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Posted on 02/15/2012 1:10:28 PM PST by SmithL
TULARE, Calif. -- Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign has a history of near-death experiences and he insists another resurrection is on its way.
"I'm very happy to continue this campaign based on real solutions that ... are going to attract a lot of Americans," Gingrich said Monday during a fundraising swing in California. "We've done it twice and I suspect you're about to see us do it again."
The third time may not be the charm. Gingrich sustained a string of disappointing performances in several state contests last week and has watched rival Rick Santorum emerge as the leading conservative opponent to Mitt Romney.
While Romney and Santorum move toward a face-off in Michigan's primary Feb. 28 and Romney campaigns to win Arizona the same day, Gingrich has all but stepped off the trail to focus on raising money. Ahead lie the 10-state Super Tuesday contests of March 6, including a handful of Southern states where he hopes he can revive his sputtering candidacy.
"Newt has to do two things simultaneously: Drive a movement for the 60 to 75 percent of Republicans who are conservative and don't want Romney to get the nomination," said Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide now with Winning Our Future, a "super" political action committee backing his candidacy. "Then he has to get out the primary map and look at states that are conservative and focus on them."
Gingrich has a record of resuscitating his candidacy when others have written him off.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
At least Newt apologizes for his "Brain-Fartsⓒ" whereas, little Ricky remains silent on his falling in with and backing the Establishment Republican "Snarlen Arlen Spector." rather than back the conservative, and now Senator, Toomey. That Fact right there goes to heart of the issue and reveals whether Santorum is a conservative or establishment Republican. This and other facts indicate he isn't as conservative he alleges.
I have tried to warm up to Santorum and have listened to his speeches, but there is no substance in them. Rush played a three minute clip of him today that can be summed up in one sentence. “This election is about Freedom”. Big Whoop. Just another slogan and meaningless platitudes.
I have yet to hear him lay out a Plan for anything. He says he will repeal Obamacare. Again no Plan.
Gingrich is specific, has a great Plan for Energy which will mean JOBS, a balanced budget plan, 15% flat tax, and ways to cut spending to match revenue. He is Solid and Substantive.
We don’t need the Empty Suit in the White House, but we also don’t need to replace him with an Empty Sweater Vest.
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Have you noticed, the Gingrich supporters by and large assess Newt's record and experience, in other words, they THINK and know why he is the superior candidate, whereas the Santorum folks feel Rick is better.
Facts vs feelings
Intellect vs emotions
Pilot light (lasting) vs fireworks (temporary)
Apologies are easy and relatively meaningless. Why do it in the first place is always a good question.
BRAVO!!!
Sooooooo,,everytime Newtered has a brain fart we should just overlook it?Like his wives did when he cheated or they cheated with him?How many brainfarts does Newtered get?Maybe we should ask Dede
Hmmmm, let's see ....
BETH FOUHY ... Associated Press ... Sacramento Bee.
Yep, I will always believe the political predictions I read from these impeccable sources -- NOT!
“Gingrich sustained a string of disappointing performances in several state contests last week”
Baloney. Gingrich and his team are fine strategists. They decided that, with limited resources, Newt can skip the caucuses and beauty contests, which don’t bring any binding delegates, to concentrate the campaign on the Southern State and Big Tuesday.
Obviously, the journalistic pundits didn’t invent the wheel, and cannot read into electoral strategy.
Jackie Gingrich Cushmann, Newt's daughter, who knows him best, wrote:
“He truly believes that this presidential campaign, and politics, is his service to his country. Quietly bowing out, simply to return to private life, would be out of character. This is not some personal vendetta. One volunteer to run for president. No one forces him to do it. This is what my father feels he is supposed to be doing."
Newt is going to tell you HOW. NOW you pay attention, because I WON'T repeat it again. Prick up your ears!
Dede Scozzafava Endorsement
Newt has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election.
Whether it was helping to build the Republican Party of Georgia back when Democrats controlled the entire state or leading the nationwide effort in 1994 to break 40 years of Democratic rule in the House, Newt has always tried to advance the cause of a truly conservative Republican party. This has always meant supporting the most conservative nominee possible as selected by Republican primary voters.
Therefore, Newt will almost always back the nominee of the Republican party and not back an independent candidate in a race against a Democratic candidate. Newt still believes in this principle, however, he has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election. Although she was the Republican nominee, the problem was that Republican primary voters did not pick her, the local party leaders did, otherwise her liberal views would have prevented her from becoming the nominee. The Conservative Party candidate whom Scozzafava was running against, Doug Hoffman, recently remarked about Newt's endorsement of his rival,
http://www.newt.org/answers#Dede
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/11/18/the_tea_party_candidate_that_newt_screwed_over_has_no_hard_feelings.html
So what does Hoffman think? Is Newt to be trusted?
"I support all the candidates running right at the moment," said Hoffman. "Any one of them would better than the current president, and that definitely includes Newt Gingrich. Newt apologized to me for not endorsing me, and that's water over the dam, I think."
Right before the election, Gingrich apologized publicly for endorsing Scozzafava. Sometime after the election, he called Hoffman to tell him personally.
"He was very sincere in his apology," said Hoffman. "He was given misinformation as to what this race was all about, and what the other candidate was all about. The people in this district, the sort of local leaders who had endorsed Scozzafava, fed him the wrong information. I don't think it was an error in his judgement.
