Posted on 03/13/2012 10:17:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
March 13, 2012 Gingrich Is in No Hurry to Bow Out Even After Falling Short of Double Wins in Deep South, Former Speaker Still Sees a Way to Push Fight to the Convention
By JANET HOOK and DANNY YADRON
BILOXI, Miss.—Even as pressure mounts on Newt Gingrich to drop out of the Republican presidential contest, the former House speaker is preparing to stick it out—with a new short-term goal of keeping Mitt Romney from securing the nomination.
Mr. Gingrich faced crucial primary tests Tuesday in Alabama and Mississippi, states where he campaigned hard to jump-start his flagging campaign. He lost both to former Sen. Rick Santorum, though he appeared on track to finish a respectable second in both. Even if he had realized his dream of winning both, though, some Republican officials doubt that would have generated enough momentum to win the nomination.
Still, Mr. Gingrich and his advisers say he isn't going anywhere. In a concession speech, Mr. Gingrich was gracious to Mr. Santorum, while calling the results an indictment of Mr. Romney, widely seen as the front-runner. "I believe that after the primaries are over it will be obvious the so-called front-runner in fact didn't get there, and from that point we will be in a whole different conversation," Mr. Gingrich said.
As those remarks suggest, Mr. Gingrich and his campaign have embraced a new goal, which is to block Mr. Romney. "He believes the long haul is to get enough delegates to stop Romney from getting the nomination before the convention," said campaign chairman Bob Walker, a former congressman. "If Romney is stopped, I don't think he gets the nomination at the convention."
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The last man standing will get my support, and my Vote.
Until that happens, and the fat Lady finally sings, there is nobody else who has a plan to get the Country back on track except Newt.
Managing the decline is not a strategy, and that is all his competitors, including Obama, have to offer.
Newt will chew Obummder up in any debate, either of those other guys will not survive Obummder’s spin and BS!
LOL
for Ricky. If I were on Obama's side, I would be going to bed with a grin on my face.
Nuh-unh. That doesn’t work. John King on CNN has some great stats he demonstrated tonight on is electronic delegate map, showing how gingrich staying in, even with generous state wins for Santorum, Helps Romney Get Delegates. If he steps out, Santorum quickly catches up to Romney.
It’s time.
Obama will not be able to destroy Santorum. They are polar opposites. Those who think Obama’s so great and so clever will not be voting for ANY R. Certainly not Rick or Gingrich.
And normal family oriented Americans will see one of their own, contrasted with a commie atheist whose motivations are not clear or value driven.
Rick is right. You want a clear contrast with Obama.
fantasy with the Obama supporters. Rush has created a monster. What has he done. The left wingers are licking their chops for this match up. The turn out is down, don't you people get it. He is winning on non Mitt vote/the conservatives are not going to big government Rick.
“You are the second one to say that on FR tonight. I take it the talking-points have gone out from Romney, Inc. eh?”
Either bad sarcasm or your tin foil hat is falling off and you didn’t notice. Since when does opinion have to be “talking points” from someone? Maybe your little post is talking points from Santorum eh?
I’m sorry but the poster is correct. Obama will wipe the floor with Santorum. He won’t know what hit him and we will have another four years of Obama. Romney likewise will get his clock cleaned. Newt might have stood a chance but we will never know. I’m thoroughly disappointed in the field of candidates and I’m even more disappointed in the way Republicans have treated each other’s candidates. We have done Obama’s work for him. These marvelous one track voters (i.e. pro life, fiscal conservatives, etc) will be death of the party. They can’t see anyone but the one track candidate and will scorch anyone else.
Now I know that my rant was posted to you but you just happened to be there at the time I felt like ranting. Although your post is somewhat juvenile and conspiracy based and is rather ridiculous in a political discussion.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates
Wrong. Santorum would have to get 65% of the remaining 1384 delegates to reach 1,144. That is not going to happen.
I am with Newt too! I like that Romney has to spend his millions to try and beat TWO other candidates. Otherwise, if Newt gets out, Santorum will get buried by the Romney cash!
A little less, actually, since Missouri awards delegates this weekend after Santorum won an outright majority in the primary. But still an uphill climb for sure.
I agree with you. The immigration/amnesty purists destroyed Newt when he was on top because he said he wouldn't go into communities and send grandmothers back to Mexico. All to prop up their favorite lightweight candidate like Cain or Bachmann.
In retrospect. I'm sure they can now see how short-sighted they were. In fact, I have not heard from many of them in weeks.
WtH is wrong with the base?It's the Huckabee vote. It's what we have to contend with as conservatives.
You joined FR in 1998. Kazan joined in 2011. And you’re censoring yourself because the newbie doesn’t like your posts. C’mon, Frank. That doesn’t even make any sense.
Ditto what you said.
Romney=Obozo
Santorum=Huckabee - a prolife big govt liberal
Newt is the ONLY candidate that can beat the marxist messiah.
Hard not to be depressed this morning with the nightmare of total socialism facing us....
“Newt, Thank you
Signed,
Romney”
Absolutely! I have been a Newt supporter and voted for him in our primary, but now the “fat lady” needs to be singing a little bit louder for him! He’s not electable and he dreams if he really believes a split convention would EVER give him the nomination! You have to wonder what is really behind this because his continued running is only HELPING Mitt. The argument can be made that Newt is GIVING the election to Mitt...makes you wonder about possible backroom deals. Think about it...why else would BIG money continue to support Newt? Follow the MONEY!
With Rick’s wins it is insane for him to drop out. It’s time to let the people decide between Rick and Mitt, and then go from there. To say Rick or Mitt is not electable is to throw in the towel on the American people.
Newt would serve the “cause” far better by dropping out and becoming a coach for Rick. That’s if he isn’t already working with/for Mitt (I’m really starting to wonder). People you are wasting your money and your time working for Newt at this time, he had a good run, now he needs to take it as a man and go!
I think what we’re seeing is that the “conservative base” isn’t that conservative. Romney and Santorum are identical except for Santorum’s so-called “social conservatism.” They’re both big-government, nanny-staters, who in their own way are little different from Obama.
Gingrich is the only one who is offering a different and truly conservative vision. If the “base” doesn’t want it, I’d say that’s because over the last few years, the “base” has been moving away from the individualism, self-reliance and entrepreneurialism that we associate with conservative thought and simply accepting the socialist welfare-state as the default model. Perhaps Obama’s biggest triumph, with his virtually unopposed dictatorial actions and his only slightly opposed imposition of government in every part of our lives, was to reveal that Americans have lost whatever it was that made us different.
All we want now is our place at the welfare state trough, freedoms be damned.
The Friends just announced that some scoop just crossed their BlackBerrys that Newt will join forces with Rick. Stay tuned.
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