Is Newt Gingrich helping or hurting Mitt Romney?

Renew America ^ | 03/15/2012 | Adam Graham

[Utmost Certainty]

Santorum can’t get 1,144 delegates, Newt or no Newt.

[Ingtar]

Yes.

Helping in some places, hurting in others.

[Ingtar]

Romney's and Newt's sugar daddies appear to be bailing out. Santorum has nearly $2 million since Tuesday. It might change things quite a bit to have him the only one of the three able to advertise.

[pfflier]

Is Newt Gingrich helping or hurting Romney?

That isn't the question, is Newt helping obummer??

[Keyes2000mt]

Helping in a lot more states than he’s hurting him.

[Vendome]

I hope he is a burr in this guy’s saddle and a fly in his ointment.

Romney is a disease and Conservatism is it’s cure administered by Dr. Gingrich.

[South Dakota]

Yes newt is helping Obama.

[Vendome]

I hope he is a burr in this guy’s saddle and a fly in his ointment.

Romney is a disease and Conservatism is it’s cure administered by Dr. Gingrich.

[PaleoBob]

Gingrich is the REASON Romney is leading. Not only can Newt NOT win the nomination under any ciscumstances, even if it were true that he could, his national negatives are massive and decades-entrenched and he would LOSE to Obama.

Santorum is a perfectly acceptable conservative who would likely win the nomination at this point if Gingrich would drop out (and start planning his next “sofa moment” with the Left or attack on Paul Ryan, etc.).

But Newt has one of the biggest egos in all of American politics. He won’t go away and he will make sure Romney wins. Not that he means to. He’s just too full of himself to admit he’s a distant 3rd and will remain a distant 3rd, an also-ran.

All that said, he’s very popular here at FR for reasons that take no heed of his pathologically flighty politics. And I have said all this at the risk of being called a troll, a Romneybot, a communist, terrorist, etc.

[Vendome]

Instead of arguing against Mitt’s competition why don’t you jutting make the case for Mitt?

Or is culturally and corporate anathema to you?

[Ingtar]

Here in West Tennessee and North Mississippi, Romney, as well as Newt’s PAC, have been trying mightily to knock him off for weeks. The net result is better numbers for Santorum that surprise the pollsters.

[lu shissler]

AMEN!

[Vendome]

Is too cute by half to have one person who is such a liberal weathervane it begs the refrain “This guys candidacy is so not necessary”.

[TomGuy]

Overall, Gingrich is now Romney's best friend in this race.

Which is counter to what Gingrich said, after Tuesday defeats, was his reason for staying in the race -- to stop Romney.

To supposedly be the smartest person in the race, Gingrich hanging on is not so smart.

[Vendome]

Is too cute by half to have one person who is such a liberal weathervane it begs the refrain “This guys candidacy is so not necessary”.

[no dems]

Gingrich argues that should he leave the race, his supporters will split between Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney and that Romney will turn all of his considerable resources on defeating his remaining foe-Santorum.

And those are two very good points. Right now, Mitt has to spend time, money and energy fighting two candidates. If Newt goes, RINO-Rom will pummel Santorum. Like Newt said: Rick had Romney all to himself in Michigan and Ohio and lost both. Do not think that all the Newt votes will go to Santorum. THEY WILL NOT!!!

[freedomfiter2]

Is Newt Gingrich helping or hurting Romney?
That isn’t the question, is Newt helping obummer??

They are both the same question. Romney is just another form of Obama.