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SC Sources: Gingrich Could Endorse Santorum
http://mountpleasant-sc.patch.com/articles/sources-gingrich-could-endorse-santorum ^ | January 10, 2012 | Andrew Moore

Posted on 01/11/2012 2:33:00 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather

While Newt Gingrich campaign staffers are calling such talk premature, there are indications that should the former House Speaker bow out of the GOP race, he would throw his support behind rising Rick Santorum in a last-ditch effort to stop frontrunner Mitt Romney.

Multiple South Carolina sources affiliated with Santorum's campaign said Gingrich's campaign has contacted Santorum's campaign to discuss endorsing the former Pennsylvania senator should he drop out.

One source, speaking to Patch on the condition they not be identified, paraphrased Gingrich's stance as delivered by high level campaign staff this way: "If it can't be me, I want it to be Rick Santorum.""

Gingrich is looking at finishing as low as fifth place in New Hampshire and is currently polling at under 20 percent (good for third place) in South Carolina, according to rolling averages from Real Clear Politics.

Still, high-ranking officials within Santorum's South Carolina campaign don't foresee Gingrich stalling out before the primaries in the Palmetto State, where he once commanded an imposing lead in the polls.

(Excerpt) Read more at mountpleasant-sc.patch.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsements; endorse; gingrich; santorum; sc2012; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

He did insult Palin, but I think she blew it off, pretty much.


41 posted on 01/11/2012 4:05:24 AM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Let me google that for you!

Santorum and Palin

42 posted on 01/11/2012 4:05:27 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
It’s the Karl Rove wing of the GOP. They don’t do things for America. They do things for themselves.

You could not be more right.

Here, in DE, we saw this played out first hand with how the State and national GOP sabotaged Christine O'Donnell.

If they couldn't have their boy Mike Castle, they trashed the candidate chosen by the people, and willingly gave the Dems a Senate seat.

After Castle lost his primary to Christine, Obama and Biden phoned him to give him solace. That's right, the two top Dems paid a call to a GOP candidate. And that a-hole Castle couldn't pick up the phone to congratulate Christine on her win and would not support her run after he lost.

And Karl Tokyo Rove was in the middle of all of it.

43 posted on 01/11/2012 4:10:25 AM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. We have ideas-the Dems only have ideology.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Both Newt AND Perry should quit and endorse Santorum.
Santorum actually won Iowa and Perry barely even registered in NH. Newt is a crypto-RINO with his assaults on Capitalism and his admiration of Woodrow Wilson and FDR and that ain't gonna play down here in SC.
They should bite the bullet and endorse the most conservative candidate aka Santorum or else Mitt winning the nomination and then Obama winning the presidency will be THEIR fault.
44 posted on 01/11/2012 4:11:01 AM PST by Happy Rain ("If Mitt wins the Twit wins.")
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

Thanks.

Funny thing is, even as a hard-core Palin supporter, in retrospect Santorum’s original comment which seems to have set off the media-augmented kerfuffel (your link is after all Polibtico) seems to have been spot on.

Palin may have deserved some criticism, then and now.

She folded. What her reasons were, is known only to her.

Santorum ran.

I’m going with Santorum on this one.

Sorry Palin.


45 posted on 01/11/2012 4:12:43 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (ROMNEY / ALINSKY 2012 (sarcasm))
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I wasn’t criticizing either one-—after all, I may end up voting for Santorum. Just another interesting episode in this crazy election season that might be a factor in who Sarah ends up supporting.


46 posted on 01/11/2012 4:16:54 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: Reagan69

I think Palin understood that Santorum was coming from a Catholic perspective, though that perspective wasn’t shared by her.


47 posted on 01/11/2012 4:17:37 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“Gingrich Could Endorse Santorum”

Bingo!

Newt’s negatives are now sky high among republicans and he has no chance of winning the nomination.

He needs to bow out and endorse a pro-capitalist candidate like Santorum.

Newt can still spend his PAC money running ads. But if he stays in the race pulling 10% of the vote he might as well just endorse Romney. Newt needs to do the right thing. He is beginning to sound dangerously close to Hugo Chavez and that’s not going to win him any friends in a republican primary. And it could very well destroy his legacy.


48 posted on 01/11/2012 4:17:44 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

I doubt it....Palin is strongly in Santorum’s camp.


49 posted on 01/11/2012 4:19:40 AM PST by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

I met Newt yesterday, and he seemed tired. It really wouldn’t surprise me.


50 posted on 01/11/2012 4:19:43 AM PST by CASchack
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To: ansel12

“Santorum is the one who is headed for an exit.”

He should. Gingrich is going to win SC, but Santorum is too self-serving to pull out.


51 posted on 01/11/2012 4:20:20 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
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To: CASchack

(I met Newt yesterday, and he seemed tired. It really wouldn’t surprise me.

50 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:19:43 AM by CASchack )

.....Nice try. I think they’re all tired.


52 posted on 01/11/2012 4:25:26 AM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: monkapotamus
This made me think of January 2008: Novak: Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign.

Exactly. SC Sources [straight from the Romney campaign hmmm?] Could [now there's a classic weasel word, anyone could do anything, doesn't mean they will] Endorse Santorum.

I smell Romney. I think Newt's speech will say he'll align with Santorum if Rick beats him in South Carolina.

53 posted on 01/11/2012 4:26:07 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Jonty30

The Catholic perspective is not that wives stay home, barefoot and pregnant...BS./


54 posted on 01/11/2012 4:26:10 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
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To: Rome2000
With Mark Levin,Glenn Beck,Rush Limbaugh and several other conservative media pundits exposing Newt as an anti-Capitalist RINO “populist” who loves Woodrow Wilson and believes FDR NOT Reagan was the greatest 20th Century president...

...forget about it!

ain't gonna play here in SC FRiend.

55 posted on 01/11/2012 4:26:15 AM PST by Happy Rain ("If Mitt wins the Twit wins.")
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To: 506Lake

Sounds to me like Newt’s playing in the big leagues as he does so well....this is a Newt play ....and you can bet in New’ts favor no matter what way it’s presented....

Go Newt Go!!!!!!!!!!


56 posted on 01/11/2012 4:27:22 AM PST by caww
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Newt understands what is at stake if Romney gets the nomination.


57 posted on 01/11/2012 4:27:46 AM PST by Thane_Banquo
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To: Reagan69
Since when haven't all of them been maxed out in this race...tired? I'd say running on Adrenalin!
58 posted on 01/11/2012 4:30:29 AM PST by caww
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To: caww

This is Santorum Young College Republican Psyops....which works on drunk college kids.

Gingrich is just behind Romney in SC.

Santorum got zero bounce from Iowa...

Gingrich is now spending money in SC, he’ll close the 4-5% gap with Romney and win SC.

Guaranteed.


59 posted on 01/11/2012 4:30:42 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

I love Newt and I love the idea of him going after Mittens. However, I think he is very wrong in choosing his line of attack on Mittens. I expect Obama and the Rats to attack Mittens with the whole Bain Capital thing, but not a fellow Republican. He and Perry have given legitimacy to this line of attack and they have to stop it now!

If Newt needs ammo to attack Mittens with, read all the posts on here bashing him. Most of us do it with legitimate gripes and not some crap made up about how he fires people and made money off them. Mittens has serious flaws, but working for Bain Capital is not one of them.


60 posted on 01/11/2012 4:31:23 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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