Fair weather friend?
Did he support Newt before or after South Carolina?
Looks as if he just wants to back a winner - with strings attached.
Perhaps Newt explained that he wasn’t for sale.
It’s likely, unfortunately, that polls indicate that Newt cannot make sufficient headway.
what i find troubling is that the federal government is so powerful that candidates can attract that kind of money. Constitutional government would not be powerful enough to warrent that much financial risk.
I think Adelson’s pretty upfront about his expectations: no legalization of internet gambling. Trump, too. Both will support whoever can deliver that.
SOMEONE has to represent the gambling, prostitution and drug industry.
newt not for sell...you made a funny
I don’t think Bloomberg and Business Insider are very good sources but time will tell.
If Sheldon Adelson watched CPAC today, he had to have been impressed.
GO NEWT!
GO TEA PARTY!
Before. This was written before SC's primary. There are hundreds of articles out there mentioning Adelson and Gingrich long before South Carolina. This is dated January 10th. The South Carolina Primary was January 21st.
FTA: Sheldon Adelson, the son of a Boston cabdriver, made his millions as a casino mogul in Las Vegas and Macao, and $5 million of that wealth will help pay for ads and an online video that seek to halt Mitt Romney’s rise in South Carolina, where the contest moves after today’s New Hampshire primary."
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/01/10/casino-mogul-fuels-gingrich-offensive/X4jEYUxngjIXm2waQGuHQP/story.html
Looks as if he just wants to back a winner - with strings attached.
I'd say he wants to back a winner, period. This isn't Adelson's first rodeo and this is not the first time he's supported someone running for president (McCain & Bush, at minimum).
I attended the caucus in Colorado this week. Newt made a grand total of one stop in the whole state, and it was in the the more liberal part. Romney, Santorum and Paul spent their time down here in the part of the state where conservatives live and vote.
We never got a call, saw an ad, saw a piece of mail - nothing from Newt. We were bombarded by Romney's stuff (yuck), and had several nice contacts with Santorum's people. Paul's people are all over the place on weekends. At the caucus, it was all about Santorum. People were not supporting Newt since he didn't bother to show up or make it known that he was running in our part of the state.
I wouldn't know Adelson from a smoldering hole in the ground. But I know better than to throw good money after bad if my candidate decided not to run in some states.
You don't have much of a sense of irony, do you? But I guess you have a point. 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.
Newt explained he wasn’t for sale?
Bwahaha!!!
(And I think Newt’s the best of the candidates we have.)