Gingrich to packed house: Wal-Mart must be empty

Fox ^ | 3-10-12 | Lyn

[VinL]

There was an overflow crowd greeting Newt Gingrich when he arrived at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in the southeast corner of Alabama on Saturday.

Looking over the hundreds of people packed into the gallery area and spilling down the steps in the main lobby, Gingrich enthused, "What a crowd. I'm really impressed. There must be no one left at Wal-Mart this afternoon."

[Oztrich Boy]

“I didn’t sit on the couch with anybody,” Santorum said. “I would only sit on the couch with my wife. Period. No other women — particularly not Nancy Pelosi.”

So that's what the kids called it in Rick's day?

"Eriksen man are hella fertile. When Uncle Morris was 16, he got his girlfriend pregnant just by holding her hand too tight in the backseat of a car. Now I'm thinking my parents lied to me." - Marshall How I met Your Mother

[true believer forever]

The next 72 hours are crucial to Newt’s campaign, please, everyone, do everything you can for Newt through the weekend and Monday. Making calls is very very important, and today the calls were about 10% more pro-Newt than they were yesterday, and we need to keep building on that.

some of the phoners are exhausted, and even if you just make 10 calls EACH DAY, it would give someone a little break. ......Today the phone banks were jammed, but the weekend is when everyone tends to have other things to do. PLEASE HELP NEWT!!

From Newt 2012: friday

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Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows, March 11th:
ABC’s “This Week” - Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum; Govs. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., and Martin O’Malley, D-Md.; Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

CBS’ “Face the Nation” - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; Robert Gibbs, adviser to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign;

CNN’s “State of the Union” - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

[Marguerite]

“Rick has paraded his wife and kids out as a personal testament to his supposed unblemished life, while he has continued to make unChristian remarks about Newt’s past.”

EXACTLY.
He’s acting like a disgusting worm. There is not a bit of difference between him and Mitt. They are both sleazy.

[Yashcheritsiy]

I totally disagree that this was a dig at Gingrich’s many marriages and affairs.

What's funny is that for the past fifteen years, Newt has been as happily and faithfully married as either Santorum or romney.

It's a dead issue, people. People can change. Newt did. Get over it. Stop being sanctimonious little holier-than-thous.

[Bizhvywt]

“Is anyone sick of this arrogant, phony, baiting little attorney/politician/xsenator?”

Totally sick of him. His surge in popularity has brought out his true colors.

I’m a born again Christian and I don’t want to be lectured to about Christian values by someone who does not even tithe. I already have a pastor that I am happy with, thank you very much. What I want is a leader who can roll back the communist takeover of this great country.

Go Newt!

[berdie]

Wives are absolutely not fair game. No one, no one has said a word about Callista. /s

[Marguerite]

“SEVENTEEN robocalls, all treacherous against Newt”

From Mitt or Rick?

[gitmogrunt]

Nothing to do with condescension, it's because most everything Walmart has to sell is Made In China, Newt wants to start up American Manufacturing.

Ask me how I know, I work at America 4th largest seaport and I know where the containers are coming from and going to.....

Made in the U.S.A. has to make a comeback.

[combat_boots]

Well, I will say that Newt’s 2nd wife has not fared too well. Sorry about that.

[dforest]

He doesn’t have to STFU to please you. You sound like the leftists after Limbaugh.

As far as I know, at least for now, a person is able to speak their mind.

[dforest]

Well if they have, I haven’t seen it.

[CT Hillbilly]

we live in the woods in CT and there is NOTHING else to do except go to WalMart. It’s not fishing season yet, speedway is still closed-what else is there to do on a Saturday-and it’s the only store in town!
No malls here, Sears left, no movie theatre, and you can only go to CVS and Tractor Supply so many times....so us average Joes actually get what Newt means.We aren’t and never will be the country club type.

I don’t call myself a hillbilly for nothing; I know what I am and am proud of it....WalMart is a form of entertainment here and a place to run into folks.

[Sammie42]

Both Santorum and Romney. I had been trying to keep an open mind until this election cycle hit Alabama. At the Newt rally today I signed up as a local supporter for whatever they need me to do. Get out there folks, don’t sit back

[VinL]

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE GINGRICH CAMPAIGN RESPONDED TO THE CANDIDATE’S COMMENTS BY TELLING A FOX NEWS PRODUCER QUOTE, “YOU ARE ASSUMING PEOPLE ARE ASHAMED OF SHOPPING AT WAL-MART.”

[Bobbisox]

I agree. I wish all the derogatory comments about Mr. Newt would just stop. I do not like Romney or Santorum for all the right reasons. Mr. Newt is trying very hard to be positive in his speeches, and his ads. Why is it that after Santorum wins a caucus, he comes out disparaging Mr. Newt.

Santorum has such a poor legislative record, he cannot talk about it, except to lie, and to take credit for what Mr. Newt accomplished. He was part of the big-spending compassionate conservatives that ran up an enormous debt and now wants to make believe he is our salvation. Santorum will loose to Obama and so will Romney. Mr. Newt will whip Obama’s ugly butt and shame him back to Illinois where he belongs.

[CatherineofAragon]

"It was not ABOUT shopping at Walmart versus another store, it was about (the whole crowd) shopping at Walmart for the afternoon versus doing another local ACTVITY. HE sounds like he thinks that's all there is to do in saying what he said, even though it may not be the case that it's what he thinks. And given that Calista outwardly prefers high-end stores (much moreso than the other candidates' wives,) I just think it may have hurt him more than it helped him."

In my experience, women are the ones who want the expensive clothes and jewelry. Men, even those with money, don't care nearly as much about that sort of thing. So I wouldn't judge Newt by Calista's tastes. Maybe she does lust after Tiffany items, and maybe he's glad to buy them for her, but it doesn't mean his tastes are the same.

I'm a Newt supporter, and I shop at our Walmart stores all the time. I'm not offended by what he said.

[lightman]

OK, y’all: I am an occasional WalMart shopper and Mrs. l~ is a Walmart regular.

But I still wouldn’t find that line funny on either side of the Mason-Dixon coming from the lips of any candidate.

[berdie]

I have, Dforest.

The folks against Newt bring up Newt’s past marital disgressions ad nauseum.

Callista has received some very harsh treatment.

[SwampFoxOfVa]

Drag racing the carts is OK, it’s the bumper cars that they really frown upon. :-)

FYI I have to use a cart when I shop

SF

[CatherineofAragon]

"What's funny is that for the past fifteen years, Newt has been as happily and faithfully married as either Santorum or romney.

It's a dead issue, people. People can change. Newt did. Get over it. Stop being sanctimonious little holier-than-thous."

Exactly. Newt found Christianity and says he has repented, and has been redeemed. Why don't we believe him?