Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, poses for photographs with the Wanamaker Trophy after a campaign event at The PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Posted on 01/28/2012 12:18:14 PM PST by maggief
Port St. Lucie, Fla. -- Whether or not he wins Florida, Newt Gingrich says, "I will go all the way to the convention. I expect to win the nomination."
Mitt Romney's surrogates have been appearing at every one of Newt Gingrich's rallies in the Sunshine State, but the tactic hasn't seemed to draw much reaction from the former House speaker, who on Saturday turned most of his attention to President Obama on the stump. He focused on three things "that matter to Florida ... jobs, housing, and space."
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"People ask me what can we do about getting more jobs in America? And the answer is: defeat Barack Obama!" Gingrich began. "People say what can we do about housing foreclosure problem in Florida? The answer is defeat Barack Obama! People ask about the price of gasoline and the answer is: defeat Barack Obama!"
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Pound Osamabamaromneycare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would prefer he win Florida, because he seems more likely to beat Romney right now than Santorum.
However, if Newt can’t win Florida, I wish he’d drop out and give Santorum a shot at bringing the conservatives together.
Every time Newt says “defeat Buttcrack Obama”, I get a tingle up my leg.
Santorum is a spoiler and he knows it. You can bet that Romney is his big buddy and they may have cooked up a deal to take Newt down in Florida.
If Newt does drop out, Santorum will not even come close to beating him. He has no money, even poorer organization and his popularity among voters is as exciting as watching mold grow.
As a Santorum, backer I agree with you. But I believe Romney is unstoppable. The Republican establishment like Scotland Yard nearly always gets its man.
That’s the spirit! Newt remembers Reagan in ‘76. Loss after loss, then he gained steam in NC. Newt has steam already, in SC. Long way to go.
Newt, just forget the negative ads, forget how much money Romney has in Swiss bank accounts, ignore the ankle biters - and speak as you can so eloquently in defense of conservative principles. Act as if the Republican Party were actually the standard-bearer of conservatism, as it should be.
Conservatism - works every time it’s tried.
"It's a free country," Gingrich said when asked by reporters about the presence of Romney endorsers at his events. Minutes earlier, Reps. Connie Mack and Charlie Bass were mixing with journalists and trashing his electability on behalf of Mitt Romney ... Gingrich said, "The term desperation comes to mind."
Woo hoo!! Go, Newt!!
Rebellion is ON!!
I guess Rotney is not ignoring Nevada, got his hit-piece in the mail today.
He reaches allllll the waaaay back to 1985 to find “Conservative” people to quote in his attck.
Repeats the misleading $300,000 ethics violation charge.
Claims republicans forced Gingrich out as speaker.
His sources are printed too small to read without a microscope.
Does not really matter, Newt has flaws, but Rotney is the Frankenstien monster!
No way do I vote for that gun grabbing POS!
Make sure you take extra bug spray and rodent killer with you Mr G.
Connie Mack and Charlie Bass....two RINOs if there ever were.
Has anyone else noticed that “Romney surrogates” seem almost......cult-like? Along with this whole shadowy Romeny disinformation squad... they even turned Ann Coulter into a Stepford wife.
Creepy.
Obama’s backers must be licking their chops. They get Romney nominated, then the MEdia poodles will destroy him and beliefs of the mormon church...probably one of the more significant impediments to marxist domestic takeover since the mormons fight well and with committment and are self-sufficient if they have to be.
Has anyone else noticed that “Romney surrogates” seem almost......cult-like? Along with this whole shadowy Romney disinformation squad... they even turned Ann Coulter into a Stepford wife.
Creepy.
Obama’s backers must be licking their chops. They get Romney nominated, then the MEdia poodles will destroy him and beliefs of the mormon church...probably one of the more significant impediments to marxist domestic takeover since the mormons fight well and with committment and are self-sufficient if they have to be.
