Posted on 02/13/2012 6:20:22 PM PST by VinL
Edited on 02/13/2012 7:18:55 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
SOUTH EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) - Republican Newt Gingrich says he's in the presidential contest for the long haul, dismissing calls from rival Rick Santorum and others to drop out.
Gingrich spoke to reporters Monday after addressing a Hispanic leadership event near Los Angeles. The former House speaker is spending most of the week in California attending fundraisers.
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Here’s a good rejoinder to the NR article today:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/02/13/national_review_to_newt_drop_dead.html
Newt lost my allegiance when he began acting like Knute the Kannibal.
Newt Skywalker shall rise again!
Love the visual, Vin.
Newt Skywalker shall rise again!
I hear he picked up a lot of delegates from Tatooine.
Although Mitt Vader won the straw poll on the death star.
Go Newt! Why in the world should he drop out? It’s ridiculous. So many people in the media just hoping it comes down to Santorum vs Romney, then Romney or Santorum vs Obama. Scared of Newt.
Can anyone cite where Rick Santorum has made calls for Newt to drop out? I just Googled it and all that comes up is this WaPo piece. The only people I see calling for Newt to drop out is National Review which isn't that big a surprise.
Like him, I loved Isaac Asimov; especially the entire 'Foundation' series, starting from the 'The Pebble in the Sky' and 'The Caves of Steel.' If he's familiar with these books, he knows the phrase 'violence is the last refuge of the incompetent,' and he should also have a good sense of a larger picture and the importance of the details.
Personally, I think the most obvious answer to over-crowding is not abortion or population control, but simply expansion into space. And I think it's a safety issue, since we are all 'eggs-in-one-basket.'
A renewed space-race, especially a private-sector driven one, would do wonders for our global economy and shift attention from politics back to science and successful human activity.
There are already races with prizes in the space industry and I think re-vitalizing NASA by giving them a role in these races (offering prizes instead of wasting budgets on bureaucracy and 'Muslim outreach') our industry could have an opportunity to become the lean, mean, sleek machine our government keeps it from being.
Some people, I think, think Gingrich is too much of a dreamer because he has such big plans, after all, a permanent base on the moon is so "unrealistic." But I think dreams and visions should be a requirement of the Presidency; but healthy dreams and visions, not pathological like the won's.
Gingrich also appears to have a healthy grasp of the situation in the Middle East, and I particularly enjoy listening to him discuss issues relating to Israel. I suspect he will do a good job of restoring ties to all of our allied countries the won dissed, especially Britain.
Like he said, "We want to ensure that no future president ever again bows to a Saudi King, period."
Newt won big in SC and he was cheated out of delegates in Fla.
Santorum wins include; MO with only 6% of eligible voters and 0 delegates; MN with only 1% of eligible voters and 0 delegates; Colorado with only 2% of eligible voters and 0 delegates.
Considering Santorum has been given a free pass by the media, other candidates and Super Pacs...he may just be the flavor of the month and could very well turn sour. The establishment is more afraid of Gingrich than anyone.
IMO Romney and Santorum are both big govt candidates.
GO NEWT!
Newt needs to put his money where his mouth is and shape up. He can put moderators in their place, which is great, but if he can’t fight Romney’s smear machine, how is he going to take on Obongo’s?
It isn’t as if he lacks things to run on. Newt’s flat tax would revolutionize the way many of us pay our federal taxes. He has the specific details that Santorum and Romney lack, such as his plan to eliminate so much of Obama’s shadow government on the very first day. He alone can logically explain his ideas by framing them in the proper historical perspective.
I expect to see a dynamite performance out of Newt next Wednesday. If not, I’ll be forced to reconsider my support for him.
That article title is terrible. I don’t condone that at all. I read the article and the title is unnecessary.
Napster, my friend, that’s because you’re such a mild mannered, even tempered guy! -:)
Cato, listen to his press conf (above)- and I think you’ll see how he intends to campaign here on out.
Actually, according to National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru, the National Review editorial didn’t call for Newt to drop out, either; it merely threw back at Newt the logic of the Newt supporters who had called on Santorum to drop out after South Carolina.
I did a google search on the words "Rick Santorum tells gingrich to drop out".
I found no links to any article where Santorum tells GIngrich to drop out.
They were all articles talking about Gingrich telling Santorum to drop out.
Does anybody have a link to Santorum seriously telling Gingrich to drop out (as opposed to joking about how Gingrich tried to run Santorum out of the race and now Santorum is in the lead?)
Well, yeah, that’s what Ramesh said. But before he did, Kathryn Lopez posted that NR had called for Gingrich to drop out. Then they deleted her Corner post.
If they didn’t tell him to drop out, the certainly have made it clear they would be happy if he dropped out.
I happen to believe it will be Santorum with the momentum, but it is not my place nor good manners to insult Newt Gingrich nor people who believe in him with a passion to somehow say he ought to drop out just on account of my own political preferences. How selfish to talk this way.
I’m fairly close to being willing to bet money he drops out after Super Tuesday.
Newt channeling his inner God complex again? That campaign is acting more like Ron Paul every day.
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