Posted on 12/20/2015 7:02:58 PM PST by entropy12
I mean, this is a guy who is outside of the regular system, he is totally prepared to be a unique figure, nothing intimidates him, he is independently wealthy on a great scale, and he achieved a lot in his lifetime.
Gingrich called billionaire businessman extraordinary and a very talented person.
Its not just that he has made a lot of money, but that he has run big systems, he has had New York Times best-selling books, he has had the number-one rated television show in The Apprentice, he has run the Miss Universe contest, he has invented an entire collection of ties, which turned out to do very well, by the way, Gingrich said.
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And, correspondingly, a 70% chance of not getting the nomination. I like those odds.
Newt is slipping.
You would like those odds....which will be changing when Donald goes after Hillery and Cruz fades into the sunset.
“And, correspondingly, a 70% chance of not getting the nomination. I like those odds.”
Don’t be so comforted. You wouldn’t want to know where Newt pulled his stats from.
Santorum would have edged out Romney, but Gingrich stayed in the race just long enough to knock him out, and then handed it over to Romney. Newt talked a good conservative game, but he made deals with the enemy after he got into office. He turned into a spoiler.
By your measurement Cruz has 88% chance of not getting nomnation, Rubio has 90% chance of not getting nomination, and Bush has 96% chance of not getting nomination.
I like all above odds.
Yeah really. Barring RNC chicanery Trump will be the nominee, and the President.
Been that way since 1998.
Historically, any Republican primary candidate leading by as much as Trump is nationally, in the middle of December, has gone on to win the nomination.
That being said, just what is Gingrich saying with a prediction of “30 percent chance to win the nomination”?
The 1994 Contract with America authored under Newt’s leadership as speaker was the best thing republicans have done since 1985.
Newt’s doing his calculations on paper with the rest tallied in the list but in the real world its Trump mostly who gets the big crowds and crossover folks. We shall see what we shall see.
I interpret that as Trump has 30% chance to win nomination, which is much higher than any other candidate running in 2016, based on national poll numbers.
Trump is proof positive that politics is too important to be left to the politicians. Certainly, our Congress should be composed of Americans from all walks of life. It shouldn’t continue to be a boatload of lawyers in various degrees of corruption. That would be change we could really believe in.
You are right. Nobody should bet the farm on picking the winner right now. After March 1st Super Tuesday results are out, that could be a much better time to predict the winner.
Darn it, I encouraged my daughter to enroll in law school, hoping she could run for president some day.
If Newt had been the nominee, he still would’ve lost. He never recovered from his toxic approval ratings in the ‘90s.
After Cruz wins Iowa and the SEC he’ll fade into the sunset? That’s odd. Is that 2015 newbie logic?
We will never know, but my own gut feeling is either Santorum or Newt would have done better than Romney, who was too timid during the debates with Obama. Newt had best zingers during primary debates of 2012.
That's polititroll wishful thinking.
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