“People ask me what can we do about getting more jobs in America? And the answer is: defeat Barack Obama!” Gingrich began. “People say what can we do about housing foreclosure problem in Florida? The answer is defeat Barack Obama! People ask about the price of gasoline and the answer is: defeat Barack Obama!”
I’m very happy to see Mr. Gingrich taking this tack. He has to focus on why we need him to be our President instead of Obama.
If the American people voted Obama, and his crowd of radicals into office to strip us of our Constitution, then he is doing as American’s asked him to do. I know, and you know this is NOT what American’s asked for. Obama played the Trojan Horse, and now we have to fight like “H” to get the whole mess turned around. We need a leader with the experience, the guts, and the self worth to produce the results we need.
IT AIN’T ROMNEY, or his ilk. Newt IS the only one with the experience, the guts, and the belief in himself, and the American people to get the job done.
“Has anyone else noticed that “Romney surrogates” seem almost......cult-like?”
His is a close-knit cult.
Remember who it was who started the policy of having all congressmen do earmarks. It wasn’t Rick Santorum.
Santorum, hated as he was for Toomey, was considered more conservative than Newt Gingrich back in May. Nowadays it seems “more conservative” is defined as “polling better against Romney”.
I have no doubt that if Santorum was polling better than Newt, 80% of FR would be supporting Santorum, and calling Newt a moderate.
So the front runner ABR candidate should drop out to let the last place ABR candidate TRY to beat Mittens? Sounds kind of kookie to me. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
I think Newt will have it won before the convention. The Rombot liars will have morphed into crazed banshees by then.
Newt Gingrich President!!!!!!!!!!!
Even the surrogates are a bad take on one of Gingrich’s promises - that if Obama refuses to debate him, he’d show up within four hours after every Obama speech and issue a rebuttal.
But being typical Romney, Romney is (a) not doing it himself and (b) attracting no audience. You never read about Romney’s appearances - because it would be too embarrassing for the press to have to report it.
Pssst...there’s a reason Santorum’s not polling well. Nobody likes him.
“The Republican establishment like Scotland Yard nearly always gets its man.”
That was before “tea-partiers!”
I think Newt’s going do great in Florida.
Take it to the convention if you have to!!
>> Santorum is not conservative.
Santorum is a big government statist. I respect his accomplishments, but he takes himself too seriously for an individual that desires the Presidency.
He has to learn how to be combative without sounding too plaintive (whiney, if you will). He has to be composed and be a fire-breather at the same time. I don’t know if it’s in him. I don’t dislike him. Romney, I don’t like!
"There you go again!"
Maybe someone can whisper in Newt's ear that the next time a moderator tries to do what Wolife did, or the next time Romeny starts accusing him of stuff, he should quietly shake his head and use that line.
Think it could bring the audience to their feet, and bring down the house (and maybe with it the "house of cards" the Rino's are using to stack the deck against Newt).
I can dream, can't I?
The guy who is within ten points of Romney should drop out and let the guy trailing by 30 points have the race? Seems illogical.
"People ask me what can we do about getting more jobs in America? And the answer is: defeat Barack Obama!
People say what can we do about housing foreclosure problem in Florida? The answer is: defeat Barack Obama!
People ask about the price of gasoline and the answer is: defeat Barack Obama!"
-- Newt Gingrich 1-28-2012
That's one reason Newt winning FL is so crucial to keeping the nomination fight going. Feb has few debates and several Romney-favorable locations.
Romney and Paul are on the ballot in all 50 states. Gingrich and Santorum are not.
It's mathematically impossible for Santorum to win outright, and extremely unlikely that Gingrich could do so, because he's not running a full slate of delegates in all states (even in ones where he's on the ballot,) delegates will be awarded proportionally in most states (so even losers get delegates, and the winner doesn't get all of them,) he has far less money that either Romney or Paul, his campaign organization is nowhere near as capable and competent as are those of Romney and Paul, he polls substantially worse against Obama than do either Romney or Paul, and his negatives are much higher nationally.
