Gingrich: I'll Decide in September

"Taking a swipe at politicians who already have declared plans to run for president in 2008, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Saturday that he would decide in September whether to seek the Republican nomination.

Gingrich promised conservatives gathered at a conference in Washington that he would make a decision 'around Labor Day.'

'I think this whole process is stupid,' he told the National Review Institute's Conservative Summit, referring to the fact that presidential campaigns are being launched almost two years before the election. Early announcements are 'entirely consultant-driven ... and let me tell you, consultants are not friends of the conservative movement,' he said." Read on.