It's Time For Gingrich To Drop Out of Race For GOP Nomination [Editorial]

Times Herald (Georgia) ^ | March 15, 2012

[Steelfish]

Sunday, March 18, 2012

It's Time For Gingrich To Drop Out of Race For GOP Nomination

EDITORIAL

The time has come for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to drop out the Republican presidential race and allow Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to battle it out for the GOP nomination.

After an up-and-down campaign, Gingrich based his chances primarily on a Southern strategy. That worked, with wins in South Carolina and Georgia. Then Gingrich set his sights on Alabama and Mississippi, where voters make their decisions on Tuesday.

Gingrich had been first or second in those two states in pre-election polls. He earlier vowed he needed wins in the two states to have a chance, although he backed off on that claim during the weekend.

When the votes were counted Tuesday night, Santorum -- who was ranked third in the polls in both states -- won both Mississippi and Alabama. Gingrich was second. Romney was third.

[Steelfish]

Time after time, writers from National Review, Weekly Standard, American Spectator, and several newspaper editorials have advised that Gingrich withdraw from the race rather than causing further damage to the anti-Romney candidacy and he still continues. No small wonder that onSuper Tuesday night Carl Cameron on FoxNews reported that Team Romney was "happy" to see Gingrich continue in the race. Romney won MI by 3% points, Ohio by under 1% and now leads Santorum by some 6%-8% in IL and Gingrich still siphons off around 10%-15% of the vote. His "southern strategy" having gone up in flames, Gingrich now simply is irrelevant except to denying Santorum at least an outside shot at the nomination and is simply greasing the wheels for a Romney nomination. This is now close to sabotage.

[Gene Eric]

>> This is now close to sabotage.

Get over yourself.

Go Newt!!!

[ZULU]

At this point Gingrich will not be remembered as a great scholar and the author of Contract With America.

He will be remembered as the spoiler who gave Romney the nomination.

[Fred]

And Santorum will be remembered as the stalking horse for Mitt Romney

Marco Rubio does not agree with this worthless opine

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860851/posts

[Steelfish]

I could not have said it better. Chants of “Go Newt” means Romney wins by sneaking through the breach caused by a split in the anti-conservative vote and he wins major contests by a squeaker!!! I call it Gingrichian sabotage.

[American Constitutionalist]

If Romney get's the GOP nomination the total blame will be put on Newt and his supporters.
So much for their empty rhetoric of " anyone but Romney " .

[American Constitutionalist]

No, it seems the Newt supporters need to get over themselves in their selfish ambition of supporting Newt when we have had opportunity to win against Romney.

[Steelfish]

Rubio wants to Romney’s VP and so he wants Gingrich to stay in the race and help Romney win.

[Gene Eric]

>> Chants of “Go Newt” means Romney wins by sneaking through the breach caused by a split in the anti-conservative vote

That’s cute.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The Times Herald is written in Coweta County. 54% of Republican primary voters in Coweta County voted for Gingrich.

[GreatRoad]

GO NEWT!!

[skinkinthegrass]

the Liberals and RINOs (Washington DC Establishment) have shown whom they really fear..
and it NOT Santorum or Romney.....Its NEWT, They Fear.GO! NEWT! GO!

[Yosemitest]

Romney should drop out. The base will NOT tolerate a RINO.

"Mitt, It's Time To Quit!"



Mitt. It’s time you quit!
Your credibility isn’t worth spit.
RINOs, the “Establishment”, and Democrats all agree,
But in the General Election, to Obama they’ll flee.
Against Obama, liberals and moderates know you’ll lose.
But conservatives, Romney they’ll never choose.

Mitt, our loyalty you can’t buy.
Back to Massachusetts, you’d better fly.
Just like Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, and John McCain,
Nominee Willard Mitt Romney will result in the same.
As a Governor, your record isn’t that great.
Out of 50 states, your popularity was number 48.

Your experience, the “Establishment” types tout.
Defending federal bailouts and FDIC loan forgiveness will find you out.
Democrats and RINOs cower from their liberal wives,
Supporting Romney with nothing but lies.
In 1994 Ted Kennedy showed Willard to be a great bane,
With Mitt’s Bain, and Bain Capital, Obama will do the same.

