Posted on 01/25/2012 1:17:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
SARASOTA, Fla. Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich assailed his chief rival for the partys nomination on Tuesday by using a local insult, calling Mitt Romney the Charlie Crist of the GOP field.
His reference to the former Florida governor, who lost his Senate race in 2010, embodies Gingrichs strategy as he tries to ride a wave of momentum heading into the primary here next week: to channel the energy and power of the tea party movement that sank Crist and elected outsider superstar Marco Rubio.
Gingrich has attached himself to the tea party movement ever more tightly in recent days, casting himself as an antiestablishment revolutionary who understands the movements rage against President Obama. He has embraced the endorsement of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. He has promised that he would put Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former presidential rival, in charge of a commission studying the 10th Amendment, a rallying cry for tea partyers who believe Washington has repeatedly violated that provision of the Constitution by usurping the powers of the states.
In the most recent contest, on Saturday in South Carolina, Gingrichs tea party embrace worked: He won the primary with the overwhelming backing of tea party supporters, beating Romney in that group of voters by about 20 percentage points.
Yet it remains unclear whether the tea party is as vibrant nationwide as it was three years ago....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Two page article.
I’m actually a better writer than these rockefellerar reprobates. Or NYC University pretenders.
I take time to write something effective and I get tons of responses.
These chumps? like Manhattan on Sunday Morning. B a r e ly alive...
LOL.
Sarah Palin and Rick Perry in the same sentence.
Yowee. These people are scared to death of Newt and his friends.
Interesting. An article about the power of the Tea Party that only interviews one actual voter, a Romney supporter named Bob Ide who says “... the election is bigger than [the Tea Party].”
Well, I guess that settles it.
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January 24, 2012 4000 Rally for Newt in Sarasota airplane hanger.
“Yowee. These people are scared to death of Newt and his friends.”
Exactly so. Which is why they are bringing every pseudo journalist available to attack him.
If you want to know who your opponent fears the most, look at who they attack the most.
First it was Sarah Palin, then it was Herman Cain, and now it is Newt.
GO NEWT!
Did Sarah really endorse Newt? Don’t think so.
Um, Sarah Palin has not endorsed Newt. More lies from the propaganda media.
She has not endorsed him for the nomination.But for the South Carolina primary, yes, she did.
The so-called ethics charges against Newt when he was speaker was the same smoke & mirrors ethic charges used against Palin. They have a lot in common as a result, and this is not his first time at that rodeo. Plus, 0 just outlined his “envy 2012” campaign that is tailored to beat Romney. YES, they are afraid of Newt.
Nope, but facts don’t matter to these harpies.
I hope Sarah endorses him soon!
Newt has all the right enemies: OURS!
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