Oct. 1, 2007 (LPAC)--Newt Gingrich said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that he was all set to run for President and to launch a $30 million fundraising drive starting today; but he got last-minute legal advice that he would have to cut off all contact with his non-profit organization American Solutions if he ran for office.

Newt angrily complained that the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law "criminalizes politics," and he whined that if he were to have any communication with his non-profit organization after becoming a candidate, it would be a criminal offense and he could be hauled off to jail.

A bemused Lyndon LaRouche noted that these are the rules that apply to all candidates; LaRouche himself, for example, had to choose between heading his political action committee LPAC, or running again for President. LaRouche said he made a choice, and Gingrich should stop complaining about it and make his choice.

Gingrich earned the nickname of "Crybaby Newt" in November 1995 when he threw a temper tantrum after being made to sit in the back of Air Force One on a presidential flight. The New York Daily News featured a front-page headline "Crybaby-Newt's Tantrum: He Shut Down the Government Because Clinton Made Him Sit at the Back of Plane,'' accompanied by a cartoon of a pudgy baby, with blow-dried white hair and a baby bottle, in diapers, crying while stamping his feet.