Posted on 12/02/2011 7:05:08 PM PST by fightinJAG
Republican Newt Gingrich credited his wife and blind persistence for pulling his campaign back from the brink of disaster in the 2012 race. But an expert suggests circumstance really controls his newfound fame.
Gingrich praised his third wife Callista, whom he said pieced his campaign back together after key staffers quit and media allegations crashed it, and his own persistence for his new lead in Politico’s eBook The Right Fights Back, released Wednesday.
Callista, he said, dug into the campaign, becoming “a very good surrogate.” Gingrich said he too dug deeper into the GOP presidential nominee race, refusing to acknowledge that the campaign was failing.
“I was the only guy in the room who didn’t know I was dead,” he said in the book.
News polls show Gingrich surging ahead of October front-runner Herman Cain and experienced contender Mitt Romney. The former speaker leads Romney by as much as 4 percent in CNN/ Opinion Research and Quinnipiac polls – a far cry from his standing in July when he barely garnered 5 percent of support in the polls.
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N.C. State University Political Science Professor Andrew Taylor argues that all Gingrich may have really done was successfully benefited from the political mishaps of others.
“I think a great deal of what has helped was sort of the rise and falls and sort of failings of some his competitors,” he told The Christian Post.
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Gingrich said he ignored advisers who suggested his younger third wife, whom he met during an extramarital affair, should not be so close to the campaign. Now he said she has become as integral to him as Nancy Reagan was to Ronald Reagan.
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Gator,
Really? I know you hate conservatives who tell the truth. Very typical for some of you who want either RINO Perry, RINO Newt, or RINO Romney. I actually would like to have a Bachmann/Santorum ticket. It won’t happen because there are too many liberal Republicans like yourself, but that is who I am voting for in the Primary and General. Hopefully people will do the same to rid ourselves of Obama. We will see how much people really want to get rid of Obama. Bachmann specifically is the most conservative in the group and even you cannot disagree with that.
Bob
Bottom line. I want Bachmann/Santorum ticket or Bachmann/Cain ticket or Cain/Bachmann ticket or Santorum/Cain ticket. That is it! Now join me and get it done.
Thanks for putting some common sense in this thread!
Who are you to determine who are “US” are we supposed to be robots?
Anybody but Obama
Just wanted to add I had a few crushes on teachers, as do many high school students.
He was younger than 19 when she first got involved with him. Very stupid on her part and I won’t give her equal culpability with a high school student. She was wrong in this case, 100%.
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