Posted on 05/22/2012 9:55:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Newt Gingrich will not be Mitt Romney’s running mate. The former U.S. House speaker has himself admitted that he is not vice presidential material.
But at the state GOP convention this weekend, Gingrich offered up the latest iteration of himself. Until the...nominee makes his decision, Gingrich declared himself ready to fulfill all the duties of a No. 2.
Gingrich wants to be Romney’s Georgia bulldog.
In two speeches to Republicans, his supply of adverbs and adjectives replenished after the exhaustion of a failed contest, Gingrich blistered President Barack Obama and gave a vigorous defense of the man who buried him in the Iowa caucuses under an avalanche of TV attacks.
It might not have been the defense that the former venture capitalist might have ordered up, and still holds echoes of a hard-fought primary. “Who has killed more jobs in their career?” Gingrich asked a crowd of donors on Friday night. “Romney, you could argue – yeah, these companies didn’t quite work. These companies worked and did well. But show me the big Obama success.”
The portion of the evening speech that worried Gingrich most, he said later, was perhaps the most effective – an answer to those Republicans who still have qualms about Romney’s Mormon faith.
“Look, he takes it seriously. It’s a deep part of his life,” Gingrich, a converted Catholic, told the crowd. “He is committed to it. And he understands the desperate importance of religious liberty and keeping government out of our churches and out of our synagogues. And he will be vastly better for every person of religious belief than Barack Obama.”
But more than anything, Gingrich presented himself as a man willing to scorch the earth wherever Obama might go. “I am not for a narrow victory. I am for crushing the left...
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“Unleash Newt!”
YES!
“his supply of adverbs and adjectives replenished”
Methinks Ms Galloway has a wee problem with envy towards Newt’s command of ideas and the appropriate language used to express them.
This is a good role for Gingrich. I hope Romney utilizes him in the most effective ways.
I think he is vice presidential material.
Screw the old demographic formulas. Let’s go for people who want to vote for their COUNTRY.
Gingrich presented himself as a man willing to scorch the earth wherever Obama might go. “I am not for a narrow victory. I am for crushing the left...”
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OH, HECK YEAH!!! Turn him loose. Let Gingrich be Gingrich. (Can you imagine if Newt would have won the GOP nomination. Obama would have hands full, and then some.)
Crushing the left with more left?
Vice-presidential material?
HMMmmm... let’s see...
Joe Biden?
Newt Gingrich?
And the point of being VP is to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency?
I’m thinkinggg... Gingrich.
unfair comparison. Compared to Biden the stuff that runs off of a feed lot after a rain is VP material.
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