“This is a historic cultural fight for the very survival of American civilization,” said Gingrich, adding that President Barack Obama’s re-election “would be a disaster for our children and grandchildren.”
Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House, said that Obama’s administration offers the most radical leadership in modern American history and that “we need an administration which actually thinks religious liberty includes Christians and Jews.”
The Speaker said his decision to join the GOP presidential field was influenced by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance cannot be recited in schools because the statement “one national under God” equals government endorsement of a religion therefore violating separation of state and church."....Source
...............[WI campaign director Robert]”Lorge said that in conference calls with the national team there has been discussion about the possibility of consolidating Santorum and Gingrich delegates at the Republican National Convention in order to overcome Romney’s delegate math.
“I imagine there’s going to be a lot of negotiation and compromising between the pro-Newt Gingrich and the pro-Rick Santorum delegates,” he said. “You may have a Newt Gingrich-Rick Santorum ticket. You may have a Rick Santorum-Newt Gingrich ticket. Nobody knows how that ticket’s going to work out. But I imagine it’ll end up being something like that.”
Pointing to Gingrich’s accomplishments in the House, Lorge believes delegates will see that his candidate is the only one with the experience necessary to be the White House.
“America is a republic,” Lorge said. “We’re not a democracy. We don’t believe in mob rule. We hire people by electing them to represent us. We’re a representative democracy, that’s what we talk about. Our Founding Fathers were very wise in not having a straight, pure democracy. We have a republic for a reason so that wiser decisions, calm decisions can be made in the best interest of the nation as a whole and that is what Newt Gingrich is all about.”
The amount of chaos and strategy that would be involved in the open convention scenario is so mentally demanding that it’s hard to imagine any other candidate but Newt Gingrich believing it is possible.”....
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/03/30/gingrich-camp-talks-shared-ticket-santorum