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Newt Gingrich: Walking dead out of Alabama, Mississippi
The Washington Times ^ | March 14, 2012 | Jim Picht

Posted on 03/14/2012 3:11:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

NATCHITOCHES, La., March 14, 2012—It was a good night for Rick Santorum. It was not a good night for Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich is a zombie.

President Obama might want to celebrate tonight’s election results in the morning with a nice bowl of grits for breakfast.

Gingrich’s southern strategy is dead, and so is his campaign. The only southerner in the race, he’s said all along that the South would help him to the nomination. ... He came in a close second in both, results that would be respectable if he had more wins to his credit. But he doesn’t. There’s no way Gingrich can spin the night’s results into victory.

Nor can Romney, but his campaign remains very much alive. The mathematics of the delegate race didn’t demand that he win – if he and Santorum traded results, the effect would be a gain of only seven delegates for Romney – but a victory in either state would have been a definite boost. He won some delegates, and if he wins Hawaii and American Samoa, as is widely expected, his delegate lead will grow, but the losses still hurt, and they illustrate a serious weakness.

Romney could have won in Mississippi, and even Alabama wasn’t out of reach. He had sufficient support on paper to win, and the spread between him and Santorum was actually quite narrow. Between him and Gingrich the gap was even narrower, and second-place would have been just fine. But his supporters weren’t sufficiently supportive to actually go out and vote. He showed, if anyone needed showing, that his support is a mile wide and an inch deep. His supporters preferred to stay home and watch CSI, and so Romney came in third.

(Excerpt) Read more at communities.washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatism; economy; gingrich; gopprimary
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It is time for Newt to show that he cares about America by dropping out and getting behind Santorum. Mit
t cannot be allowed to win.


21 posted on 03/14/2012 4:33:13 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: bert; All

The U.S. economy, along with international events, (both pushed to the brink by Obama’s policies) will increasingly become a drag on Barack’s re-election odds. We have an excellent opportunity to extend the 2010 conservative uprising to the 2012 election.


22 posted on 03/14/2012 4:34:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Good Morning CW-

Thx for the graphic ...helps to put the focus back on the reality of the situation vs the media and Santorum camp induced “drumbeat” for Newt to drop out.

Rather than go thru the entire litany of what is wrong w/both Romney and Santorum w/regard to their positions on various issues or how the suggested “two man race” would fail from a tactical perspective; I will leave those “dead horses” to be flogged by whomever else chooses to do so.

I will just say that Newt is the only candidate running that I feel I can happily and intellectually support. The other two are merely default candidates for me; to be used “only in case of emergency” in order to achieve the “prime directive;” which is to defeat Obama at all costs; which I have already pledged to do.

Newt said he would stay in the race; no matter how he performed in Alabama/Mississippi and he is maintaining that pledge. I will continue to support him as long as he remains in the race. It is, quite simply, a matter of principle to me.

GO NEWT!!!

23 posted on 03/14/2012 4:37:01 AM PDT by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: Above My Pay Grade
It is time for Newt to show that he cares about America by dropping out and getting behind Santorum. Mit t cannot be allowed to win.

If Newt did drop out, calls would immediately "surface" for Rick to drop out.

24 posted on 03/14/2012 4:37:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Newt is our Winston Churchill. Obama is our Chamberlain (only worse). I sure wish I could vote FOR Newt in the presidential election rather than ‘anybody but Obama’.

Santorum is a good man but he just doesn’t compare to Newt, who is a statesman. Romney is a good man but he is just a dud. (not a dude, a dud LOL!)


25 posted on 03/14/2012 4:41:02 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Happy Rain
then Mitt losing to Obama and then all of us losing America

Yes, that would be bad.

The only thing worse is nominating Santorum, who will not only be crushed by Obama but who will lose SO badly that it may cost the House.

Deciding the nominee at the convention, AFTER the events of the upcoming hot summer, is the only way out of this mess.

