Posted on 02/28/2012 8:54:42 PM PST by Red Steel
Dalton, Ga. - There was a new song blaring from the speakers at Newt Gingrich's rally Tuesday morning: Rick Derringer's "Real American," the theme song from Hulk Hogan's iconic World Wrestling Federation days. "I am a real American, fight for what's right, fight for your life!" go the lyrics.
Newt Gingrich is fighting for his political life in his home state of Georgia, where he needs to win 50 percent of the vote on primary day to secure all 76 delegates and catch up in the delegate race. He emphasized to the crowd of over 500 people that he is running on a platform of "really big ideas" in a country with a tradition of visionaries like Abraham Lincoln and his pledge to build a transcontinental rail road and the Wright Brothers who dreamed of human flight.
Gingrich portrayed rival Mitt Romney as a candidate with a small vision. "I was describing the other week some ideas, and Romney said, ‘You know, boy, if somebody came to him with ideas like that he would have fired him," he recounted. "Someone in Chattanooga said to me this morning, he said you know, Romney was the kind of guy who would fire Christopher Columbus," Gingrich said to widespread laughter in the audience.
Gingrich continued, "While the cynics, and the quote, realists, ridicule vision. I believe in the Bible: Without vision the people perish."
Red gasoline cans with Newt stickers were placed at the guest sign-in table to collect small donations, and the candidate, who is focusing his campaign on a pledge to bring the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon, blasted the critics who call his energy proposal a "fantasy."
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I want to see Newt take on Obama as if Newt were the front runner. I want him out of any philosophical weeds and in the nitty gritty on jobs, the economy, foreign policy, and energy policy. In so doing he stays on point and obliterates the opponents.
>> his home state of Georgia, where he needs to win 50 percent of the vote
I hope for our sake Georgia delivers.
It is almost like part of the country is asleep while allowing us to have Romney as the selection as the country is being transformed. I thought the people wanted changes but it’s becoming scary to think people do not want to get out of their comfort zones. Newt was right when he said the media didn’t want his message to get out. He has to be on topic and in the news.
Sometime, in the future, the conservatives need to begin a conservative/limited government guided by the constitution party. These other 2 party system is not for reforms and we will never get that with this corrupt media system. Mitt, Rick, will go along with the same. Newt has the experience to get new plans in place. I want Newt to keep fighting.
“Without vision, the people perish.” My mother used to say that, indeed my my mother would have steadfastly supported Newt from day #1.
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