Posted on 03/04/2012 8:16:24 AM PST by VinL
Newt Gingrich cited Rick Santorum's come-from-nowhere campaign wins last month as justification for plowing ahead with his own flagging presidential campaign.
"I'm taking Rick Santorum's advice," Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, said Sunday on CNN. "He stayed in, he was running fourth in every single primary, suddenly he very cleverly went to three states nobody else went to, and he became the media darling and bounced back."
Mr. Gingrich said he is optimistic two days before Super Tuesday, when voters will go to the polls in 10 states, including Georgia, where the former congressman's political career began.
"I'm very confident in the largest state that will vote on Tuesday, Georgia, which has more delegates than any other state, we're going to win a very decisive victory. We're going to do well in Tennessee, Oklahoma and Ohio, and many other states. I'm happy to continue."
Mr. Gingrich brushed aside host Candy Crowley's questions about the controversy surrounding radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who apologized Saturday for using inappropriate language to describe a student who testified in a congressional hearing in support of the Obama health care act.
"The Republican Party has four people running for president, none of whom is Rush Limbaugh...
He said Mr. Limbaugh's apology was appropriate, but Mr. Gingrich continued his criticism of an apology that President Obama issued to calm anti-American riots that erupted after the inadvertant burning of Korans by U.S. forces at an Afghanistan base.
"I don't believe the president saved lives by what he did," Mr. Gingrich said.
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I understand where you are coming from, but you seem to be out to lunch as to why Newt isn’t popular with the majority of voters right now.
1994 is a long time ago, the average voter doesn’t know or care. In the last few years Newt has posed on a couch with Nancy and renounced Reagan.
I will give you thw words I hear regarding Newt
a braggart
authoritarian
opportunist
Hate to say it, but if people didn’t think that, he would be winning now.
Agree, Santorum is no fiscal conservative and his progressive income tax plan proves that. Santorum mostly enjoys Huckabee evangelical support to the detriment of fixing the economy with Newt’s plan, the most conservative solution.
Newt’s plan is the most conservative economic solution.
Bingo.
First of all, I don’t need to read his record as he was my Senator for 12 years. I think he is incredible and did a super job for Pennsylvania. He voted with the party on some votes and he voted for Unions in Pennsylvania because Pennsylania is a union state and does not have right to work at this time. This was back when union was not an evil word.
As far as your notion that families don’t matter....bull crap. They are the number one importance. The reason that Italy and others are not does well is because they are NOT having children. They are dying on the vine and people like you would love for that to happen to America. You sound like a fiscal person but not much of a social conservative. From the sounds of your post, you clearly are pro-choice.
Family values are the core of the America and you either need to get on board or you will be disappointed on Tuesday. Newt will win ONE STATE on Tuesday and that is it. ONE STATE and he thinks that is all he needs. ONE STATE!!!!! Well I guess if he is that delusional, I can’t stop him and you guys are eating it up. 23 states including Super Tuesday will be done and Newt will have 2 wins out of 23 states.....Not good at all.
Family values are the most important issue we have. The problem is that we as a country have brought in divorce, abortion and other ills into society and that is why we are broke!!!!
I will give you [sic]thw words I hear regarding Newt:a braggart, authoritarian,opportunist
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I’ve heard the same about Rick, Mitt and Barrack. I think it comes with the territory when one seeks the presidency. What’s your point?
Secondly, I can’t reply to you when your argument is “he’s on a couch wt pelosi”; “renounced Reagan”; “braggart; opportunist; authoritarian”. Such comments are merely subjective negative characterizations- having nothing to do with his governing record. For myself, I’m not going to “go negative” on the other candidates- I simply remain positive for Newt. —
But that aside, pragmatically, a purported, opportunistic, authoritarian braggart who renounced Reagan and sat on Pelosi’s couch could still be the best man to reverse socialism in 2013- Could he not?
Finally, as for those who “don’t know or care” that he changed the course of the nation in 1994 in a conservative direction; well then, it seems a shame that some people vote with no knowledge or historical perspective.
Certainly, you would agree that someone who actually turned back socialism in 1994; would be a good candidate to do the same in 2013.
You cannot deny what people outside of FR think. This is but a snippet of what voters out there think.
You can’t bring up 1994 and forget the Newt since 1994.
None of these guys are perfect. I myself don’t dislike Newt. He is smart and a good historian, but I doubt he, or Santorum, are going to be able to win this thing as long as they both stay in it.
The worse part is if one dropped out and Romney ran away with it, which could happen.
They can do one thing though, they can be a thorn in the side of Mitt and the GOP.
May be the only small pleasure we will get.
They could simply scare the livin hell out of the establishment by holding a private meeting somewhere between themselves. The pure speculation would be a site to behold.
Santorum had Michigan locked up. Then he blew the debate by focusing on contraceptives/the intricacies of Senate votes/”taking one for the team”, continued to go off message and put his foot in his mouth, and then failed to get enough “Reagan Democrats” (which were in fact union members organized by Democrat strategists for the purpose of dragging Santorum across the finish line so Obama could cream him in the fall). He has nobody to blame but himself.
You cannot deny what people outside of FR think.
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My views aren’t formed by what others think-
Well said.
Those are some awfully big assumptions you’re making to win your argument.
Again, please, elaborate: What ARE family values? So far, I have from you: anti-divorce, anti-abortion. Like you, I believe both of those things have hurt America, and I think objection to both of those things fall under the purview of Christian values. But FRiend, if you were able to all of the sudden legislate human nature to make divorce and abortion disappear tomorrow, the price of gas would STILL be close to $5 a gallon.
You are "thinking" with your emotions, and I think you are doing it in no small part because it lets you feel morally superior to others. STOP IT and start using logic and reason. REDUCE GOVERNMENT if you want a more moral society. Electing a Church Lady holier-than-thou moralizing president is the wrong way to go about reducing government.
FRiend, you are so wrong, so far off base, that it would be funny if it wasn't so disgusting. I have been writing about the destruction of divorce and the destructiveness of feminizing American males for YEARS on FR. Furthermore, I come from a very large, very close family, and I live in a neighborhood with lots and lots of kids, and the kids' presence here is one of the main things that make this neighborhood so attracive. I know EVERY BIT AS WELL AS YOU, how much families matter and there is every possiblity that I know it BETTER than you.
I also know, however, that families are only a PART of the whole picture, and that ONLY arrogant, snotty, mean people flaunt their family in the faces of those not blessed likewise in order to make those people perceive that they're less valuable to society.
You need a good swift kick in the ass, and I can think of a lot of good, upright, family men who would love to give it to you for being so self-righteous.
I have been writing about the destruction of divorce and the destructiveness of feminizing American males for YEARS on FR.
Well I don’t know how you think I could know that. The only response I was giving to you was from the post you gave me which just sounded so anti-family that I was actually taken aback from it. I am grateful that you are giving your opinion on various destruction of American males and what goes along with it. I just hadn’t had the opportunity to see any of them. Anyway, good luck tomorrow and may the best candidate win. Take care FRiend.
Godspeed Newt Gingrich.
I'm starting to see why so many have views that differ from you. Using phrases like "little Newt" and such, while ignoring that your guy really has performed pretty bad in the locked in delegates area and his best arguments seem to ape Newt. I'm guessing you bought into all the trash talk about Newt and/or have a single-issue standard for who you'll support, or you wouldn't be so stuck on Rick.
Results are what matters and Santorum will win at least 3 states tomorrow. Gingrich will win 1 for a total of 2 states in 23 states. That is a horrible record.
GOP Needs Brokered Primary Now! Rick as temp Placekeeper Nominee; Decide Final Nominee @ Convention
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