26 posted on 03/14/2012 4:42:06 AM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Jim Noble
......Right now, that is as clear as mud. AND, after a long hot summer of OWS and black violence, with war perhaps underway and oil at $250, and unknown consequences of pending court cases, who knows? The correct answer on August 31 may be very, very different than what seems correct now. If Gingrich had the 33 and Santorum the 32, that would not make Gingrich a “winner”.......

Conventional "wisdom" is spinning for Mitt. They are wrong about "inevitable" Mitt and should realize (we sure do) that by continuing to advance that lie, they are looking like paid, in-the-bag shills for the Establishment - the K Street to Wall Street crowd - who do NOT want power returned to the states or to shrink federal government because they are still profiting and sticking us with the bill.

As Newt rightly explains. Powers that be on the Hill will not voluntarily change. It is up to Americans to make it happen.

27 posted on 03/14/2012 4:45:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: joesbucks

You’re a Santorum supporter (not that that’s a bad thing) ... so I’ll ask you.

The economy is positioned to crash ... with or without Obama in the White House. What is Santorum’s plan to deal with this? Specifically.

I really would like to know.


28 posted on 03/14/2012 4:45:48 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Right_in_Virginia

God is in control. What’s Newts’ specific plan?


29 posted on 03/14/2012 4:47:18 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Christie at the beach

Your usual personal smear and cheap shots against Rick are based on a Romney AstroTurf campaign and the Dem media machine .
Your tired cheap shots are pathetic .


30 posted on 03/14/2012 4:49:12 AM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !H)
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To: Jim Noble
So in other words you want Mitt to win.

If Newt stays in that will happen and then Obama will win.

But then delusional fantasies fueled by sour grapes are not uncommon...

...but the stakes have never been higher and rational minds must win out.

31 posted on 03/14/2012 4:50:21 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Newt could claim he saved America if he were to step aside and endorse Rick Santorum now.")
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To: joesbucks
God is in control.

So can I assume from your answer that Rick's going to pray our way out of economic collapse?

Good to know. Thanks.

32 posted on 03/14/2012 4:51:16 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Dudoight
Newt is our Winston Churchill. Obama is our Chamberlain (only worse)

And Santorum is our McGovern.

33 posted on 03/14/2012 4:51:53 AM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Don't go wobbly on me now Newt. I'm all in.
34 posted on 03/14/2012 4:54:23 AM PDT by McGruff (Newt Gingrich, the closest thing we've got to Sarah Palin.)
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To: Happy Rain
So in other words you want Mitt to win. If Newt stays in that will happen and then Obama will win.

Can't you read?

No, I don't want Romney to win. It is my considered opinion that nominating Rick Santorum is a guaranteed loss to Obama, PLUS the loss of many otherwise winnable House seats.

Why on Earth would I, believing as I do, support what I believe is a lemmings off the cliff movement?

35 posted on 03/14/2012 4:54:42 AM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Happy Rain; Jim Noble
So in other words you want Mitt to win. If Newt stays in that will happen and then Obama will win.

Boolhockey. You don't know that. As for me, I agree with a true conservative, Sarah Palin, who wants all of the candidates to stay in up to the convention.

36 posted on 03/14/2012 4:55:48 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

And Newt’s strategy is?


37 posted on 03/14/2012 4:57:40 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks
God is in control.

Scary thought.

38 posted on 03/14/2012 4:58:47 AM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: arasina
Sarah Palin, who wants all of the candidates to stay in up to the convention.

Have never quite figured out the strategy of this?

39 posted on 03/14/2012 4:59:17 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks
Answer my question: What is Santorum's plan to stop and reverse the coming economic collapse that Obama and his adminnistration have put in place? Don't divert with questions about Newt's plan ... he's got one. A good one.

Tell me Santorum's. Really, I'm begging you. Tell me how Santorum will lead us back to prosperity.

40 posted on 03/14/2012 5:00:50 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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