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Newt won't campaign in Michigan
Politico ^ | 2-21-2012 | EMILY SCHULTHEIS

Posted on 02/21/2012 1:55:37 PM PST by Darren McCarty

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Newt Gingrich will not campaign in Michigan in advance of next Tuesday's primary there:

Spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed Monday night that the campaign is scrapping tentative plans to travel to Michigan at the end of the week ahead of the state’s Feb. 28 primary.

Gingrich is spending Tuesday and Wednesday in the other Feb. 28 primary — Arizona — but that is mostly for the sake of Wednesday night’s debate, and his public schedule will be light.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: adios; anyonebutromney; gingrich; mi2012; michigan; newt; newt4romney; newt4santorum; newtgingrich; primary; romney; stopromney; toast
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To: JediJones
LOL!

I remember the photo, that is what made me say it, I didn't anyone else would get it ROFLMAO !!!

41 posted on 02/21/2012 3:23:55 PM PST by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto
If Santorum does not win in Michigan it will seriously slow him down and will heavily reinforce Romney. It would be a bad result for all of us, Newt supporters included, to see Romney score a big win there.
42 posted on 02/21/2012 3:25:09 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: ReneeLynn
My complaint is that it's long been a two way race in Michigan. Santorum vs Romney. Newt's been campaigning elsewhere. That's just a statement of fact. I'm not going to into Georgia poll threads and attack Newt. I'm not attacked Newt himself. He never planned on contesting Michigan and even said he wasn't going to spend a lot of time here.

My concern is that right now the iron is hot to take out the worst one running in his birth state which knocks down the number one factor in most minds to Romney's support. Romney's running on being 'the electable one.' If he loses one of his major states - Utah, Michigan, Massachusetts, that argument goes out the window.

The previous threads with Michigan polls had a few individuals, who were Newt backers (wasn't you and the names there are clear to see in those threads), going all in ripping Santorum, spamming the threads. Then they put vanity posts up repeating some outright lies as well as media twists implying things that aren't the case. It was Romney level attacks.

That helps Romney, right at the chance to politically make him fight the rest of the way with a broken jaw.

43 posted on 02/21/2012 3:25:57 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Rick Santorum in the primary)
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To: taildragger

I just wish that was the other Rick in the Gilligan hat. I see him as Newt’s little buddy.


44 posted on 02/21/2012 3:27:49 PM PST by JediJones
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To: JediJones

You truely are a Jedi master.


45 posted on 02/21/2012 3:29:56 PM PST by dt57 (illerate, noobie....)
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To: taildragger

Rick Perry should be the guy who discovers the island while prospecting for oil. By the end of the episode he decides that these people drive him so crazy he’s going to leave them abandoned on the island.


46 posted on 02/21/2012 3:30:16 PM PST by JediJones (Watch "Gingrich to Michigan: Change or Die" on YouTube. Best Speech Ever!)
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

After February 28th, it’s out of my control. I don’t think Santorum has to win it, but he must come close. I think it can go either way.


47 posted on 02/21/2012 3:30:16 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Stop Romney - Rick Santorum in the Michigan primary)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Don’t you see? Romney is inevitable! Inevitable! Primaries, polls, caucuses, delegates, what are they all about. It’s been decreed. So it must be./s


48 posted on 02/21/2012 3:34:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Darren McCarty

If Sarah Palin’s movie was called “The Undefeated,” then Mitt Romney’s movie should be called “The Unelectable.”


49 posted on 02/21/2012 3:34:53 PM PST by JediJones (Watch "Gingrich to Michigan: Change or Die" on YouTube. Best Speech Ever!)
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To: WellyP

I assume the J.H. stands for Jon Huntsman,Sr?


50 posted on 02/21/2012 3:38:15 PM PST by conservativebuckeye
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To: Yashcheritsiy

“Newt won’t campaign in Michigan”

More brilliance from the “smartest guy in the room”. He will lose big in Michigan, so however he does he can say:

“We did better than expected, given that we didn’t campaign there - even though we came in dead last, it’s plainly obvious to any thinking human being that it’s time that every other candidate drops out and unite behind the most qualified candidate in the history of mankind. ME”


51 posted on 02/21/2012 3:44:39 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

Ditto all you said in post #32. Go Newt.


52 posted on 02/21/2012 3:49:01 PM PST by nurse-rn
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To: JediJones

Now THAT was funny!!!


53 posted on 02/21/2012 3:50:21 PM PST by MomwithHope (Buy and read Ameritopia by Mark Levin!)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

but every vote for him was a vote not for romney...maybe we see who is on romneys side after all


54 posted on 02/21/2012 3:53:17 PM PST by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: pgkdan

classy move? is that code for im gonna get my doors blown off and might finish fourth so lets come up with an excuse


55 posted on 02/21/2012 3:56:21 PM PST by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: VanDeKoik

Oh please VanDeKrank. I don’t see that Politico is Santorum’s people.

LOLLOLOLOL!

If you are too gone to see what Politico does, blame yourself, not anyone else.

Newt wasn’t interested in Michigan, he set up his own plan.


56 posted on 02/21/2012 3:57:13 PM PST by dforest
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To: dt57

Newt knows what he is doing

ya the guy who was way ahead and now barely holding off paul knows what he is doing


57 posted on 02/21/2012 3:58:23 PM PST by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: skaterboy

+1 that! I remember everyone laughing at the DUmmies saying that they just didn’t understand, Obama was playing three dimensional chess! Newt is not some master strategist, he knows he will lose to even the Paulbots there.


58 posted on 02/21/2012 4:07:44 PM PST by USAFJeeper (Who Dat Nation - Loving the Manning Face!)
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To: RFEngineer

Gee what an insightful post by you...not. At least put some effort into it next time and paste in some out-of-context quotes even if they have been thoroughly debunked with the facts.


59 posted on 02/21/2012 4:13:35 PM PST by JediJones (Watch "Gingrich to Michigan: Change or Die" on YouTube. Best Speech Ever!)
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

“And now Rick can’t blame Newt for splitting the anti-Romney vote.”

Saint Ricky will likely blame it on Satan.


60 posted on 02/21/2012 4:20:20 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. President Newt Gingrich--"Our beloved republic deserves nothing less.")
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