Santorum had an unusually good night Thursday because he was free to land haymakers with no fear of being hit back. This allowed him to be uncharacteristically relaxed. Normally, he is more wooden and tense. Large numbers of people haven’t warmed to him. I think many here would take Rick over Romney, but he has no chance to win. Therefore, Newt is the best choice of this bunch.
This is not over by far, though the powerful want us to think that this is it for Gingrich.
From what I read..
Bass was asked by Hammond, a Gringrich guy at the event:
“Congressman, do regret asking Newt for his endorsement this year?”
Hypocrites!
How about rick drop out,seeing he isn’t even trying, so we can seriously beat Romney?
This isn’t affirmative action. He had his chance, and now it’s time for him to stop wasting time and resources for a vanity run.
And it is time for his supporters to stop acting like vultures, hoping for a Romney win to justify him staying in.
Since I seem to always being down about Newt, I’ll say that I really liked his sentiment in the last paragraph. That’s what I want to hear from now until the election.
Clearly wrong headed. If Santorum dropped out Newt would walk away with it.
Santorum can’t win and all he’s doing now is drawing votes from Newt and I have a feeling IT’S ON PURPOSE!
JB
Even if need be as third party candidate.
‘Vanity Run’ is right. Step out now, Rick before Tuesday.
If the front-runner proves to have a solid ceiling that is too low to beat Romney, what do YOU suggest?
It could well be that Gingrich cannot get the support of more than 40% of the electorate. If those 40% are all willing to support ANYBODY to beat Romney, while the Santorum supporters just can’t support Newt, then if Gingrich drops out, Santorum gets more votes than Gingrich would have.
I don’t think this would really work, because everybody loves their own candidate and hates the other candidates, but that is how the math WOULD work.
And in fact, it does happen many times, where the person say who gets the “most votes” in the first round at a convention can’t win the convention, because as others drop out, none of their support goes to the “front-runner”.
Newt won South Carolina. If he can’t carry that momentum into Florida and beat Romney, why do you think he can beat Romney elsewhere?
Remember that support for Gingrich is based not on “we all love Gingrich”, but rather “he’s polling the best”. It’s circular — if we all decided he couldn’t win, Gingrich would NOT poll best.
Or, we could keep supporting him as he loses state after state, until it is too late for anybody, and then we can all wonder what could have been.
Santorum would have been the next person to get the “wave” of voters — except the wave, the swarm, panicked because votes were taken, and decided that Gingrich was their last stop. Before that it was Bachman, then Perry, then Cain.
Hopefully Gingrich can get back to the positive message that got him the lead, and he can win Florida.
But that assumes he can actually win primaries. He isn’t the “best choice” if he loses the election.
It’s fine to say “Santorum has no chance to win, so Newt is the best choice”. But if Newt loses Florida, how can you say he is the one who can win?
Actually, Santorum “dropping out” to help out Newt is really a lot like “affirmative action”.
He can do this ONLY with our money, advocacy and votes.
He'll never get the money, advocacy or votes of the GOP-e, never. Nor of any of the institutions of Washington or New York. Nor of the Intellectual elite.
It's on us.
First he needs our money.
Donate. $50, $100. It's the best investment you'll ever make.
Do it now.
If Reagan had stood true in 76 as he did in 80 he would have won then.
One of his great political lessons was the mistake he made yeilding to establishment and press excoriation over being too radical and then announcing he would pick the commie Richard Schultz Schweiker of PA, a man not unlike GHW Bush or Romney today.
At the time not all delegates to the convention were sent by popular vote and the Republican delegation of Mississippi to switch to Ford and hand him the nomination.
Reagan never made that mistake again.
Yessirree Mr. Newt. Press On. My money’s behind you. President Romney you wont have my approbation. Sorry. That you could be LDS and this liberal is jaw dropping. and very disappointing
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