Posted on 04/17/2012 10:20:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
Gingrich on Plan B: 'I'm Quite Happy With Plan A, Frankly' By NBC's Alex Moe
LANCASTER, Penn. – Campaigning in Pennsylvania with one-week left before the state’s primary, Newt Gingrich acknowledged he has no “Plan B” and downplayed one of his top surrogate’s call for him to exit the presidential race.
Asked if he is thinking about what he will do if he does not get the nomination – what his “Plan B” would be – Gingrich brushed it off. "I don't worry about that right now. I'm focused on the nomination,” Gingrich said following remarks at the Lancaster County GOP Dinner here. “I'm quite happy with Plan A, frankly." (snip)
Gingrich plans to move ahead with his campaign despite increasing calls for him to drop out of the race – including from onetime supporter, Herman Cain.
Cain, the onetime presidential candidate who endorsed Gingrich in late January, took to the airwaves Monday morning on a radio show and referenced Romney as the presumptive GOP nominee.
"To Newt Gingrich I would say, 'Speaker Gingrich, with all due respect, let's get on with this, OK?'" Cain said in an interview on WMAL's Mornings “On The Mall.” "I even endorsed Newt Gingrich at one point because I thought he had a shot. Well, not now. He doesn't have a shot."
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Newt Can Win! Bug off doubters and quitters telling him to give up.
So if Newt goes 0-5 by wide margins next Tuesday can he still win?
| Issue | Obama | Romney | Newt |
| Advocated that abortion s/b safe & legal in America | y | y | n |
| Defended Roe v Wade as settled law | y | y | n |
| Advocated for abortion for underage girls without parental approval with judge's ok | y | y | n |
| Supported planned parenthood | y | y | n |
| Introduced $50 taxpayer funded abortion | y | y | n |
| Supports homosexual agenda | y | y | n |
| Better for homosexuals than Ted Kennedy | y | y | n |
| Ok with homosexuals in Scouts | y | y | n |
| Ok with homosexuals in military | y | y | n |
| Supported and still supports global warming hoax | y | y | n |
| Supports gun control (so-called "assault weapons" ban) | y | y | n |
| Supports amnesty for illegal aliens (by any other name it's still amnesty) | y | y | n |
| Is undeniable father of RomneyCare | n | y | n |
| Is undeniable grandfather of ObamaCare | n | y | n |
| Still boasts that RomneyCare is great! | y | y | n |
| Still boasts that RomneyCare is a "conservative solution" | n | y | n |
| Still believes RomneyCare is constitutional | y | y | n |
| Still believes individual mandate ok at state level | y | y | n |
| Believes state forcing individuals to buy health insurance is a conservative idea | n | y | n |
| Believes compulsory health insurance with mandates and penalties s/b imposed on all states at state level | n | y | n |
| Believes compulsory health insurance at state level is constitutional (states rights) | ? | y | n |
| Believes the state has constitutional power to force you into a private contract against your will for no other reason than you live there | y | y | n |
| Supports government "stimulus" spending claims more is necessary | y | y | n |
| Believes personal income tax should be cut drastically (15% flat tax) | n | n | y |
| Believes corp income tax should be cut drastically (12.5% corp rate) | n | n | y |
| Believes capital expenditures should be 100% expensed in first year | n | n | y |
| Believes capital gains tax should be eliminated | n | n | y |
| Believes estate tax (death tax) should be eliminated | n | n | y |
| Believes federal government must be drastically cut per constitutional limits | n | n | y |
| Believes unconstitutional federal functions like education should be returned to the states and people per tenth amendment | n | n | y |
| Believes social security/medicare s/b phased out/privatized/returned to states and people | n | n | y |
| Believes everyone at EPA should be fired and start over as an agency to look for solutions/not hinder industry | n | n | y |
| Believes the constitution restricts the government from infringing on inalienable rights | n | n | y |
| Appoints/supports/cowers to liberal activist judges | y | y | n |
| Will challenge activist judiciary | n | n | y |
| Believes in founding principles and has best conservative record to back it up | n | n | y |
The races are still open while the media influences who they
want people to vote for. Don't you see the charade.
Hate to tell Newt, but it’s over.
One of our local television reporters yesterday already declared Romney the winner in PA’s primary. The media bias was as subtle as a sledgehammer before, but in case you didn’t notice, now the media is coming right out and telling you.
