Billionaire Gingrich Contributor [Sheldon Adelson] To Cut Support

Business Insider ^ | February 10, 2012 | Jaywon Choe

[GraniteStateConservative]

While billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson may have rescued Newt Gingrich’s campaign in its early days, today, he may have just buried it.

Bloomberg News reports that Adelson, who has donated $11 million to Gingrich’s Super PAC, does not plan to send any more money Gingrich’s way. Bloomberg is citing an anonymous source “familiar with their deliberations,” though an Adelson spokesman declined to comment.

The move seems to be weeks in the making. After poor showings by Gingrich in the last several races and the re-resurgence of Rick Santorum, the former House speaker has once again been pushed to the back of the Republican field. And Adelson may be shifting his focus. According to CNN, Adelson met with Mitt Romney in Nevada last week and “assured Romney that he will be behind him 100 percent should he become the nominee.”

What may be more alarming though is as money seems to be flooding out of the Gingrich camp, it appears to be heading into to Santorum’s, no doubt helped by his three-state sweep Tuesday.

[grey_whiskers]

The $1.6 million that moved from our pockets into Newt's, via Freddie Mac, would more properly be considered a theft than a sale.

Given that the money you speak of was disbursed over 10 years, perhaps it would be better described as rent than sale -- not theft.

You know, like earning a living.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

This is trivial, onyx.

Remember the 2008 campaign where before virtually *every* early state, a rumor (attributed to "reliable sources close to the campaign") would appear on Pollutico that unless Fred Thompson finished first or second, he was going to drop out?

Or the lies and rumors about Palin from the McCain campaign?

All from the vile Mormon Obaama-light (in political views as well as narcissistic appearance) Romney.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

1987 and 1988 should be 1997 and 1998.

So the timing *wasn't* obvious, as you had claimed. /sarc>

BTW, by your logic, is Tom Delay innocent? He was convicted at trial in a court of law, right?

Cheers!

[sickoflibs]

RE:”The move seems to be weeks in the making. After poor showings by Gingrich in the last several races and the re-resurgence of Rick Santorum, the former House speaker has once again been pushed to the back of the Republican field. And Adelson may be shifting his focus. According to CNN, Adelson met with Mitt Romney in Nevada last week and “assured Romney that he will be behind him 100 percent should he become the nominee.”
What may be more alarming though is as money seems to be flooding out of the Gingrich camp, it appears to be heading into to Santorum’s, no doubt helped by his three-state sweep Tuesday”

Is this really surprising? The whole Republican primary has been a game of ABMR/ABBO musical chairs:First Bachmann,then Perry, Cain, Newt (who most on FR ruled out early on last year) and now maybe RS gets his turn.

RS has a big plus now, he is not Romney or Newt. In comparison to them he looks like a pillar of consistent values, agree with them or not. Newt's sore loser speech after the FLA loss was a flag that many Republicans voters saw and will remember. That is the real Newt.

[GraniteStateConservative]

It’s sourced from Bloomberg News— FR just can’t accept Bloomberg News submissions.

[9YearLurker]

Newt explained he wasn’t for sale?

Bwahaha!!!

(And I think Newt’s the best of the candidates we have.)

[GraniteStateConservative]

Amen.

[JudgemAll]

The media always portrays Gingrich ginger honest mistakes as a disaster and something to make fun of, and portrays Romney/Obama horrible perverted error policies backed by arrogance and force as praiseworthy.

The media is a piece of excrementalizing arrogance, a ridiculous loud disgusting farter which will fall very hard very soon when all its pretenders and this economy will screw up, them and all these incompetent lawyers and word players of propaganda.

Too big to fail? Sorry, fail is fail. Time to detach from failure and let the world of knanivers fail.

[wolfcreek]

Donors more fickle than voters.

[Sudetenland]

We know who has the best chance of defeating Obama, he spoke at 4:10 PM EST yesterday.

Newt laid out exactly what he intended to do and exactly how he intended to do it. None of the others have done so, because they can't.

