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Gingrich campaigning as candidate with vision
STL Today ^ | Friday, March 16, 2012 12:00 am | | David Lightman

Posted on 03/15/2012 10:27:28 PM PDT by Red Steel

Gingrich is still out there fighting for the Republican presidential nomination, invoking the Bible and Abraham Lincoln as he pushes the idea that America badly needs "a visionary conservative."

"I've stayed in the race because I think Proverbs is right," he told an appreciative audience at Judson University. "It warns that without vision, people will perish."

Gingrich is given little chance of winning the Republican nomination, but he vows to stay in the race.

He said his campaign is having a "halftime resetting of the game plan," and he plans to talk more about "big ideas" involving space, brain science, energy and other topics. He promised "a much clearer definition of a visionary conservative."

But his path to victory is daunting. ...

And yet the former speaker of the House of Representatives insists he's staying in, and he still draws good crowds.

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"Almost everyone on the right gives him great credit for the 1994 landslide that brought the GOP back from the wilderness," he said, referring to the Gingrich-led effort that gave Republicans the House majority for the first time in 40 years.

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Whispers are growing louder among conservatives that his presence in the race is making it impossible for Rick Santorum to bring conservatives together to mount a strong challenge to Mitt Romney.

Too bad, Gingrich says.

He presses on, saying he's the only one talking big ideas. If no one has a clear majority of delegates when Republicans convene in August in Tampa, Fla., to pick a nominee, he figures he has a shot.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; newt
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To: jobim

He’s been hammering the administration on healthcare, energy, foreign policy, you name it. He hasn’t spoken much at ALL about space exploration in comparison. As far as technology in general, he’s been beating BHO about the head with it as it relates to American oil/drilling/foreign energy dependence and it’s clear to anyone paying attention that his tactic is working as he seems to be the only candidate who is getting under BHO’s skin.


21 posted on 03/16/2012 4:27:58 PM PDT by Taxachusan ("Let me be clear...and cheerful." #withNEWT)
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To: Red Steel
INDEED!
22 posted on 03/16/2012 4:31:19 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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23 posted on 03/16/2012 4:32:40 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: napscoordinator

LOL! So what color drapes do you have in mind for “President Santorum’s” Oval Office?

Something in Grey to match his Sweater Vest?


24 posted on 03/16/2012 4:35:22 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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