Posted on 03/01/2012 2:46:15 PM PST by Red Steel
ATLANTA — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spoke in front of a different kind of crowd Thursday — a crowd of more than 600 people, many of whom have personally known Gingrich and his career for years. He told them he was “counting on his many friends” in Georgia.
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...pressed him on his strategy and how...
“I have to win Georgia I think to be credible in the race,” Gingrich said.
He told the crowd his real challenge for the nomination is getting past the Republican Party establishment.
“My primary problem isn’t beating Obama. Beating Obama will be easy. Obama is a disaster,” Gingrich said. “He is an incompetent radical. You can’t be both. The country will tolerate an incompetent pleasant person or they will tolerate a radical but they aren’t going to tolerate someone who doesn’t get it. The Republican Party just doesn’t get it. That’s why I am running. ”
Gingrich quoted a Bible verse from Proverbs, “Without vision, the people parish,” as he insisted that the Republicans have failed to provide vision.
“For 14 years-let’s be clear-they tried managing big government. That’s not possible. And if Romney wins, he will discover it’s not possible. Because the fact is, big government is inherently antithetical to the entire Republican Party,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich took the opportunity at a chamber of commerce event to hit Rick Santorum, his threat in the southern states, and leveled attacks against Mitt Romney.
“I don’t think the other candidates in the end are particularly relevant. I mean, one of them may win because money matters but I don’t think they are relevant because they are just politics, they are just the same old baloney. One is Massachusetts’s moderate baloney, the other is Pennsylvania big labor baloney but they are baloney,” Gingrich said.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure he didn't say that. I think Gingrich knows how to spell.
Or, maybe he's talking about a blind section of Louisiana?
As one British politician said recently, it is hard to explain something to somebody, when it is in their best interest to not get it.
My baloney has a first name, it’s W-I-L-L-A-R-D.
C’mon Newt, you and Rick on the same team.
Too bad the GOP-E don’t ‘parish’ away.
Nobody has a solid hold on the outcome yet. Newt has been very active in all the States that vote then and has been keeping his name in the headlines, fighting Obama’s recent escapades. It has to help. How much, remains to be seen.
Funny way of showing it.
That’s an understatement if I ever heard one!
It is, obviously, the reporter and editor who are semi-literate....unless Newt was spelling out his words as he spoke.
Newt....still the smartest and most conservative man in any room.
If you read that article, he “undercut” Gingrich by going to Georgia and telling people to vote for himself. Oh, he said he was the best person for the race, which “clearly” meant he was saying Gingrich wasn’t.
So apparently, we’ve once again been fooled by the liberal headlines. Unless you actually think that Santorum should be telling people in Georgia that Gingrich is the best man for the Presidency.
On the other hand, I didn’t see anything in Gingrich’s remarks that were untoward or unexpected regarding Santorum either. I expect the candidates to sell themselves, and to contrast their vision and experience with the other candidates.
And they are NOT on the same team. They are each trying to win the presidency. WE are on the same team — we want to defeat Romney. But that isn’t the PRIMARY goal of either Santorum or Gingrich — they want to actually WIN the presidency, not just stop Romney.
Gingrich is a loose cannon, but when he’s on point, he’s spot on. And unlike the others, clearly makes his case.
I’m still voting Gingrich in Ohio, but I’m voting for whoever the nominee is in the general.
~Newt Gingrich
HA! Had this tagline for over a week.
That’s a great picture. Can you help me out a little?
Chuck Norris
JC Watts
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Fred Thompson
Newt
Rick Perry
Herman Cain
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Thanks!
That’s Michael Reagan next to Herman Cain.
Next to Herman Cain is, I believe, Michael Reagan. I don’t know the identities of the two women.
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