he's been running since 1994. he never stopped running. here's the point made by newt gingrich. >> i realize the red light doesn't mean anything to you because you're the front-runner. [ laughter ] but can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney. the fact is you ran in '94 and lost. the fact is you had a very bad reelection rating. you dropped out of office. you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. you didn't have the interlude of citizenship while figure -- you ran for president while governor. you were going all over the country. you were out of state consistently. then you promptly re-entered politic. you lost to mccain as you lost to kennedy. now you're back running. you've been running for years and years and years. this idea that suddenly it showed up in your mind, level with the american people. you've been running at least since the 1990s.