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 ...
Gingrich is standing fine right now. So is Rick. I’d vote for either ... but we’d be better off with one or the other. Not both. One of them needs to get out of the way. Gingrich is the logical choice to move over and endorse. He can’t win.
I still don’t have a good answer to the question “If his own wife(s) can’t trust him, why should I?”
SnakeDoc
The last polls I saw had Rick Santorum leading in Texas. I think that was in late February, though.
SnakeDoc
If Newt had won seven states and Rick two while performing poorly in virtually all others, then NEWT would be my candidate right now. The system has been rigged (look at VA), so we need a one-on-one bout right now to focus people’s attention on the conservative v. liberal message. Mitt’s millions are saturating tight states, and side issues such as the fight for second need to end. Bob
Good to hear!
LLS
Romney has little chance in the deep south, a region of traditional values.
I thought Romney that did that by spending $17 million on negative ads against him in Florida.
You are entitled to your opinion.
There is little doubt that democrats are fueling Rick especially in places like Michigan and Ohio. It was a fact if you look at their blogs. The democrats really relish either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum. They fear Newt Gingrich. Is fairly plain for anyone who has followed politics for half a century like I have. The democrats have been setting up Romney for over a year. In the last couple of months they have pivoted to Rick Santorum to hedge their bets. Either one and it is a easy walk for Obama. Newt would kick butt, and they know it.
Jan. 31, 12
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“Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign announced a new television ad that will begin airing Tuesday in Colorado and Nevada.
The ad attacks Newt Gingrich as being too liberal for the GOP nomination by arguing that he shares many policy positions with President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “All three supported radical cap and trade legislation that would destroy American jobs and drive up energy costs. All three supported giving illegal aliens some form of amnesty. All three sported the government health mandates which take away our freedom and is the core of ObamaCare. And all three of these politician’s supported the Wall Street bailouts that was a slap in the face to the Tea Party,” the narrator says.
It goes on to refer to the trio as “cap and trade loving, bailout supporting, soft on immigration, big-government mandating politicians.” The commercial is a sharp indictment of Gingrich, with whom Santorum has split more conservative voters in early primary contests.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840754/posts
I am ‘all in’ for Newt. He can run and win this fall. Rick can’t, and I don’t care if Romney can or not. I can vote for Rick, but not Mitt.
I was just on a tele-conference with Newt. He wants to eliminate the departments of energy and education. He wants to streamline NASA and privatize large portions. He wants to turn back decisions to the states with block grants as they did with welfare reform, such a man of big ideas.
This is a tweet from Patrick Millsap, Newt’s campaign manager.
A just released video :
“Senator Santorum In His Own Words”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbCuLEe7Sw
WHY it's so difficult for others NOT to see and comprehend that still amazes me.
I guess it's probablty true. that it's NOT about solving problems with sound LEADERSHIP, but rather a popularity contest for the fatally hip
Is that right; wasn’t Newt a big backer of both the education and energy departments, but energy may have been there before he came to Congress.
He unlike others has seen the error of his ways.
Sarah Palin seems to be good at those.
Bruce is right about some Gingrich supporters, and the same could be said for a fair number of Santorum supporters.
I believe it was CharlesWayneCT, or perhaps writer33, who posted polling data several weeks ago on voters’ second choices. Do we have any current polling data on second choices?
That might help answer the question of whether a two-candidate or three-candidate race is best to defeat Romney.
Note that in the article that generated this very thread, Newt Gingrich said all the candidates have strengths and weaknesses and the current vetting process is helpful. I was saying that weeks ago when Free Republic was filling up with calls for Santorum to drop out. I believed that then, I think I still believe it even after Super Tuesday, and while a major loss for Gingrich throughout the Deep South could change my mind, I think Gingrich has a good chance to win the south.
Since we don't yet have that vote data and won't for some time (possibly too late), what we really need now is polling data on second choices.
79 posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 4:05:20 PM by central_va (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.): “Might as well turn this thing into a regional thing and kick off the next Civil War. Newt should run to be the second President of the CSA.”
Please, no.
We have enough problems in the conservative movement without neo-Confederate linkages.
I think Newt Gingrich would agree.
You're welcome to your opinion. I may even agree on families being of minimal relevance in the real world (except that severely dysfunctional families are an indicator of lack of ability to lead one’s own home).
However, most politicians make quite a point of emphasizing their families. I can't think of any local or state candidate I've known since the 1980s who hasn't focused on their family unless there was something seriously wrong at home, and the same is usually true for federal candidates, especially when campaigning in conservative areas to conservative family-oriented audiences.
It's just the way it's done.
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