myself.

jaguarj

Nov 16, 2008 11:20 PM CST

Palin's going to be one of 20-30 significant players? How about "insignificant"?

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