Damon Corp, with Romney paid $119 million in a fine.
Yet Willard says, for his leadership, it’s time.
He claims jobs he can create and taxes he can lower,
47th out of 50 in growth he rates. Can it get any slower?
$740.5 million dollars a year, fees and taxes under Mitt increased.
Will the half-truths and lies from Romney ever cease?

For Liberty and Freedom, we don’t need “Flakes”,
But Romney says Healthcare responsibilities belong to the States.
Conservatives stand for “Self-responsibility, Self-accountability, and Self-reliance.”
But against these things, Willard’s actions scream in defiance.
“Establishment Republicans” thinks Romney can help take back the Senate,
But they know that for President, Mitt can NOT win it.

Like everything the “Establishment Republicans” try to do,
It leads to failure, and we get the bill, as well as the screw.
In their corruption, little change do they seek,
They don’t want our Freedom to peak.
Their craving for power has pushed their bravery,
To ignore our Constitution, and sell us into economical slavery.

So Willard, don’t lecture us on the need for “patience” and “compromise”.
Romney, be selfless. Conservatism is on the rise.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, isn’t what we desire.
You let them rewrite the language. Where’s your fire?
Romney, they accuse us falsely, and you do little.
Where’s your response, or can you only twiddle?

Mitt, you don’t have what it takes to lead.
So with you I plead.
Do you really want to go from Obama-care to Romney-care?
With you, this nation will pull out its hair!
Go somewhere and quietly think … and sit.
“Know your own limitations!” Mitt. It’s time you quit!



By Yosemitest, Mar 15, 2012

[Revolting cat!]

Bad English in #1 and other posts is rather unpersuasive.

GO NEWT!

[Revolting cat!]

What is “get’s”?

[Gene Eric]

>> in their selfish ambition of supporting Newt

Selfish?

The recurring theme of moral elitism that plagues Santorum’s campaign will not win the White House.

[taxcontrol]

I disagree with the idea that Newt should drop out. As long as both Newt and Rick stay in, then Romney gets less votes and we are more likely to have a brokered convention.

[parksstp]

Okay, how about an ACTUAL EXAMPLE of how Newt’s appearance in the race HELPS Romney.

Let’s look at Arkansas.

Not counting the Superdelegates, Arkansas has 33 delegates available. 3 delegates for each of the 4 Congressional Districts are allocated to the winner of that CD. Of the 21 Statewide at-large delegates, everybody who gets over 15% gets at least one delegate, but if someone gets over 50%, they win all 20 delegates.

In a 2 man race between Santorum and Romney, Santorum would easily win 32 of the 33 delegates for 32-1 split.

However, if Newt stays in the race, it’s highly unlikely that Santorum would top 50%. In a 3-man race one of two scenarios happens:

(1) Newt finishes 2nd each of the 4 CD’s. If that’s the case, it would be an 8-4 split between Santorum and Gingrich. However, the statewide vote would be something along the lines of Santorum 40%, Gingrich 30%, and Romney 30%. In this scenario, of the 21 statewide delegates, Santorum would get 8, Gingrich 7, and Romney 6. So while Gingrich gets delegates, Romney gets 5 more than if the race was just between he and Santorum.

(2) Worse yet is if Newt stays in and keeps Santorum under 50%, but is unable to finish at least 2nd in each of the 4 CD’s. If this happens, then Romney can pick up to an additional 4 delegates by finishing 2nd in the 4 CD’s.

This is just one example, but can be repeated across the sates (KY, WV, NC, etc) that Romney would normally not do as well in. If this happens, he’ll get to 1,144 before the convention.

[montanajoe]

“This is now close to sabotage.”

Yep its sabotaging the GOPe’s plan to shove Romney down the conservatives throats..

[Utmost Certainty]

He will be remembered as the spoiler who gave Romney the nomination.

Please. Santorum's the incompetent buffoon who spoiled the race and is nigh on handing it to Romney. Some might say it was deliberate. What the heck was he doing down in PR when he should be pounding pavement in IL where he actually has a chance to beat Romney? Is Santorum just playing sham politics?