Posted on 02/04/2012 8:41:48 PM PST by VinL
One of Mitt Romney's leading backers in Congress is publicly calling on Newt Gingrich to drop out of the presidential race.
Nevada Rep. Joe Heck, who has been closely allied with Romney since his 2008 presidential bid, said the results of Saturday's Nevada caucuses - likely a blowout win for Romney - should be a wake-up call for Gingrich.
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"I hope he takes the message that it's time to withdraw gracefully and not continue to divide the party," Heck told reporters in Las Vegas, shortly before the first round of caucus results were announced.
While Romney's campaign and his network of supporters have voiced concerns about Gingrich's threat to remain in the race for the long haul, there has not yet been a chorus of Republican leaders publicly asking him to drop out.
Heck, though, said bluntly that it's time for Gingrich to leave the race.
"The message we heard at our caucus, and what I have heard from other people at other caucuses, was that while people stood up to talk about who their preferred candidate was, they also talked about the need come together and unite behind the nominee to increase our probabilities of success," Heck said. "I hope that the Speaker takes that to heart."
He was not as insistent, however, when asked if Ron Paul should also bow out for the good of the party.
Paul should quit when it becomes apparent that there is "enough critical mass in terms of delegates
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Romney wins a state with almost as many Mormons as Utah. Yawn!
CNNObama beating the “Willard Is Inevitable!” drum.
They are so desperate not to have Newt as the nominee.
If I was looking for a leader I'd canvas the local babysitters club before I'd look for one in the Republican party.
At least those kids have to go through SOME training (cpr, etc) before being given responsibility.
/johnny
I didn't start it, I just quote it. And, by house rules. I'll put it in the DVD player.
And put on a pot of beans and cabbage.
/johnny
The hell he will, Heck!
“The Mormons have spoken!”
Take it to Tampa.
Hmm why not Santorum or Paul?
Course he doesn’t want Rick the Spoiler to drop out.
Pray for America
Newt press conference was good and slammed Romney.
He is making Romney as liar, dishonest etc, and it may work.
Very clever
An 11% margin, with losses in at least two counties, an overall win smaller than in ‘08, is a” Blowout win” for Romney?
By what definition?
Romney had a built in 20% - 25% advantage due to Nevada’s very large Mormon population. They are reported to have supported him with 95% of their votes!
Despite this Romney is ahead by only 11% statewide, with two counties not yet showing the final tally.
Sorry, not a “Blow-out”, not “Overwhelming” and NOT reason for Newt to drop out.
Santorum and Paul did much worse, perhaps they should drop out.
Or maybe we let this ride until after “Super Tuesday”?
Yep. The GOP-e wants Newt destroyed. I wonder why?
Mitt and his workers and friends in the GOP-e are vile, corrupt and arrogant.
Each day I think I cannot more strongly loathe Mitt, but he and his obnoxious supporters/workers find a way to push my loathing of Mitt to another higher level.
And Fox is just as bad.
I just listened to their commentary on Newt’s presser.
Newt bad...Newt bad.
Myself, I thought it was a pretty clever idea to have a presser instead of a speech. But that’s just me.
We started a new principled conservative party four years ago, when the formerly grand old party went ahead and nominated John Judas McCain.
Most of last year we avoided talk of fielding a candidate for president in 2012, for practical political reasons.
The impending nomination of the most liberal Governor in the history of the Republic, Willard Mitt Romney, has changed our view of the practicality, and the necessity, of the task radically.
Therefore, we will be nominating a candidate shortly, and beginning the hard work of placing that candidate on the ballots in the several states.
And the Republicans who don’t like it can go pound sand.
DanRiehl DanRiehl
Romney beat McCain 51% to 13% in 2008 with Paul getting 14% tinyurl.com/7w462af
This year Mitt performance is poor.
Does the Tea Party plan to primary Heck?
I have never seen anything to even compete with the orchestrated effort by the GOP establishment to get rid of a candidate. I just watched that Foxney News panel with Brett Baier trash Newt before his press conference and just now pile on again with gleeful abandonment after it. My mouth is still hanging open at the hateful spew coming out of Kraut, Cristol and basically all of them.
This is hopefully goig to backfire as people get sick of everyone on TV trying to tell them Romney is the inevitiable nominee. I am so relieved that Newt Gingrich is going to soldier on to Super Tuesday. I personally don’t know how the man endures it. I would not blame him if he did quit.
I certainly hope so!
Sounds like the best course to me. Although I'd rather wait until after the Texas primary... whenever the federal courts might choose to allow it.
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