Jim Robinson
Maybe he should run for governor of Georgia?
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
A year into his first full-time teaching job, Newt Gingrich applied to be college president, submitting with his application a paper titled “Some Projections on West Georgia College’s Next Thirty Years.”
Newt Gingrich fashions himself as the history professor of the GOP presidential field. So what exactly was he like as an academic? Elizabeth Williamson on Lunch Break looks at West Georgia College, which employed the former Speaker in the late 1970s.
Mel Steely, a history professor who played a role in Mr. Gingrich’s hiring in 1970, said the bid drew “a chuckle” from administrators. The following year, Mr. Gingrich applied to be chairman of the history department. That wasn’t greeted so kindly, Mr. Steely said, with some favoring a longtime professor and World War II veteran.
“We weren’t going to make Newt our chairman, but he liked the idea of competing for almost anything,” said Mr. Steely, who later wrote a complimentary biography of Mr. Gingrich titled “The Gentleman From Georgia.” “He figured ‘I’m capable of doing this,’ and it didn’t bother him so much that it offended anybody.”
Mr. Gingrich often says his experience as a historian would make him a superior president. During Monday’s GOP debate, he lectured “as a historian” on “a fact-based model” for revamping Social Security, citing the success of programs in Galveston, Texas, and Chile.
Isn’t he from Pennsylvania & France?
Info ping.
I know this won’t rain on your parade, but the poll was taken the 6-8th. The 3-state sweep was on the 7th. The Landmark/Rosetta poll on the 9th shows Gingrich 35, Santorum 26. From what I have seen in polling from that time(in other states), that seems to be holding up in later polls by different vendors, Santorum jumped big when he showed he could take on Romney.
Newt just received another $10 million in campaign funds from his Nevada friends. Yay. He’s in it to win it.
the cowards know that Newt can get his big jump form us down here in the south and those snotty nosed elitist establishment figures can’t have the south raining on their parade.
No sir, who the hell does the south the base of conservatives think they are that they should pick the candidate, nope they have to have their north east guy at all costs.
I guess this time they couldn’t pack the debate hall like they did in north east FL, I guess that debates are too much for the cowards to debate in Newts backyard
The ruling class gives the finger to the South.
Southerners are America...
Almost fell outa my chair when I saw the headline for this thread. Nothing against Yankees mind you, but it’s a total joke to say Newt has “Georgia roots. He’s a pure Pennsylvania Yankee. He talks like a Yankee, he walks like a Yankee, and he probably has hash browns for breakfast instead of grits.
To make matters worse, Newt even carries a non-Southern surname, Gingrich. How many folks with that kinda Pennsylvania Dutch name are you gonna find in the north Georgia Blue Ridge, in the Okefenokee, or in the Savannah social directory?
Now of course, Newt might take most of the Georgia GOP delegates. More power to him if he does. But just don’t call him a “Georgia boy” or a “cracker” or a “redneck” or any other such term that we in the South wear with pride!
Here’s hoping the south will rise again.
The survey, conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., found Gingrich leading Romney 43 percent to 29 percent among likely voters in Georgia.
Santorum had 12 percent, while Paul trailed with 6 percent
Golly!!! Santorum is really surging at 12%.
Let’s get the Tennessee delegates out there as well as 52 is a pretty big lot to be had this time around.
It’s time Saint Rick dropped out of the race so the conservative vote can coalesce around a real conservative candidate.
I’m looking forward to Newt bringing the fight to Hussein, with all his historical *firsts*:
• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act
• First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels
• First President to issue an unlawful “recess-appointment” while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
• First President to Defy a Federal Judge’s Court Order to Cease Implementing the ‘Health Care Reform’ Law
• First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to “The DREAM Act”, which could not pass Congress
• First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party
• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on ‘Shovel-Ready’ Jobs — and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs
• First President to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air
• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters
• First President to sign into law a bill that permits the government to “hold anyone suspected of being associated with terrorism indefinitely, without any form of due process. No indictment. No judge or jury. No evidence. No trial. Just an indefinite jail sentence.”
• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat
• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases
• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler
• First President to “Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions”
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees
• First President to Terminate America’s Ability to Put a Man into Space.
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an ‘Auto-pen’ Without Being “Present”
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It
• First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory
• First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.
• First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)
• First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case
• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts
• First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil
• First President to Golf 90 or More Times in His First Three Years in Office
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.
Another recent poll showed Santorum in a pretty close second and Romney in a distant third.
This will probably be the only other state Gingrich wins, maybe Indiana where Santorum is not on the ballot.
“Southern Roots” Really?
How about telling me you’ll veto any bill that increases the Federal debt ceiling, hmm? That’s all I want to hear out of any politician’s mouth.
If “southern roots” are what people are going to vote on, then we deserve another 4 years of Obama.
Just Newt being Newt I guess.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/17/questions-surface-gingrich-campaign-travel-payment/
That’s a real OLD Poll. Not worth citing anymore.