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Gingrich to throw down debate gauntlet
CNN ^ | 030512 | Gabrielle Schwarz

Posted on 03/05/2012 2:36:45 PM PST by Fred

Newt Gingrich will challenge his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination to a debate next week, the former House speaker said Monday.

Gingrich said he expects to extend the invitation Tuesday for a forum in Mississippi or Alabama, where voters head to the polls on March 13.

"I think we owe it to the people of Mississippi and Alabama to have a debate," Gingrich said on Fox News. "I think that frankly it's to everybody's advantage to have a debate."

He also used the impending invitation to single out Romney, the current Republican frontrunner.

"I don't think Romney can just hide behind millions of dollars of paid ads," Gingrich said. "He's got to come out in the open."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; newt2012; romney; santorum
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Psycho dude,

Google “Scientific Polling”.


41 posted on 03/05/2012 3:31:22 PM PST by CainConservative (Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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To: itsahoot

I don’t know who was in charge of this debate “charlie foxtrot” but they should be included in the currently unemployed.


42 posted on 03/05/2012 3:31:57 PM PST by pfflier
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To: livius

You sound like a liberal going after politician’s kids.


43 posted on 03/05/2012 3:33:58 PM PST by CainConservative (Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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To: Fred

I bet he has no takers. They all know they can’t take him on and win.


44 posted on 03/05/2012 3:35:58 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

No one is going to send Grandmaw back........remember that one, Newt wonked himself into a corner along with Perry. If he had left his answer short that would have been all there was to it, but he had to Pander to that great voting block thai Karl Rove convinced Bush was necessary. That cost us both Houses and ultimately the White House.

The only person that has been helped by all this infighting is Romney, so lighten up on the politics of destruction. The truth is we have a very split Conservative group and this infighting will likely lead to a Romney win in Ohio, then we will have lost any chance to defeat him.


45 posted on 03/05/2012 3:36:19 PM PST by itsahoot (This space currently for rent. 1-800-555-1212)
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To: manc

Just stop it!


46 posted on 03/05/2012 3:36:50 PM PST by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Guess you haven’t been paying much attention to polls lately. Rick has been sinking steadily since the debate in Michigan, and Newt is making a big surge in Tennessee. He will also do well in Ohio and Oklahoma. He will do well in Kansas on the 10th, and win Alabama and Mississippi on the 13th.

But enough of polls...let’s talk about committed delegates. Rick hasn’t won a primary yet, and the non committed delegates he won in caucuses are going to end up going elsewhere in the end. Even if he does win Ohio (which looks increasingly unlikely) he has delegate problems there. Ditto in Tennessee where a vote for Santorum is meaningless at this point. Congrats on the hollow “victories” you’ve won thus far.

Good luck tomorrow!


47 posted on 03/05/2012 3:38:52 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Hannity the fraud, the man is for the establishment, cannot mention any conservative social issues and his one week as a teen as a blue collar worker got too boring.

Hannity doesn’t want to disappoint his elitist cocktail Manhattan pals like Beckel, William,s, Colmes or the establishment like Perino, Rove etc

I’m guessing he still has those pals of his on his boring tedious show.

I know most don’t bother with Hannity on here now and have seen the light but it still stuns me how many sheep pout there think he’;s a conservative and actually add to his ratings on the radio or TV .


48 posted on 03/05/2012 3:41:47 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: manc

I don’t watch Hannity either, but he’d much better than John King or Wolf Blitzer.


49 posted on 03/05/2012 3:45:27 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: manc; Guenevere
I just can’t see Santorum or Romney doing another debate due to how badly they both looked last time and they’ve already ducked out of one. Not good if they want to face the sweet talking B/S of obama

At some stage, if this debating keeps up, someone might ask why Santorum and Romney both became pro-life only when they were preparing to run for office.

50 posted on 03/05/2012 3:50:36 PM PST by ansel12 (Santorum-Catholic and "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress" he said))
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To: ansel12
The debates drew huge audiences.

Baloney. The last debate brought in only 4.5 million viewers and the one before that 5. The shows about selling stuff to the pawn broker or two guys buying other people junk beat that by a couple million and they are only on select cable packages. WWE does better than those debate numbers.

51 posted on 03/05/2012 3:53:37 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

maybe Hannity has seen the Light ... ie ... through Willards bravo sierra ... conservatives want this race SETTLED soon ... and that means giving Willard the ‘’big God Child Celestial Dump’’ ... with extreme prejudice ...


52 posted on 03/05/2012 3:58:12 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

maybe Hannity has seen the Light ... ie ... through Willards bravo sierra ... conservatives want this race SETTLED soon ... and that means giving Willard the ‘’big God Child Celestial Dump’’ ... with extreme prejudice ...


53 posted on 03/05/2012 3:59:01 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: trappedincanuckistan; onyx; PSYCHO-FREEP; hoosiermama; Marguerite; annieokie

Newt is on Hannity tonight. Hannity said he is also going to show the You Tube “debate” of Obama and Newt.


54 posted on 03/05/2012 3:59:17 PM PST by conservativejoy ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18)
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To: conservativejoy

Thanks!


55 posted on 03/05/2012 4:01:38 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: TomGuy

Newt didn’t fraud people through Bain and then have the tax payers pay for their pensions. Do some research.


56 posted on 03/05/2012 4:02:03 PM PST by nurse-rn
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To: conservativejoy

Thanks very much, sweet you!!!!

I will take a break from my calling at Hannity time!


57 posted on 03/05/2012 4:06:33 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: TomGuy

wrong ... willards ownership of a single individual stock does not define him ... the ruthless greed of mitts bain capital plundering operation defines that lying, stealing mormon SOB ....


58 posted on 03/05/2012 4:08:59 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Those are huge audiences, 4.5 to 7 million conservative primary voters are massive.

You are comparing them to commercial shows looking for any eyes they can get.

The (republican) debates, focused on the (republican) audience, in fact more specifically, the (conservative republican) base, are attracting mostly primary voters, yet they are getting numbers similar to the very influential NBC primetime sitcom, “30 Rock” starring Tina Fey, and Alec Baldwin.


59 posted on 03/05/2012 4:09:56 PM PST by ansel12 (Santorum-Catholic and "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress" he said))
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To: Patton@Bastogne

That E-Toys transaction alone has 100 felonies that the DOJ could go after him on. If his number gets called, he won’t have any time for campaigning.


60 posted on 03/05/2012 4:23:22 PM PST by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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