Newt Gingrich Speaks to Supporters in The Villages, Florida

C-SPAN ^ | Jan 29, 2012

[Jim Robinson]

THE VILLAGES, FLORIDA Sunday, January 29, 2012

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich held a rally at The Villages retirement community in Central Florida on the day following his endorsement by Herman Cain.

Gingrich has a series of speeches and rallies over the next couple of days covering most of the state.

(Click link above)

[varina davis]

The Villages is Sarah Palin territory. I drove there to see here during the 08 campaign and couldn’t get within miles of her. The crowds were enormous! Mostly all seniors.

[RedMDer]

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Repeal ObamaCare. Repeal Dodd-Frank. Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley.
Reform the federal bureaucracy drastically reducing government and regulations.
GO NEWT!
GO FREE REPUBLIC!!!

[TWhiteBear]

Mr. Romney's flacks are boasting about a turn out of 1,000, mostly paid I expect.
Newt Gingrich is pulling in 4,000 supporters daily at this type of event. They prefer a Conservative rather than a metroliberal.
TWB

[nikos1121]

whhy is newt double digits down?

[ez]

The Villages is Sarah Palin territory. I drove there to see here during the 08 campaign and couldn’t get within miles of her. The crowds were enormous! Mostly all seniors.

Too bad they don't know that Mitt destroyed her in 2008. Bad on Newt...

[MissMagnolia]

Too bad they don't know that Mitt destroyed her in 2008.

I saw something on this somewhere - that Mitt was behind a lot of the attacks on Sarah to take her out of the picture & out of his way, but I can't find what I saw, nor anything else .... yet. Got anything specific?

[Spunky]

I was not able to see this live so just now watched it. I can't believe what the polls are saying. Everywhere he has gone the crowd is hugh. C-Span spans the crowd when he is speaking, but they don't Romney's. That must be because he doesn't have any crowd to speak of.

I have been for Newt since 1994 and I appreciate him more everytime I hear him talk.

Thanks for posting this Jim and keep doing so with all the speeches that Newt gives that are broadcast so we can see them all.

[Spunky]

"whhy is newt double digits down?"

I don't put it past polls to LIE either.

[CainConservative]

Watching a repeat this on C-SPAN now! :)

GO NEWT! GO SOCIAL CONSERVATISM!

**********GO GRASSROOTS!***********

[meadsjn]

whhy is newt double digits down?

He's not. Look at the sample size and margin of error of the polls that show Romney ahead. You will see small sample sizes and +/-5% MOE. Those polls are bogus.

[ez]

Nope. Just innuendo that I read here at FR.

But Mitt knew Sarah had the inside track to the 2012 nomination if she wasn’t cut down to size.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Yard signs are made! Phone banking the next two days! WHOOHOO! VOTE NEWT!

[MissMagnolia]

Thanks .... I’m going to keep looking.

[meadsjn]

Romney FORCED Obama down the throat of America,
just like his RomneyCARE, RomneyMarriage, and RomneyBIGDIG.

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The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

Romney for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[Catsrus]

Although I have no proof, I believe Mitt was behind the attacks on Sarah. He’s an ugly, despicable, human being. If he is our nominee, I’m not sure I’ll vote this year. He is using Saul Alinsky’r rules on fellow Republicans, (just as McCain did in AZ against a conservative), and I hate him for that.

[Catsrus]

Although I have no proof, I believe Mitt was behind the attacks on Sarah. He’s an ugly, despicable, human being. If he is our nominee, I’m not sure I’ll vote this year. He is using Saul Alinsky’r rules on fellow Republicans, (just as McCain did in AZ against a conservative), and I hate him for that.

[sheikdetailfeather]

31:00 “We need someone who will change Washington and who knows how to change Washington. I am not running for President to manage the decay of the United States to the satisfaction of the establishment! I am not running to make the Wall Street elite or the Washington elites happy. I am running to change both groups on behalf of the people of the United States of America! I do not believe Wall Street can give enough money to run enough negative ads to hide from the truth! The truth is we have been served badly by the establishment of this county in both parties! Let’s be clear about it! IN BOTH PARTIES! And if that makes the old order uncomfortable.. my answer is GOOD!! I want you to know if you get on Facebook, if you get enough friends, we are close enough. Michael Reagan will be campaigning with me tomorrow to prove to every doubting person I am the legitimate heir of the Reagan movement. Not some liberal from Massachussetts! I am honored that Gov. Palin got so tired of the one-sided assault she went on Fox and also wrote a very powerful op-ed. Todd has endorsed me. This is very challenging. It will be even more challenging if I win. BE WITH ME EVERY DAY OF THE CAMPAIGN AND EVERY DAY OF THE PRESIDENCY TO REMIND THE CONGRESS TOGETHER! WE WANT SOMEONE WHO WILL FORCE DRAMATIC, BOLD CHANGE ON WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK! WHEN WE BEAT BARACK OBAMA WE WILL BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK!”

[sheikdetailfeather]

bttt

[MissMagnolia]

Wow .... this is what I've been looking for. When I heard the rumors that Romney sabotaged Sarah in 2008 to take her out of the 2012 race so she would not be competition for him (which he would lose) it made perfect sense to me. Romney destroys people not only politically, but personally to get what he wants. Too bad he didn't start working on Obama in 2008 while he was destroying Sarah & her family. It makes me sick to see him doing his "patriotic" speechifying when I know in his black soul that he is in it for the POWER it would give him over everything.

Thanks so much for the info. MM

[Dan Nunn]

You asked if there are any FReepers in FL and just wanted to let you know that there are, and since FL is an early voting state, I casted my ballot for Newt last week.