Newt is the only one with enough experience and knowledge of the system and how it works to be able to do what he says he intends to do. The other guys can only bluster and make generalized assertions and proclamations. Only Newt has spent the time necessary to educate himself on exactly how to go about accomplishing what he plans.

Does anyone really believe that Mitt has a clue as to how to accomplish the things he says he wants to do? He has no experience in "herding cats." You can't just dictate to Congress what to do, they aren't like a board of directors.

And as for Santorum, besides the fact that he lacks the charisma of a dead fish, he has no leadership experience of any kind. He was just another of 100 senators and only served 2 terms--12 years as a rank-and-file Senator and a couple of committee chairmanships are no indication of any sort of leadership ability any more than Obama's half-term.

Newt is the only one who can lead this nation successfully and in the right direction.

[no dems]

What may be more alarming though is as money seems to be flooding out of the Gingrich camp, it appears to be heading into to Santorum’s
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Alarming for whom? Sounds good to me. At least it’s not going to RINO-Rom.

[no dems]

What may be more alarming though is as money seems to be flooding out of the Gingrich camp, it appears to be heading into to Santorum’s
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Alarming for whom? Sounds good to me. At least it’s not going to RINO-Rom.

[TheOldLady]

So long, Minn (Posting History)

Hat Tip to Musicman, Onyx, and DJ MacWoW

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[RygelXVI]

Your posts are *far* too sophisticated to be that of a genuine conservative

That's insulting to genuine conservatives everywhere, not that you know any.

[CynicalBear]

Good riddance. There are some you just know have a future of ozone fumes.

[humblegunner]

I won’t cry too many tears.

Minn was a known blogpimp apologist.

[McGruff]

Bloomberg is citing an anonymous source “familiar with their deliberations,”

Probably someone from the Romney campaign. Newt said they would do thing like this.

[nikos1121]

I read about Newt tearing things up at Cpac. And then this article about him out of money.

Then another article about Romney poised to scorch the earth again on Super Tuesday, only this time does he scorch both Santorum and Newt? Don’t think so.

I think Newt is in a good position. My bigger concern is that his campaign may be getting subverted from within.

Santorum’s lead will not last. Try to like the guy... It doesn’t work. You can’t force yourself to do it. The guy doesn’t cut it with us here.

[grey_whiskers]

grey_whiskers (post#220):

"Your posts are *far* too sophisticated to be that of a genuine conservative who merely stumbled across this site."

Misquoted, in reply (post 234) by TrollgelXVI:

Your posts are *far* too sophisticated to be that of a genuine conservative

That's insulting to genuine conservatives everywhere, not that you know any.

grey_whiskers response (now):

Keep digging, troll.

Cheers!

[RKBA Democrat]

“But I can tell you this, it’s the Ron Paul supporters who I’ve always come across foaming at the keyboards when Congressman Paul is critized on anything.”

And they should be chastised for it. I think you’ll find that the closer you get to the actual campaign, the less that sort of behavior is tolerated. And I have seen lots of folks called out for their comments. Fervently supporting your candidate is one thing, being a jerk is quite another.

It’s kind of ironic, but for a campaign that is so liberty based the people who are officially associated with the RP campaign are on a very tight leash. However, NO campaign has much control over it’s “supporters” who are not officially with the campaign. And I use “supporters” in quotes, because there are a lot of false flag “supporters” out there claiming to “support” various candidates. They may or may not be supporters in actuality.

For example, I could set up an identity on a blog as “Another aryan for Newt” and discuss how Newt Gingrich will be the candidate who will “best suppress the international Jewish conspiracy.” Or some such hateful rot. Clearly that would be an inflammatory comment, and clearly malicious and damaging. Someone reading those comments would have no idea if I were actually a supporter of Newt Gingrich or not. And there’s not a darn thing the Gingrich campaign could do about it other than denounce my comments.

No campaign has the time or resources to police the comments of every person who claims to be a “supporter.”