Newt for President? Stop Asking!

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So says Salon:

Gingrich has now been repeating the exact same formulation about his plans for about a year and a half. And every time he does it, the media reports it as if it’s new. That’s despite the fact that, by our non-comprehensive count, Gingrich has repeated in 20 separate interviews that he will make his decision in February or March of 2011.

The story channels the common complaint that, dating back to the mid-90s, Gingrich seems to have mastered the quadrennial game of talking about running–and earning the attendant publicity–without actually diving in.