Posted on 04/30/2016 7:14:51 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
With a #NeverTrump hashtag and a growing list of high-profile people and groups declaring that they will never support Donald Trump as the nominee of the Republican Party, the effort to block Trump from winning the nomination is gaining force. But former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday previewed what he said will be the single most effective argument for strong-arming anti-Trump Republicans back into the fold if he is the nominee.
"You are either going to elect Hillary Clinton who will, I think, be the most corrupt president in American history, or you're going to help elect Donald Trump," Gingrich told Fox News Tuesday morning. "There's no middle ground. You can't say virtuously, 'Oh, I'm going to be neutral.' If you're neutral, you're helping elect Hillary Clinton."
Running through a list of Republican objections to Clinton — including foreign policy, Supreme Court picks, her use of a private email server for sensitive State Department communications, and alleged corruption within the Clinton Foundation — Gingrich said, "It's a moral case. A citizen who does not actively support the Republican candidate is, in effect, helping to elect Hillary Clinton. I don't think very many of these folks in the end are going to help elect Hillary Clinton."
And while he declined to endorse Trump, saying that he would support whomever the party nominates, Gingrich was not sparing with praise, either, predicting a huge Trump landslide in toda'’s Super Tuesday primaries.
"Trump will tower over all of them," he said. "The scale of his victories from Massachusetts and Vermont, all the way across to Alaska, is going to be pretty stunning."
He continued, "That poses, for the Republican establishment, a very big challenge. For the next few weeks, there's going to be a frenzy to try to stop him. I don't think the frenzy will work, and if it doesn't, then both Trump and the Republican leadership, the traditional leadership, face a big decision: the party get beaten badly, or do they want to turn into a Reagan campaign like 1980 and have the party win a stunning victory? There's no middle ground here."
Gingrich defended Trump against claims that he is not a real conservative – a key talking point for other candidates, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Cruz, on Monday, described Trump as "a New York City liberal who has supported liberal policies, who agrees with Hillary Clinton on issue after issue after issue."
While Trump is "not a traditional conservative," Gingrich conceded, he is "an anti-left, anti-political correctness, anti-stupidity American nationalist, and he applies those four basic principles to try and figure out where he's going and what he's going to do. Sometimes that makes him complicated for conservatives because they have these cookie cutters – you are for this, you're not for that."
He said, "I think I have pretty good credentials as a conservative, but I also think we're at a historic moment when 70 percent of the voters in the last national poll favored Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Dr. Ben Carson. Seventy percent. Now that says that the Republican Party base is saying to its so-called leadership, 'you're not leading the way we want you to.' And by better than two-to-one, they're picking outsiders over insiders.
Except that sort of short-term thinking would kill his businesses here in the states: with the state of the economy there are very, very few who can afford even vacations, much less a nice hotel. — And there are indicators that even this horrid state of affairs is resultant of the economy being propped up and misrepresented.
Newt Rocks It !
Ain’t no NewtBot.
Chill out dude.
Cruz can’t win. Deal,with it.
I do not believe that we have eight or nine months starting from now to get rid of Barrack Hussein Obama. I believe that every day that clown remains in the white house is an existential threat to the human race and the planet.
GO NEWT GO
Newt would love to have a good job with the new Trump administration.
drop dead Fred or Jedi ....you are a one note Johnny and your time is up!
Hope this post finds you in good spirits.
Looks like one more person who is wrong, eh?
Someone must have left the gate open, people pouring out onto the playing field.
I’ve said many times that Newt should be Trump’s Chief Advisor since Trump needs to learn how to understand the reality and inner workings of Congress.
You haven’t been paying attention.
Yup!
Hope this post finds you in good spirits.
Found one more person who is wrong, eh?
Someone must have left the gate open.
I am afraid the whole county is going to pick the wrong path before this is over.
..... Time to start lifting up and supporting the arms of Moses.
........ Exodus 17:12 ..........
Don’t tell me you are a Cruz supporter? One of the deaf, who absolutely cannot hear the facts of Cruz’s role in the global trade deals that are the fulcrum of this election? Please don’t tell me you are one of those.
Did he stay in or was that campaign rhetoric?
You just described the Cruz campaign and the "Cruzbots"......
Newt learns as he goes along as do most of us. Cruz seems to have eschewed the learning curve for a ego-driven vendetta...
Like it or not - Newt's current words/views are as relevant as they get - he has more brains than Cruz and was actually well-liked and hoped for until the GOPe Romney machine grabbed hold of the process. Bitter grapes is all some have left - I started out supporting Cruz and donating to his campaign then reality set in - some folks can handle that and adapt to changing conditions w/o going catatonic and generating their own bile to make themselves miserable.
Ted could win 55 percent in IN, and I don’t see that it would mean anything.
Most Cruz supporters have anti-abortion and religious liberty as their main issues.
Scott Adams has said that by October Trump will be described as a landslide and it will be as if he is running unopposed!
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