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Newt Gingrich using energy, power of tea party movement (Mild Barf Alert)
The Washington Post ^ | January 24, 2012 | Amy Gardner and Rosalind S. Helderman

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 party’s 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 Gingrich’s 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 movement’s 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, Gingrich’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Florida; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: greeniguana; marcorubio; newt; romney
Maybe you shouldn't write articles about things you don't understand, ladies. Why not go see if there's an "Occupy" encampment near your office? Better take some peeper spray or a stun gun, though.

Two page article.

1 posted on 01/25/2012 1:17:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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...


2 posted on 01/25/2012 1:28:17 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL.

Sarah Palin and Rick Perry in the same sentence.

Yowee. These people are scared to death of Newt and his friends.


3 posted on 01/25/2012 1:29:31 AM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - DONATE MONTHLY! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.

/s


4 posted on 01/25/2012 1:45:09 AM PST by PressurePoint
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yet it remains unclear whether the tea party is as vibrant nationwide as it was three years ago....

****Click****

January 24, 2012 – 4000 Rally for Newt in Sarasota airplane hanger.

5 posted on 01/25/2012 2:05:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: onyx

“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!


6 posted on 01/25/2012 2:31:29 AM PST by Ernie Kaputnik ((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
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To: onyx

Did Sarah really endorse Newt? Don’t think so.


7 posted on 01/25/2012 4:08:53 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Um, Sarah Palin has not endorsed Newt. More lies from the propaganda media.


8 posted on 01/25/2012 4:54:23 AM PST by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else.)
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To: nhwingut
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.


9 posted on 01/25/2012 5:12:29 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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But for the South Carolina primary, yes, she did.

No, she didn't. She merely said that if she were voting in South Carolina, she would vote for Newt, in order to keep the debates and the vetting going. Saying you would vote for someone in order to continue a process, is not an endorsement of Newt Gingrich.

However, I think she will eventually.
10 posted on 01/25/2012 5:30:54 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: Ernie Kaputnik

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.


11 posted on 01/25/2012 5:37:21 AM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: nikos1121

Nope, but facts don’t matter to these harpies.

I hope Sarah endorses him soon!


12 posted on 01/25/2012 5:58:24 AM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - DONATE MONTHLY! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Ernie Kaputnik

Newt has all the right enemies: OURS!


13 posted on 01/25/2012 5:59:11 AM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - DONATE MONTHLY! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know!)
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