He didn’t say that. It was sarcasm, sorry it has to be explained multiple times.
I provided the quote which formed the basis of my parody, where Newt mocked Santorum for his victories: “suddenly he very cleverly went to three states nobody else went to, and he became the media darling and bounced back.”
So you take Newt’s actual quote, you step back, and you think “why did “nobody else” go to those states? And you speculate that maybe nobody thought they mattered. Nobody cared. Gingrich obviously didn’t care to go to those states. Hence, the parody of his words, that anybody can win the backward states that nobody goes to, if they go there when nobody else does.
Maybe Newt’s statement is funny enough on his own. I brought it up because Kansas was another state that Gingrich was essentially ignoring, even though he actually did OK there. Worse, if he had actually competed there, he might well have kept Romney from getting any delegates, which is the real point right, to stop Romney? And yet time and again, Gingrich does things that help Romney get delegates.
In Alaska, a caucus state, he didn’t ask his caucus supporters to switch to Santorum to beat Romney. In Georgia, where Santorum only needed 3600 more votes to break 20% and take 4 or more delegates from Romney, Gingrich actually ran Robocalls not against Romney, but against Santorum, denying him the 20% and throwing more delegates to Romney.
In Kansas, by staying out, he made it easy for Romney to get 20%, and get delegates. In other states, it wasn’t Gingrich’s fault, but his supporters didn’t get the imaginary memo about stopping Romney, and voted for Gingrich who won nothing, but allowed Romney to win and take more delegates.
I would think that the six Romney delegates in KS are in some ways old timers casting a parting vote for their Bob Dole.
Bingo! Things he's done recently like running ads against Santorum in MS & AL just doesn't make sense. He knows Romney's the guy with the most delegates, the guy they need to stop.
Then with that whole bit about staying in, win or lose, was just bizarre.