I would advice other conservative republicans: Don't hold this against him."
http://www.newt.org/answers#Dede
Dede Scozzafava Endorsement
Newt has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election.
Whether it was helping to build the Republican Party of Georgia back when Democrats controlled the entire state or leading the nationwide effort in 1994 to break 40 years of Democratic rule in the House, Newt has always tried to advance the cause of a truly conservative Republican party. This has always meant supporting the most conservative nominee possible as selected by Republican primary voters.
Therefore, Newt will almost always back the nominee of the Republican party and not back an independent candidate in a race against a Democratic candidate.
Newt still believes in this principle, however, he has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election. Although she was the Republican nominee, the problem was that Republican primary voters did not pick her, the local party leaders did, otherwise her liberal views would have prevented her from becoming the nominee. The Conservative Party candidate whom Scozzafava was running against, Doug Hoffman, recently remarked about Newt’s endorsement of his rival, “I would advise other conservative republicans: Don’t hold this against him.”
http://www.newt.org/answers#GlobalWarming
Q: So why did Newt do the ad with Nancy Pelosi in 2007 calling for action to address climate change?
Newt does not believe there is a settled scientific conclusion about whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere.
Through his entire career, Newt has supported pro-market, pro-entrepreneur, innovative solutions to our environmental challenges, which he believes are superior to the liberal pro-bureaucracy, pro-tax, pro-regulation approach to the environment.
Newt believes that conservatives cannot be absent from the conversation about the environment and instead that conservatives must offer and explain why conservative solutions are better. Unfortunately, the attempt to get that message out through the ad with Nancy Pelosi failed. On November 8, 2011, Newt told FOX News’ Bret Baier that doing that commercial with Pelosi was “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve ever done”.
Newt will continue to oppose the Democrats’ destructive cap-and-trade and carbon tax proposals, continue to support expanded domestic oil and gas drilling, and continue to fight for a fundamental replacement of the job-killing Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency.
I don’t think anyone even knew who Nancy Pelosi was in 2007 when that ad was done. I think she had just recently been elected Speaker of the House after the Democrats took control in 2007 for the first time in almost 15 yeas. Certainly most of the things she is currently excoriated for by conservatives had not occured yet. She was just busy basking in the whole first female Speaker of the House limelight at that time.
Attacking Rick for his belief in contraception, which is conservative and grounded in logic, spirituality and tradition is stupid. Attacking him for his endorsement of Specter is also stupid. The two simply traded endorsements and Rick needed Specter’s endorsement to get elected in moderate Pennsylvania. What people do to get elected is different from how they govern. And the governing is where Rick needs his record analyzed. The fiscal conservatism does not seem to be there.
Rick’s views on contraception will sink him nationally. FYI Rick, women, even Republican women use and are happy to have the Pill. Most of us don’t want large broods—way too expensive these days.
Thank you for making my point! Hmmmmmmn, I wonder for what else your stellar knight would trade. Should he get the nomination, I would still vote for him knowing full well he's an establishment Republican but not as bad as Romney. But vote for Romney ........ Never!
“none of the conservative friends I have are writing Newt off or jumping to someone else”
Let’s take a look at Newt’s record:
How Conservative is Newt’s Actual Voting Record in the House (1979-1999) ?
Voted YES on the Reagan tax cut of 1981
Voted YES on the Reagan tax reform bill of 1986
Voted NO on the George H.W. Bush “Read My Lips” tax hike in 1990.
Voted NO on the Clinton tax hike in 1993.
Voted YES on the capital gains tax cut in 1997.
Voted NO on the Chrysler bailout in 1979
Voted YES on the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget bill in 1985
Voted YES on a balanced budget amendment (as part of the “Contract for America” effort that he led) in 1995
Led the effort and voted YES to cut $16.4 billion from the budget in 1995.
Voted YES on welfare reform in 1996
How much federal spending increased while Gingrich was Speaker of the House (1995-1999)?
Federal spending rose an average of 3.1% a year while he was Speaker - this is the lowest rate of spending growth over the last 30 years. Federal spending as a % of GDP fell from 21% to 18.5%, a whopping decline in 4 short years.
Under Obama, the federal spending has been rising at a whopping 8.6% a year.
“Gingrich is specific, has a great Plan for Energy which will mean JOBS, a balanced budget plan, 15% flat tax, and ways to cut spending to match revenue. He is Solid and Substantive.
We don’t need the Empty Suit in the White House, but we also don’t need to replace him with an Empty Sweater Vest.”
Great line, worth repeating.
Don’t panic, Folks. Newt will be back on Super Tuesday!
“Gingrich’s team acknowledges that February, with its handful of primaries and one debate, presents a challenge for the campaign. After stumbling in Nevada and Florida, Gingrich’s strategists huddled and decided to largely sit out the month, focusing instead on the slew of primaries set to be held on March 6, collectively known as “Super Tuesday.” It was agreed that Gingrich would campaign in states holding contests this month, but he would not, in his spending or public comments, bet his candidacy on Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona, or Michigan. The goal, advisers say, is to rebuild and sustain the campaign as it swirls through the Midwest, prepping for the southern states — Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana — that hold primaries in March.
“This is still very doable,” says J. C. Watts, a former congressman and prominent Gingrich supporter.
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