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Gingrich campaigns across Alabama stressing Southern roots, familiarity with grits (Pokes Romney)
WaPo ^ | Updated: Saturday, March 10, 3:05 PM

Posted on 03/10/2012 2:25:44 PM PST by Red Steel

DOTHAN, Alabama — Republican Newt Gingrich is counting on a win in Alabama’s primary Tuesday.

The former House speaker attended five campaign events Saturday and stressed his Southern connections. Gingrich served 20 years in Congress from Georgia and won that state’s primary last Tuesday.

Gingrich poked at top rival Mitt Romney, who drew snickers last week when he told a campaign audience he’d eaten cheesy grits for breakfast. Gingrich said familiarity with grits is essential to understanding Southern culture.

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1 posted on 03/10/2012 2:25:52 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
Santorum should drop out. It's the honorable thing to do.

</preemptive "Gingrich should drop out" post.

2 posted on 03/10/2012 2:28:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopaths.)
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To: Red Steel
Newtonian Hiku:

Gingrich can

Crush the opposition

Like Genghis Kahn


3 posted on 03/10/2012 2:32:45 PM PST by garjog
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To: Red Steel
My mom was born an raised in Key West Fl. There was an old song? Rhyme maybe? That went. Key West, Key West, Key West High. Grits and grunts and coconut pie. Key West, Key West, Key West High!

Now I know something about grits and grunts(a small pan fish which are plentiful around the Fla. Keys) and I would guarantee you that Mitt Romney has NO idea what they are or how good they are with fried fish.

4 posted on 03/10/2012 2:33:20 PM PST by mc5cents
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To: Red Steel

I hope he doesn’t tucker himself out campaigning or this might happen again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW23ul5uv8

Think about it. Obama just has to be as boring as Panetta and can lull Newt to sleep (literally).


5 posted on 03/10/2012 2:35:09 PM PST by parksstp (I pick RIck! (If he's good enough for Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, he's good enough for me))
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To: Red Steel
GO NEWT!
6 posted on 03/10/2012 2:37:56 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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GO Alabama!
FOR NEWT!

The Place for Conservatives
WooHoo!!


7 posted on 03/10/2012 2:39:31 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx
Yes..... GO NEWT!
8 posted on 03/10/2012 2:39:44 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: parksstp

Nah, doing the Reagan winks are OK. But playing footsie with Babs and Hilly is...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/06/santorum_touts_work_with_barbara_boxer_hillary_clinton_in_2006_ad.html


9 posted on 03/10/2012 2:41:29 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: garjog

With Santorum grabbing more primary votes, it looks like it may end up with Gingrich conceding and at the same time spearheading his campaign. It is not what I would have wished, I was rooting for Newt, but I hope both take the need to win this thing from both Mitt and Barack seriously enough to do what’s wisest.


10 posted on 03/10/2012 2:41:42 PM PST by raccoonnookkeeper
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To: raccoonnookkeeper

The wisest thing may just be a brokered convention.

I’m not sure ... just saying maybe.


11 posted on 03/10/2012 2:43:52 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Red Steel
ROMNEY RINO REDNECK, MITT TRIES TO FIT
12 posted on 03/10/2012 2:45:36 PM PST by FrankR
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To: Red Steel

Grits tasted like Cream of Wheat to me. Given a choice I’d take the wheat over the corn.


13 posted on 03/10/2012 2:47:46 PM PST by newzjunkey (Santorum: 18-point loss, voted for Sotomayor, proposed $550M on top of $900M Amtrak budget...)
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To: newzjunkey

You ain’t doin it right.

Put the grits on a plate, add salt and pepper, top it with two fried eggs (over easy) and dig in. Ain’t nutthin better. Don’t fergit the bisket.


14 posted on 03/10/2012 2:53:52 PM PST by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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To: Red Steel

Fried chicken, turnip or collard greens, black eyed peas, grits, sweetened ice tea, fried okra and squash, mash potatoes, corn bread, peach cobbler, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, country ham, hush puppies, succotash, mint julep, chicken fried steak, buttermilk biscuits, pimento cheese, deep fried catfish, fried green tomatoes, butter beans, pinto beans, boiled peanuts, and green beans.

Did I miss anything?


15 posted on 03/10/2012 2:59:39 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Red Steel

Worse than Newt playing footsie with Nancy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154


16 posted on 03/10/2012 3:06:37 PM PST by parksstp (I pick RIck! (If he's good enough for Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, he's good enough for me))
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To: Jack Hydrazine

stop stop......now I am homesick!


17 posted on 03/10/2012 3:06:50 PM PST by Reily
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Damn, youre making me hungry.


18 posted on 03/10/2012 3:07:13 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Whatchu mean, “sweetened ice tea?”

They call it SWEET-TEA in Alabama!! BEST stuff in the world .... will put plenty of pounds on ya, too, along with the BBQ.


19 posted on 03/10/2012 3:08:30 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: parksstp
"...Obama just has to be as boring as Panetta and can lull Newt to sleep..."

Ooooh I hope not! Something about Leon Panetta, do any of your remember the "stroke of a pen" remark and what it pertained to? The photo-ops were taken overlooking the Grand Canyon but the damage was done to Utah's Grand Escalante Staircase and the soft coal beneath that land. Clinton's friends in Indonesia, the Raidy family now held the key to the riches from Soft Coal production, the one coal permitted to be burned in America. Leon Panetta was Clinton's Chief of Staff.

(a refresher course) .....CLEAN COAL, DIRTY CLINTONS

How can you sell-out your country to foreign interests and have it appear to be a courageous act of environmental protection? The clintons show you how....

20 posted on 03/10/2012 3:09:15 PM PST by yoe
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