Was that a direct quote?.......GO Newt !
Yes, Newt said that and Newt is very much aware of what Islam is about....West too. They are on the same team in that respect and most everything else. That's another reason to get West onto Newt's administration somewhere....he knows fully well who the enemy is and he also knows where they are in the Whitehouse...I wouldn't be surprised if West hasn't been doing some "internal" checks already.
This was a great speech! He gave some of these speeches in Florida but they were very poorly reported (although thousands of people attended, compared to the 200-300 Romney could muster).
Newt is having a problem getting his message out. I don’t know who is managing his campaign, but maybe he needs somebody else. He wants people power, but this hasn’t gotten to his campaign manager.
When I went to work at the campaign office just before the FL primary, I found a completely disorganized group of clueless out of state people who actually didn’t want us to do GOTV (Get Out The Vote, which is the thing that would have helped) but instead had already given up and had us calling around to different ethnic group representatives (black ministers) to see if they were interested in Newt. Unfortunately, Monday is the universal clergy day off, so we reached about one out of every 10, and the whole thing was a waste of time.
While I was sitting there, 2 volunteers left because they didn’t see why we were being asked to do this. Then I said I was going to leave because I had driven an hour to do this and I thought I was wasting my time. So they gave me the GOTV list and I called and I got a number of people who hadn’t voted yet and seemed to be happy to be called even if they thought they were going to vote for Romney, 2 people who were undecided (one said he was leaning to Gingrich and I had convinced him, and another promised to go to the website), and I spoke to several Spanish speakers and I felt I got a positive response from another couple of voters.
This may not seem like much, but if more people had turned out, Newt would have won. That’s people power.
But he or somebody has got to review his campaign strategy, because it ain’t working. If it’s his strategy, he needs a big-league consultant...if it’s not his, he needs to hire somebody else.