Anyone still think the primaries aren’t rigged?
Herman Cain? Oh you mean the real Herman Cain, the one whose train wrecked.
Squirmin Herman was nothing more than a pitiful sideshow. BUT, he did keep me laughing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQ6hv9eii4&feature=related
Such propaganda, paid from the deep pockets of Mitt Romney, has the effect of brainwashing people.
Not me, no way.
Understand this: the nomination process is not over. There are 4+ months left to go until the convention in Tampa. Anything and everything can happen in that span of time.
The Tea Party managed to put a million people onto the streets of Washington, D.C., a couple years ago, and I believe Conservatives can take their party back from the frightened Country Clubbers who are terrified Obama will seize their wealth and deluded by Romney’s flashing money around and talking down his opponents as he has no posititve record to run on himself.
Our choice, and there really isn’t any other, is to back the only person running who has actually changed government, and that is Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich doesn’t have to get to 1144 delegates to effectively block Romney. After that first vote of delegates in Tampa when Romney can’t get the nomination free and clear, the whole convention is up for grabs.
And Rue Paul can be the queen of England. It is just highly unlikely. Not as unlikely as Gingrich winning the 95% of remaining delegates he would need, but still unlikely.
Cain once endorsed Gingrich. I think the question here is whether there is truly a “realistic” path to Gingrich coming anywhere close to clinching the nomination? Cain was once everyone’s favorite here. He’s speaking to reality. Not in some bubble or vacuum of unreality.
Cain once endorsed Gingrich. I think the question here is whether there is truly a “realistic” path to Gingrich coming anywhere close to clinching the nomination? Cain was once everyone’s favorite here. He’s speaking to reality. Not in some bubble or vacuum of unreality.
This has nothing to do with Cain, and everything to do with a guy maintaining a presidential campaign to raise money and boost his own ego.
Herman Cain just wants to be on the winning side no matter what that candidate stands for. I would not want Cain for a friend because I wouldn’t know if he was one or not. What happened to his convictions? Romney and Newt are so different, I couldn’t switch from Newt to Romney if Romney was elected tomorrow.
Now, today, we find out Romney’s tax plan isn’t much different than Hussein’s. As has been said, not much difference between Romney and Hussein. Etch A Sketch has been shaken up.
Got stored water and food?
I am with Newt all the way to Tampa.
I have never in my life let a guy get into a fight for me and then simply walk away...... that is just not within me.
If God wants to bless this country again, He will give us the right man to help us get out of this mess, that man is Newt Gingrich.
God save the Republic......
Yes, Cain did endorse Newt, and now he’s taking it back. I lost respect for him over this flip-flop. There’s no part of me that thinks Cain’s latest endorsement means anything.
You are still up? Check your email. Old people like you should be in bed.
The current delegate count speaks for itself:
Romney=659; Santorum= 275; Gingrich=140
How Gingrich can get to 1144 is to believe in black magic.
Why would you lose “respect” for Cain if all he says is get “real” given the current delegate count?
And I've given up on conservatives taking back the party. Thanks to the liberals in the party hierarchy, there is nothing to take back. I for one just sent in an application to change my voter registration. The party has made it clear it doesn't want conservatives. There is no place for conservatives.
Assuming this country survives four or more years of the Obama regime, we conservatives need to break away from the Republican party and form our own. Too bad we didn't do it sooner, or we would have had a shot at putting a conservative in the White House. Instead, Obama will be re-elected and he can then set about making himself president for life and completely destroying this once great nation.
I have never been surrounded by so many quitters.
Newt is the last conservative standing........ and the support of real conservatives should be behind that man.
Romney does not have the nomination, that is reality. And Cain went beyond that statement too the other day. If you'd like to provide the full quote that would be nice, because I don't have it on hand.
Are you denying that Cain retracted his once FULL endorsement of Newt Gingrich?
Newt is doing the RIGHT thing.
I'm with Newt until he tells me otherwise.
Yes boss lady. ;>)
At the orders of my beautiful and faithful cyber nurse, I will now be off to bed. I’ll have to read the email in the morning because my sleeping pills are kicking my butt. LOL I accidentally took 2, so it’s getting tougher to type and see the screen.
Good night fair lady.... PLease have wonderful dream...
