~Newt Gingrich
Posted on 03/07/2012 10:33:59 AM PST by VinL
Newt Gingrich is canceling campaign events scheduled for Kansas at the end of the week to shore up support in the Deep South. The former House speaker plans to pour his time and resources into Alabama and Mississippi.
“Everything between Spartanburg all the way to Texas, those all need to go for Gingrich,” said campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond.
The candidate’s bus, his rallies and campaign events will be trained on a southern strategy...
Campaign aides also brushed off suggestions by supporters of Rick Santorum that Gingrich drop out...
“All of the logic being used by the Santorum campaign is simply reversed and it could be used on Rick Santorum,” Hammond said. “We’ll argue, Santorum is splitting Mitt Romney’s moderate vote.”
The GOP primary will go on for many more months, Hammond said. “We’ll stick in the race.”
In a radio interview Wednesday morning, Gingrich himself made clear that he has no plans to get out of the Republican primary, allowing Santorum to face Romney in a head-to-head match up.
“If I thought he was a slam dunk to beat Romney and to beat Obama, I would really consider getting out. I don’t,” Gingrich said on Bill Bennett’s “Morning in America” radio show Wednesday. “I think each of the three candidates has strengths and weaknesses and that this is a very healthy vetting process.”
Gingrich described himself as a “tortoise” moving slowly but steadily toward the nomination as he hailed his victory in Georgia on Super Tuesday.
Gingrich was greeted in Montgomery by an enthusiastic crowd in the downtown Renaissance Hotel, where a banner hung reading “Promise of a Newt Day.” ...
Gingrich looks at the Republican strongholds of Alabama and Mississippi as “Gingrich country” — places “where you can sniff out what a conservative is,” Hammond said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yeah, I understand. That’s politics.
This is funny in more ways than one. Why is he standing at a 12.5 degree angle from the vertical?
~Newt Gingrich
Vin, we've been through this before. He did. Gingrich declined.
Paying Newt to be beat up by millions in lying negative ads? Come on now...use your brain.
Newt likely still has the big Mo after Super Tuesday. Santo was lucky that Gingrich didn’t have another week in campaigning before March 6 as Newt would have flipped Oklahoma and made Santo sweat in Tennessee.
Ok, I will put it another way. I look at Gingrich and Santorum, and I see a man and a boy. One, who has accomplished great things for this country, a proven leader. In the other I see an aspiring politician who maybe can lead but is unproven.
I look at Gingrich and Romney and I see one who is a proven leader,and American historian and patriot. The other I see as Obama lite and a used car salesman.
I'm just saying this is no time for guess work. It's no time to have noobs in training. I am going with Gingrich who has proven that he can lead.
Do you think Bob Dole will come out in person Saturday for Romney? A lot of KS people are establishment Republicans and have been for generations going back to Alf Landon.
Newt is a better debater than Rick. Rick is a better man than Newt.
SnakeDoc
I’m with Newt. If he were to drop out before my state goes, I’m skipping the primary because I don’t like the libertarian or the two RINOs. Will vote for whomever the GOP puts against Obama in the general election.
I have a vague recollection of some discussion in that regard, but if memory serves, I requested evidence of Newt’s refusal to debate- none was forthcoming. If you have that evidence, I would be pleased if you would present.
There’s public record that Rick ran from the ga debate- and, public record that he’s uncertain if he has the courage to to face Newt in the Oregon debate. I understand- he’s not a great debater- and his last debate in Arizona was difficult for him. I don’t blame him for avoiding them- smart politics.
Anyway, if you have a source that demonstrates that Newt declined to debate Rick- I’d love to see it. Thanks.
Always happy to share the love...
Do you think Bob Dole will come out in person Saturday for Romney? A lot of KS people are establishment Republicans and have been for generations going back to Alf Landon.
That is an awful thought. Of course all the other RINOs supported Romney so why not him. Actually I don’t know if he was a RINO or not but if he endorses Romney I will think he is.
Pretty sly, Joe. You say Newt declined the Lincoln Douglas Debate, but you failed to mention the fact that Newt had already “carried” Rick in a “one on one” debate.
Obviously Newt declined so as not to embarrass junior again.
Look, there’s not a person on the Board who doesn’t know that rickie doesn’t want to debate Newt— let’s just accept the facts and leave it there, my friend.
-:)
"Carried"?!?!? Have you watched the so-called debate on You-Tube? Not the case at all, but since I've had to explain it so many times already, one more is not an issue.
Newt and Rick had a sit-down round table in NH back in early November. At the time, neither was doing well in the polls, and both were trying to get any notice they could with Cain getting all the attention at the time. While it was called a "debate," it was really little more than a polite, general discussion of the issues.
As November moved on, Cain started taking hits and falling in the polls. At the same time, Newt started making his debate prowess the centerpiece of his campaign, and he started touting how he would follow Obama around the country from campaign stop to campaign stop. Newt challenged Romney trying to get some more traction, but Romney turned him down. Newt agreed to a one-on-one with Huntsman, which was not a sit-down roundtable, but a formal debate. Rick challenged Newt to the same type venue, and Newt declined.
There's no way to spin that.
While it was called a “debate,” it was really little more than a polite, general discussion of the issues.
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Forget it joe— I saw the Newt/Cain and Newt/ Huntsman “debates”, and they were as above described— as would any 1 on 1 against Rick.
Anyway, on a thread I just posted, ricky just backed off asking Newt to withdraw. Joe, doesn’t he ever stand his ground? -:)
Newt declines debate with Santorum "because they already had one" = OK
Santorum declines debate with Newt "because they already had one"(and Rick asked for a second) = Rick running away
That's Kucinich logic.
That will be too late, and everyone knows it. Romney will be fitted for his crown by the Ca. primary if Newt remains a stalking horse credible only to the unsophisticated.
That’s right. As you state, the “debate” Rick asked for was- by your own words a “love fest”— no cowards in a love fest.
We all know that Rick is backing down because debates at this stage are wars— as ricky saw in Ar.
Go to a Santorum town meeting, and you will feel foolish. Rick is tough as nails, and is a lone wolf fighting for our freedom and individual sovereignty. Bob
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