Newt Gingrich: “Two of the central themes of my campaign: big solutions and changing Washington. Nobody thought we could create a Republican majority in 1994, but we did. Nobody thought we could balance the budget, but we did for four straight years. And nobody thought we could reform welfare, but we did even after President Clinton vetoed it twice. I know how hard it is to take on the entrenched special interests in Washington, because I’ve done it before. America desperately needs big changes in Washington, and with your help, I know we can do it again.”
Baloney.
Romney has only 573 bound delegates. He needs twice as many to clinch the nomination.
So far he got only 41% of the votes in the primaries. Are you telling me that with 4 million votes out of 11.5 million expressed so far, he won the nomination already? BALONEY!
“Newt is doing the RIGHT thing.
I’m with Newt until he tells me otherwise.”
There is only one Conservative in this race and his name is Newt Gingrich. No, he is not without his flaws, but he has been a consistent Conservative fighting unlike any other for those principles for over 30 years. Most importantly, Newt Gingrich has an actual record of achievement. Furthermore, Speaker Gingrich has a history with the Contract With America in doing EXACTLY what he campaigned he would do if elected.
Hey Herman Cain! It should do you no harm to stick by Newt.
That you are deriding Newt now means your words are empty. In other words, you are a lightweight.
That’s right he is polling below 10% most everywhere there is a primary left.
Newt has yet to win five primaries. Without that the current delegates that he has will never see the light of day.
You are probably not old enough to remember the 1976 GOP primary season. Reagan had waaaay more delegates going to the convention that Newt has now. There was great hope that if we could just get past the first round that people would bolt and vote for Reagan over Ford. It didn’t happen. And Reagan was a TRUE conservative
If Newt is washed out and over, why would the naysayers care what he does?
If Newt’s suppose to be done, what’s it to anybody?
His delegates have fled and he has.... oh, wait, they haven’t fled.
I am seeing plenty of Newt stickers in Texas and Florida’s count will go Newt’s way on proportion.
There’s a silent deliverance that may surprise a few.
Hate to tell you this but that’s what we were saying in 1976 and it didn’t happen then with a far better candidate than Newt
Cain is a solid business man who I wished had stayed in. Plenty of folks here liked him until the media slimed him. Then they believed EVERYTHING the media printed. ALways amazing to me how selective the outrage is.
What he asked the Speaker to do is be realistic. Newt does not have the delegates. He has run behind Paul in some states and definitely behind Santorum and Romney in all but two. There is no there there.
Who are the current contenders?
And if you do not help defeat Obama there will be no country to save or try to take back. You can bluster all you want but O is on a mission to destroy the likes of you and me and everyone else at FR.
And unless you live in a state with a primary what would you suggest? Newt has no organization on the ground anywhere that I can see. It is not as if one can just hop down to Newt HQ and stuff envelopes or make phone calls.
He hauled in the sails a long time ago. He ran an inept campaign from the beginning pretty well guaranteeing this outcome. He quit on us away before anyone else quit on him
Even when he tells his supporters to vote for Romney in the general?
I resemble that remark. I think Newt is as fine on policy as Reagan was, just without the grins. That record of Newt’s is stellar.
Name one of those primaries in which Newt has a change of getting more votes than Romney Santorum or even Paul in some cases.
O man...that is very funny! sort of sad too.
Nifster... why are you trying to deny voters the right to choose their candidate by sidelining Newt? What’s in it for you?
Methinks you are a troll.
Yes! He'll be nominated for President of Bizarro World.
Right those stickers that went on when Newt actually was campaigning.
I don’t care what Newt does. I do care that we defeat O and make sure that conservatives are elected to the HOuse and Senate. Our nation depends upon those two things
And this is more like 1976 than 1980. Newt has run a miserable campaign from the get go
Nothing. I am not trying to sideline Newt at all. I have done nothing to sideline him. I have merely asked questions of those here who want me to go work for Newt. Fine how does one do that when there are no offices and no field support. There are no boots on the ground. So where do you want me to sign up?
Think all you want. You are incorrect. Interesting how so many are quick to yell troll just because when the politics is all said and done we still have a republic that we must defend.
You can shout and scream and stomp your feet all the way to the convention.
Once the convention is done there are two things that MUST happen:
1) Elect as many conservatives to the House and Senate as possible
2) Make sure Obama does NOT have a second term
I can’t read the minds nor know the motives of others, but Herman Cain is no longer a big player regardless.
God bless